Product Overview
Depeche Mode – Songs Of Faith And Devotion / Sony Music Audio CD 2006
UPC 88883750662
Product Details:
Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was first released on 22 March 1993 in the United Kingdom by Mute Records and a day later in the United States by Sire Records and Reprise Records. The album incorporated a more aggressive, darker rock-oriented tone than its predecessor Violator (1990), largely influenced by the emerging alternative rock and grunge scenes in the United States.
Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached number one in several countries, and became the first Depeche Mode album to debut atop the charts in both the UK and the US. To support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the fourteen-month-long Devotional Tour, the largest tour they had ever undertaken to that date.
Recording the album and the subsequent tour exacerbated growing tensions and difficulties within the band, prompting Alan Wilder to quit, making this album the final one with him as a band member. The ordeal had exhausted their creative output following the enormous success they had enjoyed with Violator, leading to rumours and media speculation that the band would split. Depeche Mode subsequently recovered from the experience, and released Ultra in 1997.
Tracklist:
| 1 | I Feel You | 4:36 |
| 2 | Walking In My Shoes | 5:26 |
| 3 | Condemnation | 3:29 |
| 4 | Mercy In You | 4:20 |
| 5 | Judas
Bagpipes [Uilleann] – Steafan Hannigan |
5:13 |
| 6 | In Your Room | 6:23 |
| 7 | Get Right With Me
Vocals [Additional] – Bazil Meade, Hildia Cambell, Samantha Smith |
3:51 |
| 8 | Rush | 4:40 |
| 9 | One Caress
Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Wil Malone |
3:33 |
| 10 |
Higher Love | 5:56 |
More Details:
- Coordinator [Visual Archive Co-ordinator] – Monica Axelsson
- Design [Original] – Anton Corbijn, Area (10)
- Engineer – Chris Dickie, Paul Kendall, Steve Lyon
- Engineer [Assistant] – Jeremy Wheatley, Mark Einstmann, Shaun De Feo, Volke Schneider
- Mixed By – Depeche Mode, Flood, Mark Stent
- Photography By, Artwork [Cover Design & All Graphics] – Anton Corbijn
- Producer – Depeche Mode, Flood
- Remastered By – Simon Heyworth
- Written-By – Martin Gore
About the Band:
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980. The group as of now consists of a trio of Dave Gahan (lead vocals and co-songwriting), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, co-lead vocals and main songwriting), and Andy Fletcher (keyboards).
Depeche Mode released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. Founding member Vince Clarke left after the release of the album; they recorded A Broken Frame as a trio. Gore took over as main songwriter and, later in 1982, Alan Wilder replaced Clarke, establishing a lineup that continued for 13 years.
The band's last albums of the 1980s, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses, established them as a dominant force within the electronic music scene. A highlight of this era was the band's June 1988 concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, where they drew a crowd in excess of 60,000 people. In early 1990, they released Violator, an international mainstream success. The following album, Songs of Faith and Devotion, released in 1993, was also a success, though internal struggles within the band during recording and touring resulted in Wilder's departure in 1995.
Depeche Mode has had 54 songs in the UK Singles Chart and 17 top 10 albums in the UK chart; they have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Q included the band in the list of the "50 Bands That Changed the World!". Depeche Mode also ranks number 98 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In December 2016, Billboard named Depeche Mode the 10th most successful dance club artist of all time. They were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 and 2018, and will be inducted as part of the Class of 2020.
