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3 years ago

MUSIC IN TIME #044 March 17, 1986, Depeche Mode’s 5th studio album “Black Celebration” was released. Mr Mute Records, Daniel Miller, gloomily commented “The songs aren't good enough, there aren't any singles and it'll never get played on the radio” when hearing Martin Gore’s demos for the album. Still, BC managed to hit the top 20 in the UK, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. The band, Daniel Miller and co-producer/engineer Garth Jones had agreed to “live the album”, virtually living in the studio or out in the streets of Berlin, recording themselves banging on metal objects, rolling pebbles down window panes, setting off fireworks or igniting Dave Gahan’s Porsche on tape recorders, then feeding the sounds into their sampler for processing and using in the songs. Combining these creative floods (pun intended) with the dizzy feeling of spending most of your time in a recording studio (where “the night is a constant possibility” to quote Klas Östergren) and the Berlin club scene made up the unique costumes of sound the Gore songs were dressed in after being stripped to the bone. For a lot more about the recording of the album, the singles before the album (where “Shake the Disease” being a downright synth pop classic), Depeche Mode meeting The Cure, interviews with all the important people around the band and why bubble gum “But Not Tonight” were released in the US as a single instead of “Stripped”, watch the documentary named after the Miller quote “The songs aren’t….” from above. #depechemode #blackcelebration #stripped #danielmiller #mute #garethjones #1986 #musicintime #porterthorells Music in Time Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mDGcxbAusg...

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