Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Giddy as a School Girl
Violator Album Cover, via Amazon.comAt a coworker's good-bye-so-long-wretched-apartment party a couple of weekends ago, I had a pleasurable conversation with one of the PhDs visiting our lab from Germany, in which he told me that he heard Depeche Mode was touring in Europe. I, in turn, just about wet my pants jumping for joy. For, as we both concluded, this meant that they would surely be coming to the States again soon.
Upon checking their site, I learned that they are now working on a new album:
Well it's about time... post date: January 12th, 2005 The band will start work on the new album on Monday, January 17th, with Ben Hillier at the controls. Stay tuned. More news to follow in the coming weeks.
Depeche Mode is my all-time favorite band, and has been for an extremely long time. I swear I remember listening to them on the radio while playing cars in the basement with my older brother when we lived in Iowa (Although, on checking the discography, my memory's timeline doesn't quite match up with reality's.), and I credit "People Are People" as forming my open-minded, progressive weltanschauung at a very young age. (Do I even need to mention their impact on my perverse nature? Violator did come out when I was a horney high schooler.)
Bill took me to see DM when they came to Tampa in 2001 on the Exciter tour, which was my first stadium concert ever--at age 26. (Jebus, I've lived a sheltered life.) Needless to say, the show was phenomenal. If you've ever heard DM 101, you know their heavily synthesized music translates remarkably well to a live format, indicating what awesome musicians they, especiallyMartin Gore and Dave Gahan, are.
