80s Song Was SO CONTROVERSIAL...Even Band Members Were Offended By It! | Professor Of Rock

COMING up a classic hit double A Side from one of the Depeche Mode In the 80s the band was starting to make it’s way up the charts and they haven’t stopped since. Today we break down the beautiful, sensitive Martin Gore Ballad Somebody along with it’s other side Blasphemous Rumors. Believe it or not the latter song caused an uproar in my small community of Blackfoot Idaho for it’s out right blasphemy…in fact when the main writer showed it to the rest of the band one key members was afraid it would offend everyone… . When Martin Gore brought Somebody to David Gahan, the late Andrew Fletcher and Alan Wilder he decided to sing it.. and sing it he did… buck naked. He wasted to sing it in the nude to capture the vulnerability perfectly. Boy did he ever. Coming up next the story of an 80s DM classic and how it lead to other great song of the same nature like, Enjoy the Silence, Stripped, A Question of Lust and more..

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It’s time to induct another song into our honor roll that we call
The New Standards where we honor a song that is both timeless and multi generational. On this episode, we submit & spotlight a song by A DM concert really is a few hours of non stop standards, songs that are the checkpoints of your life especially if you grew up with their music. But the song that really does obliterate the Tin Pan Alley test, again to recap on what the Tin Pan Alley Test is: can the song still be compelling when you take away all the bells and whistles. Can the song still soar when it’s broken down to the bare minimum. Either guitar or piano and could it exist in any year or any decade. Well, the Depeche Mode songs that does that so perfectly and that could be sung by
Frank Sinatra in the 40s or Elvis in the 50s or even the Beatles in the 60s well you get the point… Is the beautiful soaring love song. Somebody.

Martin Gore’s desperate pursuit for a soulmate that gushes with so much honesty & vulnerability it elicits a universal empathy that absolutely makes it a new standard.
“Somebody” was released in 1984, as a double-A side single in Europe from the Depeche Mode album Some Great Reward.
The Double A side of “Blasphemous Rumours” & “Somebody” share darkness, and stark reality, with diametrically different subject matter. “Blasphemous Rumours” is a devastating tale of a 16 year old girl who attempts to take her own life, but fails. In her recovery, she has a religious awakening, only to be killed in a car accident. The bitter irony of the tragedy is culminated in a blasphemous declaration that God is playing games with human lives. It’s the Depeche Mode song that had parents flipping out in the small-town of Blackfoot Idaho I grew up in. I can clearly remember quite a few instances where my friends were getting their cassette or CD copies of Catching up with Depeche Mode confiscated because of the Blasphemy within Blasphemous Rumors that made many a parents’ heads explode including my own.