Coming almost immediately after the end of the Violator phase, Alan Wilder flexed his producer muscles (alongside Flood) when he produced Ebbhead, Nizter Ebb’s fourth album. A few months ahead of its release in September 1991, Nitzer Ebb released the As Is teaser EP,
There are some over the years who consider Dangerous a better track than Blue Dress, and wonder why it didn’t make it on to the Violator. It eventually ended up as the B-side to Personal Jesus when it was a released as
Depeche didn’t bring in the disgraced former-US president to replace Dave Gahan on vocals… …but a sample from Richard Nixon’s so-called Checker’s Speech does feature throughout the Capitol Mix of Policy of Truth.
Two guitars and a keyboard for this stripped (no pun intended) down acoustic version of Clean. Fletch demonstrating his bass background; Martin with a mastery of the backing vocal; and Dave showing how good his baritone can really be.
Enjoy The Silence, remixed in 2006 in a version by Sasha and Mike Koglin known as, err, Enjoy The Gravy. Great dance track… Weird title… Extreme insect close-up visuals!