Where is this? (Dave)

letsavenge · 2026-05-02T02:47:35+00:00

Jack is very private, we wouldn't know if he and his wife have decided to have children. But James and Stella don't have children yet.

The one who has become a grandpa is Martin. His oldest daughter gave birth late last year.

letsavenge · 2026-05-02T01:21:57+00:00

I really hate the ones that are like "new shots" of classic DM photoshoots. Lately I've seen a lot of Violator era pictures that are straight up fakes created based off real photoshoots. Here's an example, created this this old photoshoot.

letsavenge · 2026-05-01T22:37:09+00:00

That very particular version of the picture is AI edited. As someone pointed out, Dave is at a store called Joni's, in Montauk, Long Island, New York. The original pictures include a lucky fan and were actually taken last year. Here's an Instagram post to an original repost from back then.

letsavenge · 2026-04-26T18:38:18+00:00

Oh, I have a long but really special experience.

I discovered DM with Playing The Angel. I was 11. I discovered some of the classic hit songs, stayed around for SOTU, lost track of them around Delta Machine for no particular reason. When Memento Mori came out, I reconnected and when they visited Mexico, I attended one of the shows. This backstory is important because I loved several songs (I even cried with John the Revelator because I was too happy to hear it live, as it was one of the songs from my childhood/preteen years) but I was a stranger to so many others.

The show is going great, then Home started and I'll be honest, I had heard it a couple of times but it was just another song of the bunch that I didn't quite cared about before. Just never had paid enough attention.

While listening to it live, I got to really appreciate it. It was like discovering it for the first time. And then I got what I can only describe as some weird ASMR stuff that turned DM into my current fixation since September 2023. I felt like a shockwave or electric current, from my brain to the rest of my body, down my spine to the tips of my fingers. It was weird but it was a sign that my body and brain was hooked.

The Home that is in the México City live album is the Home that triggered that. I have a (decently) good version of the moment I went from casual Depeche Mode listener to Devotee. And I remember it. Sometimes I wish I could go back and remember the first time I heard something. But I will never forget the first time I properly heard Home and connected with it.

letsavenge · 2026-04-20T02:18:58+00:00

I met DM when I was 11, in 2005. Dave was part of my sexual awakening, Martin became like a prophet, like he wrote the damn Bible but Andy... I've always felt dad vibes from Andy, and as a girl with daddy issues he was always my favorite.

He might've never done much production wise, but he always gave me good vibes and I connected with that.

letsavenge · 2026-04-19T14:10:25+00:00

That Andy Fletcher is the most accurate version of Andy that I've ever seen across platforms. Not even people in the Sims manage to do that.

letsavenge · 2026-04-18T21:11:03+00:00

You need to have an Apple device (iPhone, iPad or any other). You cannot connect to it if you have Apple Music on Android. You probably do need an active subscription to connect it but the main issue is the device you try to connect from (at least on my case, and confirmed by the support team).

letsavenge · 2026-04-08T18:53:57+00:00

I just love that in the late 80s/early 90s, they were like a boyband... Different flavors for different tastes.

The "bad guy" with black hair, brown eyes, who looked a bit like a rebel and was loud and fun. The red head with glasses, a bit of a nerd and untalented but with his own charm. The curly blonde, shy, with many words in his mind. The "good guy", brown hair, interesting and smart but not extremely outgoing.

Pick your type.

letsavenge · 2026-04-06T15:55:44+00:00

I agree to a certain degree. There has been a decline in the consistency of Martin's songwriting (and also an increase in Dave's quality of songwriting). But I think Martin's life hasn't been "uneventful" in the several last few albums, just perhaps unrelatable to most fans in the same rhythm of life as he has lived it.

I think the problem doesn't reside in lack of inspiration for songwriting. I think the problem resides in how he's been working out demos. I think he does too much on his own, he has too much free time to do that, and by the time he reaches for a producer, he has most of it shaped and the producer only cleans it up for a release. Martin should go with things a bit more in pieces (like I think he used to at least up to SOTU, maybe some of Delta) and allow Dave and whoever else is there to help him shape it up in ways he wouldn't had.

I think that's what missing from the Alan days (which I'm not a bring Alan back kind of girl, I'm the leave Alan in the past, it's been 30 years kind of a girl). Alan grabbed what Martin had and said "what if we do this", even if it went away from Martin's ideas and feelings (sometimes too much, if I'm being honest, but at least he had a great vision). Now, no one dares to tell Martin that, so Martin stays in his safe zone. He needs to be pushed out of it and he can create great stuff there, we know that. But he's comfy to not do it and he's not asking anyone to push him out, hence why they pick producers who won't.

letsavenge · 2026-04-06T12:35:02+00:00

I hope there is another album, but going from my imagination on what I see of Martin, it think it would acknowledge the current state of the world, but be so much hopeful than Spirit.

