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Depeche Mode
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Depeche Mode /dᵻˌpɛʃˈmoʊd/ are an English electronic band that formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group consists of founders Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Depeche Mode released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. Original band member Vince Clarke, left the band after the release of the album, leaving the band as a trio to record A Broken Frame, released the following year. Gore took over the songwriting duties and, later in 1982, Alan Wilder officially joined the band to fill Clarkes spot. Depeche Mode have been a trio again since 1995, when Wilder left, the bands last albums of the 1980s, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses, established them as a dominant force on the mainstream electronic music scene. A highlight of this era was the concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. In the new decade, Depeche Mode released Violator, a mainstream success, now a trio once again, the band released Ultra in 1997, recorded at the height of Gahans near-fatal drug abuse, Gores alcoholism and seizures, and Fletchers depression. Depeche Mode have had 50 songs in the UK Singles Chart and thirteen top 10 albums in the UK chart, Q included the band in the list of the 50 Bands That Changed the World. Depeche Mode also rank number 98 on VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Depeche Modes origins date to 1977, when schoolmates Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a Cure-influenced band called No Romance In China, with Clarke on vocals and guitar and Fletcher on bass. Fletcher would later recall, Why am I in the band and it was accidental right from the beginning. I was actually forced to be in the band, I played the guitar and I had a bass, it was a question of them roping me in. In 1979, Clarke played guitar in an Ultravox rip-off band, in 1978–79, Martin Gore played guitar in an acoustic duo, Norman and the Worms, with school friend Phil Burdett on vocals. In 1979, Marlow, Gore and friend Paul Redmond formed a band called the French Look, with Marlow on vocals/keyboards, Gore on guitar and Redmond on keyboards. In March 1980, Clarke, Gore and Fletcher formed a band called Composition of Sound, with Clarke on vocals/guitar, Gore on keyboards and Fletcher on bass. Soon after the formation of Composition of Sound, Clarke heard Wirral band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, along with OMD, other early influences included the Human League, Daniel Miller and Fad Gadget. Clarke and Fletcher switched to synthesisers, working odd jobs in order to buy or borrow the instruments from friends. Dave Gahan joined the band in 1980 after Clarke heard him perform at a scout hut jam session, singing a rendition of David Bowies Heroes. When explaining the choice for the new name taken from a French fashion magazine, Dépêche mode, Gore said, I like the sound of that
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Delta Machine
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Delta Machine is the thirteenth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 22 March 2013 by Columbia Records and Mute Records. It is the bands first album released under Columbia, recorded in 2012 in Santa Barbara, California and New York City, the album was produced by Ben Hillier and mixed by Flood. A deluxe edition was released, containing a bonus disc with four bonus tracks. Heaven was released as the lead single on 31 January 2013. The second single from the album, Soothe My Soul, was released on 10 May 2013, followed by Should Be Higher on 11 October 2013. Following the albums release, Depeche Mode embarked on the Delta Machine Tour, which kicked off in Nice, France, on 4 May 2013, according to Dave Gahan, Delta Machine marks the end of the trilogy of records that Depeche Mode were recording with producer Ben Hillier. The album is Martin Gore and Gahans thematic continuation to a dark, gloomy, the Quietus writer Luke Turner viewed it as the bands most powerful, gothic, twisted, electronic album since Violator. Delta Machine received generally positive reviews music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications. Benjamin Boles of Now proclaimed it as the best album of career and found that the find the band leaping in thrillingly unexpected directions. Mat Smith of Clash noted, The freshness comes through in the delivery, rolling Stones Jon Dolan stated that the album celebrates brooding faith and slippery solace without scrimping on Depeches trademark blackstrobe punishment. Andy Gill of The Independent panned Delta Machine as the bands weakest album in some while, bleed into your dreams, the more the sculpted electronic backdrops seem like curtains hiding the puniness of the wizards wielding the machines. The Observers Kitty Empire viewed that a kind of blood-red synthetic blues bubbles to the fore, it blows hot, emily Mackay of the NME commented, Things improve with the defter Soft Touch/Raw Nerve and Soothe My Soul, but Delta Machine sounds like its just warming up. Delta Machine debuted at two on the UK Albums Chart, selling 28,450 copies in its first week. It slipped to number 14 the following week, selling 7,146 copies, in the United States, the album entered the Billboard 200 at number six with 52,000 copies sold in its opening week, earning the band their seventh top 10 album on the chart. The album debuted at one on the German Albums Chart with first-week sales of 142,000 units. In France, Delta Machine debuted on the French Albums Chart at number two, selling 52,000 copies, the album sold 8,200 copies to debut at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart. All tracks written by Martin L. Gore, except where noted, credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Delta Machine
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Tour of the Universe (tour)
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The Live Nation-produced tour, which was announced in October 2008 in Berlin, kicked off with a warm-up show in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg in May 2009. By the end of the year, the tour had reached Europe, Asia, North America, the tour commenced in May 2009 with a warm-up show in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, followed by the first full-fledged date in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel. The tour was disrupted as lead singer Dave Gahan was struck by a bout of gastroenteritis. In June 2009, the band played their first show following Gahans illness in Leipzig, resuming a European leg which eventually wrapped up in Bilbao, Spain. The tour was cut short after Gahan tore a calf muscle, in July 2009, the group began a tour of the U. S. and Canada. The leg, which featured a slot at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago, started in Toronto and culminated in Fort Lauderdale. In August, two dates in California were cancelled after Gahan received doctors orders to serve a period of vocal rest. In October 2009, the returned to North America to play four dates in Mexico. The leg continued on to Costa Rica and South America, their first shows in these territories since the Exotic Tour in 1994, the group received attention in the media following the groups performance in Peru after it was reported that Gahan thanked the wrong country. According to reports, Gahan said, Thank you very much, however, this claim was later disputed by a band representative, who quoted Gahan as saying, Thank you very much, good night instead. The leg eventually finished up in Buenos Aires, later in the month, the act began a European leg of indoor venues, which kicked off in Oberhausen, Germany and culminated mid-December in Manchester, United Kingdom. In January 2010, the group commenced a third European leg in Berlin, the leg included five shows that were rescheduled following Gahans illness in the summer of 2009. The tour also included a date as part of a series of concerts in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, during this concert, the performances of Home, One Caress and Come Back were accompanied by a seven-piece string section. Additionally, during the encore, former band member Alan Wilder made a surprise appearance onstage and it was the first time Wilder had performed with the band in more than fifteen years, having exited the group in 1995. Speaking about the event, Wilder said that he was happy to accept Gahans proposal to join the group onstage, the entire tour eventually wrapped up in Düsseldorf, Germany in late February, after ten months and 102 shows in 32 countries. In total, the band performed to more than 2.7 million people, as reported by music industry publication Billboard, the tour was one of the most profitable in 2009, ending 20th in the magazines Top Tours list. The DVD release was issued in two formats, Deluxe and Super Deluxe, which include two audio CDs of the live concerts. The Super Deluxe edition also includes a second DVD featuring the documentary, Inside the Universe
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Concert
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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Electronic music
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In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions for instruments were composed. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds, Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers for the purpose of composing music, algorithmic composition was first demonstrated in Australia in 1951. In America and Europe, live electronics were pioneered in the early 1960s, during the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music. In the 1980s, electronic music became dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines. Electronically produced music became prevalent in the domain by the 1990s. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. Today, pop music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form. At the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments and these initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments, while some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium accurately synthesized the sound of orchestral instruments. It achieved viable public interest and made progress into streaming music through telephone networks. Critics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments, ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises, developments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s, from the late 1920s, the increased practicality of electronic instruments influenced composers such as Joseph Schillinger to adopt them
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Nice
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Nice is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The urban area of Nice extends beyond the city limits. Nice is about 13 kilometres from the principality of Monaco, the city is nicknamed Nice la Belle, which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912. The area of todays Nice contains Terra Amata, a site which displays evidence of a very early use of fire. Around 350 BC, Greeks of Marseille founded a permanent settlement and called it Nikaia, after Nike, through the ages, the town has changed hands many times. Its strategic location and port significantly contributed to its maritime strength, for centuries it was a dominion of Savoy, and was then part of France between 1792 and 1815, when it was returned to Piedmont-Sardinia until its re-annexation by France in 1860. The citys main seaside promenade, the Promenade des Anglais owes its name to visitors to the resort, for decades now, the picturesque Nicean surroundings have attracted not only those in search of relaxation, but also those seeking inspiration. The clear air and soft light have particularly appealed to some of Western cultures most outstanding painters, such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Arman. Their work is commemorated in many of the museums, including Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse. Nice has the second largest hotel capacity in the country and it is one of its most visited cities and it also has the third busiest airport in France, after the two main Parisian ones. It is the capital city of the County of Nice. Nice was probably founded around 350 BC by the Greeks of Massalia, the ruins of Cemenelum are in Cimiez, now a district of Nice. In the 7th century, Nice joined the Genoese League formed by the towns of Liguria. In 729 the city repulsed the Saracens, but in 859 and again in 880 the Saracens pillaged and burned it, during the Middle Ages, Nice participated in the wars and history of Italy. As an ally of Pisa it was the enemy of Genoa, during the 13th and 14th centuries the city fell more than once into the hands of the Counts of Provence, but it regained its independence even though related to Genoa. The medieval city walls surrounded the Old Town, the landward side was protected by the River Paillon, which was later covered over and is now the tram route towards the Acropolis. The east side of the town was protected by fortifications on Castle Hill, another river flowed into the port on the east side of Castle Hill. Engravings suggest that the area was also defended by walls
