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MG

MG is the second solo studio album by and the first to exclusively feature original material. It was released on 27 April 2015 by Mute Records.
== Track list ==
#Pinking
#Swanning
#Exalt
#Elk
#Brink
#Europa Hymn
#Creeper
#Spiral
#Stealth
#Hum
#Islet
#Crowly
#Trysting
#Southerly
#Featherlight
#Blade
For a full list of songs produced for this album, see the list of MG songs.
== Quotes ==
I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least 5 days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.. mute.com.
— Martin Gore – mute.com – 2015
As the album is very electronic and has no vocals, I felt it deserved another persona so decided to carry on the MG concept from the VCMG album.
— Martin Gore – mute.com – 2015
As a songwriter, I am aware of the power of words. Especially when they are juxtaposed in the right way with chords and melody. I am also aware of the power of pure music and the emotions that can be created by musical atmospheres and that is what I wanted to capture with this project.
— Martin Gore – mute.com – 2015
== References ==
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<metadesc>MG is the second solo studio album by Martin Gore and the first to exclusively feature original material. It was released on 27 April 2015 by Mute Records.</metadesc>
Macro

is a song from the 2005 album Playing The Angel by Depeche Mode.
==Notes==
In 2016, Depeche Mode's discography was found to have the most sophisticated lyrics per song of all best-selling music acts of the UK on average in a study by The Mirror. The determination was made by analysing the lyrics of more than 6,000 UK musical groups using the Coleman Liau and SMOG indexes, which are used to determine the difficulty of school text books. An average was taken of each song’s score in both of these tests, with the artist's final score determined by calculating the average score of each artist's full discography. Depeche Mode's catalogue was found to be the most lyrically-sophisticated, requiring 10.3 years of education to understand. Macro's lyrics were found to be the group's most challenging.Source: You'll never guess which pop band has the most sophisticated song lyrics of all time
Martin said at a press conference in Milan in 2005:
"It's technically called 'Macro' [not 'Macrovision'], but I think it got changed somewhere along the way. You just start working on a couple of sounds, and start adding to it. It's a very bizarre song, but somehow it works."
== Live performances ==
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== References ==
<metadesc>"Macro" is a song from the 2005 album Playing The Angel by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Mamma Mia

An instrumental cover of the ABBA song 'Mamma Mia' was performed during the 1980 Tour and up to the first half of the 1981 Tour. This rendition was performed over the backing tape of Photographic, with the "vocal" parts played by a synthesizer. Presently, only one recording of this performance is in circulation and it is unknown at which other concerts the song was performed.
Daryl Bamonte mentioned this cover in Bong Magazine, issue 24, on page 18, see below:
bong24-18.jpg|Bong Magazine Issue 24, Page 18
== Live performance ==
Only one live recording of Mamma Mia is currently in circulation, and can be streamed below.
=== 1981 Tour ===
*<sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/dm1981-04-06.aud.unknown.unknown.flac1644/10.m4a</sm2> 1981-04-06 Bridge House, London, England, UK (Audience)
== Live performances ==
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Mandrill

is an instrumental song from the 2021 instrumental EP The Third Chimpanzee by .
== Notes ==
Mute Records describes the song in an EP on the website:
'Mandrill' is a ferocious slice of electro, and, like the four other tracks, has Martin Gore's hugely atmospheric musical trademark stamped all over them. 'Mandrill' was produced and written by Martin and recorded [in 2020] at Electric Ladyboy in Santa Barbara, California.
== Music video ==
The music video for 'Mandrill' was uploaded to YouTube by Mute Records on 17 November 2020.
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<metadesc>"Mandrill" is a song from the 2021 instrumental EP The Third Chimpanzee by Martin Gore.</metadesc>
Martyr

