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Down

== Notes ==
In a long promo interview in September 2007, Dave Gahan was asked about every song off 'Hourglass' including this one:
"That's actually one of my favourites on the album and I just wanted to end the album in a very un-sort of-Hollywood way. I mean, the album for me has got a very kind of filmic quality about it and someone when I was doing interviews in, in Berlin they brought up about it being, I think it was Berlin, it sort of playing, reading like a book or playing like a film, and I liked that. Um yeah and you know Down was the perfect song to end the album on. Throughout the recording, you know, right from quite early on, I knew I knew I wanted to start with Saw Something and end the, what I call the first side of the album, with Miracles and end the second side with Down. So I kind of had a structure of how it was going to play out. I think Down is like one of the strongest sort of lyrics and melodies on the album, and I particularly like the slow drawly sort of almost country-like feel of the music."
He also said in the press release for 'Hourglass':
"It's one of my favorites. It's almost got a kind of country feel to it. It's the last little reflection of where I left off with Paper Monsters. Visually it's reflecting back to the days when I wasn't participating in life. There are certainly times when I'm still, like, fuck it, let's crack open the bottle of Jack Daniels."
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Down In The Boondocks

== Notes ==
 covered this song for his Counterfeit e.p. but it did not make the album. As co-producer Rico Conning recalls on his blog:Source: Martin Gore "Counterfeit e.p." 1988 – Rico's Reel
Martin’s nifty guitar playing was a major revelation. He'd often turn away from the cranky computer, pick up his acoustic and launch into an Everly Brothers song, or even John Denver, and I'd happily join in on harmony. I managed to record one of these jams (without my harmonies), the old Billy Joe Royal classic 'Down In The Boondocks' (written by Joe South). We thought this was great until Fletch came down for a visit and opined "sounds like bleedin' Dave Edmunds", so that killed that one. Somehow though it has found its way onto YouTube.
Michael Lyons, Andrew Fletcher's brother-in-law, stated on the Home forumSource: Home: excitermode: "Re: Are These Demos Genuine?" (registration required to view):
"This track was fully completed as part of the project but Martin was unable to obtain the relevant permission for releasing it as part of Counterfeit." "[This track was] originally recorded and included on the very early Mute studio tapes."
The version below is sourced from a second generation tape (see right photo), and is likely the best you will hear.
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A lossless copy of this track can be downloaded at Demos & Studio Outtakes/Download.
== References ==
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Dressed In Black

is a song from the 1986 album Black Celebration by Depeche Mode.
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"Dressed In Black" is a song from the 1986 album Black Celebration by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Drifting

is a song from the 1997 album Unsound Methods by Recoil. It was released as a lead single on 13 October 1997.
== Composition ==
=== Sample sources ===
== Music video ==
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== Notes ==
== References ==
<metadesc>"Drifting" is a song from the 1997 album Unsound Methods by Alan Wilder of Recoil. It was released as a lead single on 13 October 1997.</metadesc>
Easy Tiger

is an instrumental song from the 2001 album Exciter by Depeche Mode.
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"Easy Tiger" is an instrumental song from the 2001 album Exciter by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Electro Blues For Bukka White

== Music video ==
The music video for "Electro Blues For Bukka White" was uploaded to the official Recoil on 7 November 2007.
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Esque

is an instrumental 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.
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<metadesc>"Esque" is an instrumental 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>
Eternal

is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Steffen Rüth interviewed for German syndicated news agency interviewpeople.com and asked him about this track (translated from German):
Steffen: You sing the song 'Eternal' on your own. Is this song about your little daughter Johnnie Lee, who was born a year ago?
Gore: Yes. I wrote the song about my little girl.
Steffen: A lovely song, but did it really have to include a line like "When the radioactive rain falls, I will look you in the eye and kiss you"?
Gore: Isn't it romantic! [laughs] Okay, let's just say it's my way of romance. I think that when you put a child into this era, you have to take the worst into account. There is this omnipresent danger of every kind, including atomic wars. Since a few months ago, we got a crazy man in the biggest and most important position of the world [U.S. President Donald Trump]. Who knows what will happen.
Gore elaborated on it to : 
"[...] I actually like 'Eternal' [out of all the songs on Spirit] because it's weird. [Laughs] [I]t was written about my daughter, who's now one. It's quite dark and bleak, and it talks about a mushroom cloud rising and radiation falling. The instrumentation is really strange and quite experimental and really something unlike anything we've done for a while."
And he told :
"[Being a father] is a great influence. One of the songs on the album is called "Eternal" and it's dedicated to one of my daughters who is now 2 years old. Maybe it's not the most positive song for a girl that age. But maybe when she grows up, she'll be proud of this composition [laughs]. My daughters and my son give me a lot of love. They always motivate me."
Gore also said on Very Good Trip:
"Maybe you are right that some of our work in the past has been more experimental, but I think if you listen to, like, 'Eternal' for instance on this album, which for me sounds more like an interlude, I think it's quite experimental."
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<metadesc>"Eternal" is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Exciter

