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Depeche Mode Tributes

dmmod — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:46:22 CST

Many popular musicians have created their own Depeche Mode tribute songs. There are even a few from some bigtime fans. Check out these great tributes below and add your own!

John the Revelator by 'Sneakers' an Italian



Memento ft. Ken Spector - Enjoy The Silence - Big and Dirty Records An official Depeche Mode cover released on February 21, 2011 Memento Ft. Ken Spector - Enjoy The Silence - Big and Dirty Records	Black Market -- a 1988 DM tribute band -- plays 'Route 66'

Depeche Mode Posters

The_Revelator — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:28:06 CST

Below you'll find a wide ranging assortment of Depeche Mode Posters. Have one you don't see here - don't be shy and add it to the page!

Likely from 101 album promotion	Portugese Tour Poster

'Touring The Angel' Tour Poster	'Touring The Angel' Tour Poster
'Exciter Tour' Poster	'Devotional Tour' Poster
1980 Tour Poster	'Some Great Reward' era
'The Singles Tour' Poster	'Construction Time Again Tour' Poster
'Black Celebration Tour' Poster	'World Violation Tour' Poster
'Concert For The Masses Tour' Poster	Stripped promo poster 1985
A Question Of Lust Promo Poster 1986

Precious

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:09:49 CDT

Quick Stats

Album: Playing the Angel
Track Number: 5
Single: Yes

Written By: Martin L. Gore
Lead Singer: Dave Gahan

Audio Sample

Lyrics

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to you
We always tried to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put you through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you
If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

I pray you learn to trust
Have faith in both of us
And keep room in your hearts for two

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Suffer Well

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:09:34 CDT

Quick Stats

Album: Playing the Angel
Track Number: 3
Single: Yes

Written By: Dave Gahan, Christian Eigner, Andrew Phillpott
Lead Singer: Dave Gahan

Audio Sample

Lyrics

Where were you when I fell from grace
A frozen heart an empty space

Something's changed and it's in your eyes
Please don't speak you'll only lie

I found treasure not where I thought
Peace of mind can't be bought
Still I believe

I just hang on
Suffer well
Sometimes it's hard
It's hard to tell

An angel led me when I was blind
I said take me back I've changed my mind
Now I believe

From the blackest room I was torn
You called my name my love was born
So I believe

I just hang on
Suffer well
Sometimes it's hard
It's hard to tell

John the Revelator

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:09:24 CDT

Quick Stats

Album: Playing the Angel
Track Number: 2
Single: Yes

Written By: Martin L. Gore
Lead Singer: Dave Gahan

Audio Sample

Lyrics

John the Revelator
Put him in an elevator
Take him up to the highest high
Take him up to the top
Where the mountains stop
Let him tell his book of lies

John the Revelator
He's a smooth operator
It's time we cut him down to size
Take him by the hand
And put him on the stand
Let us hear his alibis

By claiming God
As his holy right
He's stealing a God
From the Israelites
Stealing a God
From the Muslim too
There is only one God
Through and through

Seven lies multiplied by seven
Multiplied by seven again
Seven angels with seven trumpets
Send them home on the morning train

Well who's that shouting
John the Revelator
All he ever gives us is pain
Well who's that shouting
John the Revelator
He should bow his head in shame

By and By

Policy of Truth

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:08:36 CDT

Album: Violator

Lyrics:

You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldnt you
Now youre not satisfied
With what youre being put through

Its just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth

Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if youd only lied

Its too late to change events
Its time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

Now youre standing there tongue tied
Youd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell

Youll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

Personal Jesus

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:07:05 CDT

Album: Violator

Lyrics:

Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone whos there

Feeling unknown
And youre all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
Ill make you a believer

Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal jesus...

Feeling unknown
And youre all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
Ill make you a believer

I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal jesus

Reach out and touch faith

People are People

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:05:57 CDT

Album: Some Great Reward

Lyrics:

People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

So were different colours
And were different creeds
And different people
Have different needs
Its obvious you hate me
Though Ive done nothing wrong
Ive never even met you
So what could I have done
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
Help me understand
Help me understand

Now you're punching
And you're kicking
And you're shouting at me
And I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fist (head to your fists)
I cant understand what makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
I cant understand (people are people)
What makes a man (why should it be)
Hate another man
Help me understand...