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Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv-Yafo is a major city in Israel, located on the countrys Mediterranean coastline. It is the center and the technology hub of Israel, with a population of 432,892. Tel Aviv is the largest city in the Gush Dan region of Israel, Tel Aviv is also a focal point in the high-tech concentration known as the Silicon Wadi. Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv is a global city, and is the thirty eighth most important financial center in the world. Tel Aviv is known to have the third-largest economy of any city in the Middle East after Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, the city receives over a million international visitors annually. Known as The City that Never Sleeps and a party capital, it has a lively nightlife, the city was founded in 1909 by Jewish immigrants on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa. It is named after the Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzls 1902 novel, Altneuland, the modern citys first neighbourhoods had already been established in 1886, the first being Neve Tzedek. Immigration by mostly Jewish refugees meant that the growth of Tel Aviv soon outpaced Jaffas, Tel Aviv and Jaffa were merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Avivs White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzls Altneuland, translated from German by Nahum Sokolow. The name was chosen in 1910 from several suggestions, including Herzliya and it was found fitting as it embraced the idea of a renaissance in the ancient Jewish homeland. Aviv is Hebrew for spring, symbolizing renewal, and tel is a man-made mound accumulating layers of civilization built one over the other and symbolizing the ancient. Although founded in 1909 as a settlement on the sand dunes North of Jaffa. The marketing pamphlets advocating for its establishment in 1906, wrote, In this city we will build the streets so they have roads and sidewalks and electric lights. Every house will have water wells that will flow through pipes as in every modern European city. Since 1886, Jewish settlers had founded new neighborhoods outside Jaffa on the current territory of Tel Aviv, the first was Neve Tzedek, built on lands owned by Aharon Chelouche and inhabited primarily by Mizrahi Jews. Other neighborhoods were Neve Shalom, Yafa Nof, Achva, Ohel Moshe, Kerem HaTeimanim, once Tel Aviv received city status in the 1920s, those neighborhoods joined the newly formed municipality, now becoming separated from Jaffa. The Second Aliyah led to further expansion, in 1906, a group of Jews, among them residents of Jaffa, followed the initiative of Akiva Aryeh Weiss and banded together to form the Ahuzat Bayit society. The societys goal was to form a Hebrew urban centre in an environment, planned according to the rules of aesthetics
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Minsk
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Minsk (Belarusian, Мінск pronounced, is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Nyamiha rivers. It is the centre of the Commonwealth of Independent States. As the national capital, Minsk has an administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region. In 2013, it had a population of 2,002,600, the earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century, when it was noted as a provincial city within the principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers, in 1242, Minsk became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499, from 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, from 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union. Minsk will host the 2019 European Games, Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest to the northeast – that is, to Lukomskaye Lake in northwestern Belarus. The average altitude above sea level is 220 metres, the physical geography of Minsk was shaped over the two most recent ice ages. There are six smaller rivers within the city limits, all part of the Black Sea basin, Minsk is in the area of mixed forests typical of most of Belarus. Pinewood and mixed forests border the edge of the city, especially in the north, some of the forests were preserved as parks as the city grew. The city was built on the hills, which allowed for defensive fortifications. Minsk has a warm summer humid continental climate, owing to its location between the strong influence of the moist air of the Atlantic Ocean and the dry air of the Eurasian landmass. Its weather is unstable and tends to change often, the average January temperature is −4.5 °C, while the average July temperature is 18.5 °C. The lowest temperature was recorded on 17 January 1940, at −40 °C and the warmest on 29 July 1936 at 35 °C and this results in frequent fogs, common in the autumn and spring. Minsk receives annual precipitation of 690 millimetres, of one third falls during the cold period. Throughout the year, most winds are westerly and northwesterly, bringing cool, similar climatic regimes are found in Stockholm, Sweden and in Halifax, Canada. The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Centre of Radioactive and Environmental Control, during 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons
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Clarkston, Michigan
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The City of the Village of Clarkston, or Clarkston, is a small city located in Oakland County, Michigan. It is completely surrounded by Independence Township, the city is approximately one half square mile in size. Its population in 2010 was 882, the village is located 42 miles north of Detroit. It has easy access to I-75 and US24, in 1992, Village residents voted to incorporate the Village as a city in order to preserve its boundaries and local government. Squatter Linux Jacox from New York built the first house, a Shanty, in 1832, Butler Holcomb built the second house and a sawmill. On December 12,1840, the Independence post office was transferred to the community, in 1842, the Clark brothers platted a tract of land for a village and gave it the name Clarkston. Clarkston was incorporated in 1884 as a village, in 1992, the village of Clarkston was incorporated as a city. The Village of Clarkston was designated a Michigan State Historic Site on January 16,1976 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 15,1979. The Clarkston Village Historic District includes Buffalo Street, Church Street, Clarkston Road, Depot Road, Holcomb Street, Main Street, Miller Road, Waldon Road, the citys public school district is the Clarkston Community School District. Maintained a summer home and weekend cottage on Main Street, ford also owned a mill which operated on the water from what is now called Mill Pond in Clarkston. This building still exists in part but has been modernized into a mall which includes art galleries. He also purchased the old building on N Main St to serve as an apprentice school. Michigan Place Names, The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past, Detroit, Michigan, Wayne State University Press. Clarkston, Michigan travel guide from Wikivoyage Clarkston Community Historical Society
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Austin, Texas
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Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. It is the 11th-most populous city in the U. S. and it is the fastest growing large city in the United States and the second most populous capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. As of the U. S. Census Bureaus July 1,2015 estimate and it is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 2,056,405 as of July 1,2016. In the 1830s, pioneers began to settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River, in 1839, the site was officially chosen to replace Houston as the new capital of the Republic of Texas and was incorporated under the name Waterloo. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas and the republics first secretary of state. The city subsequently grew throughout the 19th century and became a center for government and education with the construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas at Austin. After a lull in growth from the Great Depression, Austin resumed its development into a city and, by the 1980s, it emerged as a center for technology. A number of Fortune 500 companies have headquarters or regional offices in Austin, including Amazon. com, cisco, eBay, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Texas Instruments, 3M, and Whole Foods Market. Dells worldwide headquarters is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin, residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers. The city also adopted Silicon Hills as a nickname in the 1990s due to an influx of technology. In the late 1800s, Austin was known as the City of the Violet Crown because of the glow of light across the hills just after sunset. Even today, many Austin businesses use the term Violet Crown in their name, Austin is known as a clean-air city for its stringent no-smoking ordinances that apply to all public places and buildings, including restaurants and bars. The FBI ranked Austin as the second-safest major city in the U. S. for the year 2012, U. S. News & World Report named Austin the best place to live in the U. S. in 2017. Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of habitation since at least 9200 BC. When settlers arrived from Europe, the Tonkawa tribe inhabited the area, the Comanches and Lipan Apaches were also known to travel through the area. Spanish colonists, including the Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre expedition, traveled through the area for centuries, in 1730, three missions from East Texas were combined and reestablished as one mission on the south side of the Colorado River, in what is now Zilker Park, in Austin. The mission was in area for only about seven months
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Austin City Limits Music Festival
