Songs of Faith and Devotion

Songs of Faith and Devotion
Depeche Mode studio album
Publication (s)	March 22, 1993
admission	February 1992 - January 1993
Label (s)	Mute Records
Genre (s)	Synth pop , synth rock , new wave , alternative rock , industrial rock , rock , grunge
Title (number)	10
running time	47:26
occupation	Dave Gahan Martin Gore Alan Wilder Andrew Fletcher
production	Depeche Mode, Flood
Location (s)	Hamburg, Madrid
chronology Violator (1990) Songs of Faith and Devotion Ultra (1997)
Single releases February 15, 1993 I feel you April 26, 1993 Walking in My Shoes September 13, 1993 Condemnation January 10, 1994 In your room

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Songs of Faith and Devotion   DE 1 04/05/1993 (46 weeks)   AT 1 04/04/1993 (25 weeks)   CH 1 04/04/1993 (12 weeks)   UK 1 04/03/1993 (16 weeks)   US 1 04/10/1993 (29 weeks)

Singles

I feel you   DE 4th 03/15/1993 (15 weeks)   AT 7th 03/07/1993 (10 weeks)   CH 4th 03/14/1993 (12 weeks)   UK 8th 02/27/1993 (7 weeks)   US 37 03/06/1993 (12 weeks) Walking in My Shoes   DE 14th 05/10/1993 (24 weeks)   AT 29 06/13/1993 (1 week)   CH 26th 05/16/1993 (7 weeks)   UK 14th 05/08/1993 (4 weeks)   US 69 06/05/1993 (8 weeks) Condemnation   DE 23 04/10/1993 (18 weeks)   CH 38 10/17/1993 (1 week)   UK 9 09/25/1993 (4 weeks) In your room   DE 24 January 31, 1994 (14 weeks)   CH 14th 02/06/1994 (6 weeks)   UK 8th 01/22/1994 (4 weeks)

Songs of Faith and Devotion (German: songs of faith and devotion ) is the eighth studio album by the British synth-pop band Depeche Mode . It reached number one on the charts in Germany as well as in Great Britain and the USA . The recordings took place in Madrid and Hamburg .

The album was followed by a 14-month world tour with a total of 174 concerts and over two million viewers. From this tour the live album Songs of Faith and Devotion Live and the video or DVD Devotional emerged.

It is the last album with Alan Wilder, who left the band in 1995.

style

Dave Gahan in particular - long-haired, bearded and clad in leather has become a rocker himself - wanted the band to take a rockier and harder direction with Songs of Faith and Devotion . The first single I Feel You in particular illustrates the influence of alternative rock bands such as Nirvana, which were successful at the time . For the first time, the band used acoustic drums here, played by Alan Wilder. As the album title suggests, Martin Gore explained to the songs with religious and spiritual issues, which in the third single, the gospel -like Condemnation finds its climax.

The band used guest musicians for the first time for Songs of Faith and Devotion , for example backing singers on Condemnation and Get Right with Me and strings on One Caress .

Track list

1. I Feel You - 4:35
2. Walking in My Shoes - 5:35
3. Condemnation - 3:20
4. Mercy in You - 4:17
5. Jude - 5:14
6. In Your Room - 6:26
7. Get Right with Me - 3:32
8. Rush - 4:37
9. One Caress - 3:30
10. Higher Love - 5:56

The compositions are exclusively by Martin Gore, who also sings the songs Judas and One Caress . All other tracks were sung by Dave Gahan. Hidden at the end of Get Right with Me is Interlude # 4 , an excerpt from I Feel You's Swamp Mix .

Single releases

• I Feel You - February 15, 1993
• Walking in My Shoes - April 16, 1993
• Condemnation - September 13, 1993
• In Your Room - January 10, 1994

I Feel You is - unlike most of the pop / rock songs - written in 6/8 time . The Swamp Mix was produced by Brian Eno and is used as an intro to the song at concerts.

Walking in My Shoes is the only one of the four singles on the album to have an exclusive B-side with My Joy . The single version of Walking in My Shoes is a remix by Mark Stent.