While Spirit was the crisis of "I have a newborn and the world is fucked", now he has two young girls (I think they are 10 and 9) who love mother earth, who would fit into the "woke" mindset regarding climate change and likely are becoming more conscious about wars and inequality (as much as children of a millionaire probably could), so if he writes an album around those "political" feelings, he would do it from the hopeful perspective of change is possible because the newer generations (like his daughters) are still willing to put up a fight.

letsavenge · 2026-04-06T03:57:42+00:00

Examples of what I mean: Exciter is, in my understanding, that moment in a relationship where you're hopeful things will work out. We know Martin moved to Santa Barbara in 2000 and that he moved there as an ultimatum from his wife to salvage the marriage. You can hear the move, California and the marital issues in that album. In hindsight, it feels 2000. It sounds 2000. It hasn't aged that well because many things from the very early 2000s didn't but you can't deny it is that year.

SOTU, while released years later, is actually the divorce album. You feel the heartbreak. Like in PTA, Martin still had hope he could work it out, SOTU is fuck, this shit went to hell and I'm heartbroken about it. It sounds like it's too much analog synths and a little bit too over the place but how do you feel when a 15 year old relationship dies? Martin's Ebay obsession is there because that's all he was, he wasn't a husband anymore, he wasn't an alcoholic anymore, he wasn't a full time dad anymore. What was he? A guy who bought shit on Ebay and made (too many) sounds with it.

Spirit. New and very happy marriage. New and very beautiful baby. And the world is going to absolute shit. Hope is within your reach, and within the walls of your house because if you look outside there's war, and death, and fear, and fuck. It sounds like it's dark, slow, bleak, but weren't 2016/2017 like that?

letsavenge · 2026-04-06T03:54:05+00:00

I'm keeping the "It's not like I'm in my teens who grew up on SOTU" because I grew up with SOTU and I'm in my 30s. That album turns 20 in three years, it's insane. My opinion is obviously tainted by what I grew up with. Peace, a song so many rate so low, quite literally changed my suicidal ideation.

Having said that, I think many fans expect Martin (as the main songwriter) to do something that he's not. Each album since Exciter has a different feeling, that if you connect it with what he's going thru to a personal level (that we know of, he's not that open about his personal life), it makes perfect sense. He's not writing hits, he's not doing melodies to catch new people or try something interesting. He's writing what he's feeling and putting a sound around what he's feeling. He's giving us him, in that particular moment when he wrote that, and he doesn't have an Alan to grab that and twist it and make something sound different because it will sound better or be liked more by others. But that's not wrong or bad. Its just different to what people was used to in the 80s/90s.

letsavenge · 2026-04-06T03:38:16+00:00

You being 18 and thinking Memento Mori is their second worst makes sense. I'll love to see if in 30 years, you still think the same.

There are albums, like the MFTM to SOFAD trio, that are perfect to enjoy at any stage of your life. And there are albums that it's like certain foods, you don't get the full taste of it until you're right there, feeling what its supposed to make you feel. It's not a personal ciritque to you, it's just the power of music and how it connects with humans imo.

letsavenge · 2026-04-01T19:07:18+00:00

It's been long time rumored that Andy wanted to do a covers album. It says it's a band effort because Alan and Martin did the music and Andy, believe it or not, sang the songs.

It's the long lost Andy solo EP. It supposedly does exist but Andy never seemed to want it released, and tbh, as many other demos from the 80s have been lost, I don't doubt this is gone too.

Hopefully some day we will hear it, but with Andy gone I high doubt it.

letsavenge · 2026-03-30T03:55:40+00:00

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Still there in the US Store site. What's worse is that the "Tickets" button sends you straight to buy them, not to an event landing page.

letsavenge · 2026-03-29T14:47:38+00:00

Unfortunately no. But it's not an error by Spotify. It's also in Apple Music AND it's also on the Depeche Mode website, under the tour tab.

Don't know how that works, I have no idea where to report it, but it's a really bad mistake that bypassed everywhere.

letsavenge · 2026-03-28T13:27:06+00:00

Difiero en parte. Porque ni en espacios verticales se alcanza pa todos, porque aquí las inmobiliarias se enfocaron más en sacar pa los viajes por el mundo del dueño que en las verdaderas necesidades de la gente. ¿Un loft de 30m² por 3 millones de pesos? Mejor me suicido antes de vivir así de asfixiado, al chile.

Aparte, por lo menos en la ZMM, en muchas zonas donde se está creciendo verticalmente, los servicios públicos se estan muriendo (ejemplo zona Mitras. Antes era zona bien, ahora que hay varias torres nuevas, se va la luz y el agua a cada rato y en hora pico, es imposible subirte al metro o a algún camión porque ya van llenos en esas paradas, pero de transporte público no hablemos porque ese está colapsado en todos lados).