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The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on two consecutive three-day weekends. Inspired by the PBS concert series of the name, the festival is produced by Austin-based company C3 Presents. The reputation of the ACL television show helped contribute to the success of the first festival, the ACL Music Festival has eight stages where musical groups from genres including rock, indie, country, folk, electronic and hip hop perform for fans. Approximately 450,000 people attend the festival each year, in addition to the music performances, there are food and drinks, an art market, a kids area for families, and other activities for attendees. Founded in 2002, the festival began as a one-weekend event, on August 16,2012, Austin City Council members voted unanimously to allow the Austin City Limits Music Festival to expand to two consecutive weekends beginning in 2013. Austin is known for its food, and the festival is no different, Austin Eats is the name of the festival food court that was modeled after the Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Austin Eats features all of Austin’s finest restaurants and caters to each individual festivalgoer, with gluten-free and vegetarian options, this food is far from funnel cakes and turkey legs. Restaurants featured include Torchy’s Tacos, Stubbs B-B-Q, and Amy’s Ice Creams, all vendors accept cash and there are ATMs located around the facility. Recycling bins are provided and festivalgoers are encouraged to be conscious when disposing of their food wastes, festivalgoers are given unique opportunities to give back to the community during their time at the festival. ACL Cares is a section of the festival that supports good causes and encourages support from the thousands of attendees of the festival, organizations like KLRU and The Nature Conservancy have been involved in past years. ACL Cares aims to make a difference in the local Austin community, certain organizations that are involved in ACL Cares are HeadCount, United Way for Greater Austin, Austin Music Foundation, Keep Austin Beautiful, and many others. Local artists have a creative and business opportunity to showcase their talent at the ACL Art Market. This section of the aims to support local artists as well as give the festivalgoers the opportunity to walk away from the festival with more than a T-shirt. The market is located in the center of Zilker Park and all booths are open throughout the duration of the festival, the historic Austin City Limits television series focused for many years on Texas singer/songwriters, country and folk performers, and instrument specialists. That has changed as the television series now resembles the Festival lineup and spotlights artists of every musical genre from rhythm and blues to rock, jazz. Now that the festival is a destination, it brings major bands to the television show that might not otherwise have made the trip. In past years, Pearl Jam, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Austin City Limits Music Festival is held over 2 weekends, September 30 - October 2 and October 7–9,2016. This years lineup features more than 130 artists, including Radiohead, Kygo, Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & sons, LCD Soundsystem, Austin City Limits Music Festival is held over 2 weekends, October 2–4 and October 9–11,2015
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Abu Dhabi
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Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates, and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAEs seven emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the western coast. The city proper had a population of 1.5 million in 2014, Abu Dhabi houses federal government offices, is the seat of the United Arab Emirates Government, home to the Abu Dhabi Emiri Family and the President of the UAE, who is from this family. Abu Dhabis rapid development and urbanisation, coupled with the high average income of its population, has transformed the city into a large. Today the city is the center of political and industrial activities. Abu Dhabi accounts for about two-thirds of the roughly $400-billion United Arab Emirates economy, Abu Dhabi is the fourth most expensive city for expatriate employees in the region, and in 2014 was the 68th most expensive big city in the world. Abu Dhabi is full of evidence that points to civilizations, such as the Umm an-Nar Culture. Settlements were also found farther outside the city of Abu Dhabi. There is evidence of civilizations around the mountain of Hafeet and this location is very strategic because it is the UAE’s second tallest mountain, so it would have great visibility. It also contains a lot of moisture in its springs and lakes, origin of the name Abu Dhabi The origin of the name Abu Dhabi is uncertain. Meaning Father of the Gazelle, when translated from Arabic. According to Bilal al-Budoor, assistant under-secretary for Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development, The area had a lot of dhibaa, an old story tells about a man who used to chase deer and was named the father of the animal. Abu Dhabis original name was Milh salt, possibly referring to the salty water of the Persian Gulf, some Bedouins called the city Umm Dhabi, while British records refer to the place as Abu Dhabi. According to some accounts, the name Abu Dhabi was first used more than 300 years ago. The first word of Abu Dhabi is pronounced Bu by inhabitants on the western coast. In the eastern part of the city, the pronunciation is Abu, origins of the Al Nahyan family The Bani Yas bedouin were originally centered on the Liwa Oasis. This tribe was the most significant in the area, having over 20 subsections, in 1793, the Al Bu Falah subsection migrated to the island of Abu Dhabi on the coast of the Persian Gulf due to the discovery of fresh water there. One family within this section was the Al Nahyan family and this family makes up the rulers of Abu Dhabi today
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Dublin
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Irelands east coast, the city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people, founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Irelands principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800, following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland. Dublin is administered by a City Council, the city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-, which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy, the name Dublin comes from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, dubh /d̪uβ/, alt. /d̪uw/, alt /d̪u, / meaning black, dark, and lind /lʲiɲ pool and this tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. In Modern Irish the name is Duibhlinn, and Irish rhymes from Dublin County show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn /d̪ˠi, other localities in Ireland also bear the name Duibhlinn, variously anglicized as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. Historically, scribes using the Gaelic script wrote bh with a dot over the b and those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin. Variations on the name are found in traditionally Irish-speaking areas of Scotland, such as An Linne Dhubh. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. Baile Átha Cliath, meaning town of the ford, is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Áth Cliath is a name referring to a fording point of the River Liffey near Father Mathew Bridge. Baile Átha Cliath was an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, there are other towns of the same name, such as Àth Cliath in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is Anglicised as Hurlford. Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times and he called the settlement Eblana polis. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. The subsequent Scandinavian settlement centred on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay, the Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships, the Poddle connected the lake with the Liffey. This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew, the Dubhlinn lay where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper,1,351,587 in the urban area, the city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe. Amsterdams name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the citys origin around a dam in the river Amstel, during that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered a world city by the Globalization. The city is also the capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the worlds 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 12th globally on quality of living for environment, the city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. After the floods of 1170 and 1173, locals near the river Amstel built a bridge over the river, the earliest recorded use of that name is in a document dated October 27,1275, which exempted inhabitants of the village from paying bridge tolls to Count Floris V. This allowed the inhabitants of the village of Aemstelredamme to travel freely through the County of Holland, paying no tolls at bridges, locks, the certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme. By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam, Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean there was already a settlement then, since reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either 1300 or 1306, from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League
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Oslo
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Oslo is the capital and the most populous city in Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality, founded in the year 1040, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada, the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814, after being destroyed by a fire in 1624, the city was moved closer to Akershus Fortress during the reign of Christian IV of Denmark and renamed Christiania in his honour. It was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838, following a spelling reform, it was known as Kristiania from 1877 to 1925, at which time its original Norwegian name was restored. Oslo is the economic and governmental centre of Norway, the city is also a hub of Norwegian trade, banking, industry and shipping. It is an important centre for industries and maritime trade in Europe. The city is home to companies within the maritime sector, some of which are among the worlds largest shipping companies, shipbrokers. Oslo is a city of the Council of Europe and the European Commission intercultural cities programme. Oslo is considered a city and ranked Beta World City in studies carried out by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group. It was ranked one in terms of quality of life among European large cities in the European Cities of the Future 2012 report by fDi magazine. A survey conducted by ECA International in 2011 placed Oslo as the second most expensive city in the world for living expenses after Tokyo. In 2013 Oslo tied with the Australian city of Melbourne as the fourth most expensive city in the world, as of January 1,2016, the municipality of Oslo has a population of 658,390, while the population of the citys urban area was 942,084. The metropolitan area had an population of 1.71 million. The population was during the early 2000 increasing at record rates and this growth stems for the most part from international immigration and related high birth rates, but also from intra-national migration. The immigrant population in the city is growing faster than the Norwegian population. As of January 1,2016, the municipality of Oslo has a population of 658,390, the urban area extends beyond the boundaries of the municipality into the surrounding county of Akershus, the total population of this agglomeration is 942,084. To the north and east, wide forested hills rise above the city giving the location the shape of a giant amphitheatre. The urban municipality of Oslo and county of Oslo are two parts of the entity, making Oslo the only city in Norway where two administrative levels are integrated
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Belfast