The single version of Condemnation is the Paris Mix , a slightly modified version remixed in Paris .

The single version of In Your Room , the Zephyr Mix , is very different from the album song. It comes from Butch Vig , who produced their album Nevermind with Nirvana , among others .

Setlist of the 1993 Devotional Tour

1. Higher love
2. Policy of Truth
3. World in My Eyes
4. Walking in My Shoes
5. Behind the wheel
6. Halo
7. Stripped
8. Condemnation
9. • Judas
   • A Question of Lust
10. • Death's Door
    • One caress
11. • Mercy in You
    • Get Right With Me
12. I feel you
13. Never Let Me Down Again
14. Rush
15. In your room
16. Personal Jesus
17. Enjoy the silence
18. • Fly on the windscreen
    • Something to Do
    • Somebody
19. Everything Counts

The song Death's Door is an original Depeche Mode song . It was originally written and published for the soundtrack of the Wim Wenders film To the End of the World . The song later appeared as the B-side on the single Condemnation .

Setlist of the Exotic Tour 1994

1. Rush
2. Halo
3. Behind the wheel
4. Everything Counts
5. World in My Eyes
6. Walking in My Shoes
7. Stripped
8. Condemnation
9. • Judas
   • A Question of Lust
   • One caress
   • Waiting for the night
10. • I want you now
    • One caress
    • Somebody
11. In your room
12. Never Let Me Down Again
13. I feel you
14. Personal Jesus
15. • Fly on the windscreen
    • Somebody
16. Enjoy the silence
17. • Policy of Truth
    • Clean
18. A question of time

Republication

On October 2, 2006, Songs of Faith and Devotion was re-released as SACD and DVD . In addition to the album songs in multi-channel sound and the documentary Depeche Mode 1991–94: "We were going to live together, record together and it was going to be wonderful" , the new edition also contains the following bonus tracks:

• My Joy
• Condemnation (Paris Mix)
• Death's Door (Jazz Mix)
• In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)
• I Feel You (Life's Too Short Mix)
• Walking in My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)
• My Joy (Slow Slide Mix)
• In Your Room (Apex Mix)

various

• The cover, designed by Anton Corbijn , is the band's only studio album cover showing the members.
• The video for In Your Room was conceived by Anton Corbijn as a retrospective of his work with Depeche Mode and contains allusions to older videos, as he was reluctant to use drugs at the time due to rising tension in the band and Dave Gahan's increasing drug addiction (which actually later lead to his near death should) was no longer sure whether the band would continue to exist in the medium term.
• The band originally played In Your Room live in the album version, but switched to the more poppy Zephyr Mix in mid-1994 . On the Tour of the Universe 2010 a mixture of album and Zephyr mix was played - the album version up to the second verse, then the Zephyr mix when the drums were used.
• When asked about his favorite Depeche Mode song, Dave Gahan mostly answers Condemnation , Alan Wilder mostly Walking in my shoes and In your room .
• If you remove the part of the CD case on which the CD is, you can see a picture of singer Dave Gahan in front of a sex shop.
• The (self-) designation of Depeche Mode fans as devotees goes back to the T-shirts worn by the roadies on the Devotional Tour.
• In April 2006 it was announced that the album had sold over 2 million copies in the US alone since its release.

Web links

• Songs of Faith and Devotion , I Feel You , Walking in My Shoes , Condemnation and In Your Room on the official band homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Depeche Mode in the German single charts. ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. musicline.de 
2. ↑ Depeche Mode in the Austrian charts. austriancharts.at
3. ↑ Depeche Mode in the Swiss charts. hitparade.ch
4. ↑ Depeche Mode in the Official UK Charts (English)
5. ↑ Depeche Mode on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. billboard.com
6. ↑ Depeche Mode in the German album charts. ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. musicline.de 
7. ↑ Depeche Mode on the US Billboard 200 album charts. billboard.com
8. ↑ Audio commentary on "In Your Room" on the DVD "Video Singles Collection" (2016)
9. ↑ Answers to readers' questions about the Fugees, Depeche Mode, New Order and digital charts. Billboard .com (English)