is a song from the 2006 compilation album The Best Of Depeche Mode Volume 1 by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 30 October 2006.
== Notes ==
"Martyr" was one of the first songs written during the Playing The Angel sessions in Santa Barbara in February 2005, titled 'Martyr For Love'. In the third FletchCam video (vlog video recorded by Andy Fletcher), the band was recording this song and said it may become the lead single for the album. The final version of the song was eventually released as a single from The Best Of Depeche Mode Volume 1 compilation album in 2006.
From an interview with programmer Dave McCracken for Home:
"That was a different song, the first song we did when we got out there, and it was a brilliant song, the album took a different turn and we didn't use it. But it was finished, it was like an electronic T-REX song, it was a bit poppier than the rest of the album. I think it will show its head somewhere, at some point."
From an interview with producer Ben Hillier for the documentary The Best of Depeche Mode (A Short Film):
"'Martyr' is a really interesting [song], one like , it's quite a vintage "depeche" song. We all had confidence in the track, as it being a good enough track to be used for something, and it was definitely a single contender as well for Playing The Angel. So it was quite an odd decision to sort of say actually this isn't going to go on the record."
== Music video ==
According to Göteborgs-Posten, a music video for "Martyr" was shot in Gothenburg, Sweden by Swedish director Andreas Nilsson, featuring no appearance of the band at all. The video was scrapped, and replaced by a video montage created by Robert Chandler, which consists of music videos, live releases from various periods, footage of 1982-10-25 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, and tour projections of from the World Violation Tour.
== References ==
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<metadesc>"Martyr" is a song from the 2006 compilation album The Best Of Depeche Mode Volume 1 by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 30 October 2006.</metadesc>
Memento Mori

Memento Mori is the fifteenth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 24 March 2023 by Columbia Records, being the first album to be released after founding band member Andrew Fletcher's death on 26 May 2022. It was supported by the Memento Mori Tour.
== Notes ==
From the press release:
We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time. After Fletch's passing, we decided to continue as we're sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.
— Martin Gore – depechemode.com
Dave Gahan and Martin Gore explain the creation process of the album during the 2022-10-04 press conference:
Gahan: "We got together the first time in, just for a couple of weeks, I guess a few months ago now?"
Gore: "Yeah, something like middle of July I think it was. One thing I think is important to say, is that all of the songs, and even the album title, was kind of decided before Andy passed."
A postcard of the album artwork and lyric excerpts from 'Ghosts Again' was sent to fans who signed up for the countdown timer that was available on the depechemode.com website starting on 26 January 2023. More information about the countdown and scans of the postcard are available on the song's page.
== Track list ==
#My Cosmos Is Mine
#Wagging Tongue
#Ghosts Again
#Don't Say You Love Me
#My Favourite Stranger
#Soul With Me
#Caroline's Monkey
#Before We Drown
#People Are Good
#Always You
#Never Let Me Go
#Speak To Me
For a full list of songs and singles produced for this album, see the list of Memento Mori songs.
== Singles ==
Singles from onwards are branded "releases" by the official website's discography section.
#Ghosts Again – 9 February 2023Depeche Mode on Twitter.
#My Cosmos Is Mine – 16 June 2023
#Wagging Tongue – 7 July 2023
#Speak To Me – 11 August 2023
#My Favourite Stranger – 20 October 2023
#Before We Drown – 9 February 2024
#People Are Good – 5 April 2024
== Statistics ==
== Trivia ==
*The total number of live song plays from Memento Mori is . This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.
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<metadesc>Memento Mori is the fifteenth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 24 March 2023 by Columbia Records. It is supported by the Memento Mori Tour.</metadesc>
Memphisto

"Memphisto" is an instrumental song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side to the single "Enjoy The Silence" on 5 February 1990.
== Notes ==
An uncredited band member tells Poster Seductores magazine in 1990: "We like cinema and we like to create special [atmospheres] with our music. In a way, 'Memphisto' is our homage to that esoteric cinema."
Martin Gore clarifies the origin of the song's title in an April 1993 interview for Bong magazine: "It was the name of a make-believe film I invented about Elvis as the devil."Source: Bong 18, April 1993 ASK MARTIN
== References ==
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<metadesc>"Memphisto" is an instrumental song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side to the single "Enjoy The Silence" on 16 January 1990.</metadesc>
Mercy In You

is a song from the 1993 album Songs Of Faith And Devotion by Depeche Mode.
== Quotes ==
Musician magazine interviewed Depeche Mode about the recording process of 'Songs Of Faith And Devotion', and they reported: "For the bridge, Gahan learned the lyrics backwards, phonetically, and sang them over a mirror image of the melody; the tape was then reversed, lending a ghostly tone to the vocal."
Alan Wilder said in the May 1993 issue of Keyboard magazine:
"That's a backwards high piano [at the end of 'Mercy In You']."
== Trivia ==
*In a on his website, Depeche Mode archivist Daniel "BRAT" Barassi confirmed the whispered vocals audible during the chorus sections were performed by Martin Gore.
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"Mercy In You" is a song from the 1993 album Songs Of Faith And Devotion by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Milakia

