ha ha was that a BBC Micro that flashed "Depeche Mode", bet it took days to program that output to the monitor. Love Depeche Mode love the Micro, bring back those days!!!
When Vince, Martin & Fletch formed the band, they all called it Dep-ech-ay Mode. Dave called it Depeche but they all liked the fact that it could be pronounced differently so they didnt mind which was used. I guess because all americans use Depeche, that has now become the way of saying it, but as I said before when the band started in 1980 it was
It makes me ridiculously happy to see Vince and Martin merrily singing into the microphone together. I am definitely looking forward to their forthcoming collaboration.
What was great about bands like Depeche Mode, Human League, Soft Cell etc, was that they made synth pop at a time when programming/sequencing/overdubbing songs in the studio was just becoming possible.. It was also a time when a band could lug a reel to reel on stage with all those perfectly timed, sequenced and arranged synth tunes, and pretend they were playing it all 'Live'. Technology and sequencing was young enough then, that no one knew the difference, anyway. Ah, the early 80's
i used to always listen to depeche mode when i was a kid, im 18 now, and when i first saw what gahan looked like when he first started out, it surprised me, he looked like a kid and his voice didnt fit his figure? i guess thats the word, i wish i lived in the 80's when they first came out so i could have grown up with them coming out with all their good songs
@jessgracedavidson Sorry but I have to ask; have you ever actually heard anything by Kraftwerk? (pronounced KraftVerk). Could you please tell me which Kraftwerk song(s) this sounds exactly like? Btw, this still sounds completely fresh and vital, 30 years on.
I was bout 14 or 15 when i saw this lot, round medway, maidstone way, can't even remember, they could probably shed more light on it than me, I know for a fact i had on a laura ashley pink frilly pink blouse and i fancied the arse off the ginger one ! Oh by the way, that would have been bout 1980 or 1981???????
lol, gotta love the fact that the guy at the begining pronounced their name wrong: 'dep-ech-ay mode' :D Shows how early this was, in the bands career - guy didn't even know their fucking name!
Fletch did not have a Casio. He had a Moog Prodigy (awesome synth) and later part of the first tour switched to the newer Moog Source (which is crap). The only benefits the Source had was that you could save your created sounds. I’ve had both synths and Moog Prodigy rules (behind Minimoog) but also ahead of Memorymoog. (Keeps breaking down and very expensive to repair).
The Snare Drum is from Boss Dr. Rythm 55 made in 1980, the bass drum was created on Arp 2600. Yes those are recorded on the Teac alongside everything else since they are pretending to be playing. And on stage Fletch has Moog Prodigy, Martin has Yamaha CS-5.
@AKAKArnott Yes but let's not forget the bands with ridiculously pretentious or just plain silly names; Depeche Mode, Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark, Scritti Politti, The Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order/Joy Division, Blancmange, Bauhaus, Dalis car etc etc some of whom are amongst my favourite bands of all time! Btw see if you can work out which names are utterly pretentious and which are the silly names.
Depeche Mode has always been leading the 81's synth pop was pure and very clean sound, a beautiful esthetic of those cozy times of New Wave. They evolved as they are GENIES, 80s 90s 2000s always the best, GREETINGS FROM PERU.
Depeche Mode siempre fué vanguardia, el synth pop del 81 era puro y con sonidos muy limpios, una estética acogedora de aquellos hermosos tiempos New Wave. Ellos evolucionaron como lo que son unos GENIOS, en los 80s 90s y 2000s simplemente LO MEJOR, SALUDOS DESDE PERU.
depeche mode es una banda techno new wave o simplemente techno ,el termino techno fue dado en inglaterra en los 80's para este tipo de musica, te lo digo porque yo vivi los 80's, investiga y veras que ese nombre falso desynth pop no es oficial fue inventado mucho despues de los 90's por gente que le gusta acomodar los nombres a su antojo
Totalmente de acuerdo contigo, yo también viví esa epoca de los 80's y es totalmente cierto ese término, para que te explico más, tu sabes sobre eso, como no olvidar una banda como Kraftwerk que fue una de las pioneras del techno propiamente dicho, lo de synth pop fue ya en los 90's, el New Wave fue una época inolvidable para quienes lo vivimos, me rectifico con lo de synth pop. Lo que es cierto que Depeche Mode fue siempre vanguardia.
