Depeche Mode

Synth pop darlings and democratizers of industrial music, Depeche Mode were the least likely of bands to become American stadium stars or to be filmed by noted documentarian D.A. Pennebaker. But both happened, resulting in this two-CD live set that chronicles a 1987-88 U.S. tour. Singer David Gahan is an energetic frontman but this is really for diehards only.

D.A. Pennebaker's documentary of Depeche Mode's 1988 world tour shows how an effete
glam-goth synth-pop band from Essex, England, could ultimately sell out Pasadena,
California's Rose Bowl. Woven in is up-close footage of a busload of eager, young,
oft-inebriated fans, but Pennebaker renders the band just as intimately -- singer Dave
Gahan, elegantly waifish, gently applies his makeup and reminisces about his day... More >