Violator

This article describes the Depeche Mode album. For the metal band see Violator (band) .

Violator
Depeche Mode studio album
Publication (s)	March 19, 1990
admission	May 1989 - January 1990
Label (s)	Mute Records
Format (s)	CD, DVD, Hybrid-SACD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Synth pop , alternative rock , new wave
Title (number)	9
running time	46:52
occupation	Singing: Dave Gahan Keyboard, guitar, vocals, bass: Martin L. Gore Keyboard, drums: Alan Wilder Keyboard: Andrew Fletcher
production	Depeche Mode, Flood
Studio (s)	Logic (Milan) Puk (Denmark) The Church & Master Rock, London (England) Axis, New York (USA)
Location (s)	New York City, London, Milan
chronology Music for the Masses (1987) Violator Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993)
Single releases August 29, 1989 Personal Jesus 5th February 1990 Enjoy the silence May 7, 1990 Policy of Truth 17th September 1990 World in My Eyes

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Violator   DE 2 04/02/1990 (48 weeks)   AT 4th 04/01/1990 (23 weeks)   CH 2 04/01/1990 (14 weeks)   UK 2 March 31, 1990 (30 weeks)   US 7th 04/07/1990 (74 weeks)

Singles

Personal Jesus   DE 5 09/18/1989 (23 weeks)   CH 5 09/24/1989 (15 weeks)   UK 13 09/09/1989 (9 weeks)   US 28 09.12.1989 (20 weeks) Enjoy the silence   DE 2 02/19/1990 (24 weeks)   AT 13 03/18/1990 (15 weeks)   CH 2 02/18/1990 (17 weeks)   UK 6th 02/17/1990 (9 weeks)   US 8th April 14, 1990 (24 weeks) Policy of Truth   DE 7th May 21, 1990 (16 weeks)   CH 12 06/10/1990 (9 weeks)   UK 16 May 19, 1990 (6 weeks)   US 15th 08/11/1990 (16 weeks) World in My Eyes   DE 7th 10/08/1990 (21 weeks)   CH 5 October 21, 1990 (9 weeks)   UK 17th 09/29/1990 (6 weeks)   US 52 11/24/1990 (10 weeks)

Violator (English for: " Pest ") is the seventh studio album by the British synth-pop band Depeche Mode . It was released in 1990 and is the band's best-selling album to date with over 15 million units sold worldwide. In the Rolling Stone magazine published in 2003 " List of the 500 best albums of all time " it is led at number 342.

The worldwide World Violation Tour followed the album . Since then, Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence have always been part of Depeche Mode's live concerts.

Music genre

With the album the band began to incorporate unfamiliar acoustic guitars into their pieces. The first single Personal Jesus surprised with the rocking guitar playing. The song was later covered by Johnny Cash , Marilyn Manson , Placebo and more recently by Nina Hagen and Def Leppard . The song also became the most successful 12 "single in the history of the Warner Bros. music group. The very successful single Enjoy the Silence , the band's best-known song , is also influenced by guitars .

Track list

1. World in My Eyes (Martin L. Gore) - 4:26
2. Sweetest Perfection (Martin L. Gore) - 4:43
3. Personal Jesus (Martin L. Gore) - 4:56
4. Halo (Martin L. Gore) - 4:30
5. Waiting for the Night (Martin L. Gore) - 6:07
6. Enjoy the Silence (Martin L. Gore) - 6:12
7. Policy of Truth (Martin L. Gore) - 4:55
8. Blue Dress (Martin L. Gore) - 5:41
9. Clean (Martin L. Gore) - 5:28

The lyrics are from Martin Gore, who also did the vocals for the songs Sweetest Perfection and Blue Dress . All other tracks were sung by Dave Gahan as usual. The album contains two interludes : Interlude # 2 - Crucified after Enjoy the Silence and Interlude # 3 after Blue Dress ( Interlude # 1 is on Music for the Masses , Interlude # 4 on Songs of Faith and Devotion ). In Crucified heavily distorted voice of Andy Fletcher is heard, pronounce the just word.

Setlist of the World Violation Tour 1990

1. Kaleid (intro)
2. World in My Eyes
3. Halo
4. Shake the disease
5. Everything Counts
6. Master and Servant
7. Never Let Me Down Again
8. Waiting for the night
9. • I want you now
   • Here is the house
   • Little 15
10. • World full of nothing
    • Sweetest Perfection
    • Blue dress
11. Clean
12. Stripped
13. Policy of Truth
14. Enjoy the silence
15. Strangelove
16. Personal Jesus
17. Black Celebration
18. A question of time
19. Behind the wheel
20. Route 66

The song Route 66 is a cover by Bobby Troup and included as a B-side on the single Behind the Wheel .

Republication

On March 31, 2006, Violator was re-released on SACD and DVD . In addition to the previous album songs in multi-channel sound and the documentation Depeche Mode 1989–91: "If you wanna use guitars, use guitars" , the new edition also contains the following bonus tracks:

• Dangerous
• Memphisto
• Sibeling
• Kaleid
• Happiest Girl (Jack Mix)
• Sea of ​​Sin (Tonal Mix)

Web links

• Violator , Personal Jesus , Enjoy the Silence , Policy of Truth and World in My Eyes on the official band homepage
• CD criticism at laut.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ musicline.de: Depeche Mode in the German single charts ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Austriancharts.at: Depeche Mode in the Austrian charts
3. ↑ Depeche Mode in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
4. ↑ Depeche Mode in the Official UK Charts (English)
5. ↑ billboard.com: Depeche Mode on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart
6. ↑ billboard.com: Depeche Mode on the US Billboard 200 album charts