I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Yes, I am serious. Its so different from anything else out there. I am surprised that this is an official video though - it just kind of seems like something a fan would make.
this new album keeps getting worse for me. whats there to love of this video? fans that say that, just dont want to say they hate something of DM. HORRIBLE
Anyone who likes this video is on crack or wants to be different. Bad video!!!! I'm officially embarrassed for having a DEpeche Mode tattoo. Must hide it until I forget about this video and song
Utter garbage. This is embarrassing. Up to this point, DM have managed to avoid American hipster ironic humor, but this completely destroys any attempt to take this single seriously.
A HUGE LET DOWN,IF THEY CARNT BE IN THE VIDEO DUE TO HOLS(OR ILLNESS. IE PEACE)THIS IS AN ENBARESMENT!! WRONG AND PEACE VIDEO'S WHEREOK, IMO.. THIS IS AS JOKE!
Oh man. Just when I was making my peace with the album (which is actualy really good once you've gotten used to the "speak and spell goes to the S&M shop" feel). This is insultingly bad. I agree with another fan on hte page - first time I genuinely hate something with the DM brand on it. The worst part of it is how this was so obviously done by someone who just doesn't understand the first thing about this band, and just bolted their own sickeningly flashy, oh-so-fashion, gratuitously offensive "aesthetics" on them. "Oh yeah, sex and electronics, let's see some tongues and a Linndrum". Who in fuck's name let that happen ? Kessler ? EMI ? Utter cock.
Absolutely ridiculous video. Wrong was shocking but great, and it felt like DM. This is something that's not DM, this has nothing to do with what they stand for. Which idiot came up with this horrible idea of a video?!? It has nothing to do with the song... Please bring back Anton Corbijn! Hole to Feed has hit potential, but that chance is gone with this video. Lets hope this is some kind of stunt, and NOT the official video!!!
I'll never watch this video again. It's making me sick. I can't realize - it's DM work. If someone likes this video because "Its so different from anything else out there", I think to film someone shiting on the street could be so different form enything too.
Awful, truly awful. In 20 years of being a fan I have never seen such a piece of rubbish associated with DM. What a way to kill a good song off stone dead.. What on earth was anyone thinking??
Oh god, everybody thinks they know exactly what a Depeche Mode video should look like. Well I really like this video, sleek, modern, different, I like that is all neon and retro in it's style. What's funny, is that all the people screaming "it's the end of the world" over this video can't actually do anything about it. It's official. And permanent. Thank god I love it. Sucks to be you. LOL
Oh God, memoryboy thinks his opinion of the Depeche Mode video is so much smarter than anyone else's! He really loves his own opinion. Dismissive, undiscriminating he loves all that is Depeche mode whatever it may be. What's funny, is that though memory boy says the video is brilliant and he loves it, in fact he's no closer to the band by kissing their ass so much, because frankly i bet, despite the fact its an official video, it 's probably caused a lot of tension within the band. (think about it, why has there been such a delay with this release not to mention the sudden news of other singles 'replacing' this one)
So good for you loving it! i'd say it sucks to be someone unable to step back and see objectively when something is bad both as an idea and in its technical execution.
What a freak show!...
Oh come on! The obvious choice: four guys dressed up like cowboys on a mission to feed some holes...
With special effects...
21st century Personal Jesus, right?
But noOOooo! We have to go all the way and completely batter our visual output, do we?
Oh dear Angel, HELP US!!!
I fail to see why the moderator has removed my comment which contrary to many comments on here had no swearing in it . It was mildly critical of other things said on here and of the band's recent video but no more so, in fact much less so, than any of the comments posted above. Any particular reason I was censored?
ok. it s back now. something weird is happening on here. the comment was missing - i swear - when i looked at several times day earlier today and all of a sudden its back. sorry for the false alarm. thanks
Memoryboy,
Sure. There's nothing any of us can do about "What's your name ?" or "The meaning of love" either, is it. Doesn't make them great songs all the same.
