Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (Remaster 2006) [EAC-FLAC] [RePoPo]

******************************************************************************* Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (Remaster 2006) ******************************************************************************* This torrent contains both the Audio CD in its remastered stereo form, as released in 2006, plus a short video, which tells the story of DM during the era. The video is presented in XviD with .mp3 sound. There are spanish and english subtitles already ripped and a subpack which also includes subs in Deutsch, Français and Italiano. You have to rip it yourself (I currently use SubRip on Windows), in order to use them. Note: There's no 5.1 audio here. I repeat: there's