One of my all time favorite albums is Depeche Mode's 1986 masterpiece "Black Celebration". I was in high school and already a big fan of the band, but when I heard that album it was so much richer than anything they'd done before that I became forever hooked on their sound.
I've been posting YouTube clips of some of my favorite songs, but I couldn't find a good video of this one anywhere, so I quickly put together my own little clip using Microsoft PhotoStory and the various pictures and icons featured on the album cover. Nothing too artistic, but it conveys the mood of the album and the aesthetic of the time I guess, and the main thing I wanted to share was just the music anyways.
Then of course the upload was rejected by YouTube due to their copyright policy, which explains why I couldn't find any clips already available I suppose. This quick little project was becoming a pain in the butt, but since the clip was already done I decided to just host the file right here on the blog. This is the first time I've tried to host & embed a multimedia clip on Typepad, so apologies if it's buggy or slow to load.
UPDATE: Embedding the video was causing some browsers to crash, so I changed it to just a link.
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration 320.wmv
Great album, great tune, great band. At least that's my opinion. What do you think?

P.S. While I had the pictures up I decided to go ahead and whip out a video for "Here Is The House", which was my second favorite song from the album and also has no good representation on YouTube.
Depeche Mode - Here Is The House 320.wmv
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