Depeche Mode - Violator (w/ guest Vincent Onorati)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by radio-film-book-trivia guy (really unsure how else to define him!) Vincent Onorati to discuss Depeche Mode's Violator (1990, Mute). Vinny discusses finding his people when he discovered new wave radio and Depeche Mode's output. Then he explains how he got to experience the band's breakout success while interning at his favorite radio station. Then we get into a bunch of detail about loving this album with the track by track review!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast.
0:02.1	I'm Bill.
0:02.5	And I'm Brian.
0:03.9	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:06.6	1990s Violator by Depeche Mode.
0:13.8	Reach out touch space.
0:16.0	Music What we do here every week on the podcast,
0:32.6	what we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:43.0	Try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we tie it all together with a track-by-track review,
0:48.3	which we discuss the things we think about while listening to the music and the things we like about the music.
0:53.3	Sounds good to me, man. Let's do it. And we're not doing it alone this week.
0:57.6	No, no, we're not. We brought in an expert, a Depeche Mode expert. Mr. Vinnie Onerati.
1:05.5	I made sure to ask him how to pronounce his last name. And you might find him also labeled as Vincent in places, but Vinny came to us via
1:15.8	via former guest Brian Wagner, who was here for the aha episode last year.
1:22.9	And he said, hey, if you guys want to talk about Depeche Mode, you got to get my buddy on.
1:27.5	You got to get this guy.
1:28.8	Yeah.
1:29.1	You got to get Vinny Onerati.
1:31.7	You need a guy.
1:33.3	Vinny Onerati is your Depeche Mode guy.
1:36.4	Because Vinny, as you'll hear from him shortly, he's been very involved in media and in all its forms.
1:44.6	For decades now.
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