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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 12930
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $4.75 |
| Used Price: $2.85 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Some Great Reward Track Listing:
1. Something to Do
2. Lie to Me
3. People Are People
4. It Doesn't Matter
5. Stories of Old
6. Somebody
7. Master and Servant
8. If You Want
9. Blasphemous Rumours
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: DEPECHE MODE
Title: SOME GREAT REWARD
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Description of Some Great Reward:
Depeche Mode's lyrical content, at times impossibly contrived, is a potential source of frustration. "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour / And when I die / I expect to find him laughing," goes the chorus of "Blasphemous Rumours," an antireligion song using attempted teenage suicide and fatal car accidents as testimonial. Lyricist Martin Gore always scores points for creative rhyming, but one gets the feeling the choice of subject matter is nearly arbitrary, that the band could write equally depressing songs about a bad hair day--and mean it. But this is the fun, and maybe even the genius, of Depeche Mode. When it comes to patent controversy, they are as self-indulgent as they wanna be. Depeche's first U.S. single, "People Are People," also contained on Some Great Reward, is no less of an eye roller than "Blasphemous Rumours," but its tone is inversely inspiring to the nihilistic picture painted by "Rumours." Two other opposites that attract, the naughty little industrial-lite, S/M-colored "Master and Servant" perfectly juxtaposes the leaning-on-the-windowsill-staring-at-the-moon love song "Somebody." --Beth Bessmer
Some Great Reward Reviews:
Beth Bessmer is an idiot 
2009-09-13 - The album's a mixed bag, a transition from the juvenile blips and bloops of their early days to the bestselling industrial chants of their middle period, and marks their break into American commercial success with People Are People. The lyrics get darker, sampling becomes a central part of the production, the music gets a bit more sophisticated, and Alan Wilder plays a larger role. It has some forgettable tracks and a few standouts, Blasphemous Rumours being perhaps the best (and it's neither "nihilistic" nor an "eye-roller"). Overall, not quite a "great" album, but worth getting if you've already got and like the three albums following (Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, Violator), when they hit their peak.
My real reason for writing this, though, is to object to Beth Bessmer's inane review, which tells us nothing except that the author has no idea what she's talking about. DM have certainly been guilty of some crap songwriting on occasion, but Blasphemous Rumours is well-written and sharply ironic, and there's nothing "arbitrary" about them targeting religion, it's a recurring theme in their work. Which anyone who had done their homework or spent any real time listening to them would know.
A Must Have in any Depeche Mode collection 
2009-03-22 - This will be the fourth purchase of this ablum over a 20 year time frame. I still have the lp vinyl, just wore out my 18 year old cd, and picked up the two disc cd/dvd version when I started to look for a replacement. You can't get this single cd version in the store, and really wanted the one disc version. You'll learn all the words, and it is a good combination of young Depeche Mode and an introduction to older Depeche Mode. All though People Are People was the first song I heard on WLIR on the radio years 20 years ago and ran out to get the ablum, over the years, my favorites have changed to Stories of Old as my favorite song on the album, with Lie to Me, Blasphemous Rumors and Master and Servant as my next favorites. Get this one, you'll love it!
Something to Do-cute and catchy
Lie to Me-great song
People Are People-meaningful, first song I hear from them
It's Doesn't Matter-slow and realistic
Stories of Old-my favorite on the album
Somebody-slow and senual
Master and Servant-very sexy
If You Want -catchy
Blasphemous Rumors-very surprisingly sadistic and dark
Better than the original
2008-12-26 - When i first bought this LP in vinyl format a thousand years ago I thought is was great. The songs are great for a variety of moods. This version of the album come with tracks that are remastered in 2006. Compare 9 tracks on vinyl to 17 in this release. Better then the original,classic mode better sound and more tracks. It's a buy. There are songs on this album I couldn't find elsewhere.
Dull, like Construction Time Again 
2008-06-30 - I was a huge fan of DM albums like Music for the Masses, Black Celebration, and Violator. I also enjoyed People are People, some songs on Broken Frame and much of Speak and Spell. But, most of this record never did anything for me. It is rare for me to have had a tape in the 80s that I didn't really try to like from bands I liked. But, a few songs like Lie to Me are good as I recall, but People are People is a stronger "early Mode" post Speak and Spell choice. Stick with Music for the Masses, Violator, Black Celebration, People are People, and Speak and Spell.
Must have album!
2007-11-27 - If you like Depeche Mode then buy these 4 albums:
Some Great Reward
Black Celebration
Music for the Masses
Violator
These albums were released between 1985-1990 in consecutive order & have all of their best songs. Their other albums are also good but would only recommend for die hard fans. These 4 albums are their classic albums.
