Product Details

• Actors: David Gahan, Martin Gore, Alan Wilder (II), Andrew Fletcher, Vince Clarke (II)
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
• VHS Release Date: May 11, 1993
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302374332
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,474 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars some GREAT videos, honestly!, September 13, 2001

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Claudio Piccinini (Modena Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Depeche Mode: Some Great Videos [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I completely disagree with most of the reviews people posted of this videoclip collection.
Surely "some great videos" has some amateurish feel to some of the titles, but it includes the two videos which prepared the mood for "Black Celebration", 1996 DM concept album that in my opinion is their all-around masterwork: "Shake the Disease" and "It's Called a Heart" by english director Peter Care. "Shake the Disease" captures uniquely the alienation and isolation of modern civilization, in particular the feeling unlucky people suffering from psichic malaisies pass for long years in their life.
Very nice also the pastiche of images presented in "People are People", conjuring images of war and man's own insanity, and the claustrophobic feeling of "Blasphemous Rumours", the simple atmosphere of Martin's unique vocals in "Somebody".
Anton Corbjin maybe very professional but it "clicked" with DM only in rare occasions, in my modest opinion, that's all!
This collection is the basis for anyone truly loving Depeche Mode.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing wrong with the early videos, June 22, 2004

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Kevin Parrish Claussen (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Depeche Mode: Some Great Videos [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The less developed mind may not understand the charm of the band's earliest videos, but the ones found on these collection are more compelling than the videos from Music for The Masses and Violator in my opinion. The low budget quality adds a depth the later polished vids lack. I loved Everything Counts, the way Dave jolts around singing facing away with the camera posed above him. Just Can't Get Enough is kind of hilarious because of the way the band is dressed, but damn it if it aint a fun video! Teenagers in the eighties really had a blast with this stuff. It's too bad videos are so uber- perfect and stylized today. I always prefer the earlier vids of bands like INXS and Depeche Mode and so on. They are flawed perfection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, September 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Depeche Mode: Some Great Videos [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Okay, I don't think these videos are *quite* as inane as "modeman" suggests, but he does have a point; some of them can get pretty damn stupid. But even so, it's interesting to see the band in action back when they were a bunch of twenty year-olds and musical sobriety or maturity hadn't kicked in yet; it's one big historical adventure you can both scoff and marvel at simultaneously. It really is a good buy.