Depeche Mode!

Depeche Mode still has it.

Last night, I saw them play for the first time in my life. That might seem odd, considering I’ve been a fan of their music at least since the late 80s. Alley, on the other hand, has seen them at least 15 times over the years.

First, I thoroughly enjoyed the show—plenty more on that below—but I also thought about you a little bit, and how much I wanted to share a couple of observations with you, and also a Generation X-specific joke.

Here is a rare selfie with both of us (is it a selfie if there are two of us? Groufie? Wefie? Let me know if that’s a linguistic rabbit hole you’d like to go down), so that you can see Alley’s sweet tat, bro:

As an unrelated side note, I don’t advise getting a tattoo when you’re a young teenager.

Anyway, in case you’re curious about whether a bunch of sixty-somethings can still rock out with an amazing show, let me answer that question for you by way of a few videos. But first, here’s the Gen X joke I wanted to tell you (you have…