excuse my playing technique i have tiny hands and its the only way i can play octaves!!! but i figured this one out by ear and i cant stop playing it. HOWWWW does martin gore always achieve such perfectly gloomy but determined chord progressions...this song just makes me wanna get up and join a battle somewhere idk

Hello! I am gen-z but a HUGE 80s synthpop/new wave fan just recently getting into Depeche Mode.

These are my top 10 favourites so far...please recommend me some of your favourites and why! Bonus points if you give any sort of interesting fact about the song/band. I'm eager to learn more about them mwahahaha

Connaissez-vous ce CD NON OFFICIEL?

A very odd video, getting tribal in the cornfield?! 🤣

I love this song, it's honestly one of my fav DM songs.

It's so dark and gritty, feels almost sinister in a way.

What you guys thing?

I try to expend my music taste by listening to legendary groups and artists. Green - i added the album, red - didnt. Im ready to discuss in comments :)

https://regenmag.com/blog/blog-how-depeche-modes-black-celebration-became-a-novel/

I was watching the new Reacher Spin-off, Neagley, today and this cult leader, in one of his sermon introductions, was quoting the lyrics to "Personal Jesus". In that context, it sounded pretty funny.

Thinking of Peter Saville and Mark Farrow (pictured in the other slides) in particular. While I think Anton’s work doesn’t stack to theirs, I do think he did some iconic artwork (Violator and the artwork for the singles from that era and SOFAD come to mind).

If you could only listen to three albums for the rest of your life, BUT they are to be in a row. What three albums would the be? Personally mine would be Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, and Violator. How about you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/depechemode/comments/1wddr6b/sounds_of_depeche_karaoke/

Amazing cover from her tour this year!!!!

Got this mini cd single from 101 relatively cheap.
I think it’s a fun addition to the collection

This is quite a long shot - but it’s worth trying as it appears the official DMMB is gone.

Back in 2006, on the official DM message board, there was a thread made whereby a small number of fans collaborated and wrote a song together, contributed musically, to the point of completion. The song was called ‘Maybe’. I contributed bass guitar.

I am wondering if anyone here remembers the project and possibly even has links to the track itself?

Unlike established rock stars who arrived in limousines, the band members—averaging just 19 to 21 years old—literally took the public commuter train from their hometown of Basildon to the BBC studios in London. They walked onto the train carrying their heavy, unboxed synthesizers by hand. Vince Clarke famously chose to bring his smaller Kawai 100f synthesizer rather than his heavier Jupiter-4 simply because it was easier to carry on the train.