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.
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.