I am 57 now and was a teen when I first heard their sound, their music, dancing to it in the new wave club, dressing into clothes to fit the music and just had fun. We used to enjoy going to their concerts and all that was about 80s brings back amazing memories and part of those memories is DM. They were a huge part of it, we just couldn't get enough of their music. Still listen to it all the time.
I'm 50 also but don't act like it and this music just makes act more like I'm in my late teens or early 20's. I like to say if want look or act your age you will, but if you don't you won't. 50 ix just a number to me and I don't look it either.
New life is the best techno song of all time. Listen to it at a good volume with headphones. It,s marvelous. Depeche Mode are a great band. I love them.
best song offa Speak n Spell, yeah. I liked "VOices/any second now" by Gore. I think MLG and Nick Rhodes should get together and do an album. that shit would kick major 7th planet!
Worked in Basildon Debenhams for a few days in 1985 as a teenager, was desperately praying that one of Depeche Mode would come in and buy a lawnmower. Still absolutely love this band.
was a boy of fifteen years when I first heard this song accompanied by these synths ...Today I have 48 years and Depeche mode, Yazoo and Erasure (Andy's great voice that accompanies me every morning in running) have been part of the soundtrack of my life. Thank you.
This is one of their best early songs. Along with their rivals Duran Duran who were called New Romantics at the time. But they used Synths too. Both Bands early music was fantastic!
Not forgetting Spandau who were at the start of the New Romantics movement. It started at the Blitz club with Rusty Eagan Steve Strange etc. So lucky to be 15 years old when this all started the best times of my life.
@@dynjarren8355 I like more depeche mode, but the first LP's 1981-84. Sounded more "robotic". This is the kind of electronic pop I like more. (gary numan, OMD... etc) 1978-83
Stephen Murphy I wish I could pay you to come to my town and educate the folks who say this is just a flu, it’s a hoax, calling mask wearers and social distancers sheep. Of course we would have to tell them it’s a presentation about how it’s all a great big hoax.
I was 18 when this single was released and was fully into the New Wave music, and look. Hats, gloves, frills mostly black and white. It was an amazing time. I remember walking down my city centre streets with my then boyfriend and people would tell us how awesome we looked. The 80’s was a mighty fine tune ❤❤❤❤
Erasure weren't around in the early 80's. They formed in 1985 after Alison Moyet went solo and split up Yazoo. Their first hit single (Sometimes) was in October 1986.
It's not new wave, it's synth-pop. New wave is the more commercial end of the post punk era-1978/79. It was a redundant term in the UK by 1981 and related more to guitar bands than electronic pop. Early Human League and Tubeway Army were kind of considered new wave because they came out in the late 70s and closer to the punk ethos.
Remember when I heard this song for the first time in the fall of 1981 ...fell in love with them, even though most of my classmates thought they were too gay. Who cares I was right and they turned out to be one of the best bands ever.
having grown up in a household where sometimes classical music would be played, multiple textures and polyphonic melodies appealed to me more than simplistic rock/punk rock that most classmates listened to.
I always love Depeche Mode's provocative and subversive side in their performances and this is a good example of that. "Everything Counts" haunted my childhood, as I was entranced by it's sonic landscape.....that's something else to write about another time, but here you have an embryonic Depeche Mode, making waves on "Top of the Pops". Lovely.
RIP ANDY; you and VINCE were genial , i remember the concert in Sindelfingen where an asole thtrough a gas bomb , we admired your coolness even more, you kept cool , again RIP
обожаю музыку тех лет и атмосферу 😍❤ Сам я родился в 88 и детство пришлось на 90ые, но по телеку постоянно крутили подобные шедевры из 80ых и я буквально впитал их в себя, хотя и в 90ые тоже был целый шквал отличной музыки 👍🌠🎤🎶🎵
This is what Internet and especially RUclips is so amazing for. Older people from all over the world, that were young in that time, are telling their stories about their times long ago. And you see, wow, you are and you were not alone, even if you thought you were. Sharing memories with people from every part of this world, that had the similar history with this music in that time. Great, the childhood in the 80s was amazing...
