12.30.2005
12.28.2005
Retro Warner
Future Retro Warner Music Release Date: January 24th, 2006 (tentative)
CD:
1. The Cure - The Walk (Infusion Mix) (5:36)
2. Yaz - Situation (Richard X Remix) (5:50)
3. Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (Way Out West Remix Edit) (4:52)
4. INXS - Need You Tonight (Static Revenger Mix Edit) (4:19)
5. Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease (Tiga Remix) (6:47)
6. Erasure - A Little Respect (Electrospect Mix) (6:35)
7. Howard Jones - New Song (Peter Black & Hardrock Striker Mix Edit) (3:29)
8. Alphaville - Forever Young (Hamel Album Mix) (5:04)
9. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (The Crystal Method Extended Mix) (6:04)
10. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Elite Force Mix) (7:39)
11. Devo - Girl U Want (Black Light Odyssey Mix)(3:42)
12. B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Adam Freeland Mix) (7:31)
13. Book Of Love - Boy (DJ Irene Rockstar Mix) (4:28)
14. Morrissey - Suedehead (Sparks Remix) (6:36)
Doouble LP:
A1. The Cure - The Walk (Infusion 12" Remix) (8:59)
A2. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X 12" Mix) (7:04)
B1. Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease (Tiga Remix)(6:47)
B2. B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Adam Freeland Mix) (7:31)
B3. INXS - Need You Tonight (Static Revenger Mix) (6:41)
C1. Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (Way Out West Remix) (7:32)
C2. Howard Jones - New Song (Peter Black & Hardrock Striker Mix) (7:42)
D1. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Elite Force Mix) (7:39)
D2. Yazoo - Situation (Future Funk Squad Remix) (6:38)
D3. Alphaville - Forever Young (Hamel Club Mix) (7:41)
Tiga's remix of "Shake The Disease" will be exclusive to this release. To hear a 30 second sample of the remix, go to http://depechemode.com/news/mp3/shake_tiga_01.mp3.
CD:
1. The Cure - The Walk (Infusion Mix) (5:36)
2. Yaz - Situation (Richard X Remix) (5:50)
3. Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (Way Out West Remix Edit) (4:52)
4. INXS - Need You Tonight (Static Revenger Mix Edit) (4:19)
5. Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease (Tiga Remix) (6:47)
6. Erasure - A Little Respect (Electrospect Mix) (6:35)
7. Howard Jones - New Song (Peter Black & Hardrock Striker Mix Edit) (3:29)
8. Alphaville - Forever Young (Hamel Album Mix) (5:04)
9. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (The Crystal Method Extended Mix) (6:04)
10. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Elite Force Mix) (7:39)
11. Devo - Girl U Want (Black Light Odyssey Mix)(3:42)
12. B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Adam Freeland Mix) (7:31)
13. Book Of Love - Boy (DJ Irene Rockstar Mix) (4:28)
14. Morrissey - Suedehead (Sparks Remix) (6:36)
Doouble LP:
A1. The Cure - The Walk (Infusion 12" Remix) (8:59)
A2. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X 12" Mix) (7:04)
B1. Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease (Tiga Remix)(6:47)
B2. B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Adam Freeland Mix) (7:31)
B3. INXS - Need You Tonight (Static Revenger Mix) (6:41)
C1. Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (Way Out West Remix) (7:32)
C2. Howard Jones - New Song (Peter Black & Hardrock Striker Mix) (7:42)
D1. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Elite Force Mix) (7:39)
D2. Yazoo - Situation (Future Funk Squad Remix) (6:38)
D3. Alphaville - Forever Young (Hamel Club Mix) (7:41)
Tiga's remix of "Shake The Disease" will be exclusive to this release. To hear a 30 second sample of the remix, go to http://depechemode.com/news/mp3/shake_tiga_01.mp3.
Back from the holiday...
I was unable to get this posted pre-Christmas, but here is the DM Christmas card they released on Friday.
