Dave Gahan and Martin Gore's Electronic supergroup Depeche Mode has built one of the most loyal fan bases in music history. The LP that truly solidified eternal veneration was Black Celebration. With some of the most satisfying songs of DM’s career including Stripped, Question of Lust, Here is the House, But Not Tonight, the dark title track and A Question of Time, Black Celebration is a new wave synth pop masterpiece of 1986. An expose of this messianic album is NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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The aura of a record album is often a reflection of the mood of the artist at the time the music was being created. It’s somewhat of a last art in the fast food, mostly forgettable singles driven world we live in currently, but there was a time when great artists would release a complete album, a thematic statement pretty frequently especially in the 60s 70s and 80s. We’ve
While crafting their 5th studio album Black Celebration in 1985, the mood of the four members of Depeche Mode was serious & intense. The band was dealing with deeper personal issues- associated with maturation- personally and professionally.
Early demos of songs for the record were met with skepticism from the band’s label (Mute Records). The President & Founder of Mute Records, Daniel Miller, was underwhelmed with the demos, adamant that there wasn’t one hit song in the batch. Miller was to co-produce the forthcoming album, as he done on each of the band’s previous four LPs, re-joining another veteran DM collaborator, Gareth Jones.
As the primary lyricist for Depeche Mode, the pressure to deliver hit songs was mostly bestowed upon Martin Gore.
When an artist submits new material for label review, there is often debate on which tracks should be included on a forthcoming album. Martin Gore vividly recalls having arguments with Daniel Mller, and music promoter Neil Ferris, who was the chief “radio plugger” in the 80s for Depeche Mode.
The two record executives told Martin the eleven songs they heard on the demo “weren’t good enough,” there were "no singles,” and the songs “would never get played on the radio.”
Mute Records had high hopes for D-Mode’s follow up to Some Great Reward, which yielded their breakthrough single in the American pop market- “People are People” that ascended to #13 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 in the UK, and all the way to #1 in Germany.
“Master & Servant,” the 2nd single from Some Great Reward, was also huge in Europe- peaking at #9 in the UK, and #2 in Germany.
Martin responded to the criticism of the songs on the demo by running away from everyone related to the band for a week.
The scathing appraisal of the songs he had written was crushing.
After all, the rough samples of the songs that Martin composed for Black Celebration were perhaps the deepest expression of internal feelings that he had ever disclosed in his lyrics….up to that point.
13 янв 2021