Today's music instantly depresses me. When I think of the variety of distinct types of music in the early 80's, I feel sad when I look at today's rubbish. All types of music were at their best in the early 80's; Synth pop, general pop (ie: Bucks Fizz, Tight Fit etc), heavy metal, rock and soft rock. We also had the remanants of punk and disco, not to mention Ska. 80'sTop of the Pops was totally absorbing. The 90's were mildly interesting. Now we are living in cultural wilderness.
Happy birthday Dave, stay health and lucky! That song was the first song of yours that I danced to...back in 1981 ... a great beginning of your band 👍🏻❤🍀
My mum bought me a tape recorder for my 13th birthday, 1980. I used it to record stuff like this and Soft Cell, Human League etc. Yes kids we had to record stuff off the radio, and that meant hoping your parents were not talking because there were no wires connecting the 2 devices, so you placed the recorder next to the radio and recorded the sound coming out of it, which always sounded crap when you played it back, but that was the only way to hear stuff over and over again unless you bought the actual record, which I did. There was no internet, no MTV and we got to see our favourite bands only once a week on Top Of The Pops in UK. Rant over.
+Paul Turner unlike german audience"s, some of the german tv they did in front of comotose ,half dead germans. we brits do make a effort ,even though some of us cannot dance.
A lot of people, especially in the UK, are not aware of how big synthpop was in Italy too, as it was so huge in the UK in the 1980s. They forget the Giorgio Moroder is one of the synthpop greats !
THEY'RE JUST BABIES! Oh my Goddess, when I look at Dave now! It sounds like his voice hadn't even finished changing yet! So adorable and the song still kicks ass.
I love this tune, it's like a pallette refresher when you get burnt out on over-fancy synth tones. I like to sync local audio, with an obviously mimed perf on TOTP. It always gives me a kick when I get the sync right. xx
BerlinFan82 Vince Clark did this Erasure type of happy lollipop purple synth pop music while Martin wrote darker, deeper and time-withstanding melodies. They started to write 5 minutes long pop songs... an unexpected yet a ingenious move
***** Vince came up with his ideas pretty much on his own with a little help from Andy(Bell).Martin had Alan and others. I consider all of them musical geniuses. There's nothing wrong with Clarke choosing to move toward the opposite spectrum of emotion. I like a little happy electronic music every once in a while and Erasure hits the spot. =)
+amers83 I agree, although interestingly some of Vince's best work with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure were his darker songs, in my opinion, and there have been a number of them over the years. His experimental work in Erasure's underrated, underappreciated self-titled album is also among his best. I love his "happy" pop songs, too, but I think it's a pity that so many of his and Erasure's fans apparently don't want anything else from him (their sales plummeted with and never quite recovered after the "Erasure" album, but I think it's otherworldly brilliant).
And so much gayer than I remember. Mind you, I was so innocent back then when they were 'hot' but just look how obvious they are here... & yet I had no clue at 9, 10 & 11YO. Anyway, here I am at 4am listening to this because the song keeps reoccuring in my dreams & I have no idea why.
Remember watching on TOTP aged 10 in 1981. I was mesmerised by the chirpy scientific soundscapes - musically it felt like the future had suddenly arrived..
Loved the band and the fresh sound. Only 20 years later did meet a fellow fan who saw them in her home town (Berlin) and make a big thing about it... Married her and gloated about having the first single before she got into them. LOL Love You Tanja.
This was the first time I heard Depeche Mode and I was just out of college working in a trendy part of the a high end store. It totally blew me away and between them and Human League I was hooked. I was an avid Squeeze and Joe Jackson fan too. I miss the excitement of hearing new music.
Great, cuts at that fantastic end. Talk about a soundtrack to one's childhood. The "81-85" greatest hits comp sure put a glow to my adolescence. Simply some of the best music ever made.
