That said, maybe I should have sequenced the albums so they’re chronological. It was very claustrophobic for them, all living here together opposed to before where they could go back to their individual homes at the end of recording sessions. they tried this new idea of recording within an apartment building instead of a studio because it worked well for other artists like U2 at the time. Yeah, “Violator” was such a huge success, the previous album that it put more pressure on getting this one right. rumors circulated they might disband and they came back strong with their follow-up “Ultra”… wow… Interesting fact on their Wikipedia entry, they were going through tensions as a band at the time and one of the members quit. It’s usually one or the other… or like with the backstreet boys, I bought the greatest hits for completion sake and I created greatest hits mixes so I wouldn’t have to listen to individual albums again.įast-forward to present day- the albums are coming back out because the CD-R’s I recorded onto degraded to crap.
I don’t often go backwards- getting a greatest hits and the albums that come after. That’s always an interesting experience- although Prince is the only other artist I’ve really experienced this phenomenon with.
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Plus the intrigue surrounding the songs on my greatest hits album and the places they really call home. So this blog is meant to discuss the albums, my first impressions, the songs I like and so on. It isn’t just because I used one of their songs for a YouTube montage- their music is atmospheric and perfect for wintertime- where the terrain is rather bleak and devoid of life and it makes my commute a bit more interesting to go through. When the opportunity comes up, I will explain that my musical tastes are extremely various and weird and somehow this just worked its way in there. Plus he seemed really knowledgeable about the group- way more than I am. I think that’s the first time he’d heard me excited over anything. The point of this whole rant… omg, I’m gonna be here all night… Which is better than I could do- that’s why I don’t plan on advancing beyond my current position. He was a little shy and awkward at first- the way I still am, but with all the twists and turns that can happen at any given time at work, he’s dealt really well with the pressure. Now he’s one of the team coordinators in the department- done an amazing job so far too. The 2nd time it came around, me and one other person were able to get it. I had no ill will about it because I just wasn’t ready yet. (We were both temps, I was here longer than he was, and he got the full-time job that first time it was available. This is maybe the first thing we’ve really had in common aside from us viewing for the same position a couple years ago. But when I’m around the right people, in any given situation really, I do open up. We all sit in front of computers and data process all day. I’m still flabbergasted about it, actually. Come Friday, he came to work and offered me five burned CD’s of their albums. So… much build-up later… this conversation was Tuesday or Wednesday. My baseline requirement for this greatest hits album I’d been thinking about for a while, but took some extra years to remember to look for and buy– it had to have that and “People are People” are on. I mean, I knew “Enjoy the Silence” was from the 90’s.
And the songs from my precious (ha-ha, little play on words there, but also true) greatest hits album are scattered throughout the decades.
While trying to find said song (in my enthusiasm, I only heard “angel” in the title and that might be either it or referring to the title of the latest album), I found something really extraordinary- their career as a band started in 1981 and their latest release was in 2005 (maybe even after 2005). He mentioned a certain era of their music was amazing, a set of albums and a newer song. Most likely I won’t see them on said tour (which is starting in Europe and going to America at some point), but it just blew my mind that they’re still going on it. Someone from work (who I really ought to friend on Facebook after this- we only follow each other on LinkedIn- a site I doubt either of us really use) mentioned to someone else that Depeche Mode was touring and I immediately jumped into the conversation- saying I love them, got really into them a couple years ago with their greatest hits album. This act of generosity feels like it goes beyond the Prince albums that’d been gifted to me over the years… well, at least a bunch of them (Emancipation still ranks at the top for me because I couldn’t find that album myself and my physical copy of the box set was #1 on my most wanted list).