Depeche Mode

also post top 5 songs

1. Behind The Wheel
2. Everything Counts
3. World in my Eyes
4. Personal Jesus
5. Get Right With Me

/mu/ approved through Wilder's departure after Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Playing the Angel and Ultra are also solid but not as good as the stuff with Wilder.

/mu/new/order/1984/

Depeche Mode - The Rumour / Blasphemous Rumours

- recorded in 1984
- extended 08:01 min version
- silence @ 02:13 min followed by chimes right till 03:04 min when the verses jumps right back
- track @ 06:29 min: repeated sniffing sounds

[Verse]

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find Him laughing


The verses to "Blasphemous Rumours" describe a 16-year-old girl who attempts suicide but fails. She experiences a religious revival but is killed in a car accident aged 18 and dies. The chorus uses these incidents to conclude, "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that God's got a sick sense of humour / and when I die, I expect to find him laughing." Like other songs on Some Great Reward, the song uses a dense sound with extensive sampled percussion.

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Martin Gore tells WLIR in 1986:

"[Blasphemous Rumours] was mainly inspired from the early days of the band or even before the band got started, when Andy and Vince were regular churchgoers, and I just used to go along because they were my friends. I just thought it was quite interesting. I was never a practicing Christian, although they were. And when you're not involved in it, I think you really notice the hypocrisy and just the funny side to things. One thing I often quoted is this thing called the "prayer list": every week they would sit and pray for people who were seriously ill, and you could guarantee that most of them, the majority of the people who they prayed for, would die. But they took that as, like, being very, very positive, that was "God's will" and "They've gone to somewhere better". And it's just, when you're not part of it, it just seems very ridiculous, very funny. I know a lot of people out there are not gonna agree with me."

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>>74409773
/mu/ is not one person, who the fuck cares as long as you like it anyway?

>>74409875
1- Stripped
2- Never Let Me Down Again
3- Enjoy the Silence
4- In Your Room
5- World In My Eyes

1- Black Celebration
2- Violator
3- Songs of Faith and Devotion
4- Music for the Masses
5- Construction Time Again