Depeche Mode - Violator - 1990

Back in April of last year, I posted the mixes from this album.  If you read that post, you would know the story and experiences I had around the time I originally purchased the album.  Wonderful story, glorious times....   This is the very first CD I ever purchased, and I still have that exact same CD to this day.  Although, it's not my listening copy anymore.  I hung on to it for nostalgia's sake.

Due to the fact that I was young and didn't fully understand at the time that specific track arrangement meant something to the artist when an album is released, I did a lot of, shall I say, BOLD decisions when I arranged "my" album.  It's reflected here.  I still like to listen to it in this order.

Does ANYONE know if there are original mixes of Happiest Girl or Sea Of Sin out there?  A 7-inch single mix or album mix?  I think it would be good, if I could find them, if they exist, to include them on this mix rather than the remixes....

Obviously, I am still having some issues here at home.  Dealing with them has monopolized my time, and also really puts me in the mindframe of not being able to even make a coherent post (evidence, my last post on Cyndi Lauper.)  I don't want to air too much of my current dirty laundry (lord knows you guys know a lot of my past as it is) but, once I get through this, and given time, it will make an EXCELLENT story for my posts here.  Until then, bear with me....  Thanks for your patience.

Depeche Mode - Violator - 1990

Depeche Mode - Mixes From Violator - 1990

My Senior year in High School, I am President of our Business Club, and we are headed off to our regional convention.  I had just purchased this nice fat-ass Fisher Boom Box with a CD Player.  It was so sweet.  And the very first CD I purchased, was Violator. 
We got on that bus, I popped in my DM and turned it up.  Everyone loved it.  -  They loved it up until the sixth or seventh time I played it and then they had to tell me to shut it off.  Too bad for them. 
We stayed in a hotel with students from all over the midwest.  Thousands of high school kids in a hotel with minimal parental supervision.  At night, after the events of the day and the lame dance sponsered by the teachers, some of us - a lot of us - went off and did our own thing.  I still remember that girl from Southeast HS, who was the President of HER school's Business Club...
Long story short, and probably needless to say, but I did great things to DM's Violator.  Great things...

This is in response to Aid00 posting Violator on his site.  Nice little disc to round it out...

Depeche Mode - Mixes From Violator