Depeche Mode had it right!
Posted by Training-Nerve-6585@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 54 comments
Just had a terrible week and decided that I need to have a music night (always gets me back to myself)
So, as one does, Depeche Mode is on my playlist, and People are People plays.
Why isn't this a global requirement? Because, seriously? Why do we hate each other?
And I'm NOT in the US, but we're all just humans! I don't have to like you, but that doesn't mean I hate you!
Ugh.... just 3am thoughts.
littlebeach5555@reddit
“I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors but I think that God’s got a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find him laughing.”
400footceiling@reddit
I worked in Alaska during college, summer work. I was the driver for a restaurant, shuttle customers around. On my days away from customers, I’d drive 250 miles each way and make the restaurant food purchases at the Costco in Anchorage. The box truck they’d send me in had no radio so I had my trusty boom box with cassette tapes of Depeche Mode blasting loud so I could hear it over the crappy truck exhaust. I’ll never forget those drives!
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Wow! That's an incredible memory! I've never been to Alaska, always wanted to visit.
My cousins in Denmark always told me it's amazing
400footceiling@reddit
It was 88, 89, and 90 summers. Met my wife there, we married in 93.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
That's incredible! I can't imagine what you must have seen and done, and meeting your wife must have been the bonus of a lifetime!
400footceiling@reddit
She is wonderful. Makes it easy to remember those days with both of us.
I rebuilt an old 1970 Chevy V8 and drove to Alaska in that. One of the most memorable parts of those trips was the Canadian Rockies. Alaska is great, and huge, but I was always amazed by Banff, Jasper, Kootenay along the way. I think everyone should drive to Alaska from the lower 48 at least once in their lives.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Please show your wife this post, and tell her some random person in South Africa now also thinks she's absolutely amazing ❤️
I think I'm putting this trip on my bucket list!
400footceiling@reddit
She read this and said she thinks your country is beautiful! Thank you!
SuspiciousMeat6696@reddit
Because everything counts in large amounts
TheFrontierzman@reddit
ogbellaluna@reddit
personal jesus and blasphemous rumours seem timely.
and i will always love leave in silence.
and what depeche mode didn’t cover, inxs and eurythmics did.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Blasphemous rumours really hits me hard. Lost a very young friend and I still mourn her every day 💔
Leave in silence hits like a truck
ogbellaluna@reddit
i lost a friend in 7th grade to an atv accident; and an even younger friend to leukemia; i lost a friend to a car accident in high school, and another in high school to suicide.
growing up is no joke; growing up in the 70’s and 80’s was a feat.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
No kidding. Sometimes I look back and wonder how I survived.
I was diagnosed with 3 autoimmune diseases when I was 11, was told I'd be dead by 19. Thank F I'm stubborn!
But I lost friends who were strong and healthy, didn't seem fair (still doesn't!)
The suicides hit me hardest.
Thinking of you, those losses never go away completely 💔
ogbellaluna@reddit
it’s amazing to think we survived - seatbelts weren’t a requirement, and we climbed over one another for the cherished spot of flip-up seats facing one another in the way-back of the station wagon. this was prime seating for making faces at/mooning the cars behind us.
we rode in truck beds as children, because enough of us hadn’t died in flips yet for it to become illegal. some of us even flew out of the backs of them when they rolled, and lived to tell our tales.
i flew over my bike handles into fences, trees, and assorted vehicles - we had zero protective gear. say for skateboarding. hell, look up green machine and big wheels, and you will see how some of us died in low-profile, low-to-the-ground car accidents because adults couldn’t see us.
hell, i landed on my face on a cement block under the parallel bars on my playground.
all the surviving generations behind us should thank us for proving it can be done.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
And thank us for saving their lives through our blood and tears!
ogbellaluna@reddit
i honestly am amazed at how we made it, and how much things have changed, thankfully, for our children safety-wise.
societally, we’re porked; but at least the kids will make it out of childhood.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Very true!
IcyCryptographer5919@reddit
Unfortunately, I don’t like their new stuff, but yea, they had a good long streak going.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Even the new stuff is good. So much less bad than some other "new" stuff going around! (Seriously, if I have to listen to ONE more remix or stolen song, I might resort to violence!)
theewlk@reddit
I've found my people!
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
And we've found you! 😁
SecretCoffee4155@reddit
There’s a lot of wonderful wisdom in the lyrics of Depeche Mode. I’ve always been fond of Walking in My Shoes. We could all stand to show some empathy and understanding toward one another.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
You're so right! Their lyrics are seldomnly frivolous. And even their "light" songs are meaningful.
Online_Ennui@reddit
Policy of Truth always hits hard when I'm having a music night too.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Just listened to that, and it's one of those songs that remain in your brain for weeks....