== Notes ==
1997/8: co-wrote an instrumental track with Ultra producer Tim Simenon, which ends up being released under Simenon's 'Bomb The Bass' moniker as the song Milakia, in 2010. Simenon says: "It's a track I've always loved, but could never find a home for, really. It seemed like a perfect closer for this particular album."
== Music video ==
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Miles Away / The Truth Is

is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode.
== Notes ==
Dave Gahan told Interia.pl (translated from Polish):
"This song is about someone whose thoughts are somewhere far away. About someone who hides behind a facade of a mask he has put on. And tries to hide it. This song about my friend. I knew that when I was with him and said something to him, he was actually mentally absent. Even though he tried to convince me that he was not. 'Miles Away / The Truth Is' is not entirely about drugs, but they are always present somewhere in the songs. All my life, I tried to escape from myself. Also with drugs. Until it finally became clear to me that it was not bad to be myself. This song was made quite quickly. When I wrote the lyrics of this song, the vocal part was circling in my head. This song is inspired by my friend. In the studio, Martin played a fantastic guitar part around it, with which we built the rest of the song, as was the case with 'Come Back'. We also recorded great vocal parts - Martin stepped in and sang in the background. 'Miles Away' is a dirty, nasty, grinding song. It reminds me a bit of a modern version of 'The Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones. It has something of that in it."
Dave Gahan told The Guardian in 2009: 
"Martin does [change song titles]. He's very particular about his song titles. At the last minute he'll change the title and he worries I think if there's another song with the same name. I imagine him Googling it. For instance Miles Away/The Truth Is on this album was just Miles Away. Then Martin said, 'You know there's a Madonna song called Miles Away?' So it was changed." 
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"Miles Away / The Truth Is" is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Miracles

== Notes ==
In a long promo interview in September 2007, Dave Gahan was asked about every song off 'Hourglass' including this one:
"That song was, again it was one of those songs that I had a lyric that I wanted to just sing as it was, I didn't want to add another part to it, it was very simple, it was just a simple idea with two verses that really said it all. This feeling that I often have of contradicting myself, you know wanting to believe in something but also at the same time my disgust at that, not being comfortable in my own skin. So I kind of like wrote this lyric that hints at the things that I, you know believe in, or want to believe in. And also at the same time contradict it with, you know like the line 'I don't believe in Jesus, but I'm praying anyway', you know it's kind of like my lot in life, I don't believe in religion and stuff like that — it doesn't work for me. You know when I was a kid I was kind of forced to go to church, I was terrified of it but all those kind of images I think stuck with me. So you know, but I do believe in a sort of spiritual sense, somehow yearning to live there and stay there comes back to the song Kingdom again, you know finding somewhere that's within me, I'm not going to find it on the outside."
He also said in the press release for 'Hourglass':
"It's one of my favorites, because it is so exposed. Visually, it's kind of like coming in and out of the fog. Exposing a little bit of what I believe in but not really. I'm going to tell you that I don't believe in Jesus but I'm gonna continue praying. Religion is not a concept that I... I think it's archaic. But at the same time, there are many times I've found myself praying to something. If the lyrics are contradicting themselves, it's because I'm contradicting myself all the time. The thing is, I don't believe in miracles, but I see them happen in my life and in other people's lives. I have total faith in life and love; I just don't have any faith in people. But it's really a love song. And I believe in love, but I'm also afraid of it. In the past, I lost myself completely, and if you've lost yourself, you can't possibly have a relationship with anybody else. To have that in my life, to have a family, I realize it's the most important thing."
== Dates with available recordings of Miracles ==
== Dates where Miracles was performed ==
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Mirror Is Standing

is an early live-only track, presumably performed on very early dates of the 1980 Tour. It is mentioned in BONG magazine, issue 24 by Daryl Bamonte. No live recording of this track is currently available.
bong24-18.jpg|Bong Magazine Issue 24, Page 18
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Missing Piece

