XPost: alt.music.depeche-mode   
   From: c@ntsay.net   
      
   paleophile 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).   
   >   
      
      
   as per your query, was it not?   
      
   and someone also considered it a possible take-off of kraftwerk's   
   "klingklang" studio?   
      
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