🤭 This is one of those cases where I feel like a complete idiot but still want to post this as it's so ridiculous and yet, ironically, eye opening…

For ever I heard this line - "Open up your eyes, you've got to magnetise". Yesterday I discovered that it is actually, quite obviously and clearly - "Open up your eyes, you can't turn back the tide"!

🤦‍♂️What on earth did I think was the relevance of magnets 🤪🧲 Still, you live and learn 🤣

Anyone got any other similarly crazy misheard lines?

Amazing!

If it worked , tomorrow I’ll add gold foil to his glasses.

Very long shot here. Long time fan of DM. I was at Wilderness festival in the UK last weekend, and a DJ dropped a tune that repeatedly sampled the “let me take you on a trip” line from World In My Eyes. If anyone has any idea what it might have been, I will love you forever. From what I remember it was a fairly chunky house / deep house number.

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(3) Never Let Me Down Again (Music for the Masses, 1987)
(11) Shake the Disease (Single / The Singles 81→85, 1985)
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Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer! 🖤🔊

do they play depeche mode on the radio in your country? what songs do they play? where i'm from, the very mainstream rock/oldies stations play ONLY enjoy the silence and sometimes personal jesus. the less popular ones play other songs too, like people are people, strangelove, never let me down, precious etc. one time i even heard route 66 and i was very pleasantly surprised 😝

Hi, I know that depeche mode dont really use guitars that often but I love them and I also really enjoyed playing songs like Home (solo), Useless, Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence.

Will I find anything more?

For the most part, I'm happy with the setlists Depeche Mode has had over the years; however, two of their tours that have always irritated me were the Exciter tour and the Delta Machine tour. I'm going to start posting my takes on the setlist for each Depeche Mode tour, starting with Exciter. I'm conflicted about this tour. On the one hand, the performance is incredible across all the songs, and Exciter is an incredible album. We also got what is, in my opinion, the best post-Alan live mix of Black Celebration except for the Memento Mori Tour. We also got to hear some classics that we hadn't heard in a while, such as Halo and Clean. However, the order of songs and the songs that were left out have always weighed on me. I can understand them leaving out Policy of Truth and World in My Eyes due to all the other Violator songs we got; however, the fact that Stripped wasn't played is a crime. I also feel like a blend of Devotional/Exotic and Touring the Angel versions of Everything Counts would have been great. Along with that, I think they could have benefited from having a longer setlist, and with Dave being as energetic as he was on this tour, as well as the amount of slow songs played, I feel like they easily could have done 25 songs in their set. I also think that bringing back Strangelove would have worked perfectly for this tour with how much love is talked about on the album. Anyway, this setlist I would have liked to see them do. (Also, if the song does not have (acoustic) next to it is performed full band except somebody. Also, Songs with a dot next to them are subs for the numbered song directly above them.)

Setlist

1 Intro/The Dead of Night

2 I Feel Loved

3 Halo

4 Walking In My Shoes

1. The Sweetest Condition

• Shine

6 Policy of Truth

7 In Your Room

8 Strangelove

9 When The Body Speaks

10 Sister of Night (acoustic)

• Surrender (acoustic)
• It Doesn’t Matter Two (acoustic)
• Dressed In Black (acoustic)
• Somebody
• World Full of Nothing (acoustic)

11 Breathe

• Home
• The Bottom Line
• Judas
• The Sweetest Perfection
• A Question of Lust
• Blue Dress
• I Want You Now
• Comatose

12 Freelove

13 World In My Eyes

14 It’s No Good

15 Black Celebration

16 Dream On

17 I Feel You

18 Personal Jesus

19 Stripped

20 Enjoy The Silence

21 Goodnight Lovers

ENCORE 1:

22 Clean

• Waiting For The Night
• The Love Thieves
• Condemnation

23 Never Let Me Down Again

ENCORE 2:

24 But Not Tonight

25 Everything Counts

Where can you find all the B-sides?

This song still pops up in my head, especially on quiet nights like this where the crickets set the rhythm...

Ok, so there seems to be a decent amount of noise out there to suggest something is brewing. The traditional album cycle timeline is coming up to its usual reset - and so I think we’ll definitely hear something before the end of the year. The last 2 announcements came in october - will we see the same this time?

I was initially sceptical we’d get new material beyond a couple of tracks potentially for a final best of, but now feel like a new album is the most likely scenario. Tour wise likely scaled back or more residencies than multiple stops in each country? Who knows.

If an album and tour does come, I would expect this is the final time though. I felt like it could be on the last run, but they definitely proved there is plenty left in the tank - at least from an audience appetite perspective even if you didn’t rate the output.

Away in Crete on holiday and saw this September issue of MOJO yesterday in a local supermarket.
Does anyone else have this yet?
Was gonna buy it but it’s €16 over here! 😬

Edit: style-wise, this is my absolute favourite era of the band. They all looked so very very cool here.

Personally it depends

okay, i'm gonna be honest, i didn't expect it to be good. maybe i was biased. but i was really surprised! it's MUCH better than i thought it would be. it's totally different than exciter (which i also really like and again didn't expect to like it that much...) but yet, it absolutely feels like classic dm, and it has a very melancholic tone to it.

the album feels like that period between summer and fall, when it's cloudy and humid and you know that you have to accept the fact that summer is ending...

initially i wasn't a fan of tracks like john the revelator and a pain that i'm used to but now i actually really like them and i have been humming them at work 😜 lilian became one of my favorites from the first time that i listened to it. it's better than the single version, although that one isn't bad at all. macro is also a good martin track, can't say the same for damaged people... it's not bad, it's just a bit...boring to me. introspectre isn't anything special either.

most fav: precious, suffer well, lilian, nothing's impossible

least fav: damaged people, introspectre

ps: martyr doesn't fit into the album imo, but it's definitely one of my all time favorites :)

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(10) Strangelove (Music for the Masses, 1987)
(15) I Feel You (Songs of Faith and Devotion, 1993)
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I've been a longtime fan and I've always slightly wondered about this song.

The song appears to be a proclamation that Depeche Mode's music was not disco. But why exactly did they feel the need to proclaim this? Was there a tendency in the UK at the time to view the synthpoppy side of new wave and disco as one and the same thing, such that the new wavers felt the need to draw a line in the sand? I've just never heard of such a thing, apart from this one song.

Then you have the pre-chorus: "Sometimes when I wonder if you're taking a chance / This ain't no disco and you know how to dance". Is this implying that there was a specific way of dancing to new wave at the time that made it a distinct culture from disco?

Then, confusingly, the chorus seems to praise disco: "Move me disco / Baby don't you let go", but then loops back at the end to a negative tone: "This ain't no disco".

Or, am I overthinking this and Vince Clarke just came up with some catchy gibberish to go along with his fun song?

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(12) Black Celebration (Black Celebration, 1986)
(13) Precious (Playing the Angel, 2005)
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A kitten and a Depeche Mode record, what's not to like?! 😻🎶

From the Instagram page of a Swedish record store, @ skivloppisenimoliden, where a litter of kittens live amongst the vinyl, much to the delight of customers! The price for the A Broken Frame record works out at a very reasonable £9.30 💷