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Music For The Masses

Music For The Masses is the sixth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 27 September 1987 by Mute Records and was supported by the Music For The Masses tour.
== Track list ==
#Never Let Me Down Again
#The Things You Said
#Strangelove
#Sacred
#Little 15
#Behind The Wheel
#I Want You Now
#To Have And To Hold
#Nothing
#Pimpf
For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Music For The Masses songs.
== Singles ==
#Strangelove - April 13, 1987
#Never Let Me Down Again - August 24, 1987
#Behind The Wheel - December 28, 1987
#Little 15 - May 16, 1988
== Quotes ==
Martin Gore: "I saw a record at a London record shop with really lousy music on it, some Shooby dooby stuff. It had the grandiose name 'Music for the Millions'. I liked it straight away. We were into it because it was such an arrogant title. By the way, the title is meant ironically. We absolutely do not consider our music to be music for the masses, even if it actually seems to resonate in some countries such as Germany where we have a mass of fans."Source: 1987-10-22 - "Zweimal Haben Wir Uns Geprügelt", by Hannsjörg Riemann, Bravo Magazine issue #44, Germany
"The title's [...] a bit tongue-in-cheek, really. Everyone is telling us we should make more commercial music, so that's the reason we chose that title."Source: Stripped: Depeche Mode - Jonathan Miller (2003)
— Andrew Fletcher - Stripped: Depeche Mode - Jonathan Miller (2003)
Martin Gore: "[...] When we called [the] album 'Music For The Masses', we were accused of being patronising and arrogant. In fact it was a joke on the uncommerciality of it. It was anything but music for the masses!"
Alan Wilder: "There's much more humour than we're given credit for. Perhaps it's just that ours, or particularly Martin's is a little specialised."Source: Stuart Maconie, NME, February 17 1990 via SacredDM (now defunct).
— Alan Wilder, Martin L. Gore - NME, February 1990
== Statistics ==
== Trivia ==
*The total number of live song plays from Music For The Masses is . This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.
== References ==
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<metadesc>Music For The Masses is the sixth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 27 September 1987 by Mute Records.</metadesc>
My Cosmos Is Mine

is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode. On 16 June 2023, it became the second "release" from the album according to the official website's discography section.
== Notes ==
Initial snippets of the song were heard as part of the Berlin press conference to announce Memento Mori on 4 October 2022.
The song premiered on YouTube and other streaming services on 9 March 2023, exactly one month after the release of 'Ghosts Again'. There was no countdown to this song becoming available, unlike with 'Ghosts Again'.
Reversed lyrics heard at the end of the song are Martin's vocals of "Don't play with my world / Don't mess with my mind / Don't question my spacetime / My cosmos is mine". Reversed audio snippet:
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Martin Gore explained to Steffen Ruth (translated from German):
"[The last track that I wrote] is also the first song on the album, 'My Cosmos Is Mine'. I wrote it shortly after Russia had invaded Ukraine. I thought, "How much should we still bear? What else will be thrown at us?" And my first reaction was to say: I will pull myself back into my little world, leave me alone. The song is about, when dealing with powerlessness, protecting your inner self from the attacks of the world and to, together with your loved ones, prefer to hide somewhere. Which is of course rather shortsighted, because we have to accept the responsibility of our planet's wellbeing, or else no one will be left anymore."
Dave Gahan told Zane Lowe:
"That is actually one of my favourites on the album. Not initially when Martin first sent me the demo, it didn't strike me. But quite often, it's the ones that creep up on me later that I most identify with for some reason. And that song was one of those. I remember singing it, I remember going into into Martin's house and in his studio. And I knew we had captured something, the combination of the song, and I'd found a place where I wanted to be with it. And I feel like I found a meaning in the song that I identified with. It's not something I talked to Martin about, and he might have a completely different concept about the lyrical content of the of the song, but I found my place with that song, and I knew it was going to be the something that was gonna be a great introduction to Memento Mori."
== Official audio on YouTube ==
== Live performances ==
== Notes ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Memento Mori songs
Category:Songs in E Minor
Category:Songs between 80-84 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
<metadesc>"My Cosmos Is Mine" is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
My Favourite Stranger

is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode. On 20 October 2023, it became the fifth "release" from the album according to the official website's discography section.
== Notes ==
Dave Gahan told Corriere Della Sera's La Lettura (translated from Italian): 
"That song is about having a shadow, someone who follows you around the clock and tells you things. Do you listen to the lie or to the truth? A fun and a little risky song. With music you need to be transported to different places, sometimes it's places that are right in front of your eyes, other times it's open spaces. This is a direct song, like Suicide's Alan Vega, it has a New York '70s punk vibe."
== Music video ==
The music video for My Favourite Stranger first premiered at the 2023-06-06 Merkur Spiel-Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany concert as a tour projection for the song.
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Memento Mori songs
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore and Richard Butler
Category:Songs with official music videos
<metadesc>"My Favourite Stranger" is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
My Joy

