It is not really a topic for @bloghomework but I wanted to share anyway...@rambo & @missy
I have been a fan of Depeche Mode since 1984 when the Some Great Reward album came out. I was 12...shit...12 fucking years old! I would say I have been a super fan since that moment that I first heard the single People are People came out and just destroyed the airwaves with their epic future stadium filled sounds. Once I got the album...eh um...I mean cassette tape, (geez us, I'm kinda dating myself here) I was hooked! Blasphemous Rumors, Something To Do and the ever so sexually charged Master and Servant were on that album, as well as the sweet sweet sound of Martin L. Gore singing the love profession song titled Somebody. Little did I know this album was going to help shape me, evoke feelings and discover things that I would have missed through my life.
Once hooked, I of course had to get filled with more musings from their earlier albums. Soon after, all these findings from the earlier album they dropped the much darker album, Black Celebration. Every bit of that album spoke to me once again. From the album title song to Flys on the Windscreen to A Question of Lust and again another sexually erotic song Stripped. This album was charging me with sexualized empowerment but continued my yearning for tolerance with everyone. This would be the first time I felt destined to see them preform live. I had intended them to be my first concert ever in my young life. And it was! I saw and heard THE FUCKING BEST, MOST AMAZAZING thing I had ever witnessed. If I wasn't already becoming super obsessed to the minute of the concert starting, I sure the fuck was after that...
The next year, Music for the Masses came out and Depeche Mode was really starting to appear as a more main stream sound. One of their most iconic songs (of many) came out of this album called Never Let Me Down Again. This song became the talk of the nation when DM made a stop at the Rose Bowl in Pasedena, California. There they recorded an epic 2 volume live recording and took video from it as well. Never Let Me Down Again was their final encore song of the night and during the song lead singer Dave Gahan led the not quite 70,000 people in a massive sea of synced arms and hands waving in the air. Again, solidifying my need for them to be in my life....
Once Violator came out they were at a high point in their career. Enjoy the Silence, Personal Jesus and Policy of Truth were HUGE hits worldwide! During all this time I had met my future wife. The love profession song Sombody became our song. From this point on we have seen multiple concerts for every single tour they have done for every album they promoted. In 1998 during the Singles Tour, we toured the entire North American West Coast. We saw 8 concerts in 10 days! Every album means so much to me and to my amazing wife's lives. We will follow the through thick and thin. We even moved our wedding date because the day we were planning was a day they were stopping within 200 miles on their 2nd time around for their Songs of Faith and Devotion tour. Yes we already had seen them 6 times that year on the first leg but we still needed to see them.
I hope they keep making songs until the day they leave their physical bodies. They obviously have to quit sometime but until then. They will always be my rock and the very foundation of helped me through so many shitty times. They also taught to appreciate EVERYTHING. Not just what you think you know.
🎶People are people so why should it be, you and I get along so awfully🎶
In total I have seen Depeche Mode 32 times...and I will go as many times as I can!!!
and I can't wait to see more of them!!!