This flashy, tacky, tongues-out piece of eye-sore trying to pass for a video is just a complete misfire from start to end, and sticks out from their visual body of work like a badly sore tongue. It would take a serious brain trauma, or a membership card in the "Batman & Robin" fan club (as in Joel Schumacher's masterpiece in sheer bad taste), to love it just because it's "different from what FANS (God, we hate the fans, don't we ?) think a DM video should look like", or because it confounds expectations. DM's best videos in the past have often had that "WTF ?" factor - think of Enjoy the silence at the time it came out. But at least the aesthetics and spirit of them was true to the ambiguity and light-in-darkness nature of their songwriting and sound. This hysterically self-conscious "look Mum, I'm putting bitches'n'tongues in my clip", 2-bit slice of Sean-Paul-styled disaster is not "confounding expectations"; unless your expectations have the words "beautiful", "subtle" or "intelligent" in them. It's beneath this band, and can only be the product of some twisted little EMI fuck's corporate brain, to the tune of "oh, album sales aren't doing as well as we'd like these days, let's put something that gets the boys some airplay between Lady Gaga and fucking Mika".
I hope they wake up soon and send this one to oblivion, where it will rest in peace next to the Julien Temple vids ("See you", anyone ?). If you're going to dicth Anton, at least don't go for a colorblind hack whose sole interest in shooting this crap is to beat the record of the longuest tongue ever on screen. The fucker should go make documentaries about chameleons. He'd be a lot happier. And so would we.
Here is one of my favorite reviews on the video for 'Hole To Feed':
"This is the new Depeche Mode video directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Good Job!, and it's unlike any other DM video ever seen.
Obviously this one going to be blasphemous to the longtime fans, but honestly, I always thought Anton Corbijn was a self-serious tool—I loved Depeche Mode so much more before they got involved with him.
The stand-ins for Depeche Mode are made up in a way that is reminiscent of DM's classic 1984 Top of the Pops TV appearance—a nice touch.
All the tongue-ing and face licking is more pornographic than...most pornography!
But what seals the deal is the great tune.
"Hole to Feed" is right on par with cutting-edge music from bands like Health, and so is the video. Kudos to all involved."
I went on to MySpace and saw the video again. I love it!
Some guy wrote a comment on the video along with many others, and he wrote this:
"I was the feature actor. The video is a social commentary about how the media and contemporary pop culture glorifies casual sex and is oversexed. TV makes sinful lust attractive, when in actuality it's disgusting. 1 hot celeb is lustful and it spreads to real people the truth is shown, lust=gross
note: he was the muscled tattoo guy with his shirt off.
Memoryboy, you seem to be the one who has the problem with people not liking the video, not the other way around! Great... you like it! It won't keep me up all night, I'll probably be busy doing other things with my life. I'm sorry if thats maybe disappointing. I would have loved to be up all night worrying about how much memory boy likes this video, writing a letter to the band saying how it just isn't fair that someone could enjoy something so much while I only feel emptyness and disillusionment ... and then bringing the matter to the UN council to see if there's a way to get compensation for my grief and finally maybe a written apology from world leaders for this terrible diplomatic incident. That actually might make a good follow up video !
Lovecraft is right.
Maybe we're all taking this a little too seriously, whether we think it's the worst thing they've done or not.
As I said last night on my comment which was pulled (so I won't swear on this one) I think they're going to split after this tour.
What other reason is there for the videos & remixes getting worse and worse?
I think they're just concentrating on getting to the finish line.
To be honest I'm not that bothered any more.
I never thought I'd say that, but there you go.
Memoryboy - I thought this was a discussion about the video. I missed the point where it became a discussion about your (or anyone else's) opinion of it.
I think this video represents depeche Mode on many levels. Not sure why there is so much hate. It's a good video, interesting. But it won't be on MTV if thats what fans are worried about. Videos are out of style these days.
If the director wanted to make some sort of social commentary he should have done it in a better way. It's just awful and the director is obviously trying way too hard and it just doesn't work for soo many reasons. It seems like one of those short clips upcoming filmmakers make to get themselves noticed.....and DM just seem to be the theme music that went along with it.
i would still like to know if this is actually a single release, since depechemode.com refer to it as a third 'video' and not 'single'. We've been told that the States was to release Perfect.. no idea what happened to that. Then Hole to Feed ws scheduled for the UK... this was followed by a correction, with the news that Fragile Tension was in fact going to be the new single. Then the prospect of Corrupt being a potential single was floated since True Blood used it on their 'trailer'. (Though that was never really mooted a s a proper single.) Now the whole Fragile Tension 3rd single proposition has vanished, and we get Hole to Feed, but with no real idea of whether its just a video or if its an official single. Can anyone clarify the situation?
LOL, I love when someone hates the video, it's okay, it's there opinion, but when someone loves it all of a sudden it's ''hey, we are entitled to hate it!''.
I am also entitled to say, by the way, that quiet a lot of long time Depeche fans can be self-serious tools themselves.
Lighten up. It's just a video.