PS: For those of you who subscribe to the RSS feed...it will be down until after the holidays.
12.23.2005
DM in Ireland
www.ticketmaster.ie
Depeche Mode will be playing Dublin's Point Theatre on June 26, 2006. From the records I've found, they have not played Ireland since December 13, 1993.
Depeche Mode will be playing Dublin's Point Theatre on June 26, 2006. From the records I've found, they have not played Ireland since December 13, 1993.
DC Metro Blog
The DC Metro Blog [http://dc.metblogs.com] listed the Depeche Mode show [at the Patriot Center] as one of the top ten live shows of the year (next to other greats such as Gang of Four and Kraftwerk). To see the full article, visit the direct link at http://dc.metblogs.com/archives/2005/12/_the_10_best_co.phtml.
3. Depeche Mode @ the Patriot Center: Closing out the American leg of their world tour, Depeche Mode treated the DC area to a longer set-list than anywhere else in the country. Their dazzling stage presence hit on the majority of their singles from "Music for the Masses" to "Songs of Faith and Devotion" and also featured all the good tunes off of their new album "Playing the Angel." From what I've read about other dates on the tour, Dave Gahan has been somewhat subdued on stage, but not at this show. Gahan was in full rock-god glory all night as much as little guy Martin Gore was playing the reluctant shy "sensitive" one. The addition of a live drummer really kicked up the old numbers and Andrew Fletcher's keyboards never sounded better than on the new tracks.The crowd loved every minute of the show, and there really is nothing better than seeing Depeche Mode with a good crowd, especially during the encores when Gahan interacts with them like the master performer that he is.
3. Depeche Mode @ the Patriot Center: Closing out the American leg of their world tour, Depeche Mode treated the DC area to a longer set-list than anywhere else in the country. Their dazzling stage presence hit on the majority of their singles from "Music for the Masses" to "Songs of Faith and Devotion" and also featured all the good tunes off of their new album "Playing the Angel." From what I've read about other dates on the tour, Dave Gahan has been somewhat subdued on stage, but not at this show. Gahan was in full rock-god glory all night as much as little guy Martin Gore was playing the reluctant shy "sensitive" one. The addition of a live drummer really kicked up the old numbers and Andrew Fletcher's keyboards never sounded better than on the new tracks.The crowd loved every minute of the show, and there really is nothing better than seeing Depeche Mode with a good crowd, especially during the encores when Gahan interacts with them like the master performer that he is.
12.21.2005
Coachella
Depeche Mode's up-coming summer leg of "Touring The Angel" is finally taking shape. With more European dates being added all the time, the first US date is now confirmed. It is the much talked about Coachella Festival that's been added to Depeche Mode itinerary, sources tell us.The Coachella Festival is taking place April 29th - 30th, and Depeche Mode will be headlining the Saturday (April 29th) show. Other bands rumoured to appear on the bill include The Strokes, Roxy Music, Franz Ferdinand, Ladytron, The White Stripes, Sigur Ros, and Massive Attack, but as of yet we have no independent confirmation on any of these.
Videos + Remastered Albums
The video for the third "Playing The Angel" single, "Suffer Well", was short earlier this week in California, and marks the return of Anton Corbijn as the director for a Depeche Mode video.The track was written by Dave Gahan, and is the first Depeche Mode single since 1981 to be penned by someone other than Martin Gore. The single will, according to raveline.de, feature remixes by Alter Ego/Roman Flugel."Suffer Well" should be released in February 2006. Also in February, EMI will be re-releasing older albums as special collector's editions. What these "collector's edition" will include is yet to be announced, but the discs will be remastered.