is a song from the 1997 album Unsound Methods by Recoil. It was released alongside as a double A-side single on 9 March 1998.
== Composition ==
=== Sample sources ===
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== Notes ==
== References ==
<metadesc>"Missing Piece" is a song from the 1997 album Unsound Methods by Alan Wilder of Recoil. It was released alongside "Stalker" as a double A-side single on 9 March 1998.</metadesc>
More Than A Party

is a song from the 1983 album Construction Time Again by Depeche Mode.
== Live performances ==
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<metadesc>"More Than A Party" is a song from the 1983 album Construction Time Again by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Mother Me

is the working title of an unreleased song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. Due to its nature as an unreleased song, it is unclear if "Mother Me" was intended to be the final song title.
== Notes ==
The demo for "Mother Me" appears on the Perversion demo tape and features performing lead vocals. The unreleased song is often erroneously confused by fans with the instrumental song "Monghi" by Vienna, which appears on the Rarities Of Mode CD bootleg mislabeled as "Mother Me".
Alan Wilder recalls the composition of 'Mother Me' on , the official Recoil website: "There was a song called 'Mother Me' which we also recorded during this period but never finishedSource: – [...] It sort of got started with some drums, bass [and] a couple of other parts but was shelved quite quickly. It was medium tempo and if I remember correctly it slipped into time signature for the chorus - oops. I think Dave [Gahan] would have sung it."Source: , toward the bottom of the page Based on that quote, it can be inferred that a "work-in-progress" version of "Mother Me" exists in the vaults.
Daryl Bamonte said regarding 'Mother Me': "I remember a track called 'Mother Me, Smother Me' that I believe was recorded for Violator, but didn't make the final cut for some reason. It was a really good song, but I don't think it was even used for a B-side."</blockquote>
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<metadesc>"Mother Me" is the working title of an unreleased song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode.</metadesc>
Mother Of Earth

== Notes ==
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project is a continuing posthumous cover album series, as tribute to Jeffrey Lee Pierce. After Dave Gahan had recorded another Soulsavers album titled 'Imposter' in 2019, he revealed to the Illinois Entertainer in 2021:
"Well, there was one song that we were going to record from The Gun Club, a Jeffrey Lee Pierce song. We were gonna do 'Mother of Earth'. And we were kind of knocking it around, me and Rich [Machin] before we went in to record, but I sort of couldn't find a place in it. So we didn't end up recording it. But just recently, it came back to me because this artist-singer Suzie Stapleton — she's Australian, but she lives in Brighton — she's got this project called The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions. And she asked me if I would do a song with her. And so a couple of months back, I said, "Well, funnily enough, I was gonna do 'Mother of Earth' for the record that I'm just about to release. Do you fancy doing that?" And so she sent me some parts, and we ended up doing it so that record is coming out next year. It's called The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions. And it's weird how things like that happen. [...]"
 
Suzie Stapleton wrote on her Instagram account:
"'Mother of Earth' feat. Dave Gahan is officially out today and streaming on all platforms. I'd been playing around with an arrangement of Mother of Earth in my home studio but didn't know who was going to sing on it. The lyrics are so beautiful and evocative and I wanted to see if I could take this song to a different place - a tricky endeavour when the Gun Club original is so perfect. When I emailed Dave to invite him to take part in the project, it just so happened that the Soulsavers covers record 'Imposter' was due to be released soon and he mentioned that at one point he'd also been playing around with a version of 'Mother of Earth' which didn't make it onto that record. So I showed him my arrangement and asked if he'd like to sing on it. He really liked it and agreed to take part. He sent me his vocals and lead guitar parts recorded in his studio in New York soon after. It was very serendipitous. And a testament to what a brilliant songwriter Jeffrey Lee Pierce was."
A music video for the cover was recorded in June 2023 while Depeche Mode were passing through London for their concert at Twickenham Stadium:
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Mouldy Old Dough

'Mouldy Old Dough' is an early live-only track, presumably performed only on very early dates of the 1980 Tour. It is mentioned in BONG magazine issue 24 by Daryl Bamonte, and is a cover of Mouldy Old Dough by Lieutenant Pigeon; see scan below. No live recording of this track is currently available.
bong24-18.jpg|BONG magazine issue 24, pg. 18
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