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#DepecheMode #DepecheMusing #MartinGore #U2

#DepecheMode #DepecheMusing #MartinGore #U2 If you watch the U2 movie Rattle & Hum, there's a bit where they're singing Sunday, Bloody Sunday. It's years after the song was written and the events that inspired that song had just reoccured in Ireland. As Bono is singing "how long, how long must we sing this song", he appears to have a moment where the futility of the words hits him hard. Either that or he is a great actor, but to me it seemed like he had a really genuine moment of disgust with singing and frustration for the audience chanting and enjoying something with a tragic source. Years later I'm relistening to a lot of older Depeche Mode tracks at random and I realise how much I love Black Celebration. It's just a great album with so many good songs. Even the B-sides are some of my favourites. At any rate, I've always been drawn to New Dress. I think the it started with this line: "In black townships fires blaze" I always i...