Always makes me think
Online_Ennui@reddit
Exactly. The lyrics and that punchy synth play back in my head regularly. Road trips start with this one
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Oh heck yeah!
DiabloSerpentino@reddit
You're spot on, with this gut feeling you have. I AM in the states, and I could swear that, sometime around the year 2000, some invisible hand pervasively determined that to not absolutely love a thing meant that you therefore HATED it. Even simple, logical criticism became a tool of "hate". So, I think, that is the answer to your question. We were conditioned to believe everything was a love or hate proposition. Just my opinion, of course.
MuricanPoxyCliff@reddit
"You are either with us or against us". Bush Jr, circa 2001.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
And the world fell for it...
I'm so hoping our younger generations start thinking for themselves and rejecting this whole mindset!
As I said, I'm not in the US, but that same thinking is here too.
I'm doing my best to educate the kids I teach and come into contact with, and, on the whole, they're looking to be much more independent thinkers and much more compassionate.
Maybe there's hope yet!
334078@reddit
Perhaps entering the post 9/11 fear-based reality, where "you are with us or against us", took hold
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
It's not just the US, it's everywhere. Although I do agree on 9/11 We just seem to hate more and more every day, makes me so sad!
I honestly TRY to accept everyone I meet, and most of the time I'm met with the same energy.
Then you get people for whom hate is their entire personality... and those can seriously go F themselves!
Miserable people need to be put in isolation so the rest of us can live our lives in peace ✌️
Dizzy_Dear@reddit
I totally agree with that time frame. Something happened and people started going crazy and it's get5qorse every day.
whatcouchsaid@reddit
Between love and hate we have the official/unofficial slogan of genx: whatever. Whatever, it far more desirable than hate.
NotAtAllExciting@reddit
I’ve got Personal Jesus on my phone play list. Haven’t heard that song in ages but the lyrics are still good today.
joanarmageddon@reddit
As a blues pianist, I surprised myself by busting that one out, one night after returning from Kroger.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Oh wow! Would Love to hear your rendition!
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
One of my favorite songs of all time! And SO relevant!
DoomLordofReddit@reddit
I consider Black Celebration one of the best albums ever made.
Up there with the White album and Master of Reality.
StreetAsparagus420@reddit
Black Celebration and Music for the Masses are peak DM for me. I miss Alan Wilders soundscapes too much on later albums.
the_OG_fett@reddit
Felt the same way for decades. You are my people.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Omg!! Yes! I just went WAY back tonight, needed a bit of nostalgia
UnderstandingQuirky8@reddit
Thanks for this reminder, I’ve Ben meaning to watch DM 101 for quite a while now. Haven’t watched it since high school.
JustinJustout73@reddit
Wow, I remember seeing it in the theater! Such an awesome time! Just like a concert, people dancing in the aisles, screaming along with the crowd on film. Man, takes me back. I wonder what happened to the girl I took....lol
UnderstandingQuirky8@reddit
Wow, that would be so fun! I only watched it on VHS over and over. I wonder where the contest winners are today.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
I've also been neglecting listening to music that makes ME happy. It's kinda needed!
What sparked it was going to an alternative market yesterday (I'm more goth leaning, married a punk 🤣), and they played the MOST amazing music all day!
I realized I've not listened to stuff that makes me happy, sad, or just makes me scream in a long time.
So, F that, I'm going back to my roots and listening to all the stuff!
jeffster1970@reddit
Listening to Depeche Mode on a dark road in the middle of the night is the best. They just have that vibe.
So many great songs, like, every song. And right, their lyrics are very thoughtful. Their song Precious is sort of heartbreaking - Martin created the song, apparently, for his kids, after his divorce.
Aside from lyrics, always appreciated their strong sense of melody and unique instruments.
If you ever have time, you should watch some YT videos where their music is decomposed. Really makes you appreciate them even more.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
You're so right. And thanks for the new rabbit hole I'm about to embark on at 4.45 🤣
PsychologicalTry892@reddit
Da_full_monty@reddit
Somebody…..wait for it…
holden_hiscox@reddit
They are absolutely amazing and still tour! Violator is a masterpiece.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Absolutely! I saw them a million years ago just when Violator came out. Best show I've ever been to.
Training-Nerve-6585@reddit (OP)
Not just you
I'm in South Africa, and it's been similar. I HATE THE HATE!
We're more similar than we are different. I have friends of all colours and creeds, from all walks of life, from all types of trauma and without trauma at all (all of one).
But we all get together, have a braai (barbecues are done in other countries!), and just chill.
We can discuss different points of view, and we don't have to agree to be able to understand. Is that SO HARD?
Sorry, will get off my soapbox now😳