Depeche Mode.

Reach out and touch faith

~ Personal Jesus.

I don't want to start

Any blasphemous rumours

But I think that God's

Got a sick sense of humour

And when I die

I expect to find

Him laughing

~ Blasphemous Rumours.

Your optimistic eyes

Seem like paradise

To someone like me

I want to take you

In my arms

Forgetting all I couldn't do today
~ Black Celebration.

The singular event which etched on my mind regarding this band was Dave Gahan, the lead singer, technically "died" for 2 minutes after OD. Well, luckily he did not and together with Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher (Alan Wilder left in 95) continued to release albums, compilations and remixes with their brand of lyrically dark themed songs using the basic background laid down by synthesisers based groovy musics. Have been listening to their songs since the days of "Everybody Counts" when they were still considered "teen idols", right up to the more industrial sounding "Ultra" back in the late 90s. Their most creative musical output would began from "Black Celebration", when they began to explore more thematically heavy subjects (not to mention dark) and atmospheric songs, right through to the widely acclaimed "Violator". Personal issues nearly tear apart the band (Gahan's drug addiction, Gore experienced seizures, Fletch sufferred some sort of mental illness and Wilder eventually left after the guitar heavy "Songs Of Faith And Devotion", which was very different from their previously released (more liked) albums. When "Ultra" came on, DM had sounded even more sophisticated, but still retaining their by now trademark dark lyrics. Within it contained perhaps one of my favourite DM song of all time, "It's No Good".