It's No Good

is a song from the 1997 album Ultra by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 31 March 1997.
== Notes ==
 in Bong magazine issue no. 37, 1998: "This is the one that sounded most like Depeche Mode on [Ultra], but I still really like it, because it's again, just on that right side of commerciality. I think it's really good when we achieve that balance."
Dave Gahan told MTV in 1997: "It was the most Depeche Mode sounding song that we've put out for a long time. The title itself is pretty funny, Depeche Mode's new single, 'It's No Good'. I like that."
According to Tim Simenon in the 2019-08-01 Depeche Mode special by Classic Pop magazine, 'It's No Good' was written by Martin Gore during the three-month break between mid-May 1996 and mid-August 1996. He continued: "'It's No Good' came together instantly. The demo sounded like a Depeche song and it wrote itself in terms of the production."
Gore described having felt initially hesitant to record 'It's No Good' at the demo stage due to its apparent mainstream pop-like qualities in a 2016 interview with Rob Bell:
I specifically remember [It's No Good], and one of my friends will be very pleased that you asked about that one, because, there's a friend of mine [named] Denise D'Sylva,Denise D'Sylva was Jonathan Kessler's assistant during Depeche Mode's 1993/1994 tour. who lives in Australia, and I don't see her very often at all, but when I wrote that song, I thought that maybe it was a little on the "poppy" side. We always have this kind of like, line that we draw in the sand, and if a song crosses over too much, then it's like, "Ohhh, we're not sure, what are we gonna do?" If we do it, we're gonna have to really change it or something. So I didn't think, 'Oh, this is an amazing song, this is a great hit', I was [like], "I'm not sure about it", and I actually remember playing it to Denise D'Sylva on a guitar, and she said: [tries an Australian accent] 'No Martin, that's it. You gotta do that. That's a hit.'
== Music video ==
== Live performances ==
== Live versions == 
This section provides an example of a live version of It's No Good from each tour that it was played.
* <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1997-05-16.sbd-aud-mtx.bias.flac1648/05.m4a</sm2> 1997 Ultra Parties: 1997-05-16 Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1998-10-05.sbd.MTV.0.flac1644/03.m4a</sm2> 1998 The Singles Tour: 1998-10-05 Cologne Arena, Cologne, Germany
* <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2001-10-11.sbd.mute.0.flac1644/16.m4a</sm2> 2001 Exciter Tour: 2001-10-11 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
* <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2009-05-06.SP-CMC-8.motr1912.0.flac1644/05.m4a</sm2> 2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe: 2009-05-06 Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
* <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2018-06-26.sbd.VoltFestival.0.m4a128/02.m4a</sm2> 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour: 2018-06-26 Volt Festival, Sopron, Hungary
* <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2023-04-14.matrix.ryanj-anonymous.0.flac1644/05.m4a</sm2> 2023-2024 Memento Mori Tour: 2023-04-14 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
== References ==
Category:Singles
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode singles
Category:Ultra songs
Category:Ultra singles
Category:Songs in B♭ Minor
Category:Songs between 95-99 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:Songs with official music videos
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