World In My Eyes

is a song from the 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 17 September 1990.
== Notes ==
 says in the 17 February 1990 issue of NME:
Interviewer: On the opening track 'World In My Eyes' you seem to be saying 'Just for this moment pleasure and gratification are all that matters'. It's almost like (deep breath) existentialism.
Gore: Yes, and it's a very positive song. It's saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things.
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Dave Gahan told Gear Magazine in 1998:
"It's about being comfortable with somebody. When you're in a moment with someone and you realize you haven't said a word for the past couple of hours."
Gore described the evolution of the studio recording of 'World In My Eyes' in BONG magazine issue no. 37, 1998: 
I remember the original demo of 'World In My Eyes' being slightly faster and maybe slightly more obvious. While we were recording it in Milan, Dave was going away for a couple of days, so we worked on it and turned it into this really moody piece. I can remember Dave arriving back in the studio, slightly jet-lagged and being totally shocked, thinking that we just ruined the song, but half a day later he came back and said 'That's really good, the way it's turned out.' It always takes a while to get used to things.
Alan Wilder explains in an editorial on , the official Recoil website:
'World In My Eyes' had in fact been recorded very early on during the Milan session and, perhaps for this reason, displayed familiar Depeche elements linking it with previous albums. It was completed in London and with its 'drop' 3rd verse and use of vocal double-tracking to fill out and build the later choruses, was probably the most 'electro' sounding track on the LP — something of a homage to Kraftwerk, in a rhythmical sense at least. Laughing in the face of criticism that electronic music was 'soulless' and would only appeal to a small eclectic audience, its success exhibited one of Depeche Mode's most fundamental philosophies.Source: – Shunt.
2006 remaster engineer Kevin Paul explained in a November 2007 interview for Sound On Sound magazine:
I had about 20 or 30 different tapes for 'World In My Eyes' and I had to get them all to sync up and try to find the missing sounds. There is a snare-drum drop which is reversed — completely flipped. It wasn't on any of the tapes and it turned out it was most likely to have been done on an Akai with an Atari, run wild, so that was something Roger [Johnson] had to do. He had to find the sample and flip it and get the sound back. Everything then was backed up on floppy disks which now no-one can ever work. It is nigh-on an impossibility to get them to work as they did back then.Source: – Sound On Sound, November 2007.
Andrew Fletcher explains in a 2017 interview for Hotmix Radio:
"For me, ['World In My Eyes'] really shows how we've managed to have all these people from different countries all over the world together, liking Depeche Mode."Source: Les Instants Privilégiés – Hotmix Radio.
== Composition ==
=== Sample sources ===
== Music video ==
== Live performances ==
== Live versions == 
This section provides an example of a live version of World In My Eyes from each tour that it was played. 
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-08-04.sbd.violatorlive.0.flac1644/02.m4a</sm2> 1990 World Violation Tour (Without additional keyboard part): 1990-08-04 Dodgers Stadium, Los Angeles, CA, USA
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1990-10-23.aud.laurenta.unknown.flac1644/CD1/02.m4a</sm2> 1990 World Violation Tour (With additional keyboard part): 1990-10-23 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1993-06-30.aud.LaurentA.3.flac1644/03.m4a</sm2> 1993 Devotional Tour: 1993-06-30 Palais Omnisport De Paris Bercy, Paris, France
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1994-05-14.sbd.ER.0.flac1648/05.m4a</sm2> 1994 Exotic Tour: 1994-05-14 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1998-12-18.ald.unknown.unknown.flac1644/CD1/03.m4a</sm2> 1998 The Singles Tour: 1998-12-18 Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2006-06-04.sbd.unknown.unknown.mp2256/13.m4a</sm2> 2005-2006 Touring The Angel: 2006-06-04 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2009-11-23.STC-11.DrBBalls.0.flac1644/07.m4a</sm2> 2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe: 2009-11-23 Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2013-10-11.sbd.acl.webstream.aac256/06.m4a</sm2> 2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour: 2013-10-11 Austin City Limits Festival, Austin, TX, USA
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2018-06-26.sbd.VoltFestival.0.m4a128/06.m4a</sm2> 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour: 2018-06-26 Volt Festival, Sopron, Hungary
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm2023-03-23.iem-matrix.hoserama-bigdigs26.0.flac1644/15.m4a</sm2> 2023-2024 Memento Mori Tour: 2023-03-23 Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
== Trivia ==
*During the 1990 "World Violation" Tour, starting from 1990-10-14 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, an additional keyboard part was played for dramatic effect during the intro of "World In My Eyes".
*The sampled snare drums featured in "World In My Eyes" (as sampled by Depeche Mode from "Newsreel" by Fad Gadget and "Don't Stop The Dance" by Bryan Ferry) are featured in "Diving", a piece of music released for the soundtrack of the 1995 Super Nintendo video game by .
*'World In My Eyes' has been sampled in the following songs by other artists:
**'Don't You Wanna Come?' – Kyper (1992)
**'Versatylin' Stylin' – The Next School (1990)
*'World In My Eyes' has been covered by Simbolo, The Cure, China-Touch, Inscape feat. DJ Worlock, Ákos, Sonata Arctica, Running With Scissors, Mikro, Insular, Acylum, Rockabye Baby!, and Chateau Pop.
== Notes ==
== References ==
Category:Singles
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode singles
Category:Violator songs
Category:Violator singles
Category:Songs in B♭ Minor
Category:Songs between 120-124 BPM
Category:Songs written by Martin L. Gore
Category:Songs with official music videos
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