Timeslip moment again...
Is it really thirty years ago this week that a very youthful Depeche Mode entered the UK charts with this slice of brilliant "industrial electronica"? It's People Are People, of course:
Ah, the heady days of 1984.
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
So we’re different colours
And we’re different creeds
And different people have different needs
It’s obvious you hate me
Though I’ve done nothing wrong
I’ve never even met you so what could I have done
I can’t understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
Help me understand
Now you’re punching
And you’re kicking
And you’re shouting at me
I’m relying on your common decency
So far it hasn’t surfaced
But I’m sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fists
They should play this in Russia.
Depeche Mode
