#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 5 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with E

Echo & The Bunnymen - “Lips Like Sugar”

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Depeche Mode - Precious (Remastered) YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO

#30DaySongChallenge

Day 4 - A song that reminds you of someone you’d rather forget

“Precious” - Depeche Mode

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Nouvelle Vague - In A Manner Of Speaking (Full Track) YouTube video by Kwaidanrecords

#30DaySongChallenge

Day 3 - A song that reminds you of summertime

“In A Manner of Speaking” - Nouvelle Vague

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Day 2 - A song you like with a number in the title

“Obstacle 1” - Interpol

#Interpol

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Day 1 - song with a color

“Post Blue”

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#Placebo

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Day 4 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with D

Depeche Mode - “Sacred”

I'm one of the devout 🖤

#DepecheMode #MusicForTheMasses

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Day 3 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with C

The Cure - “A Forest” 🖤🎶

#TheCure

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Day 2 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with B

Bauhaus - “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” 🦇🎶

It’s the first song the band recorded just 6 weeks after forming in 1979. It was captured in a single live take.
#Bauhaus

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Day 1 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with A

ABBA - “Take A Chance On Me”

The version I grew up with - covered by Erasure
#Erasure #ABBA #coversong

Every time I hear this song I get hit with a wave of nostalgia from my teenage years – sitting in my room, cd booklet in hand, reading the lyrics, singing along, and wondering what it would be like to see them live 🖤🔁

#DepecheMode #BlackCelebration

Just when it was getting good. Take me back! 😂

#DepecheMode #DaveGahan

Oooh!! You also get a signed card 🤩Thanks!

Kicking off my morning with some Erasure 🎧

#Erasure #MondayVibes

or for me, or poking at me to say "For f–k’s sake, get your s–t together!" But it worked. I liked it."
#DepecheMode #Ultra (3/3)

finger at me. When I perform that song now, it really describes the way I felt at that time: This creature that was barely existing, but somehow still thought he had it going on [laughs]. Martin was spot-on with his lyrics. I mean, I don’t even know if the song was written about me, (2/3)

On this day in 1997, ‘Barrel of a Gun’ was released as a single 🖤

Dave Gahan discusses the song in an Entertainment Weekly Interview:

[Ultra] is one of my favourites, 'Barrel of a Gun' in particular, because I think Martin was also playing with this imagery as well, sort of pointing the 🧵(1/3)

On this day in 1983, “Get The Balance Right” was released as a single. 🖤

If you caught it live, you’re one of the lucky few—it was performed 61 times, with its last appearance on June 2, 1984, in Germany during the Construction Time Again tour.

#DepecheMode

4. Alan Wilder

3. Andy Fletcher

2. Martin L. Gore

In the spring of 1988, the members of Depeche Mode revealed their favorite and least favorite DM albums + songs.

ABF fans - you’ll want to brace yourselves 😅🥹

🧵(1/4) Source: dm/live

1. Dave Gahan
#DepecheMode #JusticeforABrokenFrame

Every. Single. Time. 😅😂

#DepecheMode #BlackCelebration

Tonight’s wind-down ritual 🎧🎶

#DepecheMode #MusicForTheMasses

13. What’s Your Name?
14. Photographic
15. Dreaming Of Me
16. I Like It
17. Television Set

It was the start of an exciting new chapter for Depeche Mode. Did you attend the See You Tour? (3/3)

#DepecheMode #AlanWilder

was like.
“Not extremely, but it was mayhem at Crocs.” - Bong 16

The setlist:
1. Shout
2. I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
3. Boys Say Go!
4. Puppets
5. See You
6. Big Muff
7. Now, This Is Fun
8. Ice Machine
9. New Life
10. Tora! Tora! Tora!
11. The Meaning Of Love
12. Just Can’t Get Enough 🧵(2/3)

On this day in 1982, Alan Wilder played his first live show as a member of Depeche Mode!

The concert took place at the iconic Crocs nightclub in Rayleigh, Essex, England, kicking off the See You Tour.

Alan was asked if he was nervous taking the stage for the first time with DM and what it 🧵(1/3)

decades and genres 🎶

Read about it here: dmlive.wiki/wiki/John_The_…
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Did you know Depeche Mode’s “John the Revelator” was inspired by an old blues classic?

The original was first recorded in the 1930s by Blind Willie Johnson and later covered by Son House, whose version is featured in this clip.

It’s a great example of how a song can influence and evolve across 🧵

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