From MTVNews
Depeche Mode just finished shooting a video for their forthcoming single, "Suffer Well", in California, with famed photographer Anton Corbijn, who has helmed nearly 20 videos for Depeche Mode over the years, revealed Dave Gahan in an interview for MTV at this past weekend's KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas show. "It's exciting to work with him again and he's really up for it," Gahan said. "Actually, this is gonna be the last video he's gonna make for a while, I believe, because he's going off to make a movie."That movie is a film about Ian Curtis, the late singer of Joy Division, and will be Corbijn's first attempt at a full length feature film.Depeche Mode have already released "A Pain That I'm Used To", the second single offering from "Playing The Angel, in Europe but have yet to decide the next Stateside release.
12.20.2005
12.19.2005
From the Washington Post, Pre-DM show @ the Patriot Center
Dave Gahan: In Full Work Mode
By Richard Harrington
On this very morning a week ago, Dave Gahan slept in."Which is unusual for me," the Brit-born, now New York-based singer for Depeche Mode reported from Toronto. "But we just did three shows running consecutively -- Chicago, Detroit and, last night, Toronto -- and I certainly feel that nowadays!" Gahan's not complaining, mind you. At 43, he is simply no longer living up to stereotypes about how rock musicians should act on the road. Of course, how Depeche Mode, and Gahan in particular, used to act on the road is the stuff of legend. A couple of years ago, Britain's Q Magazine named the band's 1993 Devotional tour "The Most Debauched Rock and Roll Tour Ever." That was the same year the heroin-addicted Gahan suffered a heart attack onstage in New Orleans. Two years later, he survived a suicide attempt (he slashed his wrists while talking to his mother on the phone from Los Angeles). In 1996, Gahan's heart stopped beating after a heroin and cocaine binge at Hollywood's Sunset Marquis: It was several minutes before he was revived by paramedics. That's when Gahan pursued rehab and therapy. Then, two years ago, Gahan found a voice. True, he had been Depeche Mode's singer and frontman for 25 years, but the words tumbling out of his mouth were written by Martin Gore, who took over sole songwriting duties in 1981 when co-founder Vince Clarke left to form Yazoo and, later, Erasure. Gore and Clarke had co-written the group's bubbly first hit, "Just Can't Get Enough," but alone, Gore's vision was decidedly darker, tapping into the existential ache of youth. As Depeche Mode became the sultans of synth-pop, Gahan grew increasingly frustrated over his limited role. In fact, he almost quit 2001's "Exciter" album. What saved him, and likely Depeche Mode, was "Paper Monsters," the singer's 2003 solo album, the first featuring songs he had written reflecting his experiences and feelings, including "Dirty Sticky Floors," a rough-edged meditation on the push and pull of drug addiction. "Sometimes just taking that action is all that's needed," Gahan says of his late-blooming creative partnership with Knox Chandler, who played with the Psychedelic Furs. "I was just excited to have found somebody that I was compatible with, not that I had been really searching for that before." Gahan does note that for years he has been "fortunate enough to be singing wonderful songs that Martin had written, and a lot of those songs had struck something inside me.""I've always said, and I've always felt, that there's a connection between Martin and I that's beyond anything that we think about ourselves individually. There's something that he does that I'm connected to, and there's something that I do that he needs me to do to make his ideas work. I don't know what that is, but we have something together. But I guess that wasn't working for me so much anymore." That "Paper Monsters" was well received critically and commercially gave Gahan some courage, and bargaining power, when he met with Gore and keyboardist Andy Fletcher to start work on the next Depeche Mode album, "Playing the Angel." Working together, Gahan says with a slight chuckle, meant "Martin embracing the idea of me submitting some songs, though maybe less than I wanted." What he wanted was to write half the album; he ended up contributing three tracks out of 12. Even that, Gahan concedes, allowed for a sense of liberation."That's kind of how it feels to me," he says. "Somebody said to me the other day, 'I notice you don't come hang out afterwards and go to the after-show parties.' The other guys still like to do that; it just doesn't work for me. It's really become about the work. I know that sounds weird after all these years, and on some level, of