Dreaming of Me

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:04:44 CDT

Album: Speak & Spell

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Vince Clarke

Interesting notes: None

Lyrics:
Light switch, man switch
Film was broken only then
All the night, viewed tomorrow
Dancing with a distant friend

Filming and screening, I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me

So we left, understanding
Clean cut, some were sounding fast
Talked of sad, I talked of war
I laughed and climbed the rising cast

Filming and screening, I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me

Quickly, I remember
Viewed that sort of face before
Timing reason, understanding
Like Association Hall

Filming and screening, I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me

Dreaming of me (Ooh, la la la ...)
Just dreaming of me
It's only me
Just me

Black Celebration (song)

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:03:41 CDT

Album: Black Celebration

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Martin Gore

Interesting notes:

Lyrics:

Lets have a black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight

To celebrate the fact
That weve seen the back
Of another black day

I look to you
How you carry on
When all hope is gone
Cant you see

Your optimistic eyes
Seem like paradise
To someone like
Me

I want to take you
In my arms
Forgetting all I couldnt do today

Black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight

To celebrate the fact
That weve seen the back
Of another black day

I look to you
And your strong belief
Me, I want relief
Tonight

Consolation
I want so much
Want to feel your touch
Tonight

Take me in your arms
Forgetting all you couldnt do today

Black celebration
Ill drink to that
Black celebration
Tonight

But Not Tonight

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:02:27 CDT

From the album: Black Celebration

Oh god, its raining
But Im not complaining
Its filling me up
With new life

The stars in the sky
Bring tears to my eyes
Theyre lighting my way
Tonight

And I havent felt so alive
In years

Just for a day
On a day like today
Ill get away from this
Constant debauchery

The wind in my hair
Makes me so aware
How good it is to live
Tonight

And I havent felt so alive
In years

The moon
Is shining in the sky
Reminding me
Of so many other nights
But theyre not like tonight

Oh god, its raining
And Im not containing
My pleasure at being
So wet

Here on my own
All on my own
How good it feels to be alone
Tonight

And I havent felt so alive
In years

The moon
Is shining in the sky
Reminding me
Of so many other nights
When my eyes have been so red
Ive been mistaken for dead
But not tonight

Music for the Masses

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:58:57 CDT

Music for the Masses is the sixth album by the band. Released by Mute Records on September 28, 1987, it provided the band with mainstream success in the US for the first time since Some Great Reward.

Critical acclaim: The album became the band's highest-charting in the US upon its release, reaching #35 on the Billboard 200. It also contained more hit singles than any of their previous releases. While there was no hugely popular single from the album, the three singles that were released all made it onto the Hot 100.

Key single(s):

Strangelove (13 April 1987)
Never Let Me Down Again (24 August 1987)
Behind the Wheel (28 December 1987)
Little 15 (16 May 1988)
Strangelove 88 (32 August 1988)

Track list:

"Never Let Me Down Again" – 4:47
"The Things You Said" – 4:02
"Strangelove" – 4:56
"Sacred" – 4:47
"Little 15" – 4:18
"Behind the Wheel" – 5:18
"I Want You Now" – 3:44
"To Have and to Hold" – 2:51
"Nothing" – 4:18
"Pimpf" – 5:25

Bonus Tracks on CD Release:

"Agent Orange" – 5:05
"Never Let Me Down Again [Aggro Mix]" – 4:55
"To Have and to Hold [Spanish Taster]" – 2:34
"Pleasure, Little Treasure [Glitter Mix]" – 5:36

2006 Re-release

Disc 1 is a hybrid SACD/CD with a multi-channel SACD layer.
Disc 2 is a DVD which includes "Music for the masses" in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo plus bonus material

"Never Let Me Down Again" – 4:47
"The Things You Said" – 3:55
"Strangelove" – 4:38
"Sacred" – 5:01
"Little 15" – 4:14
"Behind the Wheel" – 5:17
"I Want You Now" – 3:28
"To Have and to Hold" – 3:08
"Nothing" – 4:12
"Pimpf" – 4:55

Bonus Tracks (in PCM Stereo):

"Agent Orange" – 5:05
"Pleasure, Little Treasure" – 2:53
"Route 66" – 4:11
"Stjarna" – 4:25
"Sonata No.14 in C#m (Moonlight Sonata)" – 5:36