Oh my GOD! This track takes me way back to my junior high days at Jane Addams middle school in Lawndale, CA! I loved growing up in the South Bay. SO many memories this song brings back. Why is youth wasted on the young?!
Paul Jaques, I was making reference to Herbert Henry Asquitch who said "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life". By the way, kudos to the person who brought to attention the grammatical mistake. Ha Ha Ha.
Right from the start this song demonstrates the richness of DM's music compared to the other New Romantics in their use of Harmony. IDK if Vince, Martin or whoever else was in the studio during the recording of this album studied formal music theory and the classical composers, but even by ear, I'd imagine Vince brought in what Bach, Mozart and others did in terms of Harmony and, at times (I think I only found one example of in New Life) Counterpoint. DM also were getting away from the Joy Division/Bowie-Low influence that trickled down to Gary Numan and John Foxx, which was minimalism and a dark-reverb heavy drum sound. Probably that's why they chose Wilder to replace Vince since Wilder had that classical training and new about Harmony and Counterpoint. The "sound" of DM is multiple keyboard melodies happening at the same time and all in harmony with one another and with the vocal melodies. It's pretty tough to do and takes a composer with a high musical IQ to pull it off and make it sound simple yet. New Life has as many melodies as an entire Ultravox album. Compare New Life to Cars by Gary Numan or Underpass by John Foxx, those two songs have one strong melody driving the whole thing. DM has like 7-8 per song.
David Villa I did a fair amount of full orchestral compositions and besides the harmonys, Gore's composing ability is outstanding, the build up in pimpf is still one of my all time favorites. He is one of those few born "with it".
What do you think about Wilder's compositions that he did "all the work"? Judging from both their solo albums it seems like Wilder brought the orchestral methods to the game. But what do you think?
It’s awesome, and so are of course...oh, man, where do I start? I think that in response to what Nicole said, their song catalog at large is so spectacular, indeed, that it’d be hard to narrow it down to a Top 10!
¡Vaya estacazo le pegaron a la música, después ya nunca fue nada igual!, "NEW LIFE", hasta la portada del single era una maravilla, ya nadie se acuerda de Visage, Ultravox,..... Aquí estamos y los únicos que quedan son ellos, Depeche Mode
Heard this song for the first time two days ago while i was coding on a pc from the 1980's at a british computing history event and i cant put into words how i was feeling. It was like experiencing nostalgia without actually having lived through that time. Absolutely love looking back in time, it just makes you feel so alive.
![Depeche Mode - New Life [Live In Hamburg (1984)]](/img/1.gif)
I am 57 now and was a teen when I first heard their sound, their music, dancing to it in the new wave club, dressing into clothes to fit the music and just had fun. We used to enjoy going to their concerts and all that was about 80s brings back amazing memories and part of those memories is DM. They were a huge part of it, we just couldn't get enough of their music. Still listen to it all the time.
amen
Аналогично ! Привет из России и Германии 🤝
@@pavelmeridian 👍👍🤚
@@photoshoott2022 😁🌹🔨
Depeche mode 1 of my fav bands of all time so many brilliant tunes I struggle to make a top 5 of my fav tunes. Whats ur fav tunes
I was 16 in 1981 and I still remember how exciting this new sound was. I'd do anything to go back there. ☺
With you on that kid👍
Defo would like to be there with all the amazing songs
@modern tart Sadly yes. We all did! 🤣
I was 10 back then and I remember it clearly, this is the pop music I grew up with, I was blessed but now I'm a musical snob...
Same here. X
I'm 51 and I will always keep coming back to this song. It's just gorgeous.
I wish I was paying more attention to them back then, but then again I was only about nine years old lol
Lol, you were a baby then when it came out👍
@@ivorleak8823 I was nearly nine years old at the time
@@JoshuaWhittle Lol, you clearly had good taste at a young age 👍
@@ivorleak8823 I remember bands from back then because they were frequently on the Countdown TV program in Australia
What a wonderful clip!