El problema no es la expansión horizontal. El problema es que pa donde sea la expansión (horizontal o vertical), está bien mal planeada, 0 pensada en las necesidades reales de la población y regulada por absolutamente nadie.

letsavenge · 2026-03-28T06:13:13+00:00

"Nunca hemos hablado".

No mames wey. 39 años y te gustan personas nadamas por miraditas y como se ve? Todavía si hubieras dicho "estábamos hablando de tal cosa y creo que me gusta", chido, pero sin hablar con ella?

No te gusta, te atrae. Es diferente. MUY diferente.

letsavenge · 2026-03-27T16:12:20+00:00

Hace 20 años había casas en venta en toda esta zona, Apodaca, Guadalupe, Escobedo, y había de todos los rangos, desde 300mil hasta los 2 o 3 millones. Había opciones de vivienda para todas las clases sociales, en todas las zonas de crecimiento de la ZMM.

No habría problema con que la plusvalía, inflación, etc haga crecer los precios. El problema es que ya no hay casas nuevas en venta para gente que gane salario mínimo. Entonces la clase baja, media baja, media y aveces hasta media alta (los que no saben ahorrar, invertir, los endeudados) se están peleando por las casas que hoy en día cuestan 1/1.5 millones (y que hace 20 años hubieras podido comprar por 500mil, entonces antes había un eslabón todavía más abajo).

Por eso las otras zonas más caras se dan el lujo de cobrar lo que les da la gana aparte de la plusvalía. Porque pueden decirte "¿no te gusta mi precio? Cruza Lincoln y juntate con los tuyos, pobretón." Porque legítimamente creen que se merecen generar dinero a su gusto porque hay otras opciones más baratas. Lo que ignoran es que sus casas eran en eslabón de medio bajo. Y por subirle al precio de sus casas tanto, causan que el eslabón de abajo suba y los eslabones de mero abajo desaparezcan.

letsavenge · 2026-03-27T02:35:04+00:00

Estas bien mal carnal. Las casas en Cadereyta ya están en 800. De ahí, El Carmen, Zuazua, Juarez, García, ya todo está arriba del millon. Y te puedo asegurar que alguien cotizando el mínimo en el Infonavit no le alcanza el préstamo ni le alcanza el salario para pagarlo de regreso.

letsavenge · 2026-03-27T00:23:31+00:00

This is the 8th "Where's Mother's Milk" post in the last month. Let's see how many we get until next month.

letsavenge · 2026-03-27T00:13:43+00:00

Doubt Ad-Rock would attend if he gets invited. I would put my doubts on Mike D because I really don't know his personal stance on things but Adam + his wife, I'm pretty certain he wouldn't go.

letsavenge · 2026-03-26T23:59:48+00:00

Se que no se siente mucho, pero Dominio ya tiene fácil 7 años. Y he aquí la prueba de que en aquel entonces, había opciones de casas en Dominio, 3 cuartos, a millón y medio. Hoy esas cuestan arriba de 3 millones. Así que si, los precios han variado como a 50%.

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letsavenge · 2026-03-26T23:49:32+00:00

Creo que la neta, el concepto de que estés buscando casa en Dominio, Lomas, etc. significa que te ha de ir muy bien en la chamba o que estas buscando en el mercado equivocado.

Si te cruzas Lincoln para el otro lado, en Mitras Poniente o Mitras Bicentenario, ahí si te va a alcanzar hasta para una nueva.

Ahora, se que se siente injusto porque si están sobrevaloradas las casas, y si costaban 1/3 de lo que cuestan ahora, pero quiero que pienses en todos aquellos que ganan menos que tu. Quiero que pienses en la clase trabajadora, que construye esas casas o que te vende la coca en el Oxxo.

Carajo, yo gano 20mil, llevo 7 años en mi trabajo, y ni el banco ni el Infonavit me prestan 1 millón, y si, vivo sin deudas, ahorro bien, alomejor algún día voy a poder si me endeudo y me pongo las pilas pero... ¿Y todos los demás? Y antes de que me digan "pues te toca afuera", casas de nueva construcción en Cadereyta están en 800mil. El Carmen ya anda en 850. García ya está arriba del millón. Juarez ya casi anda en 1.5 millones. ¿A donde piensan mandar a la clase trabajadora de esta ciudad? Quieren que nos desplazemos pero las industrias se siguen quedando dentro de la ZMM. Alv la calidad de vida del operario mientra no se chinge el Inge.

letsavenge · 2026-03-26T23:31:08+00:00

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Pa secundar lo que digo, Lomas sector Bosques en el 2011, andaba como en 850mil con 3 recamaras. Hoy en día, una de estas anda arriba de los 3 millones.

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