Enjoy the Silence is one of the first vinyls I ever bought, still have it in my collection somewhere........ Aside from the fact that Depeche Mode is IMHO one of the great bands of the 80's, Anton Corbijn's black and white video's made them into classic 80's style icons.....
It shows the influence mood and atmosphere (and television) can have on the perception you have from a song. When it comes to Depeche Mode, I guess I first heard a lot of them through videoclips on television. Whenever I hear them on the radio or CD, I undoubtedly still link them to images from those vids.
Mood setting counts for a lot when you listen to music. Maybe it's just me, but when I listen to songs (especially Wave, Goth or even stuff like The Smiths, Cranberries, Leonard Cohen, ....) my favorite setting is the darkness of night with just the small blue Neon lights shining from the Equalizer or Winamp's metallic/blue dashboard on the computer.
When I bought my new computer, I made sure to choose one with blue neon's just for that reason.
I love the extra atmosphere it brings...... it makes me wander back in time, drift between memories, ....... but as I said, maybe that's just me.......
To end today's post, another one of those Smith's songs.....
This clip is probably the one I prefer, cause it's very close to the pictures on the album covers..... and that blond girl is intriguingly beautiful.......