R.I.P ANDY FLETCHER.
Condolences to all his loved ones. So sad.
All those synth sounds from the late 70s and early 80s. They're very impressive...
i love ur icon
@@painland thanks.
Cant beat that early 80s synth beat.
*METAL MACHINE MUSIC*
I want a Moog prodigy
80's music so much better than today's music!
It is not music anymore; it is just noise.
e chi te lo doveva dire☺
Absolutely. The stuff in the charts now is boring and soulless.
that's really not what today's kids are saying
@@sexobscura That's their prerogative but there are some I know like the music of Michael Jackson and AC DC. They made some great music.
At age 50 this song still makes my body get up and Dance!, feeling like a teenager again!
Only in my mind 👴
I'm 50 also but don't act like it and this music just makes act more like I'm in my late teens or early 20's. I like to say if want look or act your age you will, but if you don't you won't. 50 ix just a number to me and I don't look it either.
Upbeat music. New Wave fanatic here
52 next month and I don't care how much I show up my niece and nephews by gyrating round the living room to this.
I'm 51 and this music is timeless. My kids, nieces, nephews all think I'm this crazy old man. But, they all love this music.
April 18th 2020.
Quarantined with Depeche Mode.
May 9th. STILL self-isolating with Dep Mode. 😂
Same bros
never let me got been isolated at all! c#ntz
Wow this is the day my best aunt died april 18 2020 and on this day 1999 i got married ...80s best era
New life is the best techno song of all time. Listen to it at a good volume with headphones. It,s marvelous. Depeche Mode are a great band. I love them.
Dreaming of Me is a real favourite for me.
best song offa Speak n Spell, yeah. I liked "VOices/any second now" by Gore. I think MLG and Nick Rhodes should get together and do an album. that shit would kick major 7th planet!
Its not Techno!
@@music2obscureyou330 it's PURE techno-pop.
I love the whole aura with this song..love early synth pop..
I love all these early 80's synth songs. It's the simplicity of them that makes them so good.
Worked in Basildon Debenhams for a few days in 1985 as a teenager, was desperately praying that one of Depeche Mode would come in and buy a lawnmower.
Still absolutely love this band.
I hope people found this as funny as I did
This song defines the 80's, so full of vitality and enthusiasm.
was a boy of fifteen years when I first heard this song accompanied by these synths ...Today I have 48 years and Depeche mode, Yazoo and Erasure (Andy's great voice that accompanies me every morning in running) have been part of the soundtrack of my life.
Thank you.
This is one of their best early songs. Along with their rivals Duran Duran who were called New Romantics at the time. But they used Synths too. Both Bands early music was fantastic!
Not forgetting Spandau who were at the start of the New Romantics movement. It started at the Blitz club with Rusty Eagan Steve Strange etc. So lucky to be 15 years old when this all started the best times of my life.
Not so good they're early stuff then they developed into really something special later on
Depeche mode was a complete electronic band (yntil martin gore started to play more guitar in the 90's). Duran duran never was an electronic band.
@@aprendizdebrujo100 And which one is better? I
like Depeche Mode best!
@@dynjarren8355 I like more depeche mode, but the first LP's 1981-84. Sounded more "robotic". This is the kind of electronic pop I like more. (gary numan, OMD... etc) 1978-83
One of the best synth pop songs ever thank you Vince Clarke and Daniel Miller for this amazing sound 🙏
So lucky growing up in this decade, tunes have stood the test of time
The best decade of them all, the 80s.
I was 86 in 1981 and remember hearing this newfangled synthesiser music and been a fan ever since!
♫....Ovulating...♪....Copulating... = New Life, New Life....♫
Bwahahahaha :-)
Stephen Murphy
I wish I could pay you to come to my town and educate the folks who say this is just a flu, it’s a hoax, calling mask wearers and social distancers sheep. Of course we would have to tell them it’s a presentation about how it’s all a great big hoax.
