Must I be gay to appreciate Depeche Mode?

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I always thought that Depeche Mode sounded like hypersensitive angst-ridden tormented gays, so much so that a lot hypersensitive angst-ridden tormented gays probably thought “My God, those guys are such hypersensitive angst-ridden
tormented gays!”

THEN I realized this is a difference between “Gay”, and “Geh”. And sorry, but to me much of DM music is “geh”.
Except for one song which I cannot recall. but it rocks. (It’s not “Strange Love”, ironic as that would be- though I don’t hate that as much as I hate most other DM songs.)

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Hey, if I can get a girlfriend by listening to Depeche Mode, I’ll go buy everything else they came out with (I’ve already got Violator.)

Depeche Mode is also the source of my best comeback to street proselytizers. The exchange generally goes something like this:

Q: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?
A: Yes, I agree. Violator is Depeche Mode’s best album.

Then you walk away while leaving them looking confused.

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How 'bout New Order? I love them. Am I gay?

(Why didn’t I think of this question for the Ask the 50’s Mom thread?)

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Nope. I’ve got them too. Sexual compass needle still pointing toward vagina’s.

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I’ve never heard it called that before.

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I’m sure it was Enjoy the Silence.

That, or you’re thinking of Rio by Duran Duran.

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Hee. When I saw this thread, I had Strangelove playing on the computer. [/random comment]

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Exhibit A:
The (incomplete) lyrics to What’s Your Name?

This song is actually too gay for gays though. This takes the bus and sleeps through the rainbow connection onward to some kind of pink mobius strip never to return to gaysville.

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I like Depeche Mode, and I’m very straight, though a bit weird. I don’t listen to them much anymore, but I used to listen to the album with “Master and Servant” all the time. Now this thread is making me want to hear some DM, dammit, and I lost all my records!

BTW, have you all heard the Johnny Cash version of “Personal Jesus?” You’d think it would be a cheesy novelty act, but it’s actually quite good, IMO. Cash turns it into a straight-forward gospel song.

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We should point out that “What’s Your Name” (along with “Boys Say Go!”) is a Vince Clarke classic. Not applicable as of January 1982.

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I think DM are very manly… after all, they combat an opponent who is punching, kicking, and shouting by relying on the opponent’s common decency.

What is more macho than that?

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Queen and Judas Priest both had one gay band member.

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Well, duh, I thought that was the point he was trying to make… :slight_smile:

I like some DM songs, and I don’t think that makes me as a gay as a leather pinata. Though some might argue it makes me “ghey”.

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Isn’t everything on Speak and Spell except Tora! Tora! Tora! by Vince? Martin didn’t really start writing songs until Vince left.

Apart from the awful What’s Your Name, the rest of Vince’s material on S&S is quite ok.

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Martin also wrote the instrumental “Big Muff” on that album.

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Check out a pre-Dharma Jenna Elfman in the “Halo” video. There’s a scene with two girls dancing. She’s the tall one (duh!).

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Also, be sure to check out their new album Playing the Angel, out now in Europe and released tomorrow in the United States! It’s excellent.