From: youngd@cary113.its.rpi.edu (David P. Young)
Subject: Re: DEPECHE MODE MURDERS ROUTE 66
Keywords: toaster oven
Reply-To: youngd@rpi.edu
Organization: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:00:01 GMT

In article <4APR199204250849@zeus.tamu.edu>, pac9897@zeus.tamu.edu (PHIL CARNEY) writes:
|> 
|> Why did Depeche Mode ruin this perfectly good classic?
|> I mean, if they don't like guitars and Martin Gore wants to sing like
|> an android why doesn't he go and do it on some trite little ballad of
|> his own?
|> 
|> Hearing this release was one of the most depressing episodes in all my life, 
|> all the more so because these fools hark from London. When you think of all
|> the good British groups around and then look at how popular these talentless
|> fools are you can see the decline of Western Civilization begins here....
|> 
|> You know, Depeche Mode probably haven't released a good single since
|> Vince Clarke sodded off to form Yazzoo/Yazz.
|> 
|> 
|> Phil Carney.
|> 
|> On Exchange From Lancaster University, England.

   Hoo boy.
   I feel I must reply, if only to correct everything in your post which was
completely wrong.
   1) DM hates guitars? Gee, that's news to me, since Martin Gore, the member who
writes all of their music, has played guitar since he was 12 or something like
that, and composes their music on a guitar. Andrew Fletcher plays guitar also.
   2) Dave Gahan sings "Route 66", not Martin.
   3) Androids can most likely sing better than most humans.
   4) DM was formed in Basildon, Essex, not London. Where they are now, only they
know for sure.
   And then, of course, there's all the other stuff, which it's harder to label as
"completely wrong." Simply "wrong" will suffice.
   I noticed someone else said they were forced to listen to "shit like this" (I
think that's what they said) 24 hours a day because they live in a college dorm.
I was hoping someone would say something like that, just so I could get a chance
to once again flame Everyone's Favorite Band, which would of course be Nirvana. I
likewise live in a college dorm, and do you know what it's like to hear "Smells
Like Teen Sweat Socks After a Long Workout" played at over 400,000 decibels at 5
in the f*cking morning?! If you don't, well, you're missing a major cultural ex-
perience, I'll tell ya. Sure, maybe the first time I heard the oh-so-melodic voice
of Kurt "Sings-Like-A-Rottweiller" Cobain sing those oh-so-inspired lyrics, "A
mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido," backed by those oh-so-professionally-
played guitars, which incidentally sound not unlike the noise I would imagine is
produced when one accidentally runs over, say, a cow with one's lawnmower, I was
merely overcome with what I would describe as severe nausea, dry heaves, and an
itchy trigger finger, but now whenever I hear [copy everything from above descrip-
tion and paste here], I become severely homicidal, and if it weren't 5 in the
f*cking morning, I would indeed kill many innocent individuals and several small
animals, and if Nirvana actually happen to be in my dorm playing "shit like this"
at 5 in the f*cking morning, I might have to pull out that lawnmower and see just
what kind of sound THEY would make. My point: I would much rather listen to DM's
"Route 66" than anything else usually played in my dorm.
   I hope everyone out there follwed that, because I sure as Hell am NOT going to
say it again. Pay attention, or fail the final.
   Have a nice day.

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