In honor of Throwback Friday April 6 (I know, I know), I have a few things on my mind. I had happened earlier that week to see a recent picture of Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore. You know precious little Martin Gore with his puffball of blond hair, adorable bad British teeth and slightly B&D-ish outfits? (Hey, I\u2019m not condemning a man who can rock a chain mail skirt and feather boa onstage.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, it\u2019s bad enough that Martin Gore is old, like myself (I might be able to FORGET that if people I remember from high school as\u00a0young and adorable didn\u2019t keep showing up looking like creepy old weirdos), but he got his teeth fixed! He has a mouthful of blinding white veneers that make me want to cry! (Do you think crying something like, oh Martin, I loved you back when your teeth were gross, please sing me \u201cShake the Disease\u201d<\/em> would do it?)<\/p>\n Anyway. Lo, I am sad. I remember when my friend\u00a0Ali B Mecom<\/a>\u00a0introduced me to Depeche Mode when we were in high school. I think I first heard \u201cPeople Are People\u201d at her house. It blew my mind. She was way into \u201cBlasphemous Rumours\u201d and insisted on explaining all the lyrics to me.<\/p>\n So, all this led me to watching some Depeche videos on YouTube, then a whole Depeche documentary<\/a> that was quite good, then some more videos. I hadn\u2019t been into their videos back in the day because I didn\u2019t think the band members were cute. Now, I have realized that those boys made some fucked-up videos. There is imagery in some of them … well, clearly my 14-year-old self blocked it all out.\u00a0 Our parents definitely<\/em> blocked it all out, or else there would have been some conversations in my house about the lyrics of “Master and Servant.”<\/p>\n Anyway, somewhere down the YouTube rabbit hole of \u201880s videos, I came across another rock-doc, this one about Genesis from 1967 to 1977. Now, those of you who thought Peter Gabriel sprang fully formed out of some lesser god\u2019s forehead in 1986 and wrote \u201cSledgehammer\u201d need to get educated.\u00a0\u00a0Peter Gabriel had an illustrious solo career from the late \u201870s until\u2014well, basically, now. But before he went solo, PG was the lead singer of a little band you might have heard of called Genesis.<\/p>\n