![]() The former is another simple, pretty ballad that brings the album's average BPM to about 90. "Stay" and "I Need You" are unfortunately not a two-part Lisa Loeb cover. Gahan's vocal can still elevate the dumbest lyric to the level of a cathartic mantra, a skill that comes handy in the absence of Martin Gore. Regardless, there's a great middle section that finds him belting, simply, "I'm not very nice" over a string crescendo. Over earnest guitars and low-moaning harmonica, Gahan roars "He's living for the bottle," evidently recalling his own adventures in alcoholism from the safe remove of the third person.īy the next song, "Black and Blue Again", Dave's confessions take on a tinge of a master-and-servant game: Gahan might, just might, get off on self-flagellation, with the audience as the unwitting dominator. ![]() "Bottle Living" is a classic blues shuffle, not even transposed into a more British minor key (which "Personal Jesus" was). "Dirty Sticky Floors" is both the album's designated hit single and its most humble moment: by the end of the first verse, the protagonist is already on the titular floor "praying over the porcelain throne." After two timid ballads in a row- "Hold On" and "A Little Piece"- Gahan is seized by another bout of picturesque wallowing. Gahan opens Monstersin full masochistic mode. They were, and are, a gospel-tinged classic rock band that happened to favor au courant arrangements (as the legend goes, the boys switched to synths so as not to disturb neighbors during early rehearsals). Fair enough: much like the Eurythmics, Depeche Mode were never a true electropop outfit. The songs themselves, meanwhile, are two-thirds smoothly crooned ballads over one-third lacquered rock shuffles- all closer to the digi-soul of *Songs of Faith and Devotion than the IDM aspirations of * Exciter. Its presence here nears Bonnie Raitt levels, coating most solos and even providing ambient beds. The most prominently featured instrument on Paper Monsters is, oddly enough, slide guitar. The first thing we learn is that Dave doesn't really like synthesizers all that much. It's just another level of self-mythologizing, sure, but it does yield interesting information- sometimes not in the ways intended. Like many solo outings by career frontmen, Paper Monsters is autotherapeutic: Gahan wants to share something about himself. Why the hell am I making a point of this? Well, it's quite indicative of the album's contents. He also looks like a rather prototypical Jew. He looks like he should at this point: a man with 22 years' celebrity and six minutes of clinical death behind him. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.One of the premier prettyboys of the 80s, Gahan looks defiantly middle-aged here- the jowls sag a bit, the corners of the mouth took a mournful turn downward. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: ![]() Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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