Hie,
I'm not exactly a fan of DM but some of their songs touch me so deeply by their dark romantism that I really like them ( I ve seen them in concert at Paris, they're still so great ...).
So, I would really like to discuss about that kind of music, dark and sweet (even classic stuff)...

I'm not a big fan of DM. But i do like Enjoy the silence...although i prefer it by Lacuna Coil.

That's why it's a so great song, each interpretation is new and different,
DM songs are like it, like Personnal jesus by johnnie Cash,
whith their songs you can take it and express your own emotion, your own soul...

I like songs with meaningful lyrics..i don't care which type of music it is, either. As long as the lyrics have meaning.

Me too, but, only when emotion is still here...
In France there is a great singer call Alain Bashung, it's a king of rock poetry, full of humor and sensibility,
I don't know who is the english speaking singer I prefer...
Perhaps PJ Harvey, with her, emotion is not fake....

There are lots of different styles of music i listen to.

But i love Queen's lyrics.

DM do some great tunes but not usually enough to fill an album. I prefer Nine Inch Nails to DM - more consistent when it comes to churning out good music.

Lyrics do make a song but sometimes mindless pap is ok too. If your dancing away on a beach in Ibiza then you dont really care about the lyrics - you just want some funky beats and a nice melody... well i do anyway.

Personnaly, HURT is one of my favourite songs, after I bought the fragile live, I 've eard it hundreds times, and, the J.Cash version has make my soul frozen, brrr...

The Johnny Cash version makes me cry.

That and Cryin' by Roy Orbison..

WOW! someone young who like Roy Orbisson ...
I've a cd of one of his last live concert, he was fascinating: weird and cool at the same time. See him with his sunglasses and his Gretsh blackhawk was, at the end of his career like a kind of ceremony, always the same, but always full of emotion...

I understand I was like it, I have never like the same things that other peoples, in music or in other subjects, I always looking after the thing wich is different of the main stream, and the more important, the thing which really touch me...That's why I still listen Jeff Buckley nowadays, ten years after, he still make me feel alive...

When i'm at college...everybody around me listen to rap music and horrible stuff like that...

and then there's me listening to anything from Nine Inch Nails to Andrea Bocelli.

most of peoples want to be standardized shouting at the same time that they are rebels, it's always the same and boring scenarios,
same clothing, same music, same way to talk same mediocrity...
When your just a little bit different, you don't have to be a NERD, just a little bit... they hardly accept it. With the time, I know that at the end they lose the great game of life. Nowadays I 've 26 years and that people are nowadays almost pathetic and "has been". Being standardized in music or in anything else , it's like to try running without a leg, you close yourself the door of a marvellous world of rich and differents sensibilitys, emotions, cultures, feelings.
Sometimes , today I'm sad for them.