Depeche Mode – Music For The Masses
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Mute – STUMM 47
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Vinyl, LP, Album, MPO Pressing
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Tracklist
A1 | Never Let Me Down Again | 4:47 |
A2 | The Things You Said | 3:55 |
A3 | Strangelove | 4:38 |
A4 | Sacred | 5:01 |
A5 | Little 15 | 4:14 |
B1 | Behind The Wheel | 5:17 |
B2 | I Want You Now | 3:28 |
B3 | To Have And To Hold | 3:08 |
B4 | Nothing | 4:12 |
B5 | Pimpf | 3:56 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Mute Records Ltd.
- Copyright (c) – Mute Records Ltd.
- Published By – Grabbing Hands
- Published By – Sonet Publishing
- Recorded At – Studio Guillaume Tell
- Recorded At – Konk Studios
- Mixed At – Puk Recording Studios
- Mastered At – The Exchange
- Pressed By – MPO
- Designed At – T&CP Associates
Credits
- Band [Depeche Mode Are] – Alan Wilder, Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan*, Martin Gore*
- Design, Photography By – David Jones*, Mark Higenbottam, Martyn Atkins
- Engineer – David Bascombe
- Lacquer Cut By – Jonz*
- Producer – David Bascombe, Depeche Mode
- Producer [Additional Production], Other [Help] – Daniel Miller
- Written-By – M.L. Gore*
Notes
Published by Grabbing Hands/Sonet.
Recorded at Studio Guilliame Tell, Paris and Konk, London.
Mixed at PUK Studios, Denmark.
Design & photography @ T&CP Assoc.
Thanks to Dave (stitch that) Powell, Henrik Nilsson, Peter Iverson Phillippe, Dean, Rico Conning.
[Inner sleeve]:
℗ & © Mute Records Limited @ 429 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE.
[Label]:
℗ + © 1987 Mute Records Ltd.
Made in England.
[Note on sleeve]:
"Spreading the News around the World"
Comes with a printed inner sleeve & textured picture sleeve.
Some copies include a "Mute/Documentary Evidence" 6 page insert with history and complete discography of Mute's releases.
There are currently 7 UK non promo versions:
1. This one.
2. 1987 MPO Withdrawn release.
3. 1987 MPO Clear vinyl.
4. 1987 Lyntone pressing.
5. 1987 Damont pressing.
6. MPO repress with plain sleeve.
7. MPO repress with plain sleeve and without printed innersleve.
Recorded at Studio Guilliame Tell, Paris and Konk, London.
Mixed at PUK Studios, Denmark.
Design & photography @ T&CP Assoc.
Thanks to Dave (stitch that) Powell, Henrik Nilsson, Peter Iverson Phillippe, Dean, Rico Conning.
[Inner sleeve]:
℗ & © Mute Records Limited @ 429 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE.
[Label]:
℗ + © 1987 Mute Records Ltd.
Made in England.
[Note on sleeve]:
"Spreading the News around the World"
Comes with a printed inner sleeve & textured picture sleeve.
Some copies include a "Mute/Documentary Evidence" 6 page insert with history and complete discography of Mute's releases.
There are currently 7 UK non promo versions:
1. This one.
2. 1987 MPO Withdrawn release.
3. 1987 MPO Clear vinyl.
4. 1987 Lyntone pressing.
5. 1987 Damont pressing.
6. MPO repress with plain sleeve.
7. MPO repress with plain sleeve and without printed innersleve.
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Crijevo
March 10, 2010
Whether this is Depeche Mode's side to 'Songs From the Big Chair' or not, 'Music for the Masses' finally cemented their status as one of electro-pop's finest craftsmen.
As much as it dared tackling Tears For Fears' musical genius, 'Music For the Masses' can also be observed as an album Ultravox wanted to make. Here Depeche Mode aim at the grandiose, adding neo-classical elements to great effect (another perverse beauty called 'Little 15', followed by a string of equally impressive b-side instrumentals - 'St. Jarna' and Wilder's solo-interpretation of 'Moonlight Sonata'). Once again, the group offers convincing pop-chart successes; the aggressive 'Never Let Me Down Again', 'Strangelove' (I prefer the single over the album's version) and 'Behind the Wheel'. These three also helped Depeche Mode's sonic image turn more subversive in the video-context.