👍🏽
Masturbating, ejaculating - sad life, sad life...
lol
At 60...still surfing u tube for Depech songs...still as great as the 80s...if only I could go back..awsome times..awsome music
make a VR oculus meta horizons mode world? lol
You can't beat these 80 retro classics.... Yazoo, Human League, Gary Numan, the list is endless....will never ever "Fade to Grey" .... 💪❤️✌️
Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys (...)
I was 18 when this single was released and was fully into the New Wave music, and look. Hats, gloves, frills mostly black and white. It was an amazing time. I remember walking down my city centre streets with my then boyfriend and people would tell us how awesome we looked. The 80’s was a mighty fine tune ❤❤❤❤
Love it . Reminds me in my teens ❤
Classic UK New Wave from the early 80's, Depeche, New Order , Yazoo, the best!
nice
And Erasure.😍
Erasure weren't around in the early 80's. They formed in 1985 after Alison Moyet went solo and split up Yazoo. Their first hit single (Sometimes) was in October 1986.
Also Human League, Talk Talk, Thomas Dolby, Duran Duran, etc..
It's not new wave, it's synth-pop. New wave is the more commercial end of the post punk era-1978/79. It was a redundant term in the UK by 1981 and related more to guitar bands than electronic pop. Early Human League and Tubeway Army were kind of considered new wave because they came out in the late 70s and closer to the punk ethos.
Whaaaaaah amazing i was a teen into new wave eyeliner hair styles n dying the hair pixi boots i just enjoyed those days yup i would go back :)
Now I'am 51, this music makes me young again, the sound is so real, and Dave is so cute, I will love Depeche Mode for ever, thx bros. 🙏❤️
Brilliant. That sound is so typical of 1981 synth pop.
Remember when I heard this song for the first time in the fall of 1981
...fell in love with them, even though most of my classmates thought they were too gay. Who cares I was right and they turned out to be one of the best bands ever.
having grown up in a household where sometimes classical music would be played, multiple textures and polyphonic melodies appealed to me more than simplistic rock/punk rock that most classmates listened to.
lacuadra70 Depeche Mode and Billy Bragg were my life!!
To be fair, Vince Clarke went on to form Erasure...
Is it because of all the leather and fettish weare martin gore wore ??? eh ?? lol
And Yazoo ! :)
Если ты услышал их, это любовь навсегда! (Этот концерт добрался до меня в СССР в 1982 году, услышал их и все)
I always love Depeche Mode's provocative and subversive side in their performances and this is a good example of that.
"Everything Counts" haunted my childhood, as I was entranced by it's sonic landscape.....that's something else to write about another time, but here you have an embryonic Depeche Mode, making waves on "Top of the Pops". Lovely.
I agree with everything, but where is this provocative? It was novel and therefore challenging, but provoking? Maybe later, when Gore had his SM phase
RIP ANDY; you and VINCE were genial , i remember the concert in Sindelfingen where an asole thtrough a gas bomb , we admired your coolness even more, you kept cool , again RIP
обожаю музыку тех лет и атмосферу 😍❤ Сам я родился в 88 и детство пришлось на 90ые, но по телеку постоянно крутили подобные шедевры из 80ых и я буквально впитал их в себя, хотя и в 90ые тоже был целый шквал отличной музыки 👍🌠🎤🎶🎵
Всё приметивно, просто и гениально... Поверьте так и есть!!
This is what Internet and especially RUclips is so amazing for. Older people from all over the world, that were young in that time, are telling their stories about their times long ago. And you see, wow, you are and you were not alone, even if you thought you were. Sharing memories with people from every part of this world, that had the similar history with this music in that time. Great, the childhood in the 80s was amazing...
"Vince Clark is the paul McCartney of the synthpop world"
@Jerry V 0:38 there it is :D
He is the godfather of synth....highest respect
Depeche Mode are the Beatles of electronic music lol
@@jhonnycagexrage7458 the Beatles never kicked McCartney out of the band
Teamo depeche mode y inglande
Today's music instantly depresses me. When I think of the variety of distinct types of music in the early 80's, I feel sad when I look at today's rubbish.
