But that’s not the case, they didn’t transform in 1988 from fun, colourful, poppy dance tracks: Right after Vince Clark left in 1981, the sound went darker and darker, a natural progression:

That’s a very Anglocentric perspective you got there. Depeche Mode were huge in a lot of places, Germany, Austria, Northern Europe. And also Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. They were so influential, that only 3 genres existed in Eastern Europe at the start of the 90s: rock, rap and depeche.

I work for Microsoft and Apple, beat that! And I’m also a dog on the interweb!