Just saw Hole to Feed Video and im am so disappointed at how crap this video is i used to sit down and play Depeche Mode Videos all the time and love the way Anton corbijn put them together the Videos back then matched the Song Layout I have been to many concerts. Since then the Quality has really been lost and this just makes me more embarrased to watch. Totally shocked at the Tongue lickin especially seeing old people doing it felt like iwas going to chuck it does kill the song and too be honest i would have chose Perfect or even fragile tension as the next single. DM better start improving the Quality of there videos or they will drive fans away. Video for Hole to feed Pur Shite .
52 Comments
25 September 09 at 10:20pm
1
Brilliant! I love it!
25 September 09 at 11:01pm
2
crappy video and a crappy song! Is this the next single??
25 September 09 at 11:02pm
3
Brilliant my ass! This video sucks
25 September 09 at 11:47pm
4
You're the first person that I know that loves the video. I can say that for the first time in my life I hate something from Depeche Mode.
26 September 09 at 1:00am
5
WTF? If I ever see this video again it will be too soon!
26 September 09 at 3:26am
6
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Yes, I am serious. Its so different from anything else out there. I am surprised that this is an official video though - it just kind of seems like something a fan would make.
26 September 09 at 5:57am
7
this new album keeps getting worse for me. whats there to love of this video? fans that say that, just dont want to say they hate something of DM. HORRIBLE
26 September 09 at 9:38am
8
Shitesta
26 September 09 at 6:52pm
9
Anyone who likes this video is on crack or wants to be different. Bad video!!!! I'm officially embarrassed for having a DEpeche Mode tattoo. Must hide it until I forget about this video and song
26 September 09 at 7:56pm
10
Utter garbage. This is embarrassing. Up to this point, DM have managed to avoid American hipster ironic humor, but this completely destroys any attempt to take this single seriously.
26 September 09 at 8:15pm
11
A HUGE LET DOWN,IF THEY CARNT BE IN THE VIDEO DUE TO HOLS(OR ILLNESS. IE PEACE)THIS IS AN ENBARESMENT!! WRONG AND PEACE VIDEO'S WHEREOK, IMO.. THIS IS AS JOKE!
26 September 09 at 9:48pm
12
Oh no, please DM never let me down with your bandmember-less videos...
26 September 09 at 9:49pm
13
I prefer the Corrupt-Blood video, it was great
26 September 09 at 10:22pm
14
wrong/peace & corrupt-blood ideos are quite good,this is just a joke! time to employ anton again
27 September 09 at 8:31am
15
Oh man. Just when I was making my peace with the album (which is actualy really good once you've gotten used to the "speak and spell goes to the S&M shop" feel). This is insultingly bad. I agree with another fan on hte page - first time I genuinely hate something with the DM brand on it. The worst part of it is how this was so obviously done by someone who just doesn't understand the first thing about this band, and just bolted their own sickeningly flashy, oh-so-fashion, gratuitously offensive "aesthetics" on them. "Oh yeah, sex and electronics, let's see some tongues and a Linndrum". Who in fuck's name let that happen ? Kessler ? EMI ? Utter cock.
27 September 09 at 11:01am
16
This video is FUN & FRESH! Nice work! Not so boring as Peace was...
27 September 09 at 9:06pm
17
Absolutely shit...
28 September 09 at 5:29am
18
Absolutely ridiculous video. Wrong was shocking but great, and it felt like DM. This is something that's not DM, this has nothing to do with what they stand for. Which idiot came up with this horrible idea of a video?!? It has nothing to do with the song... Please bring back Anton Corbijn! Hole to Feed has hit potential, but that chance is gone with this video. Lets hope this is some kind of stunt, and NOT the official video!!!
28 September 09 at 6:12am
19
Disgusting! Ugh
28 September 09 at 7:42am
20
This video is total crap! Lazy bastards escaped from making video again. Anton, where are you????!!!!!! Come back please!!! :)
28 September 09 at 8:23am
21
I'll never watch this video again. It's making me sick. I can't realize - it's DM work. If someone likes this video because "Its so different from anything else out there", I think to film someone shiting on the street could be so different form enything too.
28 September 09 at 1:41pm
22
his video is just a shame!
28 September 09 at 7:45pm
23
Awful, truly awful. In 20 years of being a fan I have never seen such a piece of rubbish associated with DM. What a way to kill a good song off stone dead.. What on earth was anyone thinking??
29 September 09 at 12:18am
24
Appalling, simply appalling. Utter trash.