course, it's always been about the work, but I'm really in touch with that being the more important part of it now. "And I really am enjoying the performance, in fact we all are as a band. We talk about it every night after the show. And it probably began with me making my own record and putting myself in that position of exposing myself, coming out from behind the curtain a little bit more instead of hiding behind the facade that Martin's created and written about and being quite comfortable with that. " This latest Gahan is much improved even over the Gahan who in the mid-'90s overcame addiction so out of control he was dubbed "The Cat," with friends and foes alike counting off his proverbial nine lives after each close call. The results: "Playing the Angel" is the best Depeche Mode album since 1993's "Songs of Faith and Devotion," testament to a band once again working on all cylinders and with a common purpose. Their tour, whose first leg ends with a show Friday at George Mason University's Patriot Center, has just been extended to include Mexico, Europe and a second stateside swing in the spring, with a headlining slot at California's massive Coachella festival. "Right now on stage it really feels like we're celebrating together and -- I know it sounds weird -- like we're sharing the same space for the first time and really enjoying that and embracing the idea rather than it being this almost competitive game, which I really wasn't that much aware of until now," Gahan says. "It's weird how that kind of stuff works, but [change] does happen in the time it's supposed to," he adds. "I certainly would not have been ready [until now]. A lot of that is the fact that I had a wake-up call 10 years ago, and it's enabled me to not be afraid of growing. Facing up to real responsibilities in my life -- and I'm not talking about the band, I'm talking about my life, my family, my beautiful wife, my children, my family of origin as well -- showing up and not being that strange outsider kid that I always was. "It was one of those things that I carried through my teens -- being the odd kid, the kid who didn't fit in anywhere. Along the way I've met a lot more of those odd kids, so I don't feel so alone with that anymore. I actually feel very comfortable in my own skin, though it's taken me 40-something odd years." Taking their band's name from a French fashion magazine, Gahan, Gore, Fletcher and Clarke started out as punk-loving schoolmates in Basildon, Essex, before helping fuel the post new-wave synthesizer revolution of England's New Romantic movement, albeit playing in the darker division. They broke wide in 1984 with their "Some Great Reward" album and hit singles "People Are People" and "Master and Servant," got large with 1987's "Music for the Masses" ("Never Let Me Down Again," "Strangelove") and went worldwide massive with 1990's "Violator" ("Personal Jesus," "Enjoy the Silence") and 1993's "Songs of Faith and Devotion." Adding more guitar and a brooding, harder-edge sound, Depeche Mode managed to appeal to dance, pop and rock fans alike, enough to fill stadiums. But the bigger the band became, the darker things were for Gahan, who says he found himself "hiding behind this sort of facade and being comfortable there, then having to find something else to hide behind, and gradually those things not working anymore, and at the end of the day being left with yourself and there you are, looking in the mirror saying, 'Who am I, and what is it I really want?' " "The struggle for me was really not knowing what that was. As always, it's the simple things that somehow become more important in life as you get a little bit older. I know it sounds hokey, but hearing my mother say those things and hearing her voice go in my head, 'You'll find out when you get older' makes a lot more sense today than it did when I was 25 years old. It's always mother, isn't it?" Gahan also credits a strong marriage to wife Jennifer, who knows the problems of a recovering addict from being one herself, his 6-year-old daughter and his two teenage sons from a previous marriage. According to Gahan, "The 18-year-old is in London studying guitar and wanting to be a rock star, God forbid, and my 13-year-old is going through the usual 13-year-old struggles." Somehow, that's reassuring.As for "Playing the Angel," it's not just rapprochement between Gahan and Gore that has made the new album a success. Gahan credits producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves) with melding two dramatically different sounds: the '80s "electronic" Depeche Mode and its "rocky electronic" counterpart from the '90s. "It's very difficult to sort of take the darkness out of Depeche Mode, but it's really nice