Exciter is the tenth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2001 by Mute Records. It was supported by the Exciter Tour.
== Track list ==
#Dream On
#Shine
#The Sweetest Condition
#When The Body Speaks
#The Dead Of Night
#Lovetheme
#Freelove
#Comatose
#I Feel Loved
#Breathe
#Easy Tiger
#I Am You
#Goodnight Lovers
For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Exciter songs.
== Singles ==
#Dream On – 17 April 2001
#I Feel Loved – 30 July 2001
#Freelove – 5 November 2001
#Goodnight Lovers – 11 February 2002
== Statistics ==
== Trivia ==
*The total number of live song plays from Exciter is . This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.
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<metadesc>Exciter is the tenth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2001 by Mute Records. It was supported by the Exciter Tour.</metadesc>
Fail

is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
 told Myśliwiecka 3/5/7:
"I think that if you ask each of the members of the band why we named the album "Spirit", they would give you a different reason. But for me, it was kind of like that, because there's a line in the song 'Fail' that says "our spirit is gone". And I'm hoping that by pointing out that humanity is kind of gone astray, lost its way, that it helps us to find that path again. That it helps us find out spirit again."
Gore also told (translated from German):
"It is indeed the first case that we use the f-word. I find it appropriate, because in the last song it once again underlines the dark mood on 'Spirit'. When I began writing songs at the end of 2015 and early 2016, it felt to me as if the world was slowly getting doomed. I just had to make it a theme. And even though I did not think that Trump would become president, you could see how the Trump train was slowly taking up speed and was dragging the whole election campaign into the dirt. At the same time, you saw and see these horrible images from Syria every day, that no one seems to care about anymore. No wonder I got a gloomy look at the world and concluded: "We're fucked"? A little side-note: A young artist from Australia is working on a piece of art, in which she is drawing the words "we", "are", and "fucked" in sign language. It's a Christmas gift from my wife. I have yet to ask her, but I also think it would make a great design for a T-shirt."
And he also told Classic Pop Magazine:
"[The line 'oh, we're fucked'] sums up the album in a way. The good thing about it is the lyrics might be depressing but the music is so pretty. Once the lyrics stop it ends on this nice lilting gentle piece of music. That's the little bit of hope."
Dave Gahan echoes this to Paradiso:
"That song ['Fail'] is quite pessimistic, but there's also one phrase which it ends on where it kind of says 'Yes, we're fucked, but at the same time it also gives us — at the end — this hope'. And I also think 'Fail' is an interesting song because for me, the heart of it is actually in the melody. It's quite an uplifting melody. When you get to the end of the song, I always felt like, melodically, it was a complete contrast to the lyrical content."
== Live performances ==
== Trivia ==
* 'Fail' is the first song penned by and by extension the first Depeche Mode album song known to feature a curse word ("fuck"). Other Depeche Mode songs which feature an arguably less severe profanity ("piss") include 2009's 'Wrong' and 2017's 'Where's The Revolution'.
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<metadesc>"Fail" is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
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Flexible

is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1985 compilation album The Singles 81→85. It was released as a B-side on the single on 29 April 1985.
== Notes ==
 told Record Mirror in May 1985:
"[The song is] a kind of a joke. Cos I'm sure for instance if my mum looked at me now, she'd think 'what has [success] done to you?' And the actual style of the music was meant to be quite jokey, cos if you imagine after the initial New Romantic/Futurist thing, a lot of bands thought we can't make it playing this kind of music, so they all went into salsa, all those trends, trying to hit on something that might be successful. This was trying to combine all these jokey styles."
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<metadesc>"Flexible" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1985 compilation album The Singles 81→85. It was released as a B-side on the "Shake The Disease" single on 29 April 1985.</metadesc>
Fly On The Windscreen