is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1993 album Songs Of Faith And Devotion. It was released as a B-side on the single on 26 April 1993.
==Notes==
Alan Wilder told author Jonathan Miller for his DM biography Stripped:
"It was going to be on 'Songs Of Faith And Devotion' at one point, but we didn't think it was strong enough in the end. It was mixed by Steve Lyon and myself; I reconfigured the track for the 12" version, with Steve engineering."
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode B-sides
Category:Songs of Faith and Devotion songs
Category:Songs in B♭ Minor
Category:Songs between 100-104 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
<metadesc>"My Joy" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1993 album Songs Of Faith And Devotion. It was released as a B-side on the "Walking In My Shoes" single on 26 April 1993.</metadesc>
My Little Universe

is a song from the 2013 album Delta Machine by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Andrew Fletcher told (archived):
"Well, 'My Little Universe' is a very techno track. It's out there, that one. It's a little jewel, that track. It sort of breaks up the more built up tracks and where it is on the album — track 5 — it's really a nice position. What happened with that song, it was just sort of a normal pop track really and we layered and layered and layered stuff on it and it wasn't sounding right so in the end we just completely stripped it down to how it is now, and now it sounds great. I'm talking about so much stuff "on," so many tracks used up, and really just taking bare elements of things — a couple of melodies, a couple of sequencers. It's just amazing. That's one of the nice surprises really. We thought that track was going nowhere and could see it just as a bonus track or something but out of the blue a bit of magic occurred."
 told the same to KCRW:
"Out of all of my songs on [Delta Machine], that's the one that changed dramatically. For ages, we'd think that it wasn't gonna go on the album, because it somehow didn't quite fit. It was too fiddly, it had chord changes that it didn't need. So we stripped it right back. And I think our programmer, Christoffer Berg, should take a lot of credit for that. He was the one who kind of started stripping it back, and started on that path."
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Delta Machine songs
Category:Songs in B Minor
Category:Songs between 170-174 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
<metadesc>"My Little Universe" is a song from the 2013 album Delta Machine by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
My Secret Garden

is a song from the 1982 album A Broken Frame by Depeche Mode.
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:A Broken Frame songs
Category:Songs in C Major
Category:Songs between 115-119 BPM
<metadesc>"My Secret Garden" is a song from the 1982 album A Broken Frame by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Never Let Me Go

is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode.
== Official audio on YouTube ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Memento Mori songs
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:Songs in D Minor
Category:Songs between 135-139 BPM
<metadesc>"Never Let Me Go" is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
New Dress

is a song from the 1986 album Black Celebration by Depeche Mode.
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Black Celebration songs
Category:Songs in C Major
Category:Songs between 110-114 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
<metadesc>"New Dress" is a song from the 1986 album Black Celebration by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Newborn

is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 2005 album Playing The Angel. It was released as a B-side on the single on 12 December 2005.
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:Playing The Angel songs
Category:Songs in F♯ Major
Category:Songs between 100-104 BPM
Category:Depeche Mode B-sides
<metadesc>"Newborn" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 2005 album Playing The Angel by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side on the "A Pain That I'm Used To" single on 12 December 2005.</metadesc>
No More (This Is The Last Time)

is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Andrew Fletcher told 91.9 WFPK:
"That is the more classic Depeche Mode track. It's one of Dave songs. He came in with a few demos and that one has changed quite a lot from his original demo."
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Spirit songs
Category:Songs in A♭ Minor
Category:Songs between 160-164 BPM
Category:Songs written by Dave Gahan
<metadesc>"No More (This Is The Last Time)" is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Nodisco

is a song from the 1981 album Speak & Spell by Depeche Mode.
== Live performances ==
== Live versions ==
This section provides examples of live versions of Nodisco from each tour that it was played. The recording from 1981-09-29 Paris is generally regarded as the best sounding version out of these examples.
=== 1981 Tour ===
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1981-09-29.preFM-FM.FranceInter.0.flac1644/03.m4a</sm2> 1981-09-29 Les Bains Douches, Paris, France (pre-FM broadcast)
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1981-10-23.sbd.unknown.unknown.flac1648/09.m4a</sm2> 1981-10-23 Something Else, BBC2, London, England, UK (Soundboard)
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1981-11-03.aud.unknown.unknown.flac1644/03.m4a</sm2> 1981-11-03 Fagins, Manchester, England, UK (Audience)
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1981-11-11.aud.unknown.unknown.flac1644/03.m4a</sm2> 1981-11-11 Top Rank, Brighton, England, UK (Audience)
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Speak & Spell songs
Category:Songs in D♭ Major
Category:Songs between 125-129 BPM
<metadesc>"Nodisco" is a song from the 1981 album Speak & Spell by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Not Dark Yet

