Word: dm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boring and odd: deadpan lyrics against bonky day-train melodies lead to wholesome industrial marches. Depeche Mode did have some moments in their youth-tinny drum hooks after the "People are People" chorus, a lot of pleasant moaning, pipey synth pushing throughout. By the second half of 81>85, DM starts timing its airy crescendoes very well and on tracks like "Blasphemous Rumours" and "Shake the Disease" you can feel the dark matter of the eighties, even if you can't dance to it. Depeche Mode is a band for the chest, not the wrists. Listen to The Singles...
...built communications satellite was lost in space. The Russian Space Agency looks to be close behind. The satellite, built by Hughes Space & Communications International in El Segundo, Calif., was fully insured, and a replacement will be ready in two years. But this was the third major failure of the DM-3 booster in the two years that the RSA has been carrying foreign satellites into space for desperately needed cash (charging about $70M a ride). Will Hughes ask again...
...been hitting post-World War II lows against the Japanese yen. At one point last week the dollar would buy less than 98 yen, down about 2% since June 21 and 10% since February. The dollar has also fallen about 8% this year against the deutsche mark, to 1.59 DM last week. Those drops have contributed to a continuing erosion of stock and bond prices. The Dow Jones industrial average was 3647 Friday, down 8% from its Jan. 31 high, while the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds had risen to 7.6%, higher than when Clinton was inaugurated...
...From: DM...
...dumb EP by Erasure, and I am mortified. When my sister finds out, she will laugh at me. "Erasure sucks," she'll tell me, and she'll be right. Their sound is flat, canned and corporate. They're just a happy Depeche Mode, and what did the members of DM ever really have going for them except stylish gloom? I thought I'd long outgrown Erasure's typical, cloying, techno sound. And "ABBA-esque" is a skimpy, derivative album consisting of four covers of ABBA songs...