{"id":15285,"date":"2022-06-01T17:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T00:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=15285"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T00:37:29","slug":"music-depeche-mode-it-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/01\/music-depeche-mode-it-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: Depeche Mode, It Doesn&#8217;t Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It Doesn&amp;apos;t Matter (2006 Remaster)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JcNwdO9sy4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, with family members (and dog) here for the long weekend<!--more-->, the subject of Depeche Mode came up, a group my son-in-law M and his wife H had never heard of. (They were both born around the time DM was most popular.) So I went down to the garage where my repository of CDs sits and brought upstairs my collection of some 8 or 9 Depeche Mode albums, and (while they all cooked in the kitchen) played selected tracks from the various albums, the songs I still remember after decades.<\/p>\n<p>I cemented on Depeche Mode in the late &#8217;80s, albums like <em>Some Great Reward<\/em> and <em>Black Celebration<\/em>, and would go jogging, at night after dinner, in Tarzana, with songs like this one ringing through my head.<\/p>\n<p>The single best DP album is likely <em>Music for the Masses<\/em>, a compilation. &#8220;Never Let Me Down Again.&#8221; &#8220;Strangelove.&#8221; &#8220;Behind the Wheel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Electronic, goth, and a bit gay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, with family members (and dog) here for the long weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15288,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}