Hay algo que si no estoy totalmente de acuerdo viéndolo bien, te rectifico el techno new wave no es simplemente techno, el New Wave puro tuvo bandas netamente guitarreras como Wiretrain o Modern English, el Techno puro vino con influencias de Kraftwerk y otras bandas como Tangerine Dream, si te das cuenta esa fusión logro melodías como las que contaba Depeche Mode, OMD, Human League, Soft Cell, etc. El Techno venía solo el New Wave tuvo sus variantes pero también vino solo después del punk
EL TECHNO FUE EL NEW WAVE ELECTRONICO, INICIALMENTE SEDENOMINO TECHNO NEW WAVE Y DESPUES SE ABREVIO A SOLO TECHNO, TE LO DIGO PORQUE HE LEIDO REVISTAS INGLESAS DE LA EPOCA Y ADEMAS EL PROGRAMA BRITANICO DE LSO 80'S EUROROCK ERA MUY ESPECIFICO EN ESO , QUE ERA TECHNO, INVESTIGA EN REVISTAS Y LIBROS DELOS 80'S Y VERAS. Kraftwerk Y OTRAS BANDAS FUERON PIONERAS COMO PARTE DE LA HISTORIA PRE TECHNO NEW WAVE
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I love DM but this song sucks! Good thing that Vince Clark left the band b4 they got big. andrew fletcher.. somehow he seems to always look busy when in reality he does very little.
...it is at least a french Name and even Dave himself spoke it in 1982 in an interview on the radio like "Depechey", it was a french name pronounced with an "Essex-Basildon-Slang". I still remember him introducing his Band with "New Life" on the German Radio. Since that time and this song I`m a fan!! DM forever!!!!!!!
I am old enough to remember this lot when they first came out and ALL Djs of the time pronounced it Depechey Mode ,they probably thought they were being cool
Vince was a big boy gay on the scene in london back then,,top cream puff in the new romantic clubs...could often be seen camping it up with other queens
@nosferatusbutt Actually, like Notre Dame is properly pronounced Note-truh Dahme, NOT Note-er dayme. Depeche Mode which means "Fast Fashion", is pronounced Dee-pesh-ay Mode, NOT Dee-pesh Mode
@TrainmasterCurt Thank you for the explication. Are you a grad from Notre Dame? Funny you should mention the place, as I have two degrees from there. Cheers!
@sastal No, i live in Canada and have not yet gone to a University at all, though i do want to take a Sacred Theology course, i just observed proper pronounciations, i can pronounce Latin also
I like the Vince Clarke years better as well. His early stuff with Yaz was great too but then I think he lost a lot of flavor when he moved on to the Erasure phase of his career.
Depechshay made lol, almost upo there with Tony blackburns Durham Durham when duran Duran first came out.
The presenter is ex Radio one DJ Powell, the TOTP studio in Londons TV centre always recorded in Studio one.
I followed these from day one, first saw them when I was 11 in 1980 at the Poole arts centre in Dorset,(Nr Bournemouth), and have been to all the live gigs since.
Odd lot though - jigging around like dads at a wedding. Vince Clarke, as evidenced by the complexity of the music, is a true talent, and Dave Gahan (despite being a bit of a knob) can cut it live.
great stuff, i feel 18 again. I have a signed scarf by all members from a gig at Canterbury University- it was their scarf too.I also saw Vince waiting for the train at Fenchurch street after the Simon & Garfunkel concert at Wembley - wonder if that's where he'd been too? Oh happy days.....
underrated? is it really? I for one rate it. Agree with webins about golden age. Loved it up and including violater after that i got so dissapointed I gave all my records away. Something a regret today, the old stuff did not become bad just be course the newer did not appeal to me
"Speak and Spell" is serioulsy under-rated. "Dreaming of Me" is so beautiful.
I have to admit I don't see a big difference between it and the subsequent ones, in terms of sound. I think people over-estimate the whole "Vine=happy/Gore=dark" thing.
Over-all, this was not only the begining of Depehce Mode, but of their Golden Age as well, which I feel lasted until maybe "Music for the Masses". "Violator" was very good, but I'm no fan of the later ones.
@doetim idk i think the first album with vince clarke was good i think martin had a really hard time generating quality material until some great reward i really find broken frame and construction time again inconsistent id say depeche was at there peak from 84-93 i will say however playing the angel is fuckin amazing too
@mockingbird622 Funny how different people can have such completely different ideas about things. I thought A broken frame was a far better record than Some great reward. Have still never heard Construction time again or Exciter -the latter of which I've heard is somewhat less than exciting- but I'd say, along with Black celebration, Music for the masses and Ultra, A broken frame's one of their better efforts. Btw, Violator's very overrated in my opinion.
