When songs start with a punch in the face, you know they’re going to be good. In this instance, the pounding beat that starts off this song serves as one motherload of a punch in the face. Depeche Mode have a history of making abrasive music that still manages to maintain it’s alternative pop edge. In the case of I Feel Loved, there is a very similar tone to one of Depeche Mode’s best known songs; Personal Jesus. This makes me wonder whether or not the band has actually attempted to re-create what is already a fantastic song. Well, in my opinion, that’s a great thing. When you have a song that managed to influence such great names as Johnny Cash, and then make a song that sounds remarkably similar, you have no doubt created a winner.
I Feel Loved starts with a thumping bassline that hides a light, but very beautiful melody. The vocals too have a very strong presence in the song that are only enhanced by the melody and bassline. The message of the song appears to be a sarcastic take on addiction and the breaking of an addiction, whereby only the drugs continue to make an addict ‘feel loved.’ Regardless, the song is still fantastically upbeat and manages to make a slightly taboo topic seem almost sexy in the way that the song manages to make use of the instrumentation to initiate great, sensual music
84. I Feel Loved – Depeche Mode
December 3, 2009 by TJ
When songs start with a punch in the face, you know they’re going to be good. In this instance, the pounding beat that starts off this song serves as one motherload of a punch in the face. Depeche Mode have a history of making abrasive music that still manages to maintain it’s alternative pop edge. In the case of I Feel Loved, there is a very similar tone to one of Depeche Mode’s best known songs; Personal Jesus. This makes me wonder whether or not the band has actually attempted to re-create what is already a fantastic song. Well, in my opinion, that’s a great thing. When you have a song that managed to influence such great names as Johnny Cash, and then make a song that sounds remarkably similar, you have no doubt created a winner.
I Feel Loved starts with a thumping bassline that hides a light, but very beautiful melody. The vocals too have a very strong presence in the song that are only enhanced by the melody and bassline. The message of the song appears to be a sarcastic take on addiction and the breaking of an addiction, whereby only the drugs continue to make an addict ‘feel loved.’ Regardless, the song is still fantastically upbeat and manages to make a slightly taboo topic seem almost sexy in the way that the song manages to make use of the instrumentation to initiate great, sensual music
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