Nat_Mode
banner
natmode.bsky.social
Nat_Mode
@natmode.bsky.social
Music lover 🎧🎶 Especially 📢 Depeche Mode 🎹 NIN
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 5 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with E

Echo & The Bunnymen - “Lips Like Sugar”
March 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 4 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with D

Depeche Mode - “Sacred”

I'm one of the devout 🖤

#DepecheMode #MusicForTheMasses
March 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 3 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with C

The Cure - “A Forest” 🖤🎶

#TheCure
March 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 2 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with B

Bauhaus - “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” 🦇🎶

It’s the first song the band recorded just 6 weeks after forming in 1979. It was captured in a single live take.
#Bauhaus
March 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 1 - A song by a band/artist whose name starts with A

ABBA - “Take A Chance On Me”

The version I grew up with - covered by Erasure
#Erasure #ABBA #coversong
March 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Every time I hear this song I get hit with a wave of nostalgia from my teenage years – sitting in my room, cd booklet in hand, reading the lyrics, singing along, and wondering what it would be like to see them live 🖤🔁

#DepecheMode #BlackCelebration
February 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just when it was getting good. Take me back! 😂

#DepecheMode #DaveGahan
February 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Kicking off my morning with some Erasure 🎧

#Erasure #MondayVibes
February 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
On this day in 1997, ‘Barrel of a Gun’ was released as a single 🖤

Dave Gahan discusses the song in an Entertainment Weekly Interview:

[Ultra] is one of my favourites, 'Barrel of a Gun' in particular, because I think Martin was also playing with this imagery as well, sort of pointing the 🧵(1/3)
February 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
On this day in 1983, “Get The Balance Right” was released as a single. 🖤

If you caught it live, you’re one of the lucky few—it was performed 61 times, with its last appearance on June 2, 1984, in Germany during the Construction Time Again tour.

#DepecheMode
January 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
4. Alan Wilder
January 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
3. Andy Fletcher
January 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
2. Martin L. Gore
January 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In the spring of 1988, the members of Depeche Mode revealed their favorite and least favorite DM albums + songs.

ABF fans - you’ll want to brace yourselves 😅🥹

🧵(1/4) Source: dm/live

1. Dave Gahan
#DepecheMode #JusticeforABrokenFrame
January 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Every. Single. Time. 😅😂

#DepecheMode #BlackCelebration
January 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tonight’s wind-down ritual 🎧🎶

#DepecheMode #MusicForTheMasses
January 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
was like.
“Not extremely, but it was mayhem at Crocs.” - Bong 16

The setlist:
1. Shout
2. I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
3. Boys Say Go!
4. Puppets
5. See You
6. Big Muff
7. Now, This Is Fun
8. Ice Machine
9. New Life
10. Tora! Tora! Tora!
11. The Meaning Of Love
12. Just Can’t Get Enough 🧵(2/3)
January 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
On this day in 1982, Alan Wilder played his first live show as a member of Depeche Mode!

The concert took place at the iconic Crocs nightclub in Rayleigh, Essex, England, kicking off the See You Tour.

Alan was asked if he was nervous taking the stage for the first time with DM and what it 🧵(1/3)
January 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Did you know Depeche Mode’s “John the Revelator” was inspired by an old blues classic?

The original was first recorded in the 1930s by Blind Willie Johnson and later covered by Son House, whose version is featured in this clip.

It’s a great example of how a song can influence and evolve across 🧵
January 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My Top 5 Exciter Songs

I've been diving back into Exciter recently, and here's my countdown of the top 5 tracks 🎶

The Exciter era holds very special memories for me💚 The album came out just days before my birthday, feeling like the perfect gift. I was intrigued by their new, brighter, and 🧵(1/2)
January 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
As we say goodbye to 2024, I wanted to take a moment to thank the incredible music community here and all the Devotees for bringing so much joy through music. It's been a great pleasure sharing my love for DM with you, and I look forward to continuing in 2025 because I just can't...
January 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
be in control, I just want to let the music pull my emotional strings and enjoy being the passenger…a form of freedom, a sense of release by giving in and relinquishing control.

The music has a hypnotic quality to it with an infectious melody that features some extraordinary synth notes and (2/5)
December 31, 2024 at 10:37 PM
#Top31DepecheMode

1 - “Behind The Wheel”

I'm in the hands of fate 🎶

Whenever I listen to this song, I get lost in the music and nothing else seems to matter. It's always complete bliss. Again, the theme of surrendering appears. Metaphorically, when I listen, I don’t have the desire to 🧵(1/5)
December 31, 2024 at 10:37 PM
#Top31DepecheMode DC

2 - “World In My Eyes”

That’s all there is 🎶

This is the one that changed everything for me.

It’s the song that slid through the cracks of my bedroom door and arrested my attention instantly... I felt hypnotized by the music. It was incomparable to anything I had 🧵(1/3)
December 30, 2024 at 11:30 PM
#Top31DepecheMode

3 - “Walking In My Shoes”

You’ll stumble in my footsteps 🎶

A gorgeous song with powerful lyrics - “But before you come to any conclusions, try walking in my shoes.” This strikes at the depths of people and what we carry inside, our story, reminding others to not look at the 🧵1/3
December 30, 2024 at 4:13 AM