Depeche Mode CANCELLED!

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Good thing I kept my CDs. I'm not convinced there will be nothing left on those streaming services by the time this fascism is over.

anything left

Oh bullshit.

It's one of the proto-wokest songs of the '80s. It criticized capitalism and the patriarchy with a bunch of hot BDSM talk.

Those twinks were kinky.

And Martin Gore, who wrote the song, is biracial — his dad is black, BTW.

Death in a grease fire is too good for OP.

Yes, Depeche Mode are the EPITOME of PROBLEMATIC

What with their history of hitting the pop charts with messages like this all the way back in 1984

R6 Sounds too much like all lives matter for my taste.

This video hit MTV when I was 8, and Alan Wilder (center) has been my ideal boyfriend prototype ever since.

Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January.

What are you going to do, cancel all of BDSM culture?

There are hundreds of rock and hip-hop artists with more offensive songs out there. Leave them alone!

R7, you should address that objection with Martin Gore, who also wrote that song — along with most of DM's songs — and is, again, biracial with a black biological parent.

I'm not a big fan, but when Pandora unexpectedly throws this song at you, it stops you cold for a moment. I think it was banned on many radio stations in the US eons ago. So they are no strangers to controversy.

It would be a great theme song for the Year 2020.

OP is just making shit up

(R13) He is, really. However, given the stupidity of this cancel culture, which has already claimed Aunt Jemima as a victim, it isn't too far of a stretch.

R2, this isn't even real.

What is wrong with people like you, who immediately believe the trolls who make shit up (and that's all OP does, he's a complete waste of space) and start crying like babies about "fascism"? Pull yourself together.

I would have guessed these boys would have all been overdosed and dead by now. See just how the lies and deceit gained a little more power. Confidence taken in by a sun tan and a grin.

R15 what's wrong with us is that the jokes now look just like the news so no one's common sense alarm goes off anymore.

Oh, bullshit, R17.

It means people are joking about obviously ridiculous things, but you're not honing your common sense alarm.

Objection 1: "I can't believe they're taking everything! What will be left in pop music?"

Objection 2: "Um, are they really canceling this band that was highly progressive in the '80s and whose main songwriter is half-black?"

What's the difference between #1 and #2? Knowledge; whatever's missing can be provided by a quick Google search.

🙄 So OP got #thefeels over a fucking song that had nothing to do with racism, and made it out to be so because of the title. Seriously, fuck off with your fascism and cancel culture over words you don’t like.

There is actually a huge stretch between Aunt Jemima and Depeche Mode, R14.

It could actually be argued that this stretch could not possibly be bigger.

But you know that.

Yeah, Depeche Mode, why it gotta be a BLACK Celebration?! Cancelled!

Yes, (R20), I know. We're living in a theater of the absurd.

Pretty sure OP is joking, ladies.

Thanks, we have determined that, Barb @ R23.

But we knew that.

The most fey straight guys ever.

I would have happily served all of them as long as they wanted.

not 100% straight. See DL thread from 2008!

Oh fuck...Dude doesn’t LOOK like a lady....Dude IS a lady. Don’t cancel us!!!

[quote]OP is just making shit up

OMG, it was A FUCKING JOKE.

Some of you have a giant stick up your asses.

Who?

[quote]Who?

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed

Martin was really cute.

You're an idiot, OP. I bet you voted for Trump.

OP is an asshole with no supporting link because there isn't one. This is becoming tiring.

IT. WAS. A. JOKE.

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R14, if you don’t understand why Aunt Jenima had to go, then you are either an idiot or a racist yourself. Give me a fucking break.

Dave Gahan's biological father is of Indian-Malaysian descent.

Who cancelled them, OP? You, you trolling piece of shit. Only you. No material, but needed to make a thread. ANYTHING FOR ATTENTION.

Black people don't own the words master and slave. Whatever happened in the U.S., which is basically a nation in it's infancy doesn't hold a candle to what has happened in the world prior to it's creation. Everyone has enslaved everyone so everyone can use the fucking words MASTER or SLAVE (servant) whenever they want.

"it" meaning the United States.

Dave Gahan has aged well.

Shown here with his daughter and stepson.

I found Dave Gahan very sexy, without being conventionally attractive. On the stage, he is hypnotic.

