A very Depeche Mode post
Jan. 27th, 2006 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildApologies to true DM fans, but am I the only person who doesn't like the Black Celebration album? I listened to the whole thing at work today, and I...well, I just didn't like it very much. It might grow on me if I gave it a shot, but I'm not terribly tempted to try.
Plus, this line:
Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
sung oh-so-sincerely, made me laugh. OMG! Dead bugs on a windshield!!
So much of it sounds like bad poetry that some of my "goth" friends wrote in high school, which left me forever with a wariness of reading my friends' poetry that I've mostly recovered from. I dunno, maybe you have to be really depressed to like this album?
Reminds me of Tyson's parody of high-school goths (which I believe he got from somewhere else): "I want to die, die, dye my hair black! And staple my hand to my forehead!" which is only funny when properly acted out.
Another note: for years now, I thought that line from Personal Jesus was "reach out and touch me," and it's "reach out, touch faith." (OMG! A mondegreen!!) I hear it correctly now...but I think I like my verson better. *lol*
EDIT: I found a page full of DM mondegreens. Some people here far funnier things than I do--one person apparently heard "reach out, touch faith" as "reach out, fuck face"!
How about: "Your own, personal, cheez-its"??
Plus, this line:
Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
sung oh-so-sincerely, made me laugh. OMG! Dead bugs on a windshield!!
So much of it sounds like bad poetry that some of my "goth" friends wrote in high school, which left me forever with a wariness of reading my friends' poetry that I've mostly recovered from. I dunno, maybe you have to be really depressed to like this album?
Reminds me of Tyson's parody of high-school goths (which I believe he got from somewhere else): "I want to die, die, dye my hair black! And staple my hand to my forehead!" which is only funny when properly acted out.
Another note: for years now, I thought that line from Personal Jesus was "reach out and touch me," and it's "reach out, touch faith." (OMG! A mondegreen!!) I hear it correctly now...but I think I like my verson better. *lol*
EDIT: I found a page full of DM mondegreens. Some people here far funnier things than I do--one person apparently heard "reach out, touch faith" as "reach out, fuck face"!
How about: "Your own, personal, cheez-its"??
