I had mostly only known the instrumental version of this song until recently, and while I enjoy the slightly slower pace of that Dave Clarke acoustic version, I really like this original too. Enjoy!

Don’t forget, there’s still just a little time to weigh in on my poll for the October series. Thank you to everyone who already has done so, with your votes and/or comments!

And particularly if you’re on the Texas Gulf Coast, good luck this week.

I didn’t think anything was going to get Erasure out of there, but then this song has done it. Frying pan into the fire over here, honestly.

Oh, and also? Dear Depeche Mode, you don’t have to get out of my head. You can stay. (Not that I could get rid of you if I wanted to. Which — let’s be honest — I don’t.)

A daily dose of Depeche Mode seems to be good for me.

I’ve been listening to the David Bowie station on Pandora a lot the last couple of weeks — I highly, highly recommend it — and as a result, I’ve been treated to a lot of The Cure, Depeche Mode, and New Order. New Wave is my wheelhouse, y’all, so that’s been awesome. Here’s one song that I hadn’t heard in a long time but have always enjoyed.