One of my favorite songs ever from one of my favorite albums ever (possibly my favorite of all). I became a fan right before Black Celebration came out, and it carries so many strange and sweet memories for me.
Hereās an amazing acoustic version from the Violator tour. Iāve tried learning this on my guitar, but I havenāt picked it up in forever.
#DepecheMode āHere Is the Houseā
More than anything, Black Celebration transports me back to my teenage bedroom, where I could shut the door against the world, open my mind and the worlds inside it, express myself fully where no one could watch and judge, where I could love what I loved in peace, where nothing could touch me. I want that back.
... though, as Iām dancing to āStrippedā in my cave where I work, Iām reminded that I have something like my bedroom, where I can shut the door and come alive, only I canāt go there wherever I want. Still, I cherish my time here.
Lastly, the much-maligned, inferior usurper of what could have been a huge single (though personally, I had zero faith in the US musical tastes in ā86). Another precious song to me, which also expresses how this former desert dweller feels about rain.
āAnd I havenāt felt so alive in years...ā
Thanks for being here today.
#DepecheMode āBut Not Tonightā
Shake the Disease was the first new release after I became a fan, but it was āFly on the Windscreenā that I couldnāt stop listening to. Itās still in my Top 3. A simple statement of human connection in the face of (or in defiance of) nihilism.
āFly on the Windscreen- Finalā (i.e. album version) #DepecheMode
https://youtu.be/IFEGN9ja5RU