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Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the second largest on the island of Ireland, and the heart of the tenth largest Primary Urban Area in the United Kingdom. On the River Lagan, it had a population of 286,000 at the 2011 census and 333,871 after the 2015 council reform, Belfast was granted city status in 1888. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was an industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. It has sustained a major aerospace and missiles industry since the mid 1930s, industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Irelands biggest city at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, additionally, Belfast city centre has undergone considerable expansion and regeneration in recent years, notably around Victoria Square. Belfast is served by two airports, George Best Belfast City Airport in the city, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles west of the city. Although the county borough of Belfast was created when it was granted city status by Queen Victoria in 1888, the site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. The Giants Ring, a 5, 000-year-old henge, is located near the city, Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. The ONeill clan had a presence in the area, in the 14th century, Cloinne Aodha Buidhe, descendants of Aodh Buidhe ONeill built Grey Castle at Castlereagh, now in the east of the city. Conn ONeill of the Clannaboy ONeills owned vast lands in the area and was the last inhabitant of Grey Castle, evidence of this period of Belfasts growth can still be seen in the oldest areas of the city, known as the Entries. Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries, industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the 19th century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, in 1886 the city suffered intense riots over the issue of home rule, which had divided the city. In 1920–22, Belfast became the capital of the new entity of Northern Ireland as the island of Ireland was partitioned, the accompanying conflict cost up to 500 lives in Belfast, the bloodiest sectarian strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards. Belfast was heavily bombed during World War II, in one raid, in 1941, German bombers killed around one thousand people and left tens of thousands homeless. Apart from London, this was the greatest loss of life in a raid during the Blitz. Belfast has been the capital of Northern Ireland since its establishment in 1921 following the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and it had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Catholic and Protestant populations. These opposing groups in conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively. The most recent example of conflict was known as the Troubles – a civil conflict that raged from around 1969 to 1998
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Anton Corbijn
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion. Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands and his father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard, took up the same position in Hoogland and Groningen, moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer, was a nurse and was raised in a parsons family, photographer and director Maarten Corbijn is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes van Willenswaard was an art teacher at Christian schools in Hilversum, Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, from the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express, a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man, in the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters and his first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsies second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R. E. M. The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke, Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and his first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single Pride. In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijns music video output as part of the Directors Label series, in 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007, the film is based on Deborah Curtis book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles. 2010 Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, on 26 October 2011 Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014, the John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he start filming his next project Life about James Dean, author William Gibson refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel Spook Country
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Live in Berlin (Depeche Mode album)
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Live in Berlin is a live video album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, featuring a live concert directed and filmed by Anton Corbijn. It was released on 14 November 2014 by Mute Records and Columbia Records and it was filmed on location at the O2 World in Berlin on 25 and 27 November 2013 during the bands Delta Machine Tour. The standard edition consists of the concert DVD and the soundtrack, the soundtrack was also released as a double CD package. Before its release, the DVD was launched with one-off theatrical screenings in selected cities around the world, all tracks written by Martin L. Gore, except where noted. Alive in Berlin – DVD Full live show +15 interview pieces Bordello Acoustic Session, Condemnation and Judas Delta Machine –5
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Freddie Mercury
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Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, known as the lead vocalist and co-principal songwriter of the rock band Queen. He also became known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range, Mercury wrote and composed numerous hits for Queen, occasionally served as a producer and guest musician for other artists, and concurrently led a solo career while performing with Queen. Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS, in 1992 Mercury was posthumously awarded the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, and had a tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium, London. In 2002, he was placed at number 58 in the BBCs poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Mercury was born in the British protectorate of Sultanate of Zanzibar, East Africa. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were Parsis from the Gujarat region of the province of Bombay Presidency in British India. The family surname is derived from the town of Bulsar in southern Gujarat, as Parsis, Mercury and his family practised the Zoroastrian religion. The Bulsara family had moved to Zanzibar so that his father could continue his job as a cashier at the British Colonial Office and he had a younger sister, Kashmira. Mercury spent most of his childhood in India and began taking lessons at the age of seven. In 1954, at the age of eight, Mercury was sent to study at St. Peters School, at the age of 12, he formed a school band, The Hectics, and covered rock and roll artists such as Cliff Richard and Little Richard. The only music he listened to, and played, was Western pop music, a friend from the time recalls that he had an uncanny ability to listen to the radio and replay what he heard on piano. It was also at St. Peters where he began to call himself Freddie, at the age of 17, Mercury and his family fled from Zanzibar for safety reasons due to the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, in which thousands of Arabs and Indians were killed. The family moved into a house at 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, Middlesex. Mercury enrolled at Isleworth Polytechnic in West London where he studied art and he ultimately earned a diploma in Art and Graphic Design at Ealing Art College, later using these skills to design the Queen heraldic arms. A British citizen at birth, Mercury remained so for the rest of his life, following graduation, Mercury joined a series of bands and sold second-hand clothes in the Kensington Market in London with girlfriend Mary Austin. He also held a job at Heathrow Airport, friends from the time remember him as a quiet and shy young man who showed a great deal of interest in music. In 1969 he joined the Liverpool-based band Ibex, later renamed Wreckage and he lived briefly in a flat above the Liverpool pub, The Dovedale Towers. When this band failed to take off, he joined a band called Sour Milk Sea. However, by early 1970 this group had broken up as well, in April 1970 Mercury joined guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor who had previously been in a band called Smile
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Walking in My Shoes
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Walking in My Shoes is Depeche Modes twenty-eighth UK single, released on 26 April 1993, and the second single for the album Songs of Faith and Devotion. The song reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and matched the success of the previous single I Feel You on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, the 7 version of Walking in My Shoes is not the same as the one in the Songs of Faith and Devotion album. The sound has made more noisy and dirty, especially the drums in the verse. When performed live, elements of the Grungy Gonads mix are used in an extended intro, the B-side is My Joy, the only exclusive B-side from the Songs of Faith and Devotion album, and is a rock track in the vein of I Feel You and Halo. The song was cited by then-member Alan Wilder to be his song from the album together with In Your Room. The music video for Walking in My Shoes was directed by Anton Corbijn and is based on Dantes Divine Comedy, at the beginning of the second verse, theres a shot of Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher, and Alan Wilder with naked women on their laps. This was removed in the MTV version in the US and replaced with footage of the three members standing still, alone, from earlier in the video, the uncut version is on The Videos 86-98, Devotional, The Best Of, Volume 1 and Video Singles Collection DVDs. The song peaked number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and number 69 on the US Billboard Hot 100, however, the single was featured during the opening credits of episode 9 of season 2 of USA Network series Mr. Robot, entitled eps2. 7_init_5. fve. Walking in My Shoes –4,59 My Joy –3,577 released as a promo only, not commercially released, Walking in My Shoes is the first Depeche Mode single not to have a commercial 7 release in the UK. All songs written by Martin L. Gore Number one modern rock hits of 1993 Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)
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The song reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart. The version of In Your Room used for the release is the Zephyr Mix. Other official single remixes include the Apex Mix, produced by Brian Eno, which sounds closer to the version, and Johnny Dollars The Jeep Rock Mix. During concerts in 1993 and early 1994, the version was played live. From the 1998 Singles Tour onwards, the Zephyr Mix of the song has played live instead. However, during the 2009 Tour of the Universe a mixture of both versions was played live. The single was released in a special foldout digipak with room to three different versions of the In Your Room single, the original release, a live disc. The b-sides consist of a remix of album track Higher Love, Depeche Modes first appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, filmed during a stop on their The Singles Tour, featured an abbreviated version of In Your Room. In 2003, Fallon Bowmans band, Amphibious Assault, covered the song for their debut LP District Six, in 2015 the industrial rock band Latexxx Teens has released a cover version of the song, as tribute to Depeche Mode. Corbijn described the video as a retrospective of the work he had done with Depeche Mode and he said he made it that way because he was sure lead singer Dave Gahan was going to die before Depeche Mode could release more songs. The video features Alexandra Kummer, who sometimes is partially clothed, because of the partial nudity and scenes of bondage, the video only aired after prime time on MTV in the US. Since the video had limited screen play the single was not a hit in the US. This is the last Depeche Mode single with Alan Wilder as a member. All songs written by Martin Gore and this one came with the box, with space to hold the other two, LCDBong24 and XLCDBong24, which were released on cardboard sleeve. Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic song review Allmusic US CD single review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Precious (Depeche Mode song)