when somebody brings some light in there so we can see a little," Gahan notes."Ben definitely did that, and I would say this is the most fun record that we've ever made since 'Violator.' It felt like we were doing something that was pushing the boundaries of Depeche Mode, that once again we were actually challenging ourselves and rising to the occasion and most importantly, listening to somebody that we respected." Better yet, Gahan adds, "today I feel the most content I've ever felt. I go on stage, I perform and I really, really enjoy that -- it's where I give it my all. And then I come offstage and I just want to sit in front of the TV and watch 'The Simpsons' and eat a pizza, and I'm very happy to do that. I get online, stick my eye-cam on the computer and talk to my kids. I'm very content in that way, but I'm also really, really enjoying the work. That's what's very different from now and what it was like then. Then it was 100 percent always about the band. Anything that got in the way of that it was just eased out -- friends, family, wives, whatever -- relationships were all eased out the way, they could never compete. "It's an insane way to live."Depeche Mode Friday at the Patriot Center with the Bravery Sound: Rock-tinged electro pop New recording: "Playing the Angel" Background: Darker side of England's synth-pop New Romantic movement Influenced: Techno, industrial rock, acid house
By Richard Harrington
On this very morning a week ago, Dave Gahan slept in."Which is unusual for me," the Brit-born, now New York-based singer for Depeche Mode reported from Toronto. "But we just did three shows running consecutively -- Chicago, Detroit and, last night, Toronto -- and I certainly feel that nowadays!" Gahan's not complaining, mind you. At 43, he is simply no longer living up to stereotypes about how rock musicians should act on the road. Of course, how Depeche Mode, and Gahan in particular, used to act on the road is the stuff of legend. A couple of years ago, Britain's Q Magazine named the band's 1993 Devotional tour "The Most Debauched Rock and Roll Tour Ever." That was the same year the heroin-addicted Gahan suffered a heart attack onstage in New Orleans. Two years later, he survived a suicide attempt (he slashed his wrists while talking to his mother on the phone from Los Angeles). In 1996, Gahan's heart stopped beating after a heroin and cocaine binge at Hollywood's Sunset Marquis: It was several minutes before he was revived by paramedics. That's when Gahan pursued rehab and therapy. Then, two years ago, Gahan found a voice. True, he had been Depeche Mode's singer and frontman for 25 years, but the words tumbling out of his mouth were written by Martin Gore, who took over sole songwriting duties in 1981 when co-founder Vince Clarke left to form Yazoo and, later, Erasure. Gore and Clarke had co-written the group's bubbly first hit, "Just Can't Get Enough," but alone, Gore's vision was decidedly darker, tapping into the existential ache of youth. As Depeche Mode became the sultans of synth-pop, Gahan grew increasingly frustrated over his limited role. In fact, he almost quit 2001's "Exciter" album. What saved him, and likely Depeche Mode, was "Paper Monsters," the singer's 2003 solo album, the first featuring songs he had written reflecting his experiences and feelings, including "Dirty Sticky Floors," a rough-edged meditation on the push and pull of drug addiction. "Sometimes just taking that action is all that's needed," Gahan says of his late-blooming creative partnership with Knox Chandler, who played with the Psychedelic Furs. "I was just excited to have found somebody that I was compatible with, not that I had been really searching for that before." Gahan does note that for years he has been "fortunate enough to be singing wonderful songs that Martin had written, and a lot of those songs had struck something inside me.""I've always said, and I've always felt, that there's a connection between Martin and I that's beyond anything that we think about ourselves individually. There's something that he does that I'm connected to, and there's something that I do that he needs me to do to make his ideas work. I don't know what that is, but we have something together. But I guess that wasn't working for me so much anymore." That "Paper Monsters" was well received critically and commercially gave Gahan some courage, and bargaining power, when he met with Gore and keyboardist Andy Fletcher to start work on the next Depeche Mode album, "Playing the Angel." Working together, Gahan says with a slight chuckle, meant "Martin embracing the idea of me submitting some songs, though maybe less than I wanted." What he wanted was to write half the album; he ended up