Golden Classic Track :) I would have loved Vince Clarke to have stayed with the band for a few more years. But then again i loved the way Alan changed the band.
lol I wondered that,myself. This song off of their first LP amongst most of the others off of here were rather positive and poppy...I think it started in the black celebration timeframe.
Thank god they evolved. Otherwise, they would have been relegated to the dustbin of 80's music history like Orchestral Manuevoures and the like. Tesla Girls anyone?
Funny I actually like the Vince Clarke era stuff the best. Just Can't get Enough is one of my favorites, then again I usually play out at parties so that might be why I like those joints since they are a lot more dance friendly.
@Zhoolik If that's true about OMD being confined to "the dustbin of 80's music history" (and I do like your terminology!) then that is only because the taste makers have decided that is so. I would never describe myself as a "fan" of OMD but can anyone genuinely say that New Order ever produced anything as musical as say, Souvenir, Maid of Orleans or Joan of Arc? or for that matter ever made an album as experimental/brave as Dazzle ships?
well sequencer and sampler memory is far more abundant now than it was then, which accounts for more "live" keyboard parts. These days they could load the whole song into a software sampler and play it back from one key though that wouldn't be too exciting now would it ?
So the english can't pronounce french either. Depeche....or Depech A mode??? Too funny. He had no idea how huge they would become. I'm sure most in the US don't even know who they are. Manson makes a remake and they think it's a new song....and that one is a what I consider a recent Depeche Mode song...
COCK. I'm sure the presenter was just ignorant and presumed there was an accent on the e. American people never butcher the English language (oh thats sarcasim which i guess you wont understand). Depeche mode are simply a huge band, selling approximately 72 million records worldwide. This includes a number 1 album in the states and a number of sell out stadium gigs, although they have achieved most there success in Europe, I'm sure they have a fair American fanbase. Anyway I reiterate...COCK.
ps:They called DepechE (with "accent" on E) because this is a French world => DEPECHE = hurry. I guess they didn't know how to pronounce this world, as far as I know French doesn't articulate E at the end of worlds... Anyway there is no problem with English accent because there is NO English accent at all, there is only American accent, English- English is the BASIC!
ha ha was that a BBC Micro that flashed "Depeche Mode", bet it took days to program that output to the monitor. Love Depeche Mode love the Micro, bring back those days!!!
craig6398 1 week ago
Peter Powell!!! "Hi mates!!"
podfunk 1 month ago
The Lame Dickheads
schwoffenheimerdyke 1 month ago
Lo mejor para mi es la frescura y genialidad de los teclados de V. Clarke.
Aunque ya de por si son grandes
andypeor 1 month ago
Lindos todos en aquellos años , ahora mas maduros pero sexys.
rayito2005 1 month ago
When Vince, Martin & Fletch formed the band, they all called it Dep-ech-ay Mode. Dave called it Depeche but they all liked the fact that it could be pronounced differently so they didnt mind which was used. I guess because all americans use Depeche, that has now become the way of saying it, but as I said before when the band started in 1980 it was
Dep-ech-ay.
novelty4 2 months ago 2
It makes me ridiculously happy to see Vince and Martin merrily singing into the microphone together. I am definitely looking forward to their forthcoming collaboration.
CallOfDrewthulhu 2 months ago
I cant believe Peter Powell cant pronounce the word "Depeche". what a tit.
Then again anyone who marries Anthea Turner has got to be a bit of a bell-end
JJmacd 3 months ago 4
What was great about bands like Depeche Mode, Human League, Soft Cell etc, was that they made synth pop at a time when programming/sequencing/overdubbing songs in the studio was just becoming possible.. It was also a time when a band could lug a reel to reel on stage with all those perfectly timed, sequenced and arranged synth tunes, and pretend they were playing it all 'Live'. Technology and sequencing was young enough then, that no one knew the difference, anyway. Ah, the early 80's
CW2SCOGG 4 months ago
Peter Powell...
what a DICK
bigmeuprudeboy 4 months ago 2
Wow, I never realized how much Dave was rocking the Marc Almond look back then.
VorpalGirl 5 months ago
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Great that the one at the end got to the studio just on time, pity he didn't have time to take his hat & coat off.
flaxonx3 5 months ago
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flaxonx3 5 months ago
tune!
fudgepackor 5 months ago
i used to always listen to depeche mode when i was a kid, im 18 now, and when i first saw what gahan looked like when he first started out, it surprised me, he looked like a kid and his voice didnt fit his figure? i guess thats the word, i wish i lived in the 80's when they first came out so i could have grown up with them coming out with all their good songs
devil13332 6 months ago
@devil13332 I did and can tell you, they were and are fantastic.
mykeevans 5 months ago
@devil13332 I was born in 1967 and my first depechemode concert was in 1984 in the siegerland halle in siegen/germany. it was fantastic.
since then i am a fan until now and maybe forever...
dasloewi 5 months ago
what age are they???
