This year I´m early with my Depeche Mode Year 2011 for you to download and print.
You can In due time to the Tour of the Universe DVD Release, I created some new Depeche Mode Illustrations (...
presents you a small, but fine website dedicated to the guys of past and present "Depeche Mode" and their music. This presentation doesn't bring you tons of downloadables or other goodies to stuff to your hard disc, but a decent view on the mode-men, biographies, an insight to their music and lyrics and some news.
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An illustrated Depeche Mode Calendar 2010 is in the making. I will offer it for download again by the end of this year and you can download the pdf-sheet for free again, for pixel-free printing. The Calendar will be completely illustrated and won´t have any pixelled photography inside, so there won´t be any quality loss in printing process.
View a Teaser below:
Okay, I have to join in the fan-ranks of disappointed people, who dislike the new Depeche Mode Music Video for their song ‘Hole to feed’. It got released last evening and since then, the negative comments massively spread over the web. No wonder with a video like this that just makes one wonder what the Band thought of releasing something like this creation. What is the purpose, what is the aim? Maybe piss us off until there is no interest or expectations left? Or align the Band to the Zeitgeist so much until there is nothing left but aggressive scenery and pictures sans purpose?
Depeche Mode don´t appear in this video for even one single moment. Instead, we see a Teenage Combo on stage, dressed in excessively colourful crazy fashion. Gender seems to be of no importance here. The frontman/woman starts to move their mouth to Dave´s singing and stares into the watching club-crowd below without any emotion. The emotionless crowd simply stares back.
With the camera moving around the location, it catches a couple that almost swallows themselves by very heavy french kissing. The man is covered in Tattoos. While the crowd watches them dumbly, more and more couples turn to each other – mindless it seems – and start to french-kiss animalistically.
The Teenage Band just watches, as if there was no brain-activity or realization of what happens around them. One Band-Member wears heavy fake eyelashes and braces. She looks like a 15-year-old girl.
We leave the club and enter the streets where hetero couples only play with each other´s tongues like animals. Their faces are covered in Spit and Food. The camera doesn´t leave out weird couples either. We only see heteros, though.
Sad Top of the scenery would be the couple by the Hot Dog stand, where the guy stuffs the woman´s mouth with a Hot Dog with lots of mustard. They keep smearing the stuff into each other´s faces.
People keep tongue-playing until the song stops. Then they simply separate and go their own ways like Zombies.
Back in the club and on stage, the Teenage Band stops playing/singing and weirdly look at each other. The crowd stares back…
I can understand the band management´s immense efforts to try and fit into today´s zeitgeist: They obviously try to reach the young MTV-audience with intense colours and seemingly shocking actions. While showing the zombie-like behaviour of everyone in the video, they obviously want to mirror today´s society, where people are mainly watching things happen without any action.
For another band with another style and message (and past!!) it´d be a fitting work – but for Depeche Mode?! I´d rather have a simple video with the Band performing or no video at all to let the mind wander than a bad video-creation like this.
Why did they choose this video?
I have no idea. I´m extremely disappointed and confused.
The official Music Video to ‘Hole to feed’ is now online and viewable here.
It´s not what you expect.
Opinions and reviews spread around the web.
Now, I am very curious about your opinion, what you expected and what you think of this video´s (possible) message, scenery and style.
Please post away.
