Rm (43243-2 cd)', and of course on the original U.K. Limited Edition rm (9 47110-2 Cd 1)' and on 'The Best Of Depeche Mode Volume 1 (cd) - U.S. It can be found on 'Depeche Mode: The Singles 86>98 - U.S. Thus, the actual 7' version is pretty rare on cd. It starts right away, and continues throughout the track.
He steered us in a direction that we were trying to find but didn’t even know ourselves. We worked with Flood who helped us a lot. It might sound like a complicated process, but the band had every intention of making it as simple as possible – at least at the outset.“We wanted to take a different direction with this album, for the songs to come across in a more direct way and not to be so fussy,” Gahan said in an interview shortly after the recording at Puk Studios in Denmark, where they completed Violator before it was mixed in London.“We didn’t want to be so critical about things and wanted to get more of an energy on to tape when we were recording, rather than play around with sounds for so long that by the time it came to recording, you’d have forgotten about the original direction of the song.” – Dave Gahan“So we wanted to work a lot faster but, in fact, we’ve probably taken more time, as you end up experimenting more until you find the right direction for the song! “But the songs sound a lot harder, not just in a rocky way, but they are a lot more edgy in terms of sound and feeling.”A point he reiterated to MTV in 1990: “We didn’t want it to be so cluttered, we wanted it to be more direct. So with six varied albums already released in the 80s as the band marched to perfect their sound, with a bigger following than any other in the world right then – what were Depeche to do as the 80s closed? Only go and record their best album to date…Violator was recorded in Milan and Denmark and mixed in London by François Kevorkian, who had worked previously on Kraftwerk’s 1986 album Electric Café. By: Peter Macia May 3 2006This last album did what it said on the tin, introducing the band’s sound to America – which led to a US tour documented in the excellent 101 documentary, and closing with an epic concert at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena in front of 70,000 people. Previous albums had seen the Depeche output mature from its pop sound (on 1981 debut album Speak & Spell and largely on its follow-up A Broken Frame), through the industrial sample-laden Construction Time Again to the darker, more thoughtful trio of Some Great Reward, Black Celebration and Music For The Masses.Depeche Mode and Tool may have headlined the 2006 Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival, but artists like Daft Punk, Jamie Lidell, and Gnarls Barkley stole the show.
Not only that, but all the band contributed vocals to it – a rare occurrence but perhaps one that signified the unity and friendship that ran through the Depeche Mode camp at the time.Interestingly, Sweetest Perfection could well have been a Gahan-led song, according to the lead singer. It originated from a Gore demo, as most Mode songs do, of course, but its evolution in the studio was a dramatic one. Yet there was another factor that led to the success of the recording, that is perhaps less well-known.Described as one of Depeche Mode’s sexiest songs, World In My Eyes much sums up the mood of the band at the point of recording Violator – all were involved and in perfect unity. The two worked tirelessly during the album’s recordings to provide the atmospheric frameworks within which Martin Gore’s songs for Violator sat.
When you are in America, there are all these TV channels where you switch on and there is someone trying to sell you some sort of religion and you usually have to pay like $20 or something and then they send you your own personal rainbow or whatever you want to call it. It builds to an almost psychedelic conclusion, complete with filtered beats and layers of atmosphere – “the kind of thing you resort to when you haven’t really got an ending,” Wilder recalls – and while not the strongest, is perhaps the most timeless track.“Obviously, it has religious overtones,” Gahan said in 1990, “but the idea for the song actually came from when we were touring America. Sweetest Perfection is not the best track on the album – but in context, is still great. In this case, Sweetest Perfection was originally more suited to Gahan, but Gore sang it – the opposite happened on the later track Waiting For The Night. “Sweetest Perfection is a song that maybe I would have sung.” This swapping of traditional roles on Violator was intentional – partly because Flood bought a ‘no rule book’ approach to the recording of the album.
Yet of the two, Halo has actually worn far better over the following 28 years. The song was also famously covered by Marilyn Manson and Johnny Cash (separately, not together) and not so famously by Tori Amos and many others.Halo is one of the unsung heroes of Violator, perhaps because it sits in the shadow of …Jesus (the song that is). It also notably had a guitar riff, one of the first Mode tracks to feature one so prominently. Either way, the song caused enough controversy to help make it become one of Depeche Mode’s biggest hits around the world (No.13 in the UK, No.28 in the States). It’s also when you are at your most vulnerable that you turn to religion, so these sorts of people who take money from those who ring up who just need someone to talk to, it just seems all twisted and wrong – that’s why Martin wanted to write the song, because he felt this was making a mockery of the Christian movement.” Martin was also apparently inspired by how Priscilla Presley had described her relationship with Elvis. To be a Christian or whatever is supposed to be private and you find something that is important to you.
ENJOY THE SILENCE/ INTERLUDE #2 (CRUCIFIED)“It’s just about a feeling of not wanting anything else, feeling totally satisfied, when even words are an intrusion,” Martin told MTV in 1990 when asked about Enjoy The Silence. This gives a sense of fluidity and continual change, which seems to suit the song.”6. The charm of the ARP sequencer stems from the slight tuning and timing variations that occur each time the part is played. “The main sequence was put together using his ARP and the sequencer that accompanies the synth. “Flood and I had been listening to Tangerine Dream and decided to try and create a similar atmosphere for this track,” Alan Wilder says on shunt3.0.recoil.co.uk.
It’s one that marries guitar riffs and electronics perfectly and builds through layers of strings and class, all the time underpinned and undermined by a cat- like sleazy synth and some rather terrifying, perverted cackling at its close before it drifts into another interlude on the album.By God, Clean is good – the fact that it closes the album shows the strength and depth of Violator. The only thing that lets it down is the rather screeching sound that follows the, ‘the time before’ lyric at around two minutes.Blue Dress is Gore at his stalking best, a song about him simply watching someone get dressed, but don’t get too caught up in thoughts of Martin doing this – you might miss the fact that Blue Dress is an exceptional track. Again, it’s classic Mode with singalong verses and a chorus to get any 70,000 stadium going. “Something about the line ‘all I ever wanted’ sounded very Pet Shop Boys to me.”The third, and some would say best, single from Violator landed Depeche Mode another Top 20 hit in both the States and the UK. “Strangely, the thing that immediately came to mind was that I could hear Neil Tennant singing it in my head,” Wilder says of his first listen of the original demo. The final version of Enjoy The Silence was very different to the original demo, something that appears to have happened a lot with many of the songs on Violator but in this case it was the most dramatic change of all.
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