The Friday Canon: DEPECHE MODE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

MODEFAX:

Dave joined the band after hearing them rehearse in a scout-hut!

They used 'People Are People' as the theme tune for agreeable children's telly programme It'll Never Work!

Dave technically died for 2 minutes in 1996!

You get THIRTEEN ticks across all these UK Top 40 hits. Blimey!

[Poll #982839]
Rod Stewart: (link)
1. Maggie May
2. I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest
3. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
=4. Young Turks
=4. You Wear It Well
6. Stay With Me [w/ The Faces]
7. Downtown Train
8. Reason To Believe
=9. Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
=9. You're In My Heart

Comments

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

His last album was SOFAD, so it might be argued that his involvement with Depeche Mode ended in 1993 on that album's release. I'm not sure you could call Violator - Personal Jesus aside maybe - full of boring rock pose intensity, and whilst SOFAD hinted large at the future to come, it still wasn't as bombast and INXS as ULTRA turned out to be.

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

my favourite track on SOFAD is 'Rush' because it's the one most like their 'Violator' work.

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was putting SOFAD as the moment it all went wrong - Violator has hints but only hints really: I like it (and EtS is grebt pop) but I think it lacks the weird teenage intensity, it just hasn't replaced it with the Rock God stuff.

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Maybe we can blame the introduction of Real Drums?

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

It was amazing, though, how they absolutely BLEW UP with Violator. I was already convinced that their real career was over and it was just hardcore fans who would slowly get bored with them, and then boom! They become godlike (popularity-wise).

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Again with the correlation, but I wonder if there can be any link made between Violator's hideously MTV friendly videos, and the introduction of Sky Television (and therefore making MTV available) around 1990.

Will admit this is probably shite considering MTV Europe was already being broadcast from 1987, but it's not like it was ubiquitous, certainly in the UK, until into the v.early 90s.