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Precious is Depeche Modes forty-first single, and the first single from the album Playing the Angel. It was released on 3 October 2005 in the UK by Mute Records and 11 October 2005 in the US by Sire/Reprise. The single reached No.4 in the UK, No.71 on the Hot 100 and it was the bands first single of original music in more than three years. Precious was released to radio stations and as a digital download on 22 August 2005. Since its live debut, Precious has been played at every Depeche Mode concert between 2005 and 2014, to accompany the new single and album, a program called the Depeche Mode Receiver was released. The video for Precious received its premiere via this program on 12 September 2005. An early version of the video was leaked to the internet long before the song was even out, in fact, the digital download may not have even been released if not for the leak, which was widespread within days. The music video for Precious features the band performing on an empty, computer-generated cruise ship, the video was directed by Uwe Flade, who directed the Enjoy the Silence 04 video. It is streamable for free on the Depeche Mode website in the archives, free is the B-side to Precious. Its a techno beat with an old school feel and it was unavailable in the US, aside from importing, but is now available on iTunes. It also appears as a track on the Japanese version of Playing the Angel. Precious was also featured in Smallville, Charmed, Bones and CSI, trance act Blank & Jones remixed the single though their production has yet to be released. However, they have played their remix out during their live DJ sets, tangerine Dream, in their 2010 album Under Cover – Chapter One. The single was released to digital downloads and to shops on the day,3 October 2005. It was added to XFMs playlist in mid-September and it also made it to BBC Radio 2s A-List. On 2 October 2005 it reached No.49 on the UK airplay chart, jumping to No.27 on 16 October 2005. On 9 October 2005 the single debuted at No.4 on the UK Singles Chart, giving them their highest UK chart position in eight years, the single spent a total of five weeks on the chart. Precious reached No.71 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.23 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and it was Depeche Modes first single to make either chart since 2001s Dream On
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Black Celebration
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Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records. To promote the album, the band embarked on the Black Celebration Tour, three years after its release, Spin ranked it at number 15 in its list of The 25 Greatest Albums of All Time. Contemporary reviews for Black Celebration in the British press were mixed, betty Page of Record Mirror felt that the band should be admired for their refusal to follow anything but their own fashion and unswerving ability to come up with great, fresh melodies. Black Celebration has since been reappraised in retrospective reviews, in 2007, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone referred to the album as an instant classic for the bands fans that at the time of its release had seemingly been utterly ignored by everybody else. In 2007, Black Celebration was re-released with a bonus DVD and it was released as a part of the third wave of re-issues. The first CD was remastered and released on a CD/SACD hybrid, there are also several live versions of some of the songs from Black Celebration. The album is released the way it was intended and ends with New Dress. Like the other re-issues, the DVD includes a documentary on the album, the title is Martin paraphrasing Daniel Miller about his demos for Black Celebration in the film. The double-documentary discusses both The Singles 81→85 and Black Celebration, its more challenging commercial success and all five related singles and it also includes a plethora of behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Black Celebration and the ensuing tour. Highlights include the band meeting The Cure, and behind the scenes footage of several of the music videos, the documentary is nearly an hour long. It was released 20 March 2007 in the US,26 March in the UK and 2 April in the rest of Europe, the remastered album was released on deluxe vinyl on 2 April 2007 in Europe and on 11 September 2007 in the United States. All tracks written by Martin Gore, except Black Day written by Gore, Alan Wilder and Daniel Miller, credits adapted from the liner notes of Black Celebration. Album information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Official remaster info
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Behind the Wheel
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Behind the Wheel is Depeche Modes twentieth UK single, released on 28 December 1987, and the third single for the album Music for the Masses. Peaking at #21 in the UK charts, it hit #6 in West Germany, in 1989, the single was ranked #30 on Spin magazines list of the The 100 Greatest Singles Of All Time. Behind the Wheel was written by Martin Gore, route 66 was written by Robert William Troup Jr. The video features a remix of the song, although a video also exists set to the original album version. Behind the Wheel 2011 is a US-only promotional CD single, released 2011, the title track is a remix made by former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke for the bands Remixes 2, 81-11 album. The single was only, and not for sale. It reached No.3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 2011
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Stripped (song)
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Stripped is Depeche Modes fifteenth UK single, released on 10 February 1986. It was the first single from the album Black Celebration, Stripped is well known for its innovative use of sampling. The underlying beat is a distorted and slowed-down sound of an engine running, while the main melody begins with a cars ignition starting. The bands U. S. label Sire Records, however, decided to use the B-side But Not Tonight on the soundtrack to the movie Modern Girls and included the song on US editions of Black Celebration. As a result, the single was flipped, and released as But Not Tonight in the United States to help promote the movie, the band was not happy with this decision, seeing But Not Tonight as a useless pop track recorded in less than a day. The other two B-Sides are Breathing in Fumes and Black Day, Breathing in Fumes was a new song using samples from Stripped, mixed by the band and Thomas Stiehler. The Highland Mix of Stripped was mixed by Mark Ellis, who in the future would produce Depeche Modes Violator and Songs of Faith, some editions of the Black Celebration CD include the extended remix of But Not Tonight along with Black Day and Breathing in Fumes as bonus tracks. The music video for Stripped was the last Depeche Mode video to be directed by Peter Care and was filmed outside of Hansa Studios in Berlin, the music video for But Not Tonight was directed by Tamra Davis. Two differently cut versions of both Stripped and But Not Tonight are available on Video Singles Collection, Stripped was featured in the film Say Anything. The 12 mix later appeared on the fourth disc of Depeche Modes remix compilation, Remixes 81–04. Stripped –6,42 But Not Tonight –5,12 Breathing in Fumes –6,07 Fly on the Windscreen –4,24 Black Day –2,37 This is the UK Extended 12 version. Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein released a cover of Stripped in 1998 and this version cuts the line Let me see you stripped down to the bone to Let me see you stripped, which was due to singer Till Lindemanns difficulty singing down to the bone. The song was originally on the tribute album For the Masses, the song also appears as a hidden track on some special editions of the bands sophomore release Sehnsucht. It was the first English song released by the band, the video for the song incorporated footage from the Leni Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda film Olympia, which led to threats against the band. Members of Depeche Mode, especially Dave Gahan, responded positively to the cover, also, in 1997, the Swedish electro/synth-pop band Statemachine released a version of Stripped on their album Legerdemain. The Italian progressive death/doom metal band Novembre covered Stripped on the album 1995 album Arte Novecento The USA one-man based black metal Leviathan covered Stripped on Demo Five, in 2001, Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots covered But Not Tonight for the soundtrack to Not Another Teen Movie. In 2004, German techno band Scooter covered Stripped on their album Mind the Gap, in 2007, they produced a download-only orchestral version of the song. In 2005, Shiny Toy Guns covered Stripped on Goth Electro Tribute to Depeche Mode, the single can also be found in the second version of their 2005 album We Are Pilots in addition to Blood & Chocolate, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Policy of Truth
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Policy of Truth is a song by English electronic band Depeche Mode, released in May 1990 as the third single from their seventh studio album Violator. It also became the bands second chart-topper on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, françois Kevorkian mixed a new single version for the release, extending it slightly while lowering the tempo, and also making Dave Gahans vocals more prominent. He also mixed the Beat Box Mix and the Pavlovs Dub, the Trancentral Mix is by The KLF, a popular Acid House band at that time and one of only 3 occasions they did remix work for other artists. The Capitol Mix uses the sample I want to tell you my side of the case from the Checkers speech by Richard Nixon, a version of Kaleid was used as intro music for Depeche Modes World Violation Tour in 1990. The music video for Policy of Truth is directed by Anton Corbijn and appears on the VHS collection Strange Too
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World in My Eyes
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World in My Eyes is Depeche Modes 26th UK single, released on 17 September 1990, and the fourth and final single for the album Violator. Martin did the demo on his own, recalled Andy Fletcher, I dont remember it standing out when we heard it then. But somehow, in the studio, it all came together brilliantly… Whenever Im asked which of our tracks is my favourite, the cover art for World in My Eyes has a photo of one of the band members making a shape similar to that of glasses with their hands. On the Limited 12, there are pictures of all four members, World in My Eyes has two exclusive B-sides, making Violator the only Depeche Mode album with all four singles having at least one exclusive B-Side, including instrumentals. The B-sides for World in My Eyes are Happiest Girl and Sea of Sin, Happiest Girl and Sea of Sin are the main 7 versions. Original versions were never released, or rather, these mixes are the versions, according to interviews. Reaching No.17 in UK, and only No.52 on the Hot 100, however, it was more successful than most of singles released from Depeche Modes previous and later album, as the band popularity was at the highest at the time. The 2004 re-release of the EU single includes a version of World in My Eyes. The music video for World in My Eyes is directed by Anton Corbijn, there are two versions, the original version was not originally released to the public until The Videos 86-98. The original music video features footage from the World Violation Tour, while Dave Gahan. The alternate version on Strange Too features the band in the car instead, more footage. However, even after the 3 plans were scrapped in favour of a regular CD, the German release, although displaying the same track list, used the longer versions of these three mixes, like on the US release and the Japanese release. The Cure, on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Should Be Higher
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Should Be Higher is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode from their thirteenth studio album, Delta Machine. The song was written by Dave Gahan and Kurt Uenala and it was released as the albums third single on 11 October 2013 in Germany, and 14 October 2013 in the UK and France. The release date for North America was 15 October 2013 and its the third Depeche Mode single written by lead singer Dave Gahan. It debuted at number 81 in the UK Singles Chart on 20 October 2013, the video for the song, directed by Anton Corbijn, premiered on Vevo on 22 August 2013. The video comprises live footage from the Delta Machine Tour shows in Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich
