Perhaps the most well known and almost universally acclaimed cover of any Depeche Mode song came via the legendary Johnny Cash. His take on Personal Jesus is noteworthy for a number of reasons. The recording, which formed part of the American Comes Around album of cover versions, was
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Not Violator-related. It’s a well-known fact that 85.36% (okay, not a statistical sample) of mash-up mixes are absolutely awful. So it’s a nice surprise to find one that is 1) actually pretty good 2) would probably go down rather well in
Those who bought the single World In My Eyes, the fourth track from Violator, were treated to two new songs: Sea of Sin and Happiest Girl. Although neither were given any official Anton Corbijn treatment, this didn’t stop fans pulling together their own efforts.
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Depeche Mode were notorious in the 1980s for sampling pretty much anything they could get their hands on. (Just listen to Pipeline from Construction Time Again!) The process had calmed down to some degree by the time Violator came along,
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The Depeche Mode tribute album, For The Masses, had a few decent tracks on it. A highlight was The Cure’s reworking of World In My Eyes. Another was this fabulous breakbeat/drum and bass cover of Waiting For The Night, performed
A fun one for the start of the weekend. Someone managed to get their hands on a pile of the outtakes captured during the recording of the Enjoy The Silence video. The mix of the actual track isn’t particularly up to much (sorry!), but
It wasn’t too long after the tragic events of September 11 2001 that some Depeche fans remembered a promo clip from eleven years before. The band took part in a TV shoot for Enjoy The Silence in March 1990, performing on the
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Depeche were a tour de force (not for all the right reasons) by the time of the Devotional outings in 1993/1994. Part of the process of touring by then was the reworking of older tracks for their new outing in a live performance,
Very good and simple remix (and one which didn’t appear on any of the official compilations of track mixes) of Halo. The accompanying video mashes up footage from Halo being performed on the Devotional Tour in 1993 with collapsing buildings,
Th Goldfrapp mix of Halo first appeared on the Remixes 81-04 album in 2004. Presumably the band was so impressed with it (beyond including it on the album) that a version was played for an encore during the Delta Machine tour in 2013-2014.