contributing three tracks out of 12. Even that, Gahan concedes, allowed for a sense of liberation."That's kind of how it feels to me," he says. "Somebody said to me the other day, 'I notice you don't come hang out afterwards and go to the after-show parties.' The other guys still like to do that; it just doesn't work for me. It's really become about the work. I know that sounds weird after all these years, and on some level, of course, it's always been about the work, but I'm really in touch with that being the more important part of it now. "And I really am enjoying the performance, in fact we all are as a band. We talk about it every night after the show. And it probably began with me making my own record and putting myself in that position of exposing myself, coming out from behind the curtain a little bit more instead of hiding behind the facade that Martin's created and written about and being quite comfortable with that. " This latest Gahan is much improved even over the Gahan who in the mid-'90s overcame addiction so out of control he was dubbed "The Cat," with friends and foes alike counting off his proverbial nine lives after each close call. The results: "Playing the Angel" is the best Depeche Mode album since 1993's "Songs of Faith and Devotion," testament to a band once again working on all cylinders and with a common purpose. Their tour, whose first leg ends with a show Friday at George Mason University's Patriot Center, has just been extended to include Mexico, Europe and a second stateside swing in the spring, with a headlining slot at California's massive Coachella festival. "Right now on stage it really feels like we're celebrating together and -- I know it sounds weird -- like we're sharing the same space for the first time and really enjoying that and embracing the idea rather than it being this almost competitive game, which I really wasn't that much aware of until now," Gahan says. "It's weird how that kind of stuff works, but [change] does happen in the time it's supposed to," he adds. "I certainly would not have been ready [until now]. A lot of that is the fact that I had a wake-up call 10 years ago, and it's enabled me to not be afraid of growing. Facing up to real responsibilities in my life -- and I'm not talking about the band, I'm talking about my life, my family, my beautiful wife, my children, my family of origin as well -- showing up and not being that strange outsider kid that I always was. "It was one of those things that I carried through my teens -- being the odd kid, the kid who didn't fit in anywhere. Along the way I've met a lot more of those odd kids, so I don't feel so alone with that anymore. I actually feel very comfortable in my own skin, though it's taken me 40-something odd years." Taking their band's name from a French fashion magazine, Gahan, Gore, Fletcher and Clarke started out as punk-loving schoolmates in Basildon, Essex, before helping fuel the post new-wave synthesizer revolution of England's New Romantic movement, albeit playing in the darker division. They broke wide in 1984 with their "Some Great Reward" album and hit singles "People Are People" and "Master and Servant," got large with 1987's "Music for the Masses" ("Never Let Me Down Again," "Strangelove") and went worldwide massive with 1990's "Violator" ("Personal Jesus," "Enjoy the Silence") and 1993's "Songs of Faith and Devotion." Adding more guitar and a brooding, harder-edge sound, Depeche Mode managed to appeal to dance, pop and rock fans alike, enough to fill stadiums. But the bigger the band became, the darker things were for Gahan, who says he found himself "hiding behind this sort of facade and being comfortable there, then having to find something else to hide behind, and gradually those things not working anymore, and at the end of the day being left with yourself and there you are, looking in the mirror saying, 'Who am I, and what is it I really want?' " "The struggle for me was really not knowing what that was. As always, it's the simple things that somehow become more important in life as you get a little bit older. I know it sounds hokey, but hearing my mother say those things and hearing her voice go in my head, 'You'll find out when you get older' makes a lot more sense today than it did when I was 25 years old. It's always mother, isn't it?" Gahan also credits a strong marriage to wife Jennifer, who knows the problems of a recovering addict from being one herself, his 6-year-old daughter and his two teenage sons from a previous marriage. According to Gahan, "The 18-year-old is in London studying guitar and wanting to be a rock star, God forbid, and my 13-year-old is going through the usual 13-year-old struggles." Somehow, that's