'The lyrics are extremely dark, but the tempos are upbeat and uplifting. ''Stories of Old' and 'Shake the Disease' are songs that celebrate how difficult it can be to love someone,' Rob said. In order, here are Rob's top 10 DM songs: 'Black Celebration ' 'It's No Good ' 'Blasphemous Rumours ' 'Stories of Old ' 'Shake the Disease ' 'Barrel of a Gun ' 'Clean ' 'I Feel You ' 'Strangelove ' and 'The Sun and the Rainfall.' 'And from that point on, the songs became a soundtrack to my life.' 'For a 16-year-old trying to deal with mental health problems related to trauma, the song helped heal me. 'The song didnвЂ™t discredit the idea of God, but it questioned his plan,' Rob explained. On a New Wave mix tape gifted to him by a friend, 'Blasphemous Rumours' immediately snared his attention. 'I was raised Catholic, and just couldnвЂ™t wrap my mind around why God would let bad things happen to people.' 'DepecheВ Mode has always spoke to me, from the time I wasВ a teenager trying to navigate traumatic experiences and understand why they happened to me,' said Rob Archuleta, founder of Addict2Athlete,В a peer-drivenВ support group focusing on active recovery. When it comes to Depeche Mode,В I'm far from alone in my reverence. So, in no particular order, here are my top 10 songs from this life-saving, life-affirming and 2020 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 'Black Celebration ' 'Blasphemous Rumours ' 'Never Let Me Down ' 'Nothing ' 'But Not Tonight ' 'Things You Said ' 'Question of Lust ' 'Strangelove ' 'It's No Good ' and 'Everything Counts.' It's difficult to surmise in a few words the fullВ impact DM's music, style and message had on my life.В Next to The Beatles, no other musical act so captivated my heart, soul and spirit, especially in my hour of darkness. 'There are times, when my crimes, will seem almost unforgivable I give in to sin, because you have to make this life livable.' Once again, Martin Gore had mystically peered into my troubled heart and read my mind, as he did on another DM standard, 'Strangelove.' 'I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor, and when I die, I expect to find him laughing.' In that wretched abyss, however, I found comfortВ in the chorus of the haunting 'Blasphemous Rumours,' a masterpiece from 1984. In the depths of what the mystics call 'the dark night of the soul,' I valiantly searched for a sense of the divine.Д«ut like the ever faithful but long-suffering Job, I found only silence. LikeВ millions of others, I felt as though the songs had been written and recorded specifically for me. In what I can only describe as a musically based spiritual experience, I began to take solace and comfort in the music of Depeche Mode as I desperately struggled to muddle back to the light. Nihilistic yet truthful, pained but beautiful, that solitary line converted me on the spot. To celebrate the fact, that we've seen the back of another black day.' 'Let's have a black celebration black celebration, tonight. In the depths of a horrid depression, and lacking both direction and inspiration in my life, a friend lent me his well-worn cassette of the 1986 release, 'Black Celebration.'ДЄs the foreboding yet seductive synth passages gave way to Dave Gahan's bellowing and rich baritone voice, Martin Gore's opening lyrics cut a swath straight through my wounded soul. It's been said that one does not discover Depeche Mode rather, Depeche Mode appears in one's life at precisely the right moment.ДЄlthough I became aware of this synthesizer-driven British quartet around 1984-85, when the fabulous 'People are People' was making big waves on college radio, it wasn't until a few years later, at the lowest point in my life, that I truly discovered the darkly exotic,В life-saving elegance being proferred byВ Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Alan Wilder and Andrew Fletcher. For this final installment of Pomp it Up, the center of a round-table discussion is the biggest and most successful 'underground' musical act of all time.

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