== Notes ==
This is a cover song on Soulsavers' third collaboration album with Dave Gahan, titled 'Imposter'. The song was originally written and performed by Bob Dylan.
== Live Performances ==
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Nothing

is a song from the 1987 album Music For The Masses by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Dave Gahan said in the commentary track on the DVD of '101' in 2003:
"When I hear the songs now, like this one especially, I really hear in Mart's words what a big influence Iggy Pop has on him. This song, 'Nothing', was like 'Dirt' from The Stooges or something."
Dave Bascombe told Super Deluxe Edition in July 2019:
"[...] We dug out a few of [Depeche Mode's] old samples and I brought a lot of mine as well, which were more in the vein of just regular snare drums and kicks, although I did use, there's one interesting sound which is used as a high hat on, I think 'Nothing', or maybe a few things, which is a pneumatic coach door shutting."
Martin Gore was also quoted in Bravo Magazine issue #44 in 1987 (translated from German):
"[...] The hydraulic door of our tourbus also proved to be very useful. We made a hi-hat from its hissing noise, and the noise from it closing also produced a kind of rattling drum."
When Depeche Mode was interviewed about the songs on the '101' CD for the April 1989 issue of French magazine 'Best', Andy Fletcher said (translated from French):
"At the end of the track, Dave asks the audience how they're doing. That what can be heard on the recording is pretty much everything that he said on stage. He never gives long speeches during the concert and that's good, I think. When I went to see Prince's last concert, I was disappointed, because he kept repeating that he loved London, that it was a fabulous place. I bet the next day he said the same thing in Amsterdam or Paris."
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Music for the Masses songs
Category:Songs in B Major
Category:Songs between 105-109 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
<metadesc>"Nothing" is a song from the 1987 album Music For The Masses by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Nothing's Impossible

is a song from the 2005 album Playing The Angel by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Dave Gahan told the April 2009 of Rolling Stone Germany (translated from German):
"I think my songs are different [than Martin Gore's], a different character, wilder. Nevertheless, they fit better this time in the album than in 'Playing The Angel'. 'Nothing's Impossible' went into another direction than what I had as a demo. You can hear it in the [Sounds Of The Universe] boxset, it's great. This was my idea in the first place but I had to give it up."
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Songs written by Dave Gahan
Category:Playing The Angel songs
Category:Songs in A Major
Category:Songs between 110-114 BPM
== References ==
<metadesc>"The Sinner In Me" is a song from the 2005 album Playing The Angel by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Nothing To Fear

is an instrumental song from the 1982 album A Broken Frame by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Daniel Miller told Electronic Beats in 2013:
"I remember Martin [Gore] was reading some weird book during the making of the record, a book of prophecies or something and he looked up his birthdate and it said, “Nothing to fear.” So that actually ended up being a track title, and it made him very optimistic about the future."
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode instrumental songs
Category:Instrumental songs
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:A Broken Frame songs
Category:Songs in A Major
Category:Songs between 115-119 BPM
<metadesc>"Nothing To Fear" is a song from the 1982 album A Broken Frame by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Now, This Is Fun

is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1982 album A Broken Frame. It was released as a B-side on the single on 29 January 1982.
== Notes ==
Andrew Fletcher in the 1982-01-21 issue of Smash Hits:
"On the new B-side, 'Reason To Be' [working title, ed.], we tried to sound… really… mean! Didn't work though."
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode B-sides
Category:A Broken Frame songs
Category:Songs in F♯ Minor
Category:Songs between 100-104 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:Songs with working titles
<metadesc>"Now, This Is Fun" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1982 album A Broken Frame. It was released as a B-side on the "See You" single on 29 January 1982.</metadesc>
Oberkorn (It's A Small Town)

