
and Listening to others, and accepting there own world, ofcourse if its unharmful. Now i dont know what i'm trying to prove, Ah i know. Besides i think people shouldnt take the bible too too seariously, i know that sounds silly to firm believers but we all make mistakes anyways, I dont thikn God punishes nor "takes" someone life away, the way they describe it in some bibles, i think. Not every body is this way, I know this, but many. Trying to prove each other wrong, and believe youre own self is the ultimate correct way. the only finger i can point at is all of us together. But anyways, if there was, a "God" that did control this whole universal system somehow (man or energy) Why blame him or it for our reckless driving and our hateful desires and our own faults as humans together. but what we all really need to understand is no body is entirely correct and we can't go around arguing over unanswered questions and uncertain things, faith or no faith, we're all right and wrong. You know, stations out here in Long Island, WDRE, played us, started to play it, on the sort of underground, alternative stations.General CommentThis song is very powerful to many and has much emotion and is going to have many many different opinions and arguments. That’s what Depeche Mode did too and everything turned out quite good for us, didn’t it? Last year I wasn’t even at home on Christmas! And I can do that to my mother twice, whether she’s in the Salvation Army or not!ĭave is quoted in the 2006 documentary of the album:Īlternatively, over in the States, it got played. You have to choose yourself what you wanna do with your life. Whether it’s politics or something else, that doesn’t matter. The song only wants to say that no one should let someone force anything upon him. Together with my sister, we usually went for a ride with the bike and told mom afterwards how lovely the homily was.

So she sent me to the church every Sunday till my 18th birthday. I’m by the way not anti-religious at all! I only oppose a certain kind of religion that was forced upon me when I was young. It just seemed so strange to me, so ridiculous and so removed from real experiences.Īs for the controversy that surrounded the song, Dave Gahan told Belgian Magazine Joepie: With Each Transaction 100 Verified And The Largest Inventory Of Tickets On The Web. The person at the top of the list was guaranteed to die, but still everyone went right ahead thanking God for carrying out his will. Your Home For Blasphemous Rumours - A Live Depeche Mode Tribute Tickets. Particularly a part of the service called the prayer list, when the preacher rattles off the names of those sick and about to die. The whole setup is quite handy but I’m not sure that’s what God intended. I found the service very hard to take seriously. I was going to church a lot at the time, not because I believed in it, but because there was nothing else to do on a Sunday. This all after she finds renewed strength in God.

The tale of a 16-year-old girl whose suicide attempt fails, she is still cut down in her prime two years later in a fatal car wreck. In 2017, a music critic explained on Billboard’s website that the song is: The song (as part of the double A-side single) peaked at #16 in the UK, and did even better in Ireland peaking at #8.

Insisting that the song still be the next single, the band agreed to the compromise of releasing the much less controversial “Somebody” as another ‘A-side’ on the same release. And the Independent Broadcasting Authority and the Sun (UK tabloid) both condemned the song. Melody Maker Magazine called it “a prime candidate for official censure”. Long-rumored among fans to be written as a response to Martin Gore’s sister’s suicide, he told Spin Magazine the song was actually inspired by seeing ‘prayer lists’ while he and Dave Gahan separately attended church services and agreed it was ‘strange’ and ‘ridiculous’ that despite the fact people at the top of the list are ‘guaranteed to die’, everyone continues to thank God for carrying out his will.Ī controversial track, “Blasphemous Rumours” was almost banned by the BBC. “Blasphemous Rumours” (along with “Somebody” as part of a double A-side) was the third single from Some Great Reward.