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Barrel of a Gun (Depeche Mode song)
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Barrel of a Gun is Depeche Modes 31st UK single, released on 3 February 1997, and the first single from the bands ninth studio album Ultra. Barrel of a Gun came after some times for the band. Musician Alan Wilder left the band in 1995, lead singer Dave Gahan entered the hospital briefly in August 1995 after slashing his wrists in a suicide attempt, thought to be a result of his long battle with heroin addiction. In May 1996, Gahan overdosed on a speedball at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles, the lyrics are thought to be an allusion to these events. Martin Gore had a string of seizures as well as battling alcoholism, in mid-1996, Gore tried to get Gahan and Fletcher interested in recording new Depeche Mode material by writing a few songs to promote interest in working together again. It worked, and the band were together, except now as a trio again—the first time since 1982s A Broken Frame. Barrel of a Gun brings back the music sound, and is one of the bands darkest songs. Gore wasnt sure if it was going to be a big hit, Gore did eventually recommend the song and it turned out the rest of band, Daniel Miller, and producer Tim Simenon agreed. It reached number 4 in the UK singles chart in 1997, since then, Precious has also reached number 4 in the UK, in 2005. The B-side is a 7+ minute instrumental called Painkiller, which reflects the new dirty-electronic, a condensed version shows up as a hidden track on the Ultra album as Junior Painkiller. The music video for Barrel of a Gun is directed by Anton Corbijn and it features Gahan with long hair singing with his eyes closed, with eyeballs drawn on his eyelids to make it seem like they are open. The video was shot in Morocco, the latter was not released in the US till the 2004 re-release. Barrel of a Gun Barrel of a Gun All songs written by Martin L. Gore, single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics LYRICS
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John the Revelator / Lilian
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John the Revelator/Lilian is the second double A-side single by Depeche Mode and their forty-fourth single overall, released on 5 June 2006. Both songs are featured on Depeche Modes 2005 album, Playing the Angel, the single became another UK Top 20 hit for the band, reaching number 18. John the Revelator was added to BBC6 Musics B-List, and it was also played by a few alternative rock radio stations in the US, including WKQX, throughout 2006, despite not being released as a single there. John the Revelator was edited down several seconds for the single, while Lilian was slightly remixed, the single is the first UK double A-side release by the band since Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody in 1984. John The Revelator was played during Depeche Modes Touring the Angel tour, single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Songs of Faith and Devotion
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The album incorporated a more aggressive, darker rock-oriented tone than its predecessor, Violator, largely influenced by the emerging alternative rock and grunge scenes in the United States. Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached number one in several countries, to support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the fourteen-month-long Devotional Tour, the largest tour the band had ever undertaken to that date. Recording the album and the subsequent tour exacerbated growing tensions and difficulties within the band, prompting Alan Wilder to quit, the ordeal had exhausted their creative output following the enormous success they had enjoyed with Violator, leading to rumours and media speculation that the band would split. Depeche Mode subsequently recovered from the experience, and released Ultra in 1997, Songs of Faith and Devotion was recorded over eight months in a rented villa in Madrid during 1992, as well as later sessions in Hamburg and London. A studio was set up in the basement of the villa, the recordings from the kits could then be processed through synthesizers, such as the large Roland System 700 the band had installed in the studio. The band had become aware of getting caught in easy routines in the leading to boredom. For making Songs of Faith and Devotion, the band wanted the sound to be looser, embellishments like reversed cymbals were added later at the behest of Wilder, who often suggested such experimentation. Further techniques used in recording included the piano on the outro to the track Mercy in You. The introduction of the track Judas has uillean pipes recorded with reversed reverberation mixed into the sound, to achieve a haunting, walking in My Shoes included a piano part which was processed through a guitar processor to add distortion. A harpsichord sample was played and recorded over the top, giving a unique. The sound produced was very embryonic, however it gave the band a direction as to how the track should sound, guitars were processed through devices such as Leslie tone cabinets, originally designed for organs, to achieve different sounds. Following the success of Violator and the subsequent tour, the band had taken a break from each other. Upon returning, they found it difficult to collaborate, with several factors contributing to the difficult atmosphere that the band experienced recording the album. Fletcher described the living together as claustrophobic, and the lack of a break from each other as a factor in contributing to the stress. Gore felt pressured to write tracks that could live up to the success of the album, Violator. Since then, Gahan had also developed an addiction, which slowed the recording process. The band also began to jam together, something which they had not previously done in terms of album writing, the lack of success of coming up with musical ideas from such jams led to intense frustration. Unlike the previous albums, there was very little pre-production, where the band would listen to demos created by Gore, Flood recalls the lack of pre-production as a big mistake that adversely affected the early recording sessions
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Exciter (album)
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The album was produced by Mark Bell of Björk and LFO fame. The album also launched the Exciter Tour, one of the bands most successful tours, Exciter debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart and at number eight on the Billboard 200, selling 115,000 copies in its first week in the US. It is the only Depeche Mode album to debut higher in the US than in the UK, as of April 2006, Exciter had sold more than 426,000 copies in the US, and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album was also certified Gold in Canada for shipments of 50,000 units, the remastered album was released on deluxe vinyl 30 March 2007 in Germany and 1 October 2007 internationally. The plant that appears on the cover is the agave attenuata and it is used to produce tequila. On 2 October 2007 Exciter was re-released in a set, along with Ultra, in the fourth. The first disc was a version of the original, on an SACD/CD hybrid. The second disc is a DVD which features the album in DTS5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, the B-sides from Exciter as well as the single version of Freelove are included. There are also versions of all the live Exciter tracks played during the One Night in Paris movie. Like the other reissues, there is a documentary on the making of Exciter titled Depeche Mode 1999–2001, the documentary begins with the talks of Martin Gores writers block and what they did about it. It also discusses the first three singles, the recording, the art and the Exciter tour. The documentary is around 30 minutes long, the three members of the band are interviewed along with Daniel Miller, Christian Eigner, Peter Gordeno, Anton Corbijn, and Mute label representatives. The documentary ends with a To Be Continued, producer Mark Bell does not appear, and although they discuss the fact that the band decided not to have Corbijn direct Exciters music videos, they do not interview the two who did direct them. However, John Hillcoat, who directed I Feel Loved, Freelove, all songs written by Martin Gore. Mute, DMCD10 Disc 1 is a hybrid SACD/CD with a multi-channel SACD layer, Disc 2 is a DVD which includes Exciter in DTS5.1, Dolby Digital 5. Joy Machine List of number-one albums of 2001 List of number-one hits of 2001 Album information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Official remaster info
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Shake the Disease
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Band member Alan Wilder felt this song captured the essence of the band, saying that theres a certain edge to what we do that can make people think twice about things. If weve got a choice between calling a song Understand Me or Shake the Disease, well call it Shake the Disease, theres a lot of perversity and innuendo in our lyrics, but nothing direct. The music video is the first Depeche Mode video directed by Peter Care and it was shot in the town of Hounslow in London. The track reached the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in November 1985 and it reached number 18 in the UK singles chart. The single reached the Top 10 in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. the song entered the Irish top 10 and even reached the number 1 spot in Poland. In France, Shake the Disease peaked at number 13, remaining in the top 50 for six months, los Angeles modern rock radio station KROQ-FM named Shake the Disease as the number one song of 1985. All songs written by Martin Gore, the song was covered by the Belgian band Hooverphonic for the 1998 tribute album For the Masses
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Violator (album)
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Violator is the seventh studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 19 March 1990 by Mute Records. Preceded by the hit singles Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence, the album yielded two further hit singles, Policy of Truth and World in My Eyes. Violator is the bands first album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and it was supported by the World Violation Tour. Compared to previous efforts, the decided to try a new approach to recording. Alan Wilder said, Usually we begin the making of a record by having extensive pre-production meetings where we decide what the record will actually sound like and this time we decided to keep all pre-production work to a minimum. We were beginning to have a problem with boredom in that we felt wed reached a level of achievement in doing things a certain way. Martin Gore elaborated, Over the last five years I think wed perfected a formula, my demos and we decided that our first record of the 90s ought to be different. With co-producer Mark Flood Ellis, Wilder began a working relationship, with Flood able to provide the technical know-how and Wilder working on the arrangements. Thats how we made the work at that time, clarified Wilder, by accepting that we all had different roles. So we ended up with this agreement in the band. Then Fletch and Mart would go away, and theyd come back after wed worked on it for a while to give an opinion, there was also a notable change in Gores demos. After the rigid, limiting effects of almost-finished demos for Music for the Masses, Gore, heeding to Wilders request, several of the basic recordings consisted of vocals over simple guitar or organ part, with the odd percussion loop but less sequenced material. The sparse demos allowed the band to take liberties with the songs. For instance, Enjoy the Silence started out as a slow ballad, the band convened to work on the record with Flood at Mutes WorldWide programming room in London for three weeks after which they flew to Milan for the new sessions at Logic studios. According to Flood, they didnt do substantial amount of work in Milan, except for the song Personal Jesus, everybody was feeling each other out, because they wanted to try working in a different way. The idea was to hard and party hard and we all enjoyed ourselves to the full. After Milan the band relocated to Puk studios in northern Denmark, Martin called the track World in My Eyes a very positive song. Its saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things, the song Blue Dress, which Gore called pervy, is simply about watching a girl dress and realising that this is what makes the world turn