Bonus 5.1 Mixes (DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo):

"Agent Orange" – 5:31
"Never Let Me Down Again (Aggro Mix)" – 4:58
"To Have And to Hold (Spanish Taster)" – 2:36
"Pleasure, Little Treasure (Glitter Mix)" – 5:38

At the end of Pimpf is a short 30 second instrumental track named "Interlude #1: Mission Impossible". On the CD, there is a 22 second pause in between Pimpf and Interlude 1, followed by a 30 second pause in between Interlude 1 and Agent Orange.
The last track, "Pleasure, Little Treasure [Glitter Mix]", is listed as "Pleasure, Little Treasure".
This is the first album where at least one song was never played live. "Little 15", "I Want You Now", and "To Have and To Hold", were not played live during the Music for the Masses tour, but the former two were later played acoustically at the World Violation Tour by Martin. A remixed "I Want You Now" appeared at the Exotic Tour. "To Have and To Hold" was thus the only LP song never to be played live until Ultra.

At the beginning of "To Have and To Hold" is a Soviet news presenter saying in Russian, "В докладах рассматривается эволюция ядерных арсеналов и социально-психологические проблемы гонки вооружений" (V dokladah rassmatrivayetsya evolyutsiya yadernykh arsenalov i sotsial'no-psikhologicheskiye problemy gonki vooruzheniy) which means, "The reports consider the evolution of nuclear arsenals and the socio-psychological problems of the arms race". Alan Wilder was not aware of this when he added it to the song.
The breathing sound in "I Want You Now" is actually an accordion being played without a note. The moaning in the song is remembered by Wilder at his website to be some girls hanging around in the studio at the time.

Pimpf

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:57:41 CDT

Album: Music For The Masses

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Martin L. Gore

Interesting notes:

Lyrics:

(Instrumental)

Nothing

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:56:09 CDT

Album: Music For The Masses

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Martin L. Gore

Interesting notes:

Lyrics:

Sitting target
Sitting waiting
Anticipating
Nothing
Nothing

Life
Is full of surprises
It advertises
Nothing
Nothing

What am I trying to do
What am I trying to say
I'm not trying to tell you anything
You didn't know
When you woke up today

Sitting target
Sitting praying
God is saying
Nothing
Nothing

Always
Knows the prospects
Learnt to expect
Nothing
Nothing

To Have And To Hold

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:53:45 CDT

Album: Music For The Masses

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Martin L. Gore

Interesting notes:

Lyrics:

I need to be cleansed
It's time to make amends
For all of the fun
The damage is done
And I feel diseased
I'm down on my knees
And I need forgiveness
Someone to bear witness
To the goodness within
Beneath the sin
Although I may flirt
With all kinds of dirt
To the point of disease
Now I want release
From all this decay
Take it away
And somewhere
There's someone who cares
With a heart of gold
To have and to hold

I Want You Now

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:52:26 CDT

Album: Music For The Masses

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Martin L. Gore

Interesting notes:

Lyrics:

I want you now
Tomorrow won't do
There's a yearning inside
And it's showing through
Reach out your hands
And accept my love
We've waited for too long
Enough is enough
I want you now

My heart is aching
My body is burning
My hands are shaking
My head is turning
Do you understand
It's so easy to choose
We've got time to kill
We've got nothing to lose
I want you now

And I don't mean to sound
Like one of the boys
That's not what I'm trying to do
I don't want to be
Like one of the boys
I just want you now

Because I've got a love
A love that won't wait
A love that is growing
And it's getting late
Do you know what it means
To be left this way
When everyone's gone
And the feelings they stay
I want you now

Behind The Wheel

Baby_Apple — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:50:09 CDT

Album: Music For The Masses

Acclaim:

Song writer(s): Martin L. Gore

Interesting notes:

Lyrics:

My little girl
Drive anywhere
Do what you want
I don't care

Tonight
I'm in the hands of fate
I hand myself
Over on a plate

Now

Oh little girl
There are times when I feel
I rather not be
The one behind the wheel

Come
Pull my strings
Watch me move
I do anything

Please

Sweet little girl
I prefer
You behind the wheel
And me the passenger

Drive
I'm yours to keep
Do what you want
I'm going cheap

Tonight

You're behind the wheel, tonight