All types of music were at their best in the early 80's; Synth pop, general pop (ie: Bucks Fizz, Tight Fit etc), heavy metal, rock and soft rock. We also had the remanants of punk and disco, not to mention Ska. 80'sTop of the Pops was totally absorbing. The 90's were mildly interesting. Now we are living in cultural wilderness.
Happy birthday Dave, stay health and lucky! That song was the first song of yours that I danced to...back in 1981 ... a great beginning of your band 👍🏻❤🍀
I’ve seen DM loads of times over the years. Soundtrack of my life
My mum bought me a tape recorder for my 13th birthday, 1980. I used it to record stuff like this and Soft Cell, Human League etc. Yes kids we had to record stuff off the radio, and that meant hoping your parents were not talking because there were no wires connecting the 2 devices, so you placed the recorder next to the radio and recorded the sound coming out of it, which always sounded crap when you played it back, but that was the only way to hear stuff over and over again unless you bought the actual record, which I did. There was no internet, no MTV and we got to see our favourite bands only once a week on Top Of The Pops in UK. Rant over.
By 1983, home taping from the radio on a radio-cassette was a thing.
RIP Fletch...Gone but never forgotten.
Timeless quality! Beats modern pop into the dust!
awwwww, baby Depeche Mode!
Lol... that's what I said.😂
absolutely love this,their early stuff was fantastic. shame we all danced like we had some sort partial paralysis setting in ...
+Paul Turner unlike german audience"s, some of the german tv they did in front of comotose ,half dead germans. we brits do make a effort ,even though some of us cannot dance.
yeh but it was good though :)
St Vitas Dance
Andrea Phoenix the drugs probably caused some of that....lol
I loved how Dave danced :)
Golden times with Depeche Mode ❤
RIP Mr Andrew Fletcher to soon I am really shocked. My thoughts for his family and friends and of course his DM team😢
Erm.... Depeche Mode have a HUGE following in Italy. Some of their best live DVD/cd were recorded in Italy, especially in Milan.
Ciao.
A lot of people, especially in the UK, are not aware of how big synthpop was in Italy too, as it was so huge in the UK in the 1980s. They forget the Giorgio Moroder is one of the synthpop greats !
Vincent Clarke - Pioneer Of Synthpop...Depeche Mode/Yazoo/The Assembly/Erasure...Greets From Poland ;-)
Vince Clark is a musical genius!!! Not taking anything away from the others...
THEY'RE JUST BABIES! Oh my Goddess, when I look at Dave now! It sounds like his voice hadn't even finished changing yet! So adorable and the song still kicks ass.
I love this tune, it's like a pallette refresher when you get burnt out on over-fancy synth tones. I like to sync local audio, with an obviously mimed perf on TOTP. It always gives me a kick when I get the sync right. xx
operating generating, new life- love this stage in DM history. We all have this stage in life when all was new and we were naive.
Vince Clarke - the man that 'made' Depeche Mode.
Бред
Damn Right bro!
but martin and dave ARE mode.
58 and STILL LISTENING AND A FAN. DEPECHE MODE 2023!!!
👍
Vince Clarke, musical genius.
Martin Lee Gore is the soul of Depeche...
BerlinFan82 Vince Clark did this Erasure type of happy lollipop purple synth pop music while Martin wrote darker, deeper and time-withstanding melodies. They started to write 5 minutes long pop songs... an unexpected yet a ingenious move
BerlinFan82 his touch with Alision Moyea was cool when he left dp and m8s that he crew up with in the band
***** Vince came up with his ideas pretty much on his own with a little help from Andy(Bell).Martin had Alan and others. I consider all of them musical geniuses. There's nothing wrong with Clarke choosing to move toward the opposite spectrum of emotion. I like a little happy electronic music every once in a while and Erasure hits the spot. =)
+amers83 I agree, although interestingly some of Vince's best work with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure were his darker songs, in my opinion, and there have been a number of them over the years. His experimental work in Erasure's underrated, underappreciated self-titled album is also among his best. I love his "happy" pop songs, too, but I think it's a pity that so many of his and Erasure's fans apparently don't want anything else from him (their sales plummeted with and never quite recovered after the "Erasure" album, but I think it's otherworldly brilliant).