is an instrumental song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1982 album A Broken Frame. It was released as a B-side on the single on 26 April 1982.
== Notes ==
In Jonathan Miller's , recounts the concert at 1982-03-30 Rainbow Club, Oberkorn, Luxembourg and the origin of the name for this instrumental B-side:
"We rarely bother to look at our touring schedules, and so naturally thought we'd be playing in Brussels. But instead we found ourselves pulling into a tiny village called Oberkorn. It was a curious kind of village with a population that would hardly fill the first few rows of any ordinary theatre, so it was quite a fascination for us to find out just what would happen. Instead of our gig being to a handful of people, the place was packed as the audience came from all around and even from across the borders. But there was an interesting twist to this concert. When we got back to our hotel our record company told us that whilst the A-side of our single was all set, they needed a title rapidly for the B-side. We're never all that good with names and the first thing that sprang to mind was the name of this village, Oberkorn. So that's the title we used!"
== Live performances ==
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode instrumental songs
Category:Instrumental songs
Category:Depeche Mode B-sides
Category:A Broken Frame songs
Category:Songs in F Major
Category:Songs between 75-79 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
<metadesc>"Oberkorn (It's A Small Town)" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1982 album A Broken Frame. It was released as a B-side on the "The Meaning Of Love" single on 26 April 1982</metadesc>
Ocean

== Music video ==
== Notes ==
Singer Alison Goldfrapp filmed her scenes on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura, the site of the duo's clips for "Anymore" and "Everything Is Never Enough," and directed Gahan in Madrid in December 2017 during a break in Depeche Mode's ongoing world tour . She has said in a press release: "I had an amazing time directing Dave in the video for the track. We couldn't be happier with the end result. Working with Dave Gahan on the new version of 'Ocean' has been a real honor for us as a band. We're thrilled to finally share this collaboration with the world." She also said on the 2018-07-05 Steve Lamacq show: "He's very gorgeous. I had a slight crush on him after [the videoshoot, actually], because he was so adorable, and he had such a presence."
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Category:Non-Depeche Mode, non-solo songs sung by Dave Gahan
Category:Never played live
Category:Songs with official music videos
Oh My Love

== Notes ==
Martin Gore explained in the May 2003 issue of D-Side magazine (translated from French):
"If it weren't for some composers, I could never have learnt to write any of the songs that I composed. John Lennon is one of the best examples of that. I love the sensitivity that he has transmitted through his music and that is what I am trying to do too. There are probably other songs by John Lennon that I could have chosen [for Counterfeit²] but I particularly like the sensitivity of this song."
Gore continued in the April 2003 issue of Rolling Stone France (translated from French):
"I feel like I'm going to get a lot of trouble with this cover. Going electronic with Lennon was a bit of a sacrilege, and when you cover Lennon, everyone has a say. It was one of the most complicated songs to record. We worked hard on it. We had to find the right tone."
Gore touched on the versatility of the song in an interview for Alerte magazine: "I could reduce 'Oh My Love' to a fraction of the original chords and it was still the song."
Category:Cover
Category:Songs covered by Martin L. Gore
Category:Non-Depeche Mode Martin L. Gore songs
Category:Never played live
Oh Well

'Oh Well' is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode. It was released as a bonus track in the Sounds Of The Universe deluxe box set.
== Notes ==
In the documentary 'Usual thing, try and get the question in the answer' that is included in the 'Sounds Of The Universe' boxset, a whiteboard can be seen with working titles of 'Sounds Of The Universe'. Oh Well's working title is 'Das Toe Stub'. Dave Gahan then says in the documentary: 
"[A toe stub] is something that happens when you're playing table football. If sometimes you [play with force], and the player will get the ball caught between its feet and the table. And it's known as "the toe stub", when "boom!", it doesn't go anywhere. It would be very painful. Yeah, that's actually a little collaboration between Martin and myself."
Martin Gore then says in the same documentary: 
"There's actually one track that probably won't make the album, but maybe an extra track on the first single and will probably be on the full, extended boxset or whatever. That was originally an instrumental that I wrote. And Dave liked it so much that he put some lyrics to it."
Dave Gahan also says in the same documentary:
"I took the risk. I got it, and I went back to my room after he had [given it to me] in Santa Barbara. And suddenly I was faring on these ideas, and this melody, and some words, actually, that were coming into my head. And when I came back to New York, I put loads of vocals on it, and vocal melodies. And then we back the next time to play each other stuff, and I was like, "Actually, I did this to your song". And Martin didn't really say anything! But we recorded it, and it might end up being the first collaboration between us, which was done in completely different places, in completely different parts of America, and completely different times. But nonetheless, it's a collaboration."
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Category:Songs written by Dave Gahan and Martin L. Gore
Category:Songs written by Dave Gahan
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Category:Songs between 120-124 BPM
Category:Songs in A Minor
Category:Depeche Mode B-sides
Category:Songs with working titles
<metadesc>"Oh Well" is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode. It was released as a bonus track on the Sounds Of The Universe deluxe box set.</metadesc>