This version of Enjoy The Silence is nowhere near as slickly produced as the breakbeat/drum and bass treatment of Waiting For The Night. Still, it’s a decent enough effort, albeit one that gets a bit lost in crazy D&B-land about two-thirds
Tucked away on one of the many versions of the CD single for Enjoy The Silence is the Quad: Final Mix. (The Quad: Final Mix also appears on a very rare, 12-inch vinyl in its own right) The 15-minute track was pulled
Religion, guilt, confessions – familiar territory for Depeche Mode. French Canadian movie Le Confessionnal, directed by Robert Lepage, used Waiting For The Night for its theatre trailer. The award-winning 1995 film starred Kristen Scott Thomas (The English Patient) and Lothaire Bluteau (seen
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Here is the first in a series of blog posts featuring Violator songs which ended up in movies. The Devil’s Double, a biopic recounting the story of Saddam Hussein son Udday and a supposed double he used, made use of Personal Jesus for
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Mute Records boss Daniel Miller stepped away from full-time production duties with Depeche after the Black Celebration album, but has popped up here and there for some mixing briefs. His take on World In My Eyes (the original was undoubtedly
Difficult to improve on a classic, so why bother? This doesn’t stop others out there trying their hands at remixing Depeche Mode songs, of course. Halo is no exception, yet perhaps only the Goldfrapp version really challenges the original from the album –
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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