Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode was formed in 1980 in Basildon city. The first name of the band was “Composition of Sounds” and their original members were Vincent Clarke, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher, but in 1981, Vincent Clarke left the band and began his own project called “Yazoo”. Then, he formed “Erasure” with Andy Bell.

“Composition of Sound” made an audition to search a new vocalist, who was David Gahan. He suggested a new name for the band: “Depeche Mode”. This name was taken from a French Magazine.

Their first, single was “Photographic”, but with the song “Just can get enough”, they were famous around the world, with this song, they became the number one on Billboard and they maintained their success with forty eight songs in the UK single chart and #1 albums.

They have become one of the most influential bands. They are considered part of the best 50 bands of the last time. Some of the bands influenced by Depeche Mode are “Ultravox”, “kraftwerk”, and some other new wave band like “Cabaret Voltaire”.

On 6 June 2011, Depeche Mode released “Remixes 2:81-11” which is a collection of new and classical remixes. These remixes reinforced the status of Depeche Mode as one of the most influential bands ever.




written: by Yasna Valdes

"The Smiths"

I think that "The Smiths" are one of the most significant British bands that made a good contribution to the music world' because they have a unique style. They have 4 albums, and I think that their most successful album was “The Queen Is Dead” in 1989 because this became number 2 on the British chart. Also the magazine "Spin" situated this album in the first spot of their list as "The Greatest Albums Ever Made.”From this album I want to emphasize the song "There is a Light that Never Goes Out." This is one of my favorite songs of The Smiths, and I think it’s one of the most known. This song is considered as one of the tragic, deeper love songs ever written, and one of the most important pieces of poetic contemporary popular music, which has been recorded in over 20 different language versions.This song is a little controversial because the lyrics have some coincidences with the mystery of Princess Diana’s death. Also the name of the album announces a royal death.Some interesting facts:-After Princess Diana’s death Morrissey, was interviewed by correspondent Andres Lokko of the Swedish music magazine POP (edition of January 1998) who asked him “How did you react when you heard of Princess Diana’s death?” and Morrissey answered “It was so predictable.  It was expected....”I hope you liked. We will write next week about another band or artist.If you want you can suggest a band and we will try to post the information here.

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(This is a link with brief information of the band)

Written by Yasna. 

Europe is a Swedish rock band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson and drummer Tony Reno.They spent almost two years waiting for an oportunity to create a rock band, and in 1982 they won the higest price in a contest. The price were make a record. They jump to fame with the disc “The final countdown” in 1986. In all their records were good songs but not all of them, so if a have to choose one record I could say the best is Rock the Night: The Very Best of Europe a compilation álbum.

One of the best song I like is “Carry” just because I like romantic songs, but “Cherokee” is also a great song. So, both songs are good for me.

 

 

Bon jovi is an american band of hard-rock from the 80’s. They come from Sayreville, New Jersey , and they consist in a lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi, Jr.), guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres.

I don’t know what is wrong with these people who say “ Oh, Bon Jovi was a great band of hard rock and stuff, and now its a girly band only with sad and romantics songs”. I think everybody can think whatever they want, but I think this band is one of the best band of the 80’s. One of the best part is the voice of Jon, where can you find today a guy like this( because he is beatiful) that sings like this today, nowhere. It’s true about they change their music, to a more romantic music, but they still are a great band because I think they have to sit up to new life style. The world is always changing and they have just to fit it in. They bécame famous with : Livin’ On A Prayer, You Give Love a Bad Name, Bad Medicine and  I´ll be there for you, in mid of 80’s, but one of the best disc of them is New Jersey released in September 1988. The mix of hard rock and romantic style really made me feel  crazy. The song “living in sin” touched my heart because it was a kind racy romantic and sexy way to talk about forbidden love. Nowadays they are working in a new álbum that will show in 2013. I can't wait.

In the mid-eighties is a group that blends lively tone of the new wave, named "The Smiths" the singer  is Morrissey, the guitarist John Marr, his poetic style binding letters of sophisticated dyes classical guitars.
Finally, to understand what they meant when they emerged and their impact you should hear some words written in 1984 by an Irish journalist. They went quickly out of nowhere, the first group in that time to cross the line between indie and pop. I think there was a beauty and often disturbing in the Smiths, a sadness in their songs  with a vigor and earthiness, a somewhat comical simplicity in language and a sincere spirit of liberation. They have given a huge gap to bridge .There's something about the vulnerability of Morrissey, in the contemporary sense of the tragedy of the Smiths, with an increasingly large audience relates, the singer's self-pity and bitterness post-punk.'s something delicate, proud, fun and alive.

The Smiths

The smiths were a rock band created by Morrissey (vocal) and Johnny Marr (Guitarist) in Manchester in 1982 later joined Andy Rourke (Bassist) and Mike Joyce (drummer). Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to come up from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. The Smiths won a significant following, and keep cult and commercial favorites. The band broke up in 1987 and have turned down several offers to reunite since then.

This is the list of the Smith’s albums:

-The Smiths.

-Meat is Murder.

-The Queen is dead

-Strangeways, Here we Come and break-up.

The name "The Smiths" appeared as a reaction against to all the bands who wore elaborate names to emphasize their music. The big debut of "The Smith" was with the album under the same name, which was released in February 1984 and became number two in the "UK albums chart". Many bands have actually borrowed and learned from The Smiths. As a result, Britpop might never have evolved the way it did if it had not been for the three years where the band released records. This makes The Smiths one of the most important bands of the '80's, even though they didn't survive very long.

Some interesting fact:

Before forming The Smiths in 1982, Johnny Marr (guitarist) had played in a variety of rock & roll bands, including Sister Ray, Freaky Part, White Dice, and Paris Valentinos, and Morrissey had sung for a few weeks with "the Nosebleeds".

This was our first post about a band. I hope you liked in the next post we will give our opinion about this band.Here the link with brief information
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Written by: Yasna