Its chorus, once again, flirts with the pathetic: "Stay/ You can leave tomorrow" paints the singer as the whinier half of a fling. The former is another simple, pretty ballad that brings the album's average BPM to about 90. "Stay" and "I Need You" are unfortunately not a two-part Lisa Loeb cover. Gahan's vocal can still elevate the dumbest lyric to the level of a cathartic mantra, a skill that comes handy in the absence of Martin Gore.
Regardless, there's a great middle section that finds him belting, simply, "I'm not very nice" over a string crescendo. Over earnest guitars and low-moaning harmonica, Gahan roars "He's living for the bottle," evidently recalling his own adventures in alcoholism from the safe remove of the third person.īy the next song, "Black and Blue Again", Dave's confessions take on a tinge of a master-and-servant game: Gahan might, just might, get off on self-flagellation, with the audience as the unwitting dominator. "Bottle Living" is a classic blues shuffle, not even transposed into a more British minor key (which "Personal Jesus" was).
"Dirty Sticky Floors" is both the album's designated hit single and its most humble moment: by the end of the first verse, the protagonist is already on the titular floor "praying over the porcelain throne." After two timid ballads in a row- "Hold On" and "A Little Piece"- Gahan is seized by another bout of picturesque wallowing.
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Gahan opens Monstersin full masochistic mode. They were, and are, a gospel-tinged classic rock band that happened to favor au courant arrangements (as the legend goes, the boys switched to synths so as not to disturb neighbors during early rehearsals). Fair enough: much like the Eurythmics, Depeche Mode were never a true electropop outfit. The songs themselves, meanwhile, are two-thirds smoothly crooned ballads over one-third lacquered rock shuffles- all closer to the digi-soul of *Songs of Faith and Devotion than the IDM aspirations of * Exciter. Its presence here nears Bonnie Raitt levels, coating most solos and even providing ambient beds. The most prominently featured instrument on Paper Monsters is, oddly enough, slide guitar. The first thing we learn is that Dave doesn't really like synthesizers all that much. It's just another level of self-mythologizing, sure, but it does yield interesting information- sometimes not in the ways intended. Like many solo outings by career frontmen, Paper Monsters is autotherapeutic: Gahan wants to share something about himself. Why the hell am I making a point of this? Well, it's quite indicative of the album's contents. He also looks like a rather prototypical Jew. He looks like he should at this point: a man with 22 years' celebrity and six minutes of clinical death behind him.
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Download ZIP - FLAC 16-bit 44.1KHz - 438.One of the premier prettyboys of the 80s, Gahan looks defiantly middle-aged here- the jowls sag a bit, the corners of the mouth took a mournful turn downward.Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics -> Sony PCM-M1 DAT w/MOD-2 -> CD-R -> XLD.You can listen to this entire recording below.
Thanks to Ryan for ripping & sharing this recording with me. Chris Martin of Coldplay said prior to their last song, "Please enjoy Depeche Mode and give them the respect they deserve as one of the forefathers of modern times".Ī pre-FM recording from this concert can be found at Source 1. This concert had the first performance of Shake The Disease by Depeche Mode since 1990, although Martin played it on his 2003 solo tour, also in an acoustic format.Ĭoldplay performed immediately preceding Depeche Mode, and 7 minutes 30 seconds of Coldplay's performance, including their final song "Fix You", are included on this recording. There are backing tape issues encountered at the start of I Feel You, and the song was restarted after a couple moments. Peter Gordeno plays bass during Personal Jesus and Walking In My Shoes. The first three tracks are performed in a somewhat stripped down, acoustic format, similar to several other tracks performed during DM's last performance at KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in 1998. Bass is slightly distorted depending on the song, and Dave's vocals can be a bit distorted as well.
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