84donatas 6 months ago
Aaaaaah when DM made cracking tunes! Vince Clarke was da guv'nor! True DM had a few good tunes after he left but Vince was the daddy...
TheGeraldemerald 6 months ago
thank you venice clark you a mastman for creating new life depechemode is too good!
dm forvever
80retrodude 6 months ago
sounds exactly like kraftwerk.. not so new life now is it ._.
jessgracedavidson 6 months ago
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Sounds NOTHING like Kraftwerk! The only comparison are the dates and use of electronics.
crownoftrees 6 months ago
@jessgracedavidson Never
mykeevans 5 months ago
@jessgracedavidson Sorry but I have to ask; have you ever actually heard anything by Kraftwerk? (pronounced KraftVerk). Could you please tell me which Kraftwerk song(s) this sounds exactly like? Btw, this still sounds completely fresh and vital, 30 years on.
MisAnnThorpe 3 months ago
I was bout 14 or 15 when i saw this lot, round medway, maidstone way, can't even remember, they could probably shed more light on it than me, I know for a fact i had on a laura ashley pink frilly pink blouse and i fancied the arse off the ginger one ! Oh by the way, that would have been bout 1980 or 1981???????
MsAngelAdonis 7 months ago
Vince IS THE synth-pop god! ;-)
mikegotteri 7 months ago 16
@mikegotteri amen
MinnieMouse1975 7 months ago
i remeber this appearance...
OLDMANBADGER 7 months ago
MAGNIFIQUE:)WE LUV AND MISS 80DECADANCE NEW WAVE MUSIC IS FOREVER AND EVER
faraon2012 8 months ago
Wow! who knew from this simple pop song what this band would eventually become!
gunsnhalen 8 months ago
Wow the original depeche mode before andy gaham
GustavPolet 8 months ago
lol, gotta love the fact that the guy at the begining pronounced their name wrong: 'dep-ech-ay mode' :D Shows how early this was, in the bands career - guy didn't even know their fucking name!
Tom93M 9 months ago 5
@Tom93M where were you in 1981? that is how the band pronounced it!
"It’s probably grammatically wrong," said Vince. "But we like it that way."
i remember being slightly confused when they changed it after vince left.
dhoog 7 months ago 2
@Tom93M don,t diss peter powell lol
djquirke1 4 months ago
Ah so sweet!
I love early Depeche Mode.
Frankly I love this song more than the whole of that over-blown pseudo-grunge/alt-rock "Songs of Faith and Devotion" nonsense!
Vebinz 9 months ago
Fletch did not have a Casio. He had a Moog Prodigy (awesome synth) and later part of the first tour switched to the newer Moog Source (which is crap). The only benefits the Source had was that you could save your created sounds. I’ve had both synths and Moog Prodigy rules (behind Minimoog) but also ahead of Memorymoog. (Keeps breaking down and very expensive to repair).
Koeningsplein15 9 months ago
@Koeningsplein15 No maybe not but unless I'm very much mistaken he is holding aloft a Casio (VL?) tone keyboard/calculator in this performance!
MisAnnThorpe 3 months ago
Vince Clarke - Synthie-Gott!
togotob 10 months ago
super song!!!!
ultravox6 10 months ago
The Snare Drum is from Boss Dr. Rythm 55 made in 1980, the bass drum was created on Arp 2600. Yes those are recorded on the Teac alongside everything else since they are pretending to be playing. And on stage Fletch has Moog Prodigy, Martin has Yamaha CS-5.
cger99 11 months ago
did martin come straight from his old job at the bank he looks like a city gent!
oakesy68 11 months ago 2
Oh my, Fletch has a Casio VL-Tone mini synth! Very cool, Rational Youth also used one in City Of Night, and Trio in Da Da Da!
TrainmasterCurt 11 months ago
how do they run beat here? is it pre programmed?
kevkondro 3 years ago
@kevkondro I believe Vince recorder a drum beat from a drum machine into a Teac "Reel to Reel" player
TrainmasterCurt 11 months ago
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VoodooRevelator 3 years ago
depechay mode? This vid cuts off the outro which is one of the best parts of the song...
theman2000xx 3 years ago
at 1:30
pentas 3 years ago
lol yeah, looks like a bit of rick rollin going on there!
