When Depeche Mode titled their 1990 album Violator, it was supposed to be taken ironically. The previous year had seen smarmy hair-mongers like Bon Jovi, Bad English and Poison scoring Number Ones with saccharine power balladry, and the leather-clad, synth-pop group had understandably "gotten enough." So they exacted vengeance on their album sleeve. "We wanted to come up with the most extreme, ridiculously heavy-metal title that we could," the band's chief songwriter, Martin Gore, told NME at the time. "I'll be surprised if people will get the joke." His skepticism was warranted. Sidebar Depeche Mode Look Back on 'Violator' 25 Years Later » In the 25 years since Depeche...
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