Depeche Mode - Condemnation (1993)

Release Single ‘Barrel Of A Gun’ 3|2|1997 #depechemode

The song was the 1st single from the album ‘Ultra’ and came after some difficult times for the band and its members. Musician Alan Wilder  [Recoil] left the band in 1995, lead singer Dave Gahan nearly died of drugs addiction. Martin Gore had a string of seizures as well as battling alcoholism. Andy Fletcher was suffering from depression. In mid-1996, Gore tried to get Gahan and Fletcher interested in recording new Depeche Mode material by writing a few songs and seeing if anybody was interested in continuing after that. The band came back together, except now as a trio for the 1st time since 1982’s A Broken Frame. The music video for “Barrel of a Gun” is directed by Anton Corbijn. It features Gahan with long hair singing with his eyes closed, with eyeballs drawn on his eyelids to make it seem like they are open. The video was shot in Morocco.

#1 Spain & Sweden [Gold retrieved]

#3 Finland & Germany

#4 UK & Italy

Depeche Mode | Strangelove

happy out for a walk bitch day to those who celebrate

more new scans with higher definition than my own eyes

when the Doctor goes to the Powell Estate on New Year’s Eve as he’s dying, he asks Rose what year it is. all of the other visits were so calculated. he saves Mickey and Martha on a distant planet, just in the nick of time. he swats Luke out of the road before a car comes. he goes back in time and finds Geoffrey Noble, borrowing a quid, and gives Wilf a winning lottery ticket worth millions. he caught Donna’s wedding, just as she stepped out of the church.

But Rose. Oh, with Rose.

the Doctor says: “what year is this?” because he doesn’t even know.

do you think he just jammed his hands into the telepathic circuit as his body failed? do you think he just dreamt of her, desperately, the one face he was dying to see? do you think he hoped, prayed, that somehow he’d end up on her doorstep?

and the he’s in an alleyway full of snow. in London. and he knows that building, knows those stairs. and it’s finally snowing, for real this time. and he sees her, doesn’t even mean to speak to her, too afraid of timelines and paradoxes as putting her at risk…

but he’s in pain, and he grunts, and Rose—always ready to help someone in pain—turns around.

and the Doctor says: “what year is this?”

and when Rose says it’s 2005…oh, how his face lights up. It’s all ahead for her. And for him, too. I bet—he says—you’re gonna have a really great year...

OMG!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR IT

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