MilesGos 3 years ago
lul!
batsinmybed 3 years ago
check out the the casio vl-tone
pentas 3 years ago
bella :D
thegroove87 3 years ago
Dave Gahan is adorable! Muah! Davie!
ForgottenSoul700 3 years ago
weres alan wilder
HarryBlach 3 years ago
he was not in the band yet, he replaced Vince
FLORENT2222 3 years ago
coool
Yuljaa 3 years ago
depeche mode is the best!!!
skyfire2008 3 years ago
Is it Depeche Mode or Depechaay Mode?
I think he was going for the continental approach to pronunciation!
tlambert1981 3 years ago
tlambert1981
It's Depeche Mode. It's not even pronounced 'Depechaay' in French (unless you're Peter Powell)
We had some fantastic music in the 80s but it was balanced out by the correspondingly bad and cheesey DJs that we were saddled with.
AKAKArnott 3 years ago
@AKAKArnott Yes but let's not forget the bands with ridiculously pretentious or just plain silly names; Depeche Mode, Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark, Scritti Politti, The Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order/Joy Division, Blancmange, Bauhaus, Dalis car etc etc some of whom are amongst my favourite bands of all time! Btw see if you can work out which names are utterly pretentious and which are the silly names.
MisAnnThorpe 3 months ago
love em!!!! my claim to fame although slight my son is friends with martin gores nephew!!!
ajd060370 3 years ago
Depeche Mode has always been leading the 81's synth pop was pure and very clean sound, a beautiful esthetic of those cozy times of New Wave. They evolved as they are GENIES, 80s 90s 2000s always the best, GREETINGS FROM PERU.
doloroseo 3 years ago
Depeche Mode, great techno new wave band of the 1980's!!! not synth pop
boyxdance 3 years ago
no, they are synth pop.
rawritsronnaax 3 years ago
That's what we called it in the early 80s: New Wave. The term "synth pop" wasn't used in those days.
DerClunk 3 years ago
@DerClunk: Right. This is no synth pop nor techno.
gunterbutt 3 years ago
True, but in places like Italy the term "techno-pop" also was in widespread use.
sastal 3 years ago
Depeche Mode siempre fué vanguardia, el synth pop del 81 era puro y con sonidos muy limpios, una estética acogedora de aquellos hermosos tiempos New Wave. Ellos evolucionaron como lo que son unos GENIOS, en los 80s 90s y 2000s simplemente LO MEJOR, SALUDOS DESDE PERU.
doloroseo 3 years ago
depeche mode es una banda techno new wave o simplemente techno ,el termino techno fue dado en inglaterra en los 80's para este tipo de musica, te lo digo porque yo vivi los 80's, investiga y veras que ese nombre falso desynth pop no es oficial fue inventado mucho despues de los 90's por gente que le gusta acomodar los nombres a su antojo
boyxdance 3 years ago
Totalmente de acuerdo contigo, yo también viví esa epoca de los 80's y es totalmente cierto ese término, para que te explico más, tu sabes sobre eso, como no olvidar una banda como Kraftwerk que fue una de las pioneras del techno propiamente dicho, lo de synth pop fue ya en los 90's, el New Wave fue una época inolvidable para quienes lo vivimos, me rectifico con lo de synth pop. Lo que es cierto que Depeche Mode fue siempre vanguardia.
doloroseo 3 years ago
Hay algo que si no estoy totalmente de acuerdo viéndolo bien, te rectifico el techno new wave no es simplemente techno, el New Wave puro tuvo bandas netamente guitarreras como Wiretrain o Modern English, el Techno puro vino con influencias de Kraftwerk y otras bandas como Tangerine Dream, si te das cuenta esa fusión logro melodías como las que contaba Depeche Mode, OMD, Human League, Soft Cell, etc. El Techno venía solo el New Wave tuvo sus variantes pero también vino solo después del punk
doloroseo 3 years ago
EL TECHNO FUE EL NEW WAVE ELECTRONICO, INICIALMENTE SEDENOMINO TECHNO NEW WAVE Y DESPUES SE ABREVIO A SOLO TECHNO, TE LO DIGO PORQUE HE LEIDO REVISTAS INGLESAS DE LA EPOCA Y ADEMAS EL PROGRAMA BRITANICO DE LSO 80'S EUROROCK ERA MUY ESPECIFICO EN ESO , QUE ERA TECHNO, INVESTIGA EN REVISTAS Y LIBROS DELOS 80'S Y VERAS. Kraftwerk Y OTRAS BANDAS FUERON PIONERAS COMO PARTE DE LA HISTORIA PRE TECHNO NEW WAVE
boyxdance 3 years ago
i lve this song it's my favourite
gtandliltitch 3 years ago
what's year?
commedescarsons 3 years ago
i think 1981.
rawritsronnaax 3 years ago
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I love DM but this song sucks! Good thing that Vince Clark left the band b4 they got big. andrew fletcher.. somehow he seems to always look busy when in reality he does very little.
