Depeche Mode
Biography :
Depeche Mode are an English synthpop band, founded in 1980, originally from the town of Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom. They are one of the most enduring and successful bands to have emerged during the 80s, and particularly from the new wave/new romantic era. The band name is derived from a French fashion magazine, Dépêche mode, which means “fashion dispatch.”

The band have been highly influential in the electronic dance music scene, especially synthpop, techno and trance, in part due to their innovative work, recording techniques and use of sampling. Their most successful album is arguably 1990’s Violator, which reached the #2 position in the UK, #7 in the US, and sold over 8 million copies worldwide. The band has released a long series of high-charting singles over their three-decades long career. Enjoy the Silence is their most recognized song and is one of the most covered songs in history.

The original line-up was Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke. In December 1981, Clarke left the band and later went on to form Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure. Alan Wilder joined the group initially in January 1982 as a live keyboardist but became an official member in December 1982. He left mid-1995 to fully concentrate on his Recoil project and the band continued as a trio. In 2010 Wilder re-joined Depeche Mode on stage after 16 years, for a performance of Somebody during a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Depeche Mode’s origins date back to 1977, when Vince Clarke and Andrew Fletcher formed a band called No Romance in China, with Clarke on vocals and guitar and Fletcher on bass. In March 1980, Clarke, Gore and Fletcher formed a band called Composition of Sound, with Clarke on vocals/guitar, Gore on keyboards and Fletcher on bass. Soon after the formation of Composition of Sound, Clarke and Fletcher switched to synthesizers. Dave Gahan joined the band in 1980 after Clarke heard him perform at a local scout hut jam session, singing to a rendition of David Bowie’s ”Heroes”, and Depeche Mode were born.

While playing a live gig at the Bridge House in Canning Town, the band were approached by Daniel Miller, the founder of Mute Records, who proposed them a verbal contract. The result was their first single Dreaming of Me, recorded in December 1980 and released in February 1981, reaching number 57 in the UK charts and followed soon by a real contract with Mute.

As of 2006, it was estimated that Depeche Mode had sold over 100 million records (60 million albums / 40 million singles) worldwide and have had 48 songs in the UK singles chart. They are the best selling band to have never had a UK number 1 single. According to Q Magazine, Depeche Mode is “the most popular electronic band the world has ever known.”


To date, Depeche Mode have released:


    13 studio albums: Speak & Spell (1981), A Broken Frame (1982), Construction Time Again (1983), Some Great Reward (1984), Black Celebration (1986), Music for the Masses (1987), Violator (1990), Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993), Ultra (1997), Exciter (2001), Playing the Angel (2005), Sounds of the Universe (2009), and Delta Machine (2013);

    8 compilations: People Are People (1984), The Singles 81-85 (1985), Catching Up With Depeche Mode (1985), Greatest Hits (1987), The Singles 86>98 (1998), Remixes 81-04 (2004), The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 (2006), The Complete Depeche Mode (2006);

    4 live albums: 101 (1989), Songs Of Faith And Devotion Live (1993), Recording the Angel (a series of live recordings; 2006), Recording the Universe (a series of live recordings; 2009);

    49 singles: including Just Can’t Get Enough, Everything Counts, People Are People, Master and Servant, Shake the Disease, Stripped, A Question of Time, Strangelove, Never Let Me Down Again, Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence, World in My Eyes, Policy of Truth, I Feel You, Walking in My Shoes, In Your Room, Barrel of a Gun, It’s No Good, Home, Dream On, Freelove, Precious and Wrong;

    11 video materials (VHS/DVD): The World We Live In and Live in Hamburg (1985), Some Great Videos (1985), Strange (1988), 101 (1989), Strange Too (1990), Devotional (1993), The Videos 86>98 (1998), Some Great Videos 81>85 (1998), One Night in Paris (2002), The Videos 86>98 + (2002), Touring the Angel: Live in Milan (2006), The Best of - Volume 1 (2006)

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http://www.last.fm/music/Depeche+Mode/+wiki

DEPECHE MODE - Enjoy The Silence - Live 2013 Audio HQ

THE STRANGLERS - ALWAYS THE SUN [ NGHT RE-EDIT ]

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (LIVE)

Need You Tonight
INXS featuring Kylie



Need You Tonight  - INXS KYLIE

The stompbox full of gold is a tickin. Play.

Lyrics:

[Intro - Spoken]
(The stompbox starts it's rickety tick-tick-tick)

"You know what they say…
If the stompbox is still ticking...
Play
The hum ain't gonna go away
No
No
Not until the last note's played
If the stompbox...
Is still full of gold
How will I know
How will I know
Is this Rock Bottom
Is this Rock Bottom
Or...
Is there more more more
Gimme PUSH powder"
---
[Verse – Nearly Spoken]
(An attempt to be commanding that goes soft after just the first two lines)

I sold the last chord I had to my name
Traded melody for mercy, but mercy never came
The gospel rang out in a bar with no doors
The sermon was static, 
and the choir 
was filled with spores
Gimme Push powder... 
Make me fish chowder...
Is this Rock bottom?
---
[Chorus – Not deeper, But Heavier]
(There's that commanding voice again crooning to all fk)

This ain’t the gold I thought I’d find (disappointment)
It’s gospel (reverent)
for the deaf and blind (drawn out and belting)
But still it hums. 
Still it plays.
The stompbox full of gold
don’t need our praise
Like you need my name
---
[Bridge]
Gold in my blood, 
static in the weave
Push Powder in the pulse 
that I no longer believe
I screamed myself empty, 
but the echo stayed
A feedback loop of sins replayed
Gimme push powder..
---
[Chorus – Not heavier, But DEEPER]
(There's that commanding voice again crooning to all fk)

This ain’t the gold I thought I’d find (disappointment)
It’s gospel (reverent)
for the deaf and blind (drawn out and belting)
But still it hums. 
Still it plays.
The stompbox full of gold
don’t need our praise
Like I need your blame
---
[Final Verse – an echo, a please]
Push me, Push me
Push powder...
Fish me right out of the sea
Fish chowder...
Stomp once for sorrow, twice for grace...
 And thrice for the ones you can’t replace...
Push Powder, Fish Chowder, Rock Bottom
---
[Outro, A Small, Confused Chorus Sing-Speakin]
Let the bad habits stray...
Let the snow remember my name...
Let the stompbox click in the dark...
So I know I’m still here...
Let the bad habits stray...
Let the snow remember my name...
Let the stompbox click in the dark...
So I know I’m still here...

STOMPBOX CONTINUES 6-on-the-floor for 6 bars
Then silence. Stillness

Copyright 2025, RHYS & The Snowmen, all rights reserved.

ROCK BOTTOM

Edicion Especial para Remezcla Realizada por Jesus Carrillo (Dj Chucho) Venezuela - Aragua

The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Extended Mix)

Enjoy The Silence Live 2005-12-11 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, CA, USA. Remastered by Unseen Mirrors.

Depeche Mode: Enjoy The Silence (KROQ Live 2005 Remastered by Unseen Mirrors)

A very melancholy song by The Cars, "Drive" was written from the perspective of a guy who's watching a woman (who he presumably used to date) "going down the tubes," trying to get her to take a hard look at what's going on in her life. 
 "Drive" became The Cars' highest charting single in the United States, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No. 1

The Cars - Drive (extended Version)

Have you ever heard a song and thought it was about one thing and then read what the composer wrote it about and find it is about something completely different? That was the inspiration behind the recut.

Edge of Seventeen (Recut) - Stevie Nicks

01 mama

Credits for Tears for Fears for making such a good song.

Thanks for your support. 

Love,
UW.

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (LIVE)

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