Depeche Mode: Violator

""Violator" represents the band's best work according to most critics and fans. Singer Dave Gahan says to this day that the performance of the musicians is impossible to repeat. It would be like asking Michelangelo to build the Sistine Chapel a second time.... The album's sound, however, is as fresh today as it was then. Depeche Mode resisted all trends: house, acid, rave. If you put on "Violator" in 1990, you enjoyed a cutting-edge record. If you put it on in 1994, the songs still sounded timeless. Whoever discovered the album in 2001 could no longer say with certainty when it was released, it sounded so unique. If "Violator" were released for the first time in 2017, the production could rival any other of the year. For a semi-electronic album, an incredible achievement. Happy 27th birthday!" (rollingstone.com)