tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479382718529718406.post2653398639149274592..comments2024-03-08T09:57:56.473+00:00Comments on Almost Predictable. Almost: GUEST BLOG NUMBER 4 - DICKEN SCHRADERDJMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604206325345018920noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479382718529718406.post-29250647856432723692020-03-17T15:46:39.419+00:002020-03-17T15:46:39.419+00:00exciting post, thanksexciting post, thankspablohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445190629393353369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479382718529718406.post-20961165256032574862020-03-17T08:42:39.167+00:002020-03-17T08:42:39.167+00:00Very well written and very moving. I actually star...Very well written and very moving. I actually started to sob! ruskprickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535999165529420963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479382718529718406.post-69974866195536616582020-03-16T14:29:42.234+00:002020-03-16T14:29:42.234+00:00Great post, thanks for sharing! Great post, thanks for sharing! Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479382718529718406.post-85548940565128802192020-03-16T04:44:54.221+00:002020-03-16T04:44:54.221+00:00Very pleasing read! I would have to apologize, I o...Very pleasing read! I would have to apologize, I only learned about Dicken Schrader a few weeks ago, after watching The Spirits :) I'm not a very devoted fan :D I just buy everything DM produce :D<br />After reading this article, I also find it curious how people got hooked on to DM after they heard Enjoy the Silence. My experience was similar in general (not in the car however) but different in a way. My introduction to DM started with total rejection. I was in a year 6 and lived in Lithuania, at the time still Soviet Union. So many kids at school and in my class were obsessed with Depeche. Don’t know why but I was opposed to them from the very beginning. I have never heard a single song, but I was certain DM is a total crap :D Probably simply because I didn’t feel like I wanted to be with the crowd. To be honest, to this day I’m not a huge fan of DM fans :D<br />A friend of mine, he literally forced me to take a mix tape, that he made for me (it was Violator) and insisted I must listen to it. I agreed, but I wasn’t excited at all.<br />So it took me some time. Maybe 3 or 4 times I played the tape and I couldn’t get it why people are going nuts about DM. I pretty much grew up with Soviet mainstream music and then I was introduced to Bony M, then Pink Floyd, Queen, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi, Genesis and Tears for Fears. I was in love with Sinead O’Connor then 😉<br />But you know, something clicked in me when on that third or fourth play I realized I can sense that nice guitar tune and the melody, and I felt something like people call Stendhal's syndrome. Mind you my English was as good as I my Latin, almost none. It got into me purely through music. It got me! But after Enjoy the Silence I knew my second best DM song was Sweetest Perfection, even today I’m not sure which one is the No 1 for me.<br /> Sergio McMendezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866032027759719337noreply@blogger.com