Well here’s your chance to own the old house of legendary synthesizer man Vince Clarke. Live in the house that housed the man behind early Depeche Mode, Yaz and Erasure. It’s yours for 1,995,000 GBP.
“Clarke decided he couldn’t walk away from love, so he moved to Maine, got married and started a new life.” – Synthtopia
See the official real estate listing: bartonwyatt.com
via Synthtopia
This entry was written by , posted on February 16, 2010 at 5:55 am, filed under Uncategorized and tagged Depeche Mode, Erasure, house, real estate, studio, Vince Clarke, Yaz. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
It’s valentine’s day. Sorry if you are lonely. Here’s one highly recommended very romantic song: Depeche Mode – Shake the Disease (iTunes link).
“Here is a plea From my heart to you Nobody knows me As well as you do You know how hard it is for me To shake the disease That takes hold of my tongue In situations like these” – depechemode.com
For more info: depechemode.com
This entry was written by , posted on February 14, 2010 at 7:50 am, filed under music and tagged Depeche Mode, Shake the Disease, Valentine's Day. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
It’s 6:30AM and I just jumped a few feet out of bed. For some reason a few days a week vivid nightmares pry my eyes open. The dreams don’t bother me. In fact, I’m amazed how clear and wild they are. Last night’s dream started with a Depeche Mode concert and ended with giant scorpions making incredible screeching sounds attacking people. I know it sounds stupid but trust me it was real enough at 6:29AM.
The interesting part is for most of the dream Depeche Mode were singing new songs. Songs that only exist in that dream last night. With every waking moment they are fading quickly from my memory but I am sure I heard at least three full tunes. I remember the themes were about love and the usual DM musings. The songs were very good and I was excited to hear them. I guess since my own mind was creating them it knew how to make the songs exactly how I personally would like them. The tragedy is I can’t recreate any of what I remember.
Once every year or so I dream I am making my own songs. I create perfect pieces with lush melodies, incredible lyrics and spot on pitch. Maybe someday there will be dream catchers that save to SoundCloud or something. I’d even be happy with the screeching scorpion sounds. Until then sweet dreams…
Do you ever dream you are creating music?
photo credit: just.Luc
This entry was written by , posted on September 22, 2009 at 4:15 am, filed under music, song writing and tagged Depeche Mode, dreams, songwriting. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Ever wonder how popular a band or artist really is? Head over to http://google.com/insights/search/ and find out. Today I have three popularity wars set up (click to enlarge screenshots). First I go old school EBM (of course) and throw VNV Nation into the mix with Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy. Surprisingly Nitzer Ebb looses big time. Next up on stage is MGMT vs Willie Nelson vs The Prodigy. The surprise to me here is that the Prodigy manages to stay on the chart at all. The final contest I go for some big bands: NIN vs Depeche Mode vs Kraftwerk. I knew DM would win but if you look carefully there were a few moments in time NIN over took them.
Of course popularity doesn’t always equal great tunes but this is a fun way to see who’s “the biggest”. Do you think any of these results are surprising?
Related post: Using Google Trends to compare sequencers.
This entry was written by , posted on July 31, 2009 at 7:32 am, filed under business, music and tagged data, Depeche Mode, Front 242, Kraftwerk, music sales, NIN, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, The Prodigy, trends, VNV Nation, Willie Nelson. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
So I’ve really been enjoying the new Depeche Mode song “Wrong“. As a superfan each new album floods my brain with memories of years gone by. One way I knew Depeche Mode were special was the fact that no other band could really sound like them. A few came close with a song here or there such as Camouflage’s The Great Commandment but in general the clones never arrived. Usually when you have a super strong band it’s creates a genre on it’s own… Nirvana as an example. It’s true you could attribute synthpop to DM but let’s face facts, most of that music is terrible.
I find it pretty amusing that one of the best Depeche Mode style songs comes to us as a joke. Take a listen below to Liam Lynch’s Fake Depeche Mode Song. If Liam ever wanted to be big in the German goth scene it would be pretty easy for him.
“Lynch also made the album Fake Songs, released in 2003, produced by his own company, 111 Productions. This album featured the song “United States of Whatever”, which charted in the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It is one of the shortest songs to get to the Top 10 in both countries. The song did get Lynch a place in the Guiness Book of World Records for shortest UK song to go top ten. Liam Lynch is also known for directing music videos. He’s worked with Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Spinnerette, and No Doubt. In 2003 he directed the UK music video for the Foo Fighters single “Times Like These”, although it was rarely played in the United States.” – Wikipedia.org
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Clearly the best lyric here is, “You can’t see me because I’m wearing black.”.
Buy this song: iTunes
This entry was written by , posted on March 1, 2009 at 9:49 am, filed under music and tagged Depeche Mode, Liam Lynch, new wave, synthpop. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There’s a new feature in iTunes called “Pass” and it’s being launched with one of my favorite bands Depeche Mode. Basically, you pay some cash in advance and are delivered new songs, remixes and videos in run up to the new album release which at release time you get the album too. I have to be honest that if I saw this concept and I didn’t like the band I would have immediately thought it was a lame idea. However, because it’s Depeche Mode and their first single “Wrong” is great my finger is hovering over the Buy Pass button. It seems someone at iTunes knows what they are doing.
A funny side note to this story is the Engadget coverage of Pass (link). They don’t like Pass and the author Joseph L. Flatley certainly doesn’t like Depeche Mode:
“Of course, what we’d really like to see is this sort of a deal for a band that didn’t peak twenty years ago. In the meantime, we’ll be catching up with Depeche Mode the way nature intended — during the weekly spin of Personal Jesus at 80′s Night.” – Joseph L. Flatley, Engadget
I’m happy to report that in the post’s comments section DM fans tell Mr. Flatley that he’s clueless. I agree.
Depeche Mode, Sounds of the Universe: iTunes Pass
This entry was written by , posted on February 24, 2009 at 12:14 pm, filed under apple and tagged apple, Depeche Mode, iTunes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I got into an argument with a friend today about how many records Nine Inch Nails have sold to date. He said they were not in the echelon of artists who sold the most mucho wax and plastic. I was surprised to discover he was totally correct. Wikipedia was my teacher as usual. Take a look at this chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_music_artists
So besides the fact that Trent and co. are no where to be found on the list there were some interesting surprises. Does anyone know who Alla Pugacheva is? Apparently she is one of Russia’s biggest acts and sits with the the sales numbers of the Madonna, Cher, and Celine Dion. I was also happily surprised to see my fav band Depeche Mode high up on the list in the realm of Genesis, George Michael, Dolly Parton and even the Eagles. Who knew!
So looking at that list is there any band/artist you are shocked to see have sold so many records? Is there anyone you thought were super big time and they are not on the list?
photo credit: maol
This entry was written by , posted on October 22, 2008 at 7:22 am, filed under business, music and tagged Alla Pugacheva, Depeche Mode, music sales, Nine Inch Nails, records, Trent Reznor. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There is a new magazine that just launched in Germany which covers alternative music and style called Storm. For the debut issue they asked me to write my top five albums of all time and a blurb on why I think each album is so great. I posted this on my record label’s blog too but I thought it would be interesting to you guys here also.
To read the article: click here
This entry was written by , posted on May 6, 2008 at 9:17 am, filed under music and tagged Depeche Mode, Front 242, Granddady, Nitzer Ebb, Storm Magazine, Willie Nelson. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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