reassuring.As for "Playing the Angel," it's not just rapprochement between Gahan and Gore that has made the new album a success. Gahan credits producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves) with melding two dramatically different sounds: the '80s "electronic" Depeche Mode and its "rocky electronic" counterpart from the '90s. "It's very difficult to sort of take the darkness out of Depeche Mode, but it's really nice when somebody brings some light in there so we can see a little," Gahan notes."Ben definitely did that, and I would say this is the most fun record that we've ever made since 'Violator.' It felt like we were doing something that was pushing the boundaries of Depeche Mode, that once again we were actually challenging ourselves and rising to the occasion and most importantly, listening to somebody that we respected." Better yet, Gahan adds, "today I feel the most content I've ever felt. I go on stage, I perform and I really, really enjoy that -- it's where I give it my all. And then I come offstage and I just want to sit in front of the TV and watch 'The Simpsons' and eat a pizza, and I'm very happy to do that. I get online, stick my eye-cam on the computer and talk to my kids. I'm very content in that way, but I'm also really, really enjoying the work. That's what's very different from now and what it was like then. Then it was 100 percent always about the band. Anything that got in the way of that it was just eased out -- friends, family, wives, whatever -- relationships were all eased out the way, they could never compete. "It's an insane way to live."Depeche Mode Friday at the Patriot Center with the Bravery Sound: Rock-tinged electro pop New recording: "Playing the Angel" Background: Darker side of England's synth-pop New Romantic movement Influenced: Techno, industrial rock, acid house
Videos
Through a livejournal user, I stumbled across some [live] videos I hadn't seen yet. It's through the site You Tube [http://www.youtube.com]. A sidebar comes up when you view the videos that links to countless other DM videos and footage.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=kTcT3Y9PBew&search=depeche%20mode]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=48R5C8OBngY&search=depeche%20mode]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=5fMbg5c5XbU&search=depeche%20mode]
A Pain that I'm Use To
From the Mute Records Website - UK
[http://www.mute.com/releases/viewRelease.jsp?id=3151113]
*Note: Today's release - 12" (limited edition)L12BONG36
Buy both 12" formats from Mute Bank and receive a free poster (while stocks last)
'A Pain That I’m Used To' features exclusive remixes by Goldfrapp and Stuart Price. The track is taken from their critically acclaimed album 'Playing the Angel' and follows the smash hit single ‘Precious’, which entered the UK chart at Number 4.
Written by Martin Gore, ‘A Pain That I’m Used To’ is produced by Ben Hillier (whose previous credits include Doves and Blur) and is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the album with a glorious electro-flash fanfare intro, analogue synth sounds and a hypnotic, pulsating chorus.
The new single is available on several formats – including a 2-track CD, Maxi CD and DVD Single - with exclusive remixes and bonus material. The Maxi single contains five stunning remixes (including one by Goldfrapp and another from Jacques Le Cont A.K.A Stuart Price), the 2-track CD includes the B-side ‘Newborn’ and the DVD release boasts the excellent ‘A Pain That I’m Used To’ video.
‘A Pain That I’m Used To’ will also be available on 3 vinyl formats. Released on 19th December, the 7” version features the exclusive Goldfrapp remix, while two 12” editions contain Jacques Le Cont and Bitstream mixes respectively.
Their album ‘Playing The Angel’ has been an international success, debuting at Number 1 in sixteen countries and Number 6 in the UK.
12.16.2005
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
For those of you who missed the live feed from the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas (like myself), here it is!
They also added a bit from the San Jose show.
http://www.depeche-mode.moonfruit.com/.
They also added a bit from the San Jose show.
http://www.depeche-mode.moonfruit.com/.
Welcome!
I maintain dmfans [http://www.livejournal.com/community/dmfans] on Livejournal. I decided that since there are several active Livejournal Depeche Mode groups, I would incorporate the information posted in those groups (and more) in a single blog. I hope this proves to be a useful place to share band info, discuss tour dates and anything else!
Enjoy & feel free to contact me with any questions or comments!
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