Stationed in England with the USAF in 1981, I liked this song the first time I heard it. Still enjoying it 42 years later. Great club song!
Thankyou for your service
@@tomfarnan-jones4205 it was an honor to serve. Thanks for your comment. It means a lot to me.
Dave's face changed a lot over the course of the first 3 years of the band's existence, because Dave grew from teen to adult in those years.
Yes, he looks so innocent and shy here.
I prefer the younger teen look, there is more good in it, the older look looks damaged, but the world will do that to you, it has done the same to me.
He looks a lot younger here than he does now!!
And so much gayer than I remember.
Mind you, I was so innocent back then when they were 'hot' but just look how obvious they are here... & yet I had no clue at 9, 10 & 11YO.
Anyway, here I am at 4am listening to this because the song keeps reoccuring in my dreams & I have no idea why.
Yea also cuz he did every drug in existence
Brilliant sll these years later
I love Fletch's little dance. and Dave looks like a baby!
Flech is doing something with the keys but that isn't new life lol
+TheGodParticle He's probably just sending a fax.
+Gina Fernandez "baby" is called "bottom" :D
@@TheGodParticle Amphetamins
@@jean-paulsabiche9653 Nah, he just can't play lol
Wonderful memories of the eighties
Dave has always been a cutie :)
Venessa Carvalho you wanna see him now.....he's still got it :)
Vince Clark is top smart Guy.. The Best, the soul of synthpop
Remember watching on TOTP aged 10 in 1981. I was mesmerised by the chirpy scientific soundscapes - musically it felt like the future had suddenly arrived..
Vince Clarke 🔥🔥🔥
Loved the band and the fresh sound. Only 20 years later did meet a fellow fan who saw them in her home town (Berlin) and make a big thing about it... Married her and gloated about having the first single before she got into them. LOL Love You Tanja.
The only thing that stayed consistent in Bandersnatch
The good old 1980s, a great decade with great music!
They're great live, saw them at Crystal Palace in the 90's, awesome!
I saw them LIVE in Tampa a few years ago. I couldn’t believe how great they were so many years later. SO GOOD!!!
Had to listen to this back at my hotel room... I heard it today while on vacation in Mexico. Sounds great today as it did in the 80s!
This was the first time I heard Depeche Mode and I was just out of college working in a trendy part of the a high end store. It totally blew me away and between them and Human League I was hooked. I was an avid Squeeze and Joe Jackson fan too. I miss the excitement of hearing new music.
Young Dave is just too damn cute! I want to cuddle him
Me too!!! He's so freaking adorable!!!
stfu cringy fan girl
Great, cuts at that fantastic end.
Talk about a soundtrack to one's childhood. The "81-85" greatest hits comp sure put a glow to my adolescence. Simply some of the best music ever made.
His dancing will never get old
I was 5yr old in 1981 and when I first heard this song and Depeche Mode I fell in love with them. x
I remember seeing DM at Crocs Nightclub in Rayleigh, Essex just as this was hitting the charts. Can't believe this is 32 years old!!
Saw them in concert in the early 90’s. Incredible show!
They don't make them like this anymore young n original classic
Amen bro
Mart was so very distinctive from the very beginging...love his outfits...mazo boy hahaha and thse shirts with domina hahaha crazy little bastard
too many geniuses in one band
No me canso de escucharlos! ❤🇦🇷
Son los mejores
Im 13 and i love this song my dad was a big fan and i am to now
12 now and exact same
same
I'm 20 but i appreciate good music better then the shit today.
You're all welcomed to our world!