29 September 09 at 1:14am
25
Oh god, everybody thinks they know exactly what a Depeche Mode video should look like. Well I really like this video, sleek, modern, different, I like that is all neon and retro in it's style. What's funny, is that all the people screaming "it's the end of the world" over this video can't actually do anything about it. It's official. And permanent. Thank god I love it. Sucks to be you. LOL
29 September 09 at 11:25am
26
Oh God, memoryboy thinks his opinion of the Depeche Mode video is so much smarter than anyone else's! He really loves his own opinion. Dismissive, undiscriminating he loves all that is Depeche mode whatever it may be. What's funny, is that though memory boy says the video is brilliant and he loves it, in fact he's no closer to the band by kissing their ass so much, because frankly i bet, despite the fact its an official video, it 's probably caused a lot of tension within the band. (think about it, why has there been such a delay with this release not to mention the sudden news of other singles 'replacing' this one) So good for you loving it! i'd say it sucks to be someone unable to step back and see objectively when something is bad both as an idea and in its technical execution.
29 September 09 at 1:08pm
27
What a freak show!... Oh come on! The obvious choice: four guys dressed up like cowboys on a mission to feed some holes... With special effects... 21st century Personal Jesus, right? But noOOooo! We have to go all the way and completely batter our visual output, do we? Oh dear Angel, HELP US!!!
30 September 09 at 7:54am
28
I fail to see why the moderator has removed my comment which contrary to many comments on here had no swearing in it . It was mildly critical of other things said on here and of the band's recent video but no more so, in fact much less so, than any of the comments posted above. Any particular reason I was censored?
30 September 09 at 7:57am
29
ok. it s back now. something weird is happening on here. the comment was missing - i swear - when i looked at several times day earlier today and all of a sudden its back. sorry for the false alarm. thanks
01 October 09 at 10:54am
30
Well, well, well - a lots of tongues here ! A little bit special.
01 October 09 at 11:42am
31
Memoryboy, Sure. There's nothing any of us can do about "What's your name ?" or "The meaning of love" either, is it. Doesn't make them great songs all the same. This flashy, tacky, tongues-out piece of eye-sore trying to pass for a video is just a complete misfire from start to end, and sticks out from their visual body of work like a badly sore tongue. It would take a serious brain trauma, or a membership card in the "Batman & Robin" fan club (as in Joel Schumacher's masterpiece in sheer bad taste), to love it just because it's "different from what FANS (God, we hate the fans, don't we ?) think a DM video should look like", or because it confounds expectations. DM's best videos in the past have often had that "WTF ?" factor - think of Enjoy the silence at the time it came out. But at least the aesthetics and spirit of them was true to the ambiguity and light-in-darkness nature of their songwriting and sound. This hysterically self-conscious "look Mum, I'm putting bitches'n'tongues in my clip", 2-bit slice of Sean-Paul-styled disaster is not "confounding expectations"; unless your expectations have the words "beautiful", "subtle" or "intelligent" in them. It's beneath this band, and can only be the product of some twisted little EMI fuck's corporate brain, to the tune of "oh, album sales aren't doing as well as we'd like these days, let's put something that gets the boys some airplay between Lady Gaga and fucking Mika". I hope they wake up soon and send this one to oblivion, where it will rest in peace next to the Julien Temple vids ("See you", anyone ?). If you're going to dicth Anton, at least don't go for a colorblind hack whose sole interest in shooting this crap is to beat the record of the longuest tongue ever on screen. The fucker should go make documentaries about chameleons. He'd be a lot happier. And so would we.
01 October 09 at 11:49am
32
Unless... It's a joke ! please make it a joke and show the real video sometime soon. All will be forgiven. No ? Shit.
01 October 09 at 11:55pm
33
Yes I love the video. Get over it. It's my opinion. Sorry if that bugs any of you. I hope it keeps you up at night.
02 October 09 at 12:05am
34
Here is one of my favorite reviews on the video for 'Hole To Feed': "This is the new Depeche Mode video directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Good Job!, and it's unlike any other DM video ever seen. Obviously this one going to be blasphemous to the longtime fans, but honestly, I always thought Anton Corbijn was a self-serious tool—I loved Depeche Mode so much more before they got involved with him. The stand-ins for Depeche Mode are made up in a way that is reminiscent of DM's classic 1984 Top of the Pops TV appearance—a nice touch. All the tongue-ing and face licking is more pornographic than...most pornography! But what seals the deal is the great tune. "Hole to Feed" is right on par with cutting-edge music from bands like Health, and so is the video. Kudos to all involved."
