XPost: alt.music.depeche-mode   
   From: gbas@lineone.net   
      
   "paleophile"  wrote in message   
   news:4pZ%c.1977$xA1.1635@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
   > bobby wrote:   
   > > Does anyone know why DM use BONGxx as their catalogue numbers?...Why   
   > > BONG?   
   >   
   > I'm not sure, but somebody here once suggested that it was onomatopoietic,   
   > in reference to a sound used in a particular song ("Leave in Silence"   
   > perhaps, as it does have a sound like that...and since it was the first   
   > single to use that cataloging scheme it would make sense).   
   >   
   > Somebody once asked Alan this, and even he wasn't able to serve an   
   > explaination, only assuring the reader that it had nothing to do with   
   water   
   > pipes used to smoke marijuana ("nothing one would typically associate with   
   > the band").   
   >   
   > That's an attempt at an explaination for the word chosen...as to why DM   
   > singles have a cataloging system unique among bands on the Mute roster,   
   that   
   > seems to be another matter.   
      
   Probably because they were the biggest and most successful group. Didn't   
   Yazoo also have unique catalogue refs?   
      
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