In retrospect it seems like so much childish bullshit - and it was - but young emotions are runaway meteors. As we drove around in her parents’ Volvo, she told me that what amounted to a weekend fling (and a chaste one at that) wasn’t going to lead to anything more. I spent the ensuing weeks thinking about her angular but beautiful nose, the peculiar cadence of her voice. We met at the beach that fall and made out and danced and listened to Dead Or Alive. Me, I was 16, and I went to visit a girl who lived in another state, expecting that I’d leave with a new girlfriend. Most fans can remember the first time they heard Depeche Mode. Depeche Mode’s ability to provoke disparate reactions in a range of listeners is a rare achievement for a band that achieved enormous commercial success. Their work often feels like an endurance test: How much pain can you take?ĭepeche Mode was always catchy but they were never easy their material touched on suicide, regret, obsession, doubt, and faith. They did so by forcing their listeners on a journey inward to the parts of ourselves that are the most confusing and frightening, the places we need to go to discover what makes us human.
Mindless music was a byproduct of the boundless consumption that defined the times.ĭepeche Mode proved that music often derided as simple synth pop was capable of the same expression as the most sophisticated rock and even classical music. The best music is, of course, meant to do this, but when Depeche Mode started their career in the early ’80s, pop music was as expendable as it was in the 1950s: a product meant for easy use and disposal. The singular genius of Depeche Mode’s music might be the way their songs inspire a gut-wrenching personal response.
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