02 October 09 at 12:12am
35
I went on to MySpace and saw the video again. I love it! Some guy wrote a comment on the video along with many others, and he wrote this: "I was the feature actor. The video is a social commentary about how the media and contemporary pop culture glorifies casual sex and is oversexed. TV makes sinful lust attractive, when in actuality it's disgusting. 1 hot celeb is lustful and it spreads to real people the truth is shown, lust=gross note: he was the muscled tattoo guy with his shirt off.
02 October 09 at 10:17am
36
I see my comments were removed........ Too negative? Too near to the truth? The DM downward spiral continues............
02 October 09 at 10:35am
37
Sinful lust? Gosh… So, besides awful it is awfully reactionary. Cool.
02 October 09 at 1:22pm
38
Memoryboy, you seem to be the one who has the problem with people not liking the video, not the other way around! Great... you like it! It won't keep me up all night, I'll probably be busy doing other things with my life. I'm sorry if thats maybe disappointing. I would have loved to be up all night worrying about how much memory boy likes this video, writing a letter to the band saying how it just isn't fair that someone could enjoy something so much while I only feel emptyness and disillusionment ... and then bringing the matter to the UN council to see if there's a way to get compensation for my grief and finally maybe a written apology from world leaders for this terrible diplomatic incident. That actually might make a good follow up video !
02 October 09 at 2:16pm
39
Lovecraft is right. Maybe we're all taking this a little too seriously, whether we think it's the worst thing they've done or not. As I said last night on my comment which was pulled (so I won't swear on this one) I think they're going to split after this tour. What other reason is there for the videos & remixes getting worse and worse? I think they're just concentrating on getting to the finish line. To be honest I'm not that bothered any more. I never thought I'd say that, but there you go.
02 October 09 at 3:38pm
40
Memoryboy - I thought this was a discussion about the video. I missed the point where it became a discussion about your (or anyone else's) opinion of it.
02 October 09 at 8:45pm
41
Wrong again!
02 October 09 at 8:56pm
42
Bad song,awful video. But i think that they don't really care anymore...
03 October 09 at 12:17pm
43
I really like this video.
03 October 09 at 12:20pm
44
I think this video represents depeche Mode on many levels. Not sure why there is so much hate. It's a good video, interesting. But it won't be on MTV if thats what fans are worried about. Videos are out of style these days.
03 October 09 at 6:46pm
45
Hmmm... But it's still depeche... There's no doubt.
04 October 09 at 4:36pm
46
If the director wanted to make some sort of social commentary he should have done it in a better way. It's just awful and the director is obviously trying way too hard and it just doesn't work for soo many reasons. It seems like one of those short clips upcoming filmmakers make to get themselves noticed.....and DM just seem to be the theme music that went along with it.
05 October 09 at 12:22pm
47
i would still like to know if this is actually a single release, since depechemode.com refer to it as a third 'video' and not 'single'. We've been told that the States was to release Perfect.. no idea what happened to that. Then Hole to Feed ws scheduled for the UK... this was followed by a correction, with the news that Fragile Tension was in fact going to be the new single. Then the prospect of Corrupt being a potential single was floated since True Blood used it on their 'trailer'. (Though that was never really mooted a s a proper single.) Now the whole Fragile Tension 3rd single proposition has vanished, and we get Hole to Feed, but with no real idea of whether its just a video or if its an official single. Can anyone clarify the situation?
09 October 09 at 10:40am
48
LOL, I love when someone hates the video, it's okay, it's there opinion, but when someone loves it all of a sudden it's ''hey, we are entitled to hate it!''. I am also entitled to say, by the way, that quiet a lot of long time Depeche fans can be self-serious tools themselves. Lighten up. It's just a video.
11 October 09 at 1:21pm
49
and by the looks of it, so can a few less long time fans. ha ha
19 October 09 at 12:52pm
50
Just saw Hole to Feed Video and im am so disappointed at how crap this video is i used to sit down and play Depeche Mode Videos all the time and love the way Anton corbijn put them together the Videos back then matched the Song Layout I have been to many concerts. Since then the Quality has really been lost and this just makes me more embarrased to watch. Totally shocked at the Tongue lickin especially seeing old people doing it felt like iwas going to chuck it does kill the song and too be honest i would have chose Perfect or even fragile tension as the next single. DM better start improving the Quality of there videos or they will drive fans away. Video for Hole to feed Pur Shite .