R42 I agree.

Even in his 50's, Dave still looked quite sexy while performing onstage in Berlin in 2018.

R42 and R43, couldn't agree more. Gahan just has a certain something! Here's he is doing Enjoy the Silence (a bit earlier, maybe late 30's or early 40's). Rawr! But I also remember his little clean-cut early mtv days doing "I just can't get enough" and being charmed as hell.

Pimpf

Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark talking about Depeche Mode

Martin, just as naked in life as in his lyrics 😀

I love Depeche Mode. Glad I saw them in concert a few years ago. Dave is soooo good live! Voice is great! Dave still looks great!

Martin is naked at the beginning of the video at R47. LOL

Here is a funny interview from 1983.

R26 This is what extremely heterosexual men looked like in the 80's. It was a more civilized time.

All four of them were, and still are, sexy as hell.

One of my favorite b-sides

R51 I agree. They look pretty good for being either close to or around 60 years old.

Here's another good song.

“Master and servant” in an English context is probably more like Downton Abbey than Gone with the Wind.

Shake The Disease

R26, R27 Maybe, some of them are actually bisexual. Here's an old photo of Martin sitting on the lap of another band member (Andy Fletcher). One time when Martin and Andy were having an argument, Alan Wilder referred to them as having a lovers' tiff.

Haven't read the thread, but the Lincoln Project seems to have revived "Everything Counts in Large Amounts." I've heard Rick Wilson quote it to justify their ad spending. I've also seen it quoted on anti-Trump Twitter.

Bump for the music

Martin was a fan of Gary Glitter. In an old clip below, he seems to imply that he had a crush on Gary.

Happy Belated Birthday to Martin Gore who turned 59 on July 23rd.

Here's an old photo of Martin staring deep into Andrew Fletcher's eyes.

Andrew Fletcher is Martin Gore's work spouse.

Martin Gore always finds a reason to sit very close to Andrew Fletcher.

Dave, Martin and Andy

Dave is the third wheel.

R4 Martin Gore was really into the leather scene.

True love ❤️

Violator is the group's all-time best album. Every track on it is great. LOVE.

Meh. They were no Pet Shop Boys.

Martin Gore had the voice of an angel in the 1980's.

R26 R27

It seems impossible to me that Martin hasn't dabbled in the homosex.

It seems impossible to me that Martin hasn't dabbled in the homosex.

A friend of mine who likes DP - always talks about Fat Bob? Who is he? Seriously I know hardly anything about DP though I love their music.

Dave Gahan has an amazing voice, one of the best.

Are they still heroin addicts? Once an addict...

Actually, Martin in the picture at R55 looks similar to Andrew Fletcher's wife, here.

R71 - I thought that, 'Fat Bob' was the nickname given to Robert Smith by Siouxsie Sioux back in the 80s..

Whip it good!

Reach out and touch faith!

"Policy of Truth" is on the soundtrack of Kenneth Branagh's new film, "Death on the Nile".

Depeche Mode is great music. It aged extremely well. I loved Personal Jesus. Martin Gore is very cute and fun fact, he's half black!

I love them and my heart seriously skipped a beat at the title of this thread.

Martin Gore is so fucking cute.

Cute David Gahan

R81 I agree.

Gahan channeling Brando/Dean here

Here's another cute picture of Martin Gore.

You would never guess that Martin Gore has a black father. He looks so lily white.

[quote] You, you trolling piece of shit. Only you.

No, honey. Only You is Yazoo, not Depeche Mode!

Dave Gahan is heroin fit.

R70 Martin Gore was known for wearing dresses.

Have they been cancelled yet, hysteric OP?

Bless your heart, R90.

People are People!

R90 Do you still NOT understand it was a fucking joke?

For those slow on the uptake, as stated above......

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I still listen to Violator all the time

I still remember a hot, hung British guy fucking me while this song played, and he thrusted to the rhythm.

It was amazing.

Everyone knows that including me, nutbar at r94. I was just bored and figured I stir up a few over reactors. Worked better than expected.

Someone started a blasphemous rumour!

Some of the songs written by the original band member, Vince, sound pretty gay like "Boys Say Go" and "What's Your Name".

What's Your Name