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.
Here’s an amazing acoustic version from the Violator tour. I’ve tried learning this on my guitar, but I haven’t picked it up in forever.
#DepecheMode “Here Is the House”
Shake the Disease was the first new release after I became a fan, but it was “Fly on the Windscreen” that I couldn’t stop listening to. It’s still in my Top 3. A simple statement of human connection in the face of (or in defiance of) nihilism.
“Fly on the Windscreen- Final” (i.e. album version) #DepecheMode
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.
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 ‘86). Another precious song to me, which also expresses how this former desert dweller feels about rain.
“And I haven’t felt so alive in years...”
Thanks for being here today.
#DepecheMode “But Not Tonight”
... though, as I’m dancing to “Stripped” in my cave where I work, I’m reminded that I have something like my bedroom, where I can shut the door and come alive, only I can’t go there wherever I want. Still, I cherish my time here.