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Heaven (Depeche Mode song)
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Heaven is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released as the lead single from their thirteenth studio album, Delta Machine. Written by Martin L. Gore and produced by Ben Hillier, the single was released digitally in most territories on 31 January 2013, and physically on 1 February. In the United Kingdom, Heaven was released digitally on 17 March 2013, the B-side All Thats Mine was written by Dave Gahan and Kurt Uenala. An accompanying music video for Heaven was directed by Timothy Saccenti, in June 2013, the single was certified gold by the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana, denoting downloads exceeding 15,000 units in Italy. In the UK, by contrast, the single reached #60, the music video for Heaven was directed by Timothy Saccenti and filmed in November 2012 at The Marigny Opera House, a former Catholic church in New Orleanss Faubourg Marigny. Previously, Saccenti had directed the In-Studio Collage 2012 video for Angel that premiered at the press conference in Paris on 23 October 2012. The videos look was inspired by Terence Malicks 2011 film The Tree of Life, with its beautiful yet twisted, mainly its a performance video, which we havent done in a long time, Gahan stated. The video debuted on VEVO on 1 February 2013. CD and iTunes single Heaven –4,03 All Thats Mine –3,23 CD maxi single, credits adapted from CD single liner notes
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Soothe My Soul
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Soothe My Soul is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode from their thirteenth studio album, Delta Machine. It was released as the second single on 10 May 2013 in Germany. The release date for North America was 14 May 2013, and 13 May 2013 for the rest of the world, in the United Kingdom, the single was released physically on 10 June 2013. The music video directed by Warren Fu was premiered on 28 March 2013, the song hit the Top 10 in 3 countries, including a number 1 spot in Hungary
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A Pain That I'm Used To
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A Pain That Im Used To is the second single and opening track of the album Playing the Angel by Depeche Mode, and the forty-second DM single overall. The single was released on 12 December 2005 by Mute Records, the single contains remixes by UK Mute label mates Goldfrapp, and Jacques Lu Cont. There are also two radio versions, the first one is only a slight remix, whereas the second contains a completely different, more electronic introduction and instrumentation. Although Better Days was mentioned to be the B-side for the single in its press release, Better Days went on to be the B-side to the following single, Suffer Well. Newborn is a song that transforms into a harder song during the chorus. It is a fan-favourite in terms of B-sides, the single was only physically released in the UK. The US only had a digital release, the song reached number 15 upon UK release. In the US, the song debuted at number 45 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on 14 January 2006, the music video is directed by Uwe Flade, who also directed the Precious single. It features much more action sequences, than the Precious video. Depeche Modes live drummer Christian Eigner also appears in the video, the song was featured on the Bones episode THE WOMAN IN THE TUNNEL. It is also featured in the first trailer for the 2010 film The Sorcerers Apprentice, the Jacques Lu Cont Remix also appears on the soundtrack to EA Sports 2006 FIFA World Cup video game. The track is one of the few Depeche Mode songs to feature a real bass, which is played by Andy Fletcher in this one.49 A Pain That Im Used To -3
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A Question of Time
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A Question of Time is Depeche Modes seventeenth UK single, released on 11 August 1986, following the similarly titled A Question of Lust single. The single charts 17 in UK single charts. The 7 remix of A Question of Time runs at a faster tempo. A version of the remix with a faster tempo appeared on The Singles 86-98. There is no new track for a B-Side, but instead includes a remix of Black Celebration, the New Town Remix directly segues into the Live Remix on the limited 12 single. The music video for A Question of Time is the first DM video to be directed by Anton Corbijn, and was the start of a relationship with him and the band which still lasts to this day. It was included on the Strange video, The Videos 86-98, the DVD of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 and on Video Singles Collection. A Question of Time –6,38 Stripped –6,22 Black Celebration –6,05 Something to Do –3,50 A Question of Time –4,04 Live tracks recorded on 10 April 1986 at the Birmingham N. E. C. Gore All live tracks were recorded at the Birmingham N. E. C. on 10 April 1986, the music video features all of the band members holding babies. In the beginning of the video, Alan Wilder is shown on a porch waiting for something. A man dressed almost like a daredevil rides a motorcycle with a baby and he drives to Alan on the porch and hands him the baby. The video shows the members of the band holding a baby. One baby grabs onto Martins hair and yanks it profusely while he smiles, dutch electronic band Clan of Xymox recorded the song on their cover theme album Kindred Spirits Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Enjoy the Silence
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Enjoy the Silence is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, taken from their seventh studio album, Violator. The song was recorded in 1989 and released on 16 January 1990 as the second single. The single is Gold certificated in the US and Germany, the song won Best British Single at the 1991 BRIT Awards. Enjoy the Silence was re-released as a single in 2004 for the Depeche Mode remix project Remixes 81–04, there are two instrumental B-sides to Enjoy the Silence. Sibeling is a soft piano-tune while Memphisto is a darker, eerier track, the title of Sibeling refers to Finnish classical composer Jean Sibelius. According to Martin Gore, Memphisto is the name of a film about Elvis as a Devil. The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for Enjoy the Silence references the themes, brief flashes of a single rose appear throughout the scenes. When Corbijn presented the concept of the video to the band and they changed their minds, when he explained that the idea was that the King represented a man with everything in the world, just looking for a quiet place to sit, a king of no kingdom. Andy Fletcher jokes that he favoured the video only had to do about an hours worth of work. The video uses a different mix of the album version of the song that has not been released in any audio format. The final long shots of the king walking through the snow are not Gahan but rather the videos producer, Gahan had left the set, tired of the cold in Switzerland. There are in two edited versions of the Corbijn-directed video. One version - which appears to be the earlier version - begins with Andy Fletcher looking towards his right as the song begins. Shots of Dave Gahan dressed as a king singing directly to the camera are intercut with scenes of his walking through the Scottish Highlands, the coast of Portugal, the video ends with Gahan singing the last line, Enjoy the silence. Then putting his finger in front of his lips as if to quiet the viewer, the other version begins with Martin Gore looking to his right as the song begins. This version omits the shots of Gahan singing directly to the camera, the video ends with Gahan sitting on a deck chair in the snow while the last line, Enjoy the silence. There are also differences in the shots of the band standing together between the two versions. In a review, Tim Di Gravina wrote that Enjoy the Silence is one of Depeche Modes greatest songs with a pristine and lush yet punishing musical environment and lyrics of violence, in 1998, Failure covered the song for the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses
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Personal Jesus
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Personal Jesus is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 28 August 1989 as the lead single from their seventh album, Violator. The single reached No.13 on the UK Singles Chart, the song was the first single to make the US Top 40 for the band since their 1984 single People Are People and was their first gold-certified single in the US. In Germany, the single is one of the bands longest-charting songs, Personal Jesus was re-released as a single on 30 May 2011 for the new Depeche Mode remix album Remixes 2, 81–11, with the leading remix by the production team Stargate. The song was inspired by the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley, according to songwriter Martin Gore, Its a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. Personal Jesus is written in the key of F♯ minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute in 128 time, in mid-1989, the band began recording in Milan with record producer Flood. The result of session was the single Personal Jesus, which featured a catchy bluesy riff and drum-based sound. The song became a big hit across the world, and is one of Depeche Modes most successful songs, although not the first Depeche Mode song to feature guitar parts, it was the first time a guitar was used as a dominant instrument in a Depeche Mode song. Prior to its release, advertisements were placed in the columns of regional newspapers in the UK with the words Your own personal Jesus. Later, the ads included a number one could dial to hear the song. The ensuing controversy helped propel the single to No.13 on the UK charts, the single was particularly successful commercially thanks to the fact that it was released six months prior to the album it would later appear on. Up to that point, it was the best selling 12 single in Warner Brothers history, Personal Jesus had a plethora of remixes, almost unprecedented for Depeche Mode at the time. The Hazchemix and Hazchemix Edit of Dangerous were mixed by Daniel Miller, the back-cover of Personal Jesus features one of the band members and the back-side of a naked woman. The band member she is with depends on whether it is the 7 Vinyl, the 12 Vinyl, on some copies she does not appear at all, such as the 2004 CD re-release, and on promo copies. On some limited releases, like the GBong17, all four photos are available plus one photo of the full group. The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for Personal Jesus is his first Depeche Mode video in colour, MTV edited out some suggestive mouth movements of Martin Gore during the bridge and replaced it with some other footage from the video. All songs written by Martin Gore, the digital single was released in the UK on 18 April 2011. It was released a day later in the US, frusciante plays guitar on the track, along with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell. It appears as the B-side to another cover, Nine Inch Nails Hurt, marilyn Mansons 2004 cover version of Personal Jesus appears on the bands best-of compilation, Lest We Forget, The Best Of, and was that albums lead single
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Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody
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Blasphemous Rumours/Somebody is Depeche Modes twelfth UK single and first double A-side single, released on 29 October 1984. Both A-side songs are from the album Some Great Reward, somebody is the first single with Martin Gore as lead vocals, one of only three. The music videos for songs were directed by Clive Richardson. The single charts number 16 in UK single charts, the verses to Blasphemous Rumours describe a 16-year-old girl who attempts suicide but fails. She experiences a religious revival but is killed in a car accident aged 18 and dies. The chorus uses these incidents to conclude, I dont want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that Gods got a sense of humour /. Like other songs on Some Great Reward, the uses a dense sound with extensive sampled percussion. No Bong number, same cover as the vinyl version, Filipino R&B band Freestyle revived the song in mid-2000s, the band is the first Filipino musician to cover the song. Filipino musical group BoybandPH is the second Filipino musician to cover the song in 2017, english singer Damian Wilson covered the song for his 2016 solo album Built For Fighting. Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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A Question of Lust
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A Question of Lust is Depeche Modes sixteenth UK single, released on 14 April 1986. It is the second Depeche Mode single with Martin Gore on lead vocals, after Somebody, however, the 12 single was released as a double A-side with A Question of Time in the US, like Somebody. The single hit number 28 in the UK single charts, in West Germany, the single became a top ten hit on the sales chart. The B-side is an instrumental called Christmas Island, named after the island of the same name and it is penned by both Martin Gore and Alan Wilder and was produced by Depeche Mode themselves. The live tracks available on versions of the single are taken from a 1984 concert in Basel. The music video for A Question of Lust features the return of director Clive Richardson for his last video with the band. It also became the last music video the band filmed before the arrival of Dutch director Anton Corbijn, a Question of Lust –4,29 Christmas Island –4,51 The Single version is basically the Album version, but without the cross-fade from the previous track. CBong11 was released as a 12 single in Germany and as a very rare CD single in France. Alan Wilder is quoted as saying that when Flood eventually delivered his remix of A Question Of Lust and they were understandably annoyed therefore when it emerged that Mute Records hadnt actually sent him both the multitrack tapes. The only difference between the Edit and the single version is that it is faded about 20 seconds earlier. It was released in 1986 All songs written by Martin L. Gore, except Christmas Island was written by Martin Gore and Alan Wilder, Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Condemnation (song)
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Condemnation is a song by Depeche Mode, released as the groups twenty-ninth UK single on 13 September 1993, and the third single from their album Songs of Faith and Devotion. The song reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, Condemnation is a gospel-esque song with a rock twist. The 7 version is the Paris Mix, with backing vocals added. Band members indicated that this song normally would have been sung by Martin Gore, Gahan voted for Condemnation to be the first single for Songs of Faith and Devotion, but lost. The B-sides are remixes of Deaths Door and Rush, and some tracks from the Devotional Tour. Deaths Door was a song from the 1991 Until the End of the World soundtrack, the original version is still exclusive to that CD, recorded only by Martin Gore and Alan Wilder after the World Violation Tour was over. The music video for Condemnation was directed by Anton Corbijn and was shot in Hungary, for unknown reasons, it did not appear on The Videos 86-98 in 1998, replaced by the live version from Devotional. The original video eventually resurfaced on The Videos 86-98s 2002 re-release, both videos appear on the Devotional DVD re-release in 2004. South African band Absinthe covered the song on their album A Rendezvous at Nirvana, Condemnation –3,21 Deaths Door –6,387 released as a promo only, not commercially released, hence why both songs appear on the 12 version. All live songs were recorded in Milan, Italy in 1993, all songs written by Martin Gore. Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode song)
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Just Cant Get Enough is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released in September 1981 as the single from their debut album, Speak. It was recorded during the summer of year at Blackwing Studios. A riff-driven synthpop song, Just Cant Get Enough was the single to be written by founding member Vince Clarke. The single version of Just Cant Get Enough is the version that appears on the UK version of Speak. The 12 single featured a Schizo Mix, which is a version with additional synth parts adding a sinister feel to the track. This version appears on the US version of Speak and Spell, the UK re-release of Speak and Spell, in addition, the singles B-side, Any Second Now, was the first commercially available Depeche Mode instrumental. It shows up on the UK rerelease of Speak and Spell, a version including vocals appeared on the album as Any Second Now. There is also a version, the Altered Mix. In the United States, the B-side is Tora, on the album, the song is crossfaded with the previous track, Photographic, but on the single, the introduction is clean. The single reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart and it also became the bands first hit in Australia, reaching number 4. Due to Vince Clarkes songwriting, the song has a bubbly, upbeat feel that stands in contrast to the darker, Just Cant Get Enough was the first Depeche Mode song to get a music video. It is the only Depeche Mode video with Vince Clarke, Tora. –4,17 Notes 1, CD released in 19882, CD released in 1991 All songs written by Vince Clarke except for Tora. Australian alternative rock band Tlot Tlot have covered the song twice, first on their live album The Live Set - Volume 1 in 1993, in 1997, happy hardcore DJ duo Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo covered the song as a single. The music mix being done by the Dust Brothers, on 7 October 1999, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno did a parody of the ad, which featured old men singing the song for a fictional Viagra ad. In 2004, French band Nouvelle Vague adapted the song in a style on the album. Japanese musician Anna Tsuchiya covered the song on her 2007 single Kuroi Namida, in 2008, Mika performed a cover of the song for his Live Parc des Princes Paris concert. In 2011, German rockabilly band Dick Brave & The Backbeats covered the song on the album RocknRoll Therapy, on 14 February 2013 the song was performed on Glee by Kurt and Blaine
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I Feel You
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I Feel You is a song by Depeche Mode, released on 15 February 1993 as their 27th UK single and the first single from the album Songs of Faith and Devotion. The song peaked at eight on the UK Singles Chart and also made number one. It was the bands highest-charting single worldwide, the song is ostensibly about connection between two individuals. I Feel You demonstrates a more rock-oriented sound, using more instruments than ever before. For example, Alan Wilder plays drums, and Martin Gore plays the guitar, I Feel You has a compound time signature of 6/8. The 7 version of I Feel You is the same as the album version, the Throb Mix is a 12 version, but with incomplete lyrics. On the cover of I Feel You, there are four symbols, using the latter, the top left corner is Alan Wilder, the top right corner is Dave Gahan, the bottom left corner is Martin Gore, and the bottom right corner is Andy Fletcher. The single release contained One Caress, a track from Songs of Faith, in the USA, Sire/Reprise released One Caress as a promo-only single. One promo copy has the version, and the other has the version from Songs of Faith. There is no remix for the song, the music video for I Feel You was directed by Anton Corbijn. The woman in the video was English actress Lysette Anthony, there is also a music video for One Caress, directed by Kevin Kerslake, that was filmed during one of the off-days of the Devotional Tour in the US. It was a video that was later released on The Videos 86>98. Prior to its inclusion on The Videos 86>98, the video for One Caress was frequently broadcast on MTVs Alternative Rock video block 120 Minutes. On 2 September 1993, I Feel You was nominated in the MTV Video Music Awards, the song was also used in a scene in Fatih Akins Turkish-German film Gegen die Wand. Spanish band OBK did a cover using I Feel You lyrics and it was later released on Sleeping with Ghosts for the 2 CD version, which included a covers album. Polish death metal band Vader covered the song on their album, Future of the Past, the song title on this album was shortened into the acronym I. F. Y. and the lyrics were heavily altered. The song also appears on editions of Vaders 1995 album De Profundis. Swiss industrial metal band Samael covered the song on their On Earth EP, the Argentinian rock band Catupecu Machu recorded a cover for the hidden track on their album Cuentos Decapitados
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Never Let Me Down Again
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Never Let Me Down Again is Depeche Modes nineteenth UK single, released on 24 August 1987, and the second single for the then upcoming album Music for the Masses. A relatively moderate hit in the UK at number 22, it was a smash in West Germany, where it hit number 2, the cover art features fragments of a Soviet map of Russia and Europe, with different fragments used for the different editions of the single. Studio impresario Alan Wilder and the members of the band considered the track an obvious single with much potential. They developed it throughout so that dramatic-type elements such as the Led Zeppelin-influenced drum patterns, the coda of Never Let Me Down Again references Soft Cells song Torch. The main remix version of the track, known as the Split Mix, the 12 maxi release stretched to exactly nine and a half minutes long. Oddly enough, despite the results from the point of view of the band. The song became a favourite among fans, especially live, shows during Depeche Modes 1988 tour were often concluded with this song. Notable in the 101 video is when Dave Gahan waves his arms in the air toward the end of the song, and it is now customary at Depeche Mode shows for fans to wave their arms in the air during the coda section of Never Let Me Down Again. The main 12 remix of Never Let Me Down Again is known as the Split Mix, as stated above, in detail, the remix features the regular song, an added intro piece, and a techno-like musical arrangement appended at the end. The arrangement was expanded to the Aggro Mix on the 12 B-side, the Split Mix appears on the album collection Remixes 81–04, a release that came out on October 2004. Another remix of the track, done by the German group Digitalism and that remix appears on the bands remix compilation Remixes 2, 81–11 as well. Eric Prydz also remixed the song for this album, there are two music videos for Never Let Me Down Again, directed by Anton Corbijn. There is also a video with just the single version of the song. The short version appears on The Videos 86>98, the DVD of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1, pleasure, Little Treasure is a short dance track. An extended version called the Glitter Mix ends with fragments of recordings that have been reversed and treated with delay effects. Notably, some of these sounds can be heard in the track Mothers Talk from the 1985 Tears for Fears album Songs from the Big Chair, which was engineered by Dave Bascombe. The Glitter Mix showed up as a track on the CD/Cassette versions of Music for the Masses. The rarer b-side is To Have and To Hold, Martin Gores original plan for the song sounded a lot like upbeat electropop, but Alan Wilder turned it into the dark wave track it eventually became
