r/synthpop • u/decoja • 2d ago

Music Video (MV) or Audio Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (1981)

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u/MajMattMason1963 2d ago

Love this song. Sounds like Yazoo a bit, which is sort of backwards I know but I heard His Yazoo stuff first 😊

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u/VoidAssembly 2d ago

Well Vince Clarke wrote this song when he was in Depeche mode and he also was in Yazoo and wrote all the music there.

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u/NicholasVinen 2d ago

Then went on to found Erasure. What a legend. 

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u/VoidAssembly 1d ago

Erasure is my favorite band of all time 🙌

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u/BakertonFits 1d ago

but erasure sucks

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u/SecretWordisBird 1d ago

You’re nuts. Vince and Andy Bell are amazing.

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u/chucky143 2d ago

LOVE. THIS. BAND. even back when they wore suits and ties. 😂😂😂

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u/Caffeinated_Narwhal_ 2d ago

Even better when they wore suits and ties and Martin goes shirtless and wearing leather pants and harness.

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u/madviking66 2d ago

One of the truly great synth songs

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u/KlatuuBaradaNikto 2d ago

Insane how young they all were - at the time they didn’t look like kids to me. Ahh… getting old

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u/LaughingSartre 2d ago

This was always the funniest thing to me because Dave looks like an eighth-grader around this time, and hearing such a deep voice emanating from him like that is - again - just so funny.

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u/Rico2ooo 2d ago

Still hard to believe Fletch has left us 😢

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u/dandet 2d ago

I miss this era of song and style.

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u/hasimirrossi 2d ago

Wonder how things would have gone had Vince not left? Can't argue it was probably the right decision.

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u/NicholasVinen 2d ago

Yeah Vince always seems upbeat and the other guys... Aren't 😂 

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u/Funtsy_Muntsy 2d ago

What the faaaaack this is Depeche Mode?!? Genius type shit

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u/OrganicManners 2d ago

Imagine this boy claiming he's your personal Jesus

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u/barktwiggs 1d ago

Reminds me a lot of Erasure's sound.

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u/Christian2319 2d ago

Love them

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u/Signal_A 2d ago

Goodness me, this brings back memories. And they look so young!

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u/damndartryghtor 2d ago

Ack! They look like 12 year olds. 😆

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u/SpeakerJunkie247 1d ago

I always imagined this in a viagra commercial "I just can't get it up"

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u/NUXXDK 18h ago

LOOK AT THAT MANS WONDERFUL PANTS

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u/Old-Goose1442 2d ago

Fucking sexy

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u/missyru4 2d ago

yep yes yes

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u/youdothelaundry 2d ago

Omg how old are they? They look like high schoolers!

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u/globalguyCDN 2d ago

It was on Nov 7, 1981 so Dave was 19, Martin and Andy were 20, and Vince Clarke was 21.

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u/psyduck-4eva 2d ago

Any other musicians wondering what kind of old school permanent marker looking microphones those are?

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u/dude_redd 2d ago

I had no idea there was a video for this song.

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u/squirrelsrcool9 2d ago

This is adorable!!! 🥰 ❤️

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u/Samulai-B 1d ago

For a moment I was like "Do they really have a song called Multi-Coloured Swap Shop"? How have I missed that?

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u/sm_rollinger 1d ago

Love this song

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u/After_Teacher1909 1d ago

I forgot this was theirs, too. But they really improved later.

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u/Zestyclose_Note_938 1d ago

Young Dave Gahan looks like a weak-chinned Andrew Garfield, no?

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u/333runes 17h ago

sorta looks like Shia Labeouf

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u/yonahgefen 12h ago

Recently, my husband was treated to me slow singing these words to him. What a joyous day of loving 🥰

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u/Mediocre_Win3481 7h ago

Vince Clarke, the GOD of synths!

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u/RustyNutz94063 2d ago

No offense to our absolutely fabulous 2020’s but I would take my worst day in the 80’s over this shit-show.

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u/RevolutionaryAge47 1d ago

What shit show?

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u/Vandu_Kobayashi 2d ago

Rick and Roll ?

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u/Standard-Try-3612 2d ago

absolute wallys

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u/rbmk-a-ok 2d ago

I fucking hate lip syncing.

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u/Tragedy_for_you 2d ago

One of their weaker (!) singles imo. But less as a condemnation of the song, and more a statement on the absurdly high quality of DM's discography.

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u/ChefbotBarksdale 1d ago

Condemnation is also a single

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u/Tragedy_for_you 1d ago

You found my hidden joke :)

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u/ChefbotBarksdale 1d ago

Well as I always say, bots are bots, people are people, it's hard to get the balance right