Depeche Mode is, in my opinion, one of the all-time greatest bands from the 80s, and for me, ever. So, when I found out they were playing in Atlanta for the first time in a long while, I bought tickets straight away and was super excited for the show. Now, here's the problem: although Depeche Mode's first 15 years of songwriting were incredible, they kept putting out new material even after they had faded from the public eye, and unfortunately, these three albums are horribly mediocre.
Now, like any other old band who's delusional about the quality of their new material, Depeche Mode insisted on playing a large amount of songs from their new catalog at the show here in Atlanta, and as such, I was pretty bored. It wasn't until the second half of the show that they started getting around to playing good stuff, and even then, they barely touched on their material prior to when they introduced guitars into their recordings (a major turning point in the bands' direction that was liked and disliked in near equal measure).
Sure, the on-stage video presentation was quite nice (especially when it came to anything projected on this specially-made globe-screen they had up), and there were a few songs that were good ("Policy of Truth", "Home", " Stripped", "Enjoy the Silence", and "I Feel You" among them), but there was just too much crap thrown in there to allow me to say the concert was anything more than mediocre. Add to this the fact that Dave Gahan doesn't sing in tune quite as well as he used to (too many drugs?) and you've got a disappointed fan. Oh well.
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