is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1985 compilation album The Singles 81→85. It was released as a B-side on the single on 16 September 1985. The 'Final' version of the song later appeared on the 1986 album Black Celebration.
== Notes ==
Gareth Jones said in :
"In this track, you can hear a rather young sounding Daniel [Miller] saying "over and done with." The breath sample noise at the start is interesting too. I can't remember who it was — really it could have been anyone."
From :
:What is the most unusual thing that you ever have sampled?
Alan Wilder: Dan Miller saying 'Horse' repeatedly very fast (as used in 'Fly On The Windscreen').
This "horse" sample is the "breath sample noise" that Gareth Jones mentions above.
 told in 1986:
"There's a Black & Decker drill in the opening of 'Fly On The Windscreen' [...]."
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"Fly On The Windscreen" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1985 compilation album The Singles 81→85. It was released as a B-side on the "It's Called A Heart" single on 16 September 1985. The 'Final' version of the song was later released on the 1986 album Black Celebration.</metadesc>
Fools

is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1983 album Construction Time Again. It was released as a B-side on the single on 19 September 1983.
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<metadesc>"Fools" is a song recorded by Depeche Mode during the production of the 1983 album Construction Time Again by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side on the "Love In Itself" single on 19 September 1983.</metadesc>
Forced To Mode

Forced To Mode is often heralded as Germany's best Depeche Mode cover band.
Forced To Mode are:
*Christian Schottstädt (lead vocals)
*Matthias Kahra (guitars, backing vocals)
*Thomas Schernikau (keyboards, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals)
The official YouTube channel for Forced To Mode has many high-quality multicam videos, many incorporating raw soundboard audio.
Unfortunately, there aren't many audience audio recordings of Forced To Mode circulating yet, but here is what's available so far:
*2016-06-04 Black Beach Festival, Hecklingen, Germany/Source 1 is pillowman's master audience recording, recorded with OKM II Rock Studio microphones.
*2016-06-04 Black Beach Festival, Hecklingen, Germany/Source 2 is pillowman's master audience recording, recorded with AT853sc microphones.
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Fragile Tension

is a song written by Martin L. Gore for the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode. It was released as a double A-side single alongside on 7 December 2009.
== Music video ==
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<metadesc>"Fragile Tension" is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode. It was released as a double A-side single alongside "Hole To Feed" on 7 December 2009.</metadesc>
Free

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 single on 3 October 2005.
== Notes ==
Ben Hillier described this song to HOME before it was released:
"'Free' is quite a driving, up-tempo track. I really like 'Free', it’s got some great vintage synth sounds on it. It's a real analogue treat that one. (laughs) That's a really good track."
In the 'Playing The Angel' EPK, there is some footage of the band recording 'Free', which sounds different from the final version. Programmer Dave McCracken explains this in an interview with Home:
"That's the first version we did of 'Free'. We had spent two days working on it, and nobody was into it. It was a bit like 'Personal Jesus', so we dropped it and re-recorded it."
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<metadesc>"Free" 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 "Precious" single on 3 October 2005.</metadesc>
Freelove

is a song from the 2001 album Exciter by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 5 November 2001.
== Notes ==
Engineer Steve Fitzmaurice said in the 2006 Exciter remaster documentary: 
"I think by the end of January, we had to finish [the album]. But it was quite generous, the time we had. I think by the time we got to London, there were still a few tracks to record, but it was more or less all finished. I think there was only two or three songs to mix in London. Freelove still being one of them: there was still Fletch going on about wanting backing vocals. Martin finally did the backing vocals, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, quite drunk on the last night."
== Music video ==
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"Freelove" is a song from the 2001 album Exciter by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 5 November 2001.</metadesc>
Freestate

is a song from the 1997 album Ultra by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Tim Simenon said in the Depeche Mode special of Classic Pop magazine, published on 1 August 2019:
There must have been seven or eight versions of "Freestate". We were throwing so many ideas at it, then we thought, "Hang on, let's put the faders up and work out what's working and what isn't." It's amazing what you can do by turning things up or down!
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<metadesc>"Freestate" is a song from the 1997 album Ultra by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>