Although these videos still struggled with the group's lousy acting, in choosing to work with Anton Corbijn (previously on 'Black Celebration'), they finally stepped out of the mediocre public pose as a teenage poster-group. Corbijn gave them deserved monochromatic security - although the group's LP sleeves are still delivered by the impressive T&CP Associates team, Corbijn's inclusion started slowly to affect their image - so blame it on the megaphone.
While carrying its strengths on the back of three aforementioned singles, 'Music For the Masses' contains far stronger pieces on the very album - particularly 'Sacred', featuring a menacing choir intro and the fierce, closing piano-soundtrack - 'Pimpf', both flirting with 'The Omen' and 'Carmina Burana' respectively (the hidden outro to 'Pimpf' contains an equally frightening rendition of 'Strangelove') .
Not to forget 'I Want You Now', one of Gore's beautiful a capella episodes - once again questioning both, time and lust, built on a simplified male-female sigh-snippet - sliding into a spy-like theme, 'To Have And To Hold'; indecipherable radio message giving the impression of voices echoing in one's head, all paranoia with morally induced lyrics. 'Nothing' is another impressive standard which sadly wasn't given a chance as a single - its an effectively negative statement, which indirectly (in terms of lyrics) echoes Gore's spiritual and materialistic doubts, once expressed in 'Everything Counts' and 'Blasphemous Rumours'.
This album turned another big page in the group's history - the world tour culminating in Pasadena Rose Bowl's concert where reportedly around 70.000 people witnessed one of the finest live appearances ever.
As much as it dared tackling Tears For Fears' musical genius, 'Music For the Masses' can also be observed as an album Ultravox wanted to make. Here Depeche Mode aim at the grandiose, adding neo-classical elements to great effect (another perverse beauty called 'Little 15', followed by a string of equally impressive b-side instrumentals - 'St. Jarna' and Wilder's solo-interpretation of 'Moonlight Sonata'). Once again, the group offers convincing pop-chart successes; the aggressive 'Never Let Me Down Again', 'Strangelove' (I prefer the single over the album's version) and 'Behind the Wheel'. These three also helped Depeche Mode's sonic image turn more subversive in the video-context.
Although these videos still struggled with the group's lousy acting, in choosing to work with Anton Corbijn (previously on 'Black Celebration'), they finally stepped out of the mediocre public pose as a teenage poster-group. Corbijn gave them deserved monochromatic security - although the group's LP sleeves are still delivered by the impressive T&CP Associates team, Corbijn's inclusion started slowly to affect their image - so blame it on the megaphone.
While carrying its strengths on the back of three aforementioned singles, 'Music For the Masses' contains far stronger pieces on the very album - particularly 'Sacred', featuring a menacing choir intro and the fierce, closing piano-soundtrack - 'Pimpf', both flirting with 'The Omen' and 'Carmina Burana' respectively (the hidden outro to 'Pimpf' contains an equally frightening rendition of 'Strangelove') .
Not to forget 'I Want You Now', one of Gore's beautiful a capella episodes - once again questioning both, time and lust, built on a simplified male-female sigh-snippet - sliding into a spy-like theme, 'To Have And To Hold'; indecipherable radio message giving the impression of voices echoing in one's head, all paranoia with morally induced lyrics. 'Nothing' is another impressive standard which sadly wasn't given a chance as a single - its an effectively negative statement, which indirectly (in terms of lyrics) echoes Gore's spiritual and materialistic doubts, once expressed in 'Everything Counts' and 'Blasphemous Rumours'.
This album turned another big page in the group's history - the world tour culminating in Pasadena Rose Bowl's concert where reportedly around 70.000 people witnessed one of the finest live appearances ever.
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