Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode · 1987

Album cover for Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode

I really don’t think this is music for the masses. The masses don’t have any real taste, and prefer things that are insipid, repetitious, without merit, repetitious, flaccid, repetitious, lame, and the same thing over and over again.
This is not really insipid or repetitious (well, at least as far as music goes, which tends to make repetition part of its appeal and structure, actually). The tracks do seem to carry a theme across them, which might seem a bit repetitious, but is more like reusing some elements between songs. Not so much repetitious, more like being efficient in its use of melody, rhythm, tone, harmony, and all the others elements that go into making music that consistently sounds the same. Repetition, on the other hand would be making things sound monotonous, overly similar, even indistinguishable from tune to tune.
Which this is not. Completely, anyway.