Personal Jesus
| Personal Jesus | |
|---|---|
| Depeche Mode | |
| publication | August 29, 1989 |
| length | 3:44 minutes |
| Genre (s) | Synth rock |
| text | Martin Gore |
| music | Depeche Mode |
| Publisher (s) | Mute Records |
| album | Violator |
Personal Jesus (Engl. For: " Personal Jesus ") is a song by the British synth-pop band Depeche Mode . It was released on August 29, 1989 and was the first single from the studio album Violator .
Personal Jesus reached number 5 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for 23 weeks . The single reached number 13 in Great Britain and number 28 in the USA .
In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine put the song at number 368 of the " 500 best songs of all time ". In September 2006, Q magazine voted the song among the 100 best songs of all time. The song was by numerous bands and singers gecovert , including Johnny Cash and Marilyn Manson .
Original version
The original version of the song, written by Martin Gore and produced by Depeche Mode and Flood , is one of Depeche Mode's biggest and longest running hits. Personal Jesus is in the band-typical synthesizer-heavy style, but the guitar is unusually strong in the foreground. The song stands out due to its monotonous melody, which follows a short and hard rhythmic motif. In terms of content, the song is about someone promising to be someone else's very personal Jesus as God , Savior or Savior.
Cover versions
- Johnny Cash
There is also a version of Personal Jesus on American IV: The Man Comes Around from 2002, the last album by country singer Johnny Cash released during his lifetime , which consists largely of reinterpretations of foreign and own songs . Cash, who deals intensely with love, death and religion on this album, sings the song with the broken voice of an old man, accompanied only by his guitar, which takes up the monotonous structure of Depeche Mode, and a piano. This piano uses a different, jazzy motif.
- Gravity Kills
The American industrial rock band Gravity Kills covered Personal Jesus on their 2002 album Superstarved . The single was released in 2003.
- Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson's version, released in 2004 on the best-of album Lest We Forget: The Best Of , interprets the song in industrial rock style . Like Cash, Manson left the lyrics practically unchanged. The single also reached number 13 in the UK charts.
Other versions
Also in 2004 a version of the French metal band No One is Innocent appeared on their album revolution.com, which was directed against the American Iraq war . The band values a high tempo, the instrumentation is less in the foreground than with Manson. The singer's French accent gives the version its own touch. Other cover versions have appeared by Hilary Duff , Richard Cheese , Tori Amos and Nina Hagen , for example .
Web links
- Personal Jesus at depechemode.com
- Text from Personnel Jesus
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date
- ↑ Peter Buckley: "Given that, by now. Depeche Mode had become a stadium phenomenon in the States. Violator seemed an oddly introspective way to sell six million units (the synth-rock single Personal Jesus was the exception to the rule). "The Rough Guide to Rock, 2003, p. 286, Rough Guides