101monica101 3 years ago
who care about it!!
faizulina 3 years ago
Poor old Martin Gore - still confused about his dress sense! :P
miniroll32 3 years ago
Vince Clarc-al is jók voltak nagyon:)De Ő szerintem az Erasure-el ütötte meg a főnyereményt!A DM itt is DM!
(Milyen gyerekek voltak még...:)
Audreyhudsman 3 years ago
love depeche mode!!!!!!!!!!
julvalesc 3 years ago
No pues si que tuvieron una gran evolución eh!!! estas canciones nada que ver con las de los 90's para aca pero Dave no deja de verse wow
gogzyxo 3 years ago
jajajajaja...
jajajais 3 years ago
Que musica mas pangola
esto es para transexuales.
Luisunderground666 3 years ago
Por que?
jajajais 3 years ago
Wow, I love Martin's perv look here!
greg5566 3 years ago
Lol owned :D:D
MORTALHLACHE 3 years ago
fantastic video!! I love Dave Gahan and Vince too!!! 80's rule forever! 5*!
80sGirlfan 3 years ago
depech-ey mode, ha ha! Depech-ey rocks! It's Depesh-sh-sh mode, dude.
Domzdream 3 years ago
is this synth pop at its best? YES.
davethedoobie 3 years ago 2
how sweet..there were the kids from DPM ;))
DeVoDeKa 3 years ago
Could Martin be any more stylish? His outfit would be admired today, and every year since then!
TheRightToBeBold 3 years ago
Dave moves like Mr Bean
fiona1933 3 years ago 28
@fiona1933 lol
EmilyRocker42 1 year ago
@fiona1933 lol we all did back then, so coool!!
Biigfish559 11 months ago
@fiona1933
Really! There's something in it! XD
ssuuuee 7 months ago
i love the synthpop
sarcio41 3 years ago 2
why is he saying it like a french word? Depeche' mode. lol
sicilianotoronto 3 years ago
Well, it IS a French term. It means loosely "fast fashion."
NotQuarex 3 years ago 2
cool, they need an accent on the E then. Oh well.
sicilianotoronto 3 years ago
...it is at least a french Name and even Dave himself spoke it in 1982 in an interview on the radio like "Depechey", it was a french name pronounced with an "Essex-Basildon-Slang". I still remember him introducing his Band with "New Life" on the German Radio. Since that time and this song I`m a fan!! DM forever!!!!!!!
Rakete64 3 years ago
yeah, it is french... they dropped the accent symbol, but kept the pronunciation at first.)
skuzzbunny 3 years ago
ok how do you pronounce it then?
mrjugger 3 years ago
I am old enough to remember this lot when they first came out and ALL Djs of the time pronounced it Depechey Mode ,they probably thought they were being cool
ELONut 3 years ago
Vince was a big boy gay on the scene in london back then,,top cream puff in the new romantic clubs...could often be seen camping it up with other queens
mrjugger 3 years ago
are u saying he's gay?
johnbourbon 3 years ago
так смешно ведут себя на сцене))))))
TARELKASUPA 3 years ago
Depechey Mode?
jayleeds2006 3 years ago
i`m born one week later after their - album - speak and spell in late 1981
Trusten1984 3 years ago
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nosferatusbutt 3 years ago 4
so true , what are dork ! haha
uselinkk 3 years ago
@nosferatusbutt Actually, like Notre Dame is properly pronounced Note-truh Dahme, NOT Note-er dayme. Depeche Mode which means "Fast Fashion", is pronounced Dee-pesh-ay Mode, NOT Dee-pesh Mode
TrainmasterCurt 11 months ago
@TrainmasterCurt Thank you for the explication. Are you a grad from Notre Dame? Funny you should mention the place, as I have two degrees from there. Cheers!
sastal 11 months ago
@sastal No, i live in Canada and have not yet gone to a University at all, though i do want to take a Sacred Theology course, i just observed proper pronounciations, i can pronounce Latin also
TrainmasterCurt 11 months ago
@TrainmasterCurt Wow. 2 years later.
nosferatusbutt 11 months ago
I notice Vince actually cracked a smile in those days
creepmag62 3 years ago 2
i discovered this song just lately and it became my best..
early 80s depeche were the best.
but im looking forward to see them live next year.
fabdj 3 years ago
This is a classic, are they going on concert again next year?
wolfbait74 3 years ago
I like the Vince Clarke years better as well. His early stuff with Yaz was great too but then I think he lost a lot of flavor when he moved on to the Erasure phase of his career.
kemicon 3 years ago
Great song.
