The first one…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgooMi4NYhY

It’s quite weird. I love this song so much and the lyrics are the best part. They are so true. For me. For many people I know too. (Song from the album “Some Great Reward”, 1984)

 

Another Depeche Mode song. This one from the album “Black Celebration”, 1986. Another one with truer lyrics than I can ever write. I’m listening to this band a lot right now. But I have always been a fan. More or less.

(You see, I don’t really call myself a fan of this or that band or musician. I am not at all interested in  the people who create the music that makes me feel. I don’t care about their birthdays, martial status or this or that. It’s the music. Always just the music.)

When I was 8 years old, my mother gave me a really old radio. It was red and quite battered with a couple of shipped corners. I wasn’t allowed to go out to play with other children. And that radio became my most precious possession. It became the roots to my music addiction.On my 9th birthday, I got a more modern radio. With tape deck and CD player. I had a couple of CDs. (Bonnie Tyler, East 17 and a couple of compilations). And I was one of those who recorded songs from the radio on tape to play on my walkman. Oh the memories. And then I heard “I feel you” by Depeche Mode for the first time in 1993. 10 year old me begged my mom to buy me the album “Songs of Faith and Devotion”, but she refused, saying that I was too young for that kind of music. I was not happy. Not at all. I began to save every money I received and after a couple of weeks, I was able to buy it for myself. I recall the day. I was ten years old and I was allowed to take the bus to the city (with my older sister). We had only one place where we wanted to go: the record shop. She wanted to buy some Bon Jovi, and all I could think about was that Depeche Mode album. Long story short – I bought it and never ever regretted it. I still listen to it a lot. There was a time when I listened to Depeche Mode excessively and one after one, I bought all of their albums.

As I said, the memories…