I always thought DM were OK, just a bit of a crap version of Joy Division/New Order until an ex-girlfriend battered me to death with the live 101 album and video. Dave Gahan’s a proper rock star.
And then also hearing Enjoy the Silence while ‘recreationally’ enhanced at the Limelight in Shaftesbury Avenue some point in late 89/early 90. Changed my mind on them totally.
Enjoy the silence is a masterpiece of a tune.
when villalobos remixed sinner in me, it briefly hinted at a way out of the creative (k)hole minimal had sunk into. It sounded to me like one of the genuinely innovative tunes of the 2000s, welding together this incredibly dystopian music with that astonishing vocal that appears out of nowhere halfway through. I think it is deffo an acquired taste, perhaps you have to be in the zone or with the zombies but it intrigued me for a long time.
Depeche Mode were massive in South Africa and David Gahan is a proper frontman. Seen them a few times now over the years and every time they’ve been excellent.
Innee bold!!!
In 1981 if you weren’t playing Just Can’t Get Enough on your Casio Calculator at break time you were nothing.
Always loved this one
Was aired at the last convenanza weatherall played at in 2019 and totally captivated everyone in the castle. A moment to remember. He also played Frankie goes to Hollywood welcome to the pleasure dome from the very start with the rainforest noises. Place went fucking mental.
Shocking scenes😳 I don’t think I would last a hour somewhere like that… Definitely wouldn’t buy a ticket…
of course, but much of polari has roots in other languages, which makes sense. it’s a sort of melting pot of slang.
swapping words with completely unrelated words only because they rhyme seems rather simple. there’s no irony, or guided references, or even subversive elements, other than being “in the know”. there’s plenty of slang that works well as a secret code (for a time, until it’s deciphered) but using rhyme alone makes the six year olds laugh, and not much more.
as we’ve seen from 50 years of hip hop - you can do some brilliant things with rhyme, but you can also do some dreadfully unclever things with rhyme as well.
i’ll admit, i thought they were super corny in the 80’s. the leather and bondage and only-slightly pervy elements seemed pretty novelty to me.
of course, they were huge in the clubs that i grew up in, so once i started playing there i had to play a lot of them. some tracks really aged well for me, others are just wallpaper. but i do appreciate their ability to craft a good hook, and some of the noises they came up with are amazing.
if i have it close by, i still use the “beat box” mix of “policy of truth” to tune sound systems. it’s got allll the frequencies, with excellent separation.
Might be a highly unpopular opinion, but Peaky Blinders …
Are we Dep-esh mode or Dep-eshay mode?
I’m depeshay mowday. Just to be different.
“you’ll dance to anything, by dee pesha mowed”
It can be tribal, or used to be, better than everyone speaking RP. London accent is constantly evolving, like most in the UK do and rhyming slang is just one part of it. Most Londoners I know don’t use it other than in jest tbh.
That’s the only one I don’t mind, but it’s essentially a a New Order tune to my ears.
They just don’t do it for me, it’s his singing voice I think
Enjoyed the first season but it just became more and more implausible as time went on
(Not that it was massively plausible to begin with, but it sparked the imagination having visited the old back to backs in Brum)
Speaking of rhyming slang, does most of it date back to the 60’s and 70’s? Have there been modern uses/references added to the vernacular? Am I imagining this or is “having a Thomas” and “Going for a Bradley” even real terms?
Its compounded by all the whoppers bowling about in the bakerboy caps and those Peaker Blinders festivals and events they have everywhere are just laudable. But… I’m gonna stick up for it. It was a great series, full of silly moments for sure but the way they ended it was excellent