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Question: Enjoy the Silence - What's your favourite version? :: Total Votes:5 Poll choices Votes Statistics Original album version (with a cappella ending) 2  [40.00%] Original single version  (no ending - just fade-out) 0  [0.00%] "The Quad: Final mix" 2  [40.00%] Another remix (please specify) 0  [0.00%] Raph's cover (www.raphmode.net) 1  [20.00%] Lacuna Coil's cover 0  [0.00%] Another cover (please specify) 0  [0.00%] Guests cannot vote

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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 15 2006, 08:35 With special thanks to dkaycom for the inspiration... As far as I'm aware of, "Enjoy the Silence" is one of Depeche Mode's biggest hits, and even people who are not fans of Depeche may happen to like that song. I'd like to know what are the favourite versions of you all out there... P.S.: If your fav version is one of Depeche's various live performances of the song, please answer "live version" (even if it's not in the poll above) and specify which one. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Oct. 15 2006, 21:13 I haven't voted yet, 'cos there are too many versions to listen to. A quick browse with limewire and e-mule gave me lots to choose from. Currently listening to Tori Amos's version. It's amazing to me that a pop band like DM have written songs strong enough to be have their songs re-written in so many different styles. Mike's work seems to be quite different in that his style doesn't translate to other artistes work. The cover versions of Mike's works most times don't add anything but the different versions of the DM canon still stand up ( Johnny Cash, Raph, Marilyn Manson etc). -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Afgyhi Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Oct. 16 2006, 05:00 I've been a Depechefan for nearly ten years now. I like enjoy the silence, and I do understand why it has become sutch a great hit. Strangely though is that is is the only DM song I sometimes get fed up with and have to have a break from. I've voted for the album version, because I think thats the way this song is supposed to be. Perhaps that is because I'm most familiar with this version. -------------- Crises! Crises!! Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Oct. 16 2006, 05:31 The new version from 2 years ago or so is the best imo I just love it. So very powerful...   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 16 2006, 08:05 @ Piltdownboy: I suppose you're referring to the Mike Shinoda/Linkin Park re-interpretation. If so, please add a vote to the "Another remix" item. I also love that version, though it's not my fav - my own vote goes to the original album version and to Lacuna Coil's cover - they're just both equally perfect. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Oct. 16 2006, 11:49 Ok, then I think I mean thát version yes!! Ok!!   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Oct. 17 2006, 20:30 Werll, after a bit of downloading, and quite a few plays, I'm going for Raph's + Wills piano+voice version. The Tori Amos was too close in style to Johnny Cash's Personal Jesus. And the quad:final was a little too long. I couldn't find a decent official live version, although a 101 version should have been a contender. But, having spent most of today playing Personal Jesus, the Cash and Manson versions, back to back, it made me think. DM's songs have been covered by quite a few people, in many styles. But, apart from the (mostly great) fan covers, and that Hall&Oates thing, how much of Mike's work has been decently covered? And does that reflect badly on Mike as a composer? Que for another thread methinks. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Oct. 17 2006, 22:05 Original + A Capella   -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 18 2006, 08:58 Quote (olracUK @ Oct. 18 2006, 02:30) ...although a 101 version should have been a contender. Yeah, it's a pity that 101 was in 1988-'89 (wasn't it?) and EtS was released in 1990... too late. About Mike not being covered: yes, I kinda agree, but Mike's best output is instrumental, and instrumental pieces (apart from purely electronic ones, like Jarre's) do not lend themselves very easily, IMHO, to be re-played by other people than the composer. And even the existing covers of e.g. Jarre's Oxygene and Vangelis' Chariots of Fire can't hold a candle to the originals. Always IMHO. And apart from all this, there is at least one decent Mike O. cover: Blind Guardian's version of "To France". P.S. By 'a cappella ending' in the poll above I just meant Mr. Gahan singing "Enjoy the silence" at the end of the song, with no music, after a few seconds of... ahem... silence. I just love that ending. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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