Depeche Mode - "Wrong" (Sounds of the Universe)

After listening to their most recent album, I listened to some older stuff (1981! "Speak and Spell") but that's too plinkyplonk synth stuff for me.

Now listening to 2009's Sounds of the Universe, and it's much more to my liking.

This song is strong! Head nodding strong!

Depeche Mode - "Delta Machine"

• "Heaven" - can't get more Depeche Mode than this. I think I've already heard it. Nice, though it doesn't give me the shivers that "Little 15" still does.
• "Angel" - a drone and a voice like Nick Cave (with his kind of lyrics). Intriguing.
• "Broken" - dark.
• "Goodbye" - catchy waltz rhythm

Madrugada - "Grit"

• "Madrugada" - which...side....are... you... on
• "Majesty" - sad, slowly

Taxi, Taxi 2, Taxi 3

Particularly 1, but 2 as well, were amazing. Fast, nice action (from 1998? still good!) good dialogues, incredibly funny. True Luc Besson humour.

But 3 sucked. Spoofed itself, and spoofed its spoofing. Ugh.

Denis Johnson - "TRAIN DREAMS"

A wonderful novelle of a man born in the early 20th Century, who loses his wife and daughter to a great fire ravishing the valley. He keeps living in his own hut on his own acre, and once sees her, an apparition, and another time, his daughter.

Written in a way that is hard to describe. Very simple, very direct. You could say "not much happens", and yet it won't let itself be put away.

It's nearly poetry, of a harsh rustic kind.

Sir Sly - "Gold" (Ghost (single))

Catchy, though it is tinged with the kind of modern music fancies that I'm not a fan off. But there's a hint of pomp (and a vocoder, aiaiaii) and a good head-nodding rhythm.

must look into? maybe, unsure.