That's why it's called NEW WAVE! :)😊
Depeche Mode with Vince Clark, unstoppable!
This track NEVER gets old ❤️
100% full 80's !
As soon as my ears heard DM... I was hooked! I was a year old when this great song was released! :)
Yet another one of the many,many brilliant sounding tracks the Essex lads operated,generated,one of my favs. :-)
my dad has been showing me all the 80s and this is one of my favourites
The Smoothness of the 80's music. I always loved the Synthesizer
Oh my GOD! This track takes me way back to my junior high days at Jane Addams middle school in Lawndale, CA! I loved growing up in the South Bay. SO many memories this song brings back. Why is youth wasted on the young?!
the whole new romantic and new wave was really taking hold in orange county. hb by pier 7 was all about kroq and depeche mode
Paul Jaques, I was making reference to Herbert Henry Asquitch who said "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life". By the way, kudos to the person who brought to attention the grammatical mistake. Ha Ha Ha.
I remember everyone talking about this at school the next day after TOTP the evening before. "What does Depeche Mode mean?"
+badjemima Depeche is french for Dispatch.
Depeche Mode is the name of a French fashion magazine and translates to "Fashion Dispatch"
It means peaches a la mode duh
badjemima, it translates as ‘hurried fashion’. 🎹🇬🇧
Rapid fashion
Incredible beginning to an awesome legacy.
Right from the start this song demonstrates the richness of DM's music compared to the other New Romantics in their use of Harmony.
IDK if Vince, Martin or whoever else was in the studio during the recording of this album studied formal music theory and the classical composers, but even by ear, I'd imagine Vince brought in what Bach, Mozart and others did in terms of Harmony and, at times (I think I only found one example of in New Life) Counterpoint.
DM also were getting away from the Joy Division/Bowie-Low influence that trickled down to Gary Numan and John Foxx, which was minimalism and a dark-reverb heavy drum sound.
Probably that's why they chose Wilder to replace Vince since Wilder had that classical training and new about Harmony and Counterpoint. The "sound" of DM is multiple keyboard melodies happening at the same time and all in harmony with one another and with the vocal melodies. It's pretty tough to do and takes a composer with a high musical IQ to pull it off and make it sound simple yet. New Life has as many melodies as an entire Ultravox album. Compare New Life to Cars by Gary Numan or Underpass by John Foxx, those two songs have one strong melody driving the whole thing. DM has like 7-8 per song.
Interesting stuff, but you're thinking too much
Thank you :D
David Villa the fall rule ok
David Villa I did a fair amount of full orchestral compositions and besides the harmonys, Gore's composing ability is outstanding, the build up in pimpf is still one of my all time favorites. He is one of those few born "with it".
What do you think about Wilder's compositions that he did "all the work"? Judging from both their solo albums it seems like Wilder brought the orchestral methods to the game. But what do you think?
New life...how many things come to my mind with this title...great song!!
Easily one of my favorite DM songs
Timeless Song
absolut brilliant!
I love this song so much! Awsome!
I'd forgotten that Vince was still there on this one. They had such a unique style and vibe
one of the great, underrated Depeche songs
And still one of my favorites of their spectacular catalog
It’s awesome, and so are of course...oh, man, where do I start? I think that in response to what Nicole said, their song catalog at large is so spectacular, indeed, that it’d be hard to narrow it down to a Top 10!
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¡Vaya estacazo le pegaron a la música, después ya nunca fue nada igual!, "NEW LIFE", hasta la portada del single era una maravilla, ya nadie se acuerda de Visage, Ultravox,.....
Aquí estamos y los únicos que quedan son ellos, Depeche Mode
Vince Clarke 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍😍 massive massive Erasure fan after this guy being 1 half of their group with Andy Bell
Heard this song for the first time two days ago while i was coding on a pc from the 1980's at a british computing history event and i cant put into words how i was feeling. It was like experiencing nostalgia without actually having lived through that time. Absolutely love looking back in time, it just makes you feel so alive.