Dangerous – the wrong B-side?
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
Policy of Truth – featuring Richard Nixon
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.
Cleaning acoustically
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 – trance-like gravy
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!