Depechshay made lol, almost upo there with Tony blackburns Durham Durham when duran Duran first came out.
The presenter is ex Radio one DJ Powell, the TOTP studio in Londons TV centre always recorded in Studio one.
I followed these from day one, first saw them when I was 11 in 1980 at the Poole arts centre in Dorset,(Nr Bournemouth), and have been to all the live gigs since.
spence2016 3 years ago
LOL. "depeshay" indeed. Twat had no idea.
Odd lot though - jigging around like dads at a wedding. Vince Clarke, as evidenced by the complexity of the music, is a true talent, and Dave Gahan (despite being a bit of a knob) can cut it live.
VincentValentine888 3 years ago
Whoooo Depeche-A Mode
zombiegod 3 years ago
depechee mode lol
logom0 3 years ago 2
great stuff, i feel 18 again. I have a signed scarf by all members from a gig at Canterbury University- it was their scarf too.I also saw Vince waiting for the train at Fenchurch street after the Simon & Garfunkel concert at Wembley - wonder if that's where he'd been too? Oh happy days.....
creepmag62 3 years ago
how sophisticated they were. the years have changed them for the better. it´s always such fun 2 c dave´s moves
yutokinemi 3 years ago
GO DEPECHAY MODE! LOL
joemz1234 3 years ago 2
underrated? is it really? I for one rate it. Agree with webins about golden age. Loved it up and including violater after that i got so dissapointed I gave all my records away. Something a regret today, the old stuff did not become bad just be course the newer did not appeal to me
Lillbimbo 3 years ago
"Speak and Spell" is serioulsy under-rated. "Dreaming of Me" is so beautiful.
I have to admit I don't see a big difference between it and the subsequent ones, in terms of sound. I think people over-estimate the whole "Vine=happy/Gore=dark" thing.
Over-all, this was not only the begining of Depehce Mode, but of their Golden Age as well, which I feel lasted until maybe "Music for the Masses". "Violator" was very good, but I'm no fan of the later ones.
Thanks for uploading this great clip.
Webins 3 years ago 2
Nice to see Depeche using back projections way back in '81. On a slightly smaller scale than now... ;)
jfm010 3 years ago 2
love it! reminds me how old i am tho..............followed them from the beginning
julia52002 3 years ago 3
lol .. "Depechay Mode" ... idiot, do your bloody homework first
offthelinegt 3 years ago
I think this was their first TOTP appearance.
I had one of those little Casio's!
Martin obviously has to catch a bus as soon as they're finished.
vanillaorchid 3 years ago
Tinkly Bonk
funmonsterUK 3 years ago
If you had to pick one song to explain to someone what New Wave music is, this could be it. Old DM is soooo much better than the newer stuff.
Feanorsson 3 years ago 5
Right on! ;-)
sastal 3 years ago
<3 this! thx!, can you upload it with better quality? thx again!
l1ghtmaster 3 years ago
I think DM 81-86 was the best!
doetim 3 years ago 16
Agree with ya totally!
Especially in 84. The concert in Hamburg was great!!!
ashleyster13 3 years ago
@doetim idk i think the first album with vince clarke was good i think martin had a really hard time generating quality material until some great reward i really find broken frame and construction time again inconsistent id say depeche was at there peak from 84-93 i will say however playing the angel is fuckin amazing too
mockingbird622 7 months ago
@mockingbird622 Funny how different people can have such completely different ideas about things. I thought A broken frame was a far better record than Some great reward. Have still never heard Construction time again or Exciter -the latter of which I've heard is somewhat less than exciting- but I'd say, along with Black celebration, Music for the masses and Ultra, A broken frame's one of their better efforts. Btw, Violator's very overrated in my opinion.
MisAnnThorpe 3 months ago
seminal pop tune and I know my fucking shit.
rastafarievers 3 years ago
Golden Classic Track :) I would have loved Vince Clarke to have stayed with the band for a few more years. But then again i loved the way Alan changed the band.
funmonsterUK 3 years ago
guenter jauch LOL, compare today! ;)
rothschildus 3 years ago
depeché mode? I thought it was depeche mode
18vallancel 3 years ago 2
Dave looks like the early Günther Jauch. It´s soooo funny!
teppic 3 years ago
Good, Speak and Spell 1981 (The singles)
elpacaco 3 years ago 2
Lol...:) Dave looks here like Mr. Bean:) But today they are LIVING LEGENDS! I love them soooooooooooooo...:D DM 4EVER:D
Zombiemaci 3 years ago 2
jurasic.... hahaha
loquitoxmadonna 3 years ago
go on dave
samuiling 3 years ago
totp = lip synch contest. at least thats what i think the programs all about ahahaha
Bogsnarfticator 3 years ago
Lip sync and pretend playing. Too bad.
blackworm27 3 years ago
1981...
Tatranky07 3 years ago
Haha! When was this recorded?
They look so funny:)
Nilla1408 3 years ago
the boys from basildon look so young! how did it all turn out so dark???
jonestheclash 3 years ago
lol I wondered that,myself. This song off of their first LP amongst most of the others off of here were rather positive and poppy...I think it started in the black celebration timeframe.
TaylorZOXtaylor 3 years ago
Haven't heard this in ages. Fab!
HazelLuckman 3 years ago
brilliant...thats all i can say
youbrooksy32 3 years ago
serious
verronto 3 years ago
vince clark vince clark pop corn synth King.he is the best.
fromthispoint 3 years ago
Thank god they evolved. Otherwise, they would have been relegated to the dustbin of 80's music history like Orchestral Manuevoures and the like. Tesla Girls anyone?
Zhoolik 3 years ago
Funny I actually like the Vince Clarke era stuff the best. Just Can't get Enough is one of my favorites, then again I usually play out at parties so that might be why I like those joints since they are a lot more dance friendly.
kemicon 3 years ago 3
@Zhoolik If that's true about OMD being confined to "the dustbin of 80's music history" (and I do like your terminology!) then that is only because the taste makers have decided that is so. I would never describe myself as a "fan" of OMD but can anyone genuinely say that New Order ever produced anything as musical as say, Souvenir, Maid of Orleans or Joan of Arc? or for that matter ever made an album as experimental/brave as Dazzle ships?
MisAnnThorpe 3 months ago
Look how much Fletch played the keyboard back then as opposed to now.
eisenkreuzmusik 3 years ago
well sequencer and sampler memory is far more abundant now than it was then, which accounts for more "live" keyboard parts. These days they could load the whole song into a software sampler and play it back from one key though that wouldn't be too exciting now would it ?
bowiemott 3 years ago
Looks as if Vince Clarke was in a hurry ...
Furyoka 3 years ago
If only we had 'you tube' and internet radio in the eighties...
The technology now matches the music then...
skyemac8 3 years ago 2
So the english can't pronounce french either. Depeche....or Depech A mode??? Too funny. He had no idea how huge they would become. I'm sure most in the US don't even know who they are. Manson makes a remake and they think it's a new song....and that one is a what I consider a recent Depeche Mode song...
CAFFERACER8 3 years ago
COCK. I'm sure the presenter was just ignorant and presumed there was an accent on the e. American people never butcher the English language (oh thats sarcasim which i guess you wont understand). Depeche mode are simply a huge band, selling approximately 72 million records worldwide. This includes a number 1 album in the states and a number of sell out stadium gigs, although they have achieved most there success in Europe, I'm sure they have a fair American fanbase. Anyway I reiterate...COCK.
hacH512 3 years ago
Wow, you have some serious COCK issues. Maybe you should try some yoga or somethings. I don't see how this post deserved your rage.
sillypants8 3 years ago
ps:They called DepechE (with "accent" on E) because this is a French world => DEPECHE = hurry. I guess they didn't know how to pronounce this world, as far as I know French doesn't articulate E at the end of worlds... Anyway there is no problem with English accent because there is NO English accent at all, there is only American accent, English- English is the BASIC!
zsoflesh 3 years ago
So one uneducated DJ doesn't know his acute from his circumflex. I don't see how this can be extended to apply to all English people.
MidoriNoSaru 3 years ago
Is that Michael Cera from Superbad on the mic? Dave Gahan kinda looked like him when he was young.
kemicon 3 years ago
Oh my God...they were so young...I love them they are my favorite one..DM for ever
stregaccia 3 years ago
Depech AY mode. LOL
PootNTate 3 years ago 2
The good old days of synth pop
eggnation 3 years ago 5