How to make Dan and I feel old

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The tour happened fifteen years ago now.

*cries*

I am very happy they tracked down some of the contest winners on the bus, though. I half think that part might have been an oblique inspiration for The Real World and everything that followed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

1988 was 15 years ago? Cherist. Thats the year I finished high school.

Exscuse me while I go off to mope.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Finished high school that year as well, Trayce. I still remember people talking about going to see that show -- and I had already scarfed up all the early Depeche albums at that point -- but I never actually went, dammit. :-( Rectified that error two years later at Dodger Stadium, though, and I wouldn't trade that for the world.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

it's scary to think depeche mode were once that big in america

it certainly explains linkin park

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

it may be of vague interest to know that on the online record collection database skivsamling.nu, more people have Depeche Mode records than any other band.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ergo DM fans are BIG NERDS

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

it's scary to think depeche mode were once that big in america

'scary' = 'wonderful and glorious and a sign of rightness' And yes, it DEFINITELY explains Linkin Park, as it should.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember when all the kids on the bus seemed so old.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I still remember this totally dismissive review from Rolling Stone around the time the movie came out complaining about the band being cyborgs and the fans being sheep and the like, usual spiel. It was so telling about the reviewer/magazine's point of view (I seem to recall this fitting in around the period when they were trying to champion Tanita Tikaram or Boz Scaggs or something, the last dying gasp of 'quality adult eighties rock' as such) and said jack shit about the actual people involved. In contrast the Cure got a (well-deserved) huge article later that year when Disintegration came out even though there was a massive crossover between perceived audiences/fanbases, but presumably Robert and company were approved of because they had guitars [missing the fact that by then so did Depeche etc. etc. whatever].

I remember when all the kids on the bus seemed so old.

I was never that young, alas...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ergo DM fans are BIG NERDS

I think I just proved that! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT going to this at the Rose Bowl was a mark of pride for me. I liked them fine, they were sooooo overrated by KROQ!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i went to that rose bowl show. they were my favorite at the time. although i sold all my depeche mode cassettes the following year when i went some kind of 'harder' punk/goth... and never really got back into them.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERRATE.

Not that I'm biased. Dan, wake up or something!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

You cant not like Depeche Mode, I mean really :D

A few years back, the Butthole Surfers were guest programmers on the TV show Rage (ie they picked the playlist for the nights vids etc). Upon playing "Personal Jesus", King was going on about how they went to a DM show, and how they felt like dirty old men and all the audience were gorgeous and sweet teenage goths from the 'burbs.

Gibby Haines then said "I'd like to kiss those girls right between their legs". Classic moment of television.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, just the other day my (soon-to-be-ex)-boss and i were talking about depeche mode. i came to the conclusion that all i really need from them is their 3-cd greatest hits and (maybe) some great reward. they're one of those groups i can admire, but not really love all that much ... except for their big hits, they leave me cold. which is kinda odd, given my eighties synth-pop love, but there you are.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, come to think of it i'd also keep speak and spell around. which would make dan want to strangle me, but even still there you are.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

To me they are definitely a singles band. The only album of theirs I really like is "Violator", I mean that has "Blue Dress" on it for starters...

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

interestingly enough, i've somehow managed to obtain just about all of depeche mode's studio albums plus that live thing they did during the late eighties. again, except for some great reward and speak and spell, i don't think that i've played any of them more than once. kinda like ned and his elvis costello cd collection -- blasphemous rumors, G*d having a sick sense of humor, and all of that.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I just did the math.
*giggles to self*
I was twelve.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i was 10.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

STOP, I feel old enough as it is! heh. :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have become too old to answer this thread in anything besides my Crotchety Synth Fan voice:

Pah! You young punks; back in my day the bloops and the bleeps MEANT something...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

to *make* you both feel old would involve some kind of screaming group psychology ritual

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Pah! Outta my yard, raver punk!

― Crotchety Synth Fan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

You know you're old when you're in a nightclub and "Bizarre Love Triangle" is being played and some young bitch nearby says "oh god what a HORRIBLE Frente cover!". I had to be held back.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

*CRIES*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Who are Depeche Mode?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It takes almost nothing to make I feel old.

Also, it is perfectly possible to overrate Depeche Mode. I know it's unlikely that anyone would be foolish enough to say that they weren't useless, but I bet someone somewhere would say it.

(Quick check: I have one Depeche Mode single, which I only got for the Dave Clarke remix.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

People who think that Depeche Mode helped discover penicillin overrate them.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

what tokyo roesmary said.

― kephm, Thursday, 11 September 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I only said they were overrated because in L.A., in the late 80s, people thought they were Jesus or something. It was highly annoying. I was always saying, "b-but, this New Order album is way better, and so is this PSB one...", but those crazy depeshers were having none of it...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Who are Depeche Mode? Never heard of them! ;-)

I hadn't even bought an album in 1988!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

_Please_ might be better than _Black Celebration_; otherwise, I can't even imagine comparing PSB to Depeche.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 September 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Very is a lot better than SOFAD, and that Discography is better than any DM singles collection. Other than that, DM's albums rule NO's and PSB's. But I actually find it funny there were DM fans that didn't like New Order!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, they liked NO ok, but Depeche Mode were a total phenomenon early on in SoCal (mainly due to KROQ).

and like I've always said, there is some kind of Manichean divide between Depeche Mode/Erasure and New Order/PSB...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

and like I've always said, there is some kind of Manichean divide between Depeche Mode/Erasure and New Order/PSB...

And i always wondered about that too, since sonically, they are total cousins.

(And just cause I can, there goes my girly squeal of glee that 101 is finally on DVD. So, whee!) I was just 10 when that tour ran, and in my neighborhood, Rastas weren't down with the DM.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/0y3X3V3p3Z0W1f093s1Z/so%20very%20old.jpg

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 February 2018 11:00 (seven years ago)

trying to do some maths... this is hurting

― Badgers (dog latin), Friday, 2 February 2018 11:15 (seven years ago)

Third wave lads we're in the third wave sound the sirens

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Friday, 2 February 2018 11:15 (seven years ago)

oh

oh god

― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 11:19 (seven years ago)

That's classic.

This thread was to note that a particular Depeche mode show had taken place fifteen years earlier. This year, this thread will itself be 15 years old.

― Tim, Friday, 2 February 2018 11:23 (seven years ago)

Assuming 18 year old parents when giving birth.

Lucy is old enough to remember her grandparents playing the music - let's say 6 years old and her memory is therefore in 2004 (fuck).

Her grandparents were 42 playing the Pixies.

Doolittle was 1989 so they were 27 when it came out. So it does kind of work.

― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Friday, 2 February 2018 11:28 (seven years ago)

Where is that from, Tracer? Mind if I tweet it?

― Alba, Friday, 2 February 2018 11:31 (seven years ago)

It's doing the rounds on twitter a lot. Must be my middle-aged filter bubble

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 11:32 (seven years ago)

Ah, I see it on there already xpost

― Alba, Friday, 2 February 2018 11:33 (seven years ago)

a friend of mine was a grandparent at 38 a few years ago

― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 February 2018 12:28 (seven years ago)

in 85 years this thread will be 100 years old :0

― mark s, Friday, 2 February 2018 12:48 (seven years ago)

really puts it in perspective

― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 February 2018 13:13 (seven years ago)

Daaaaammnn

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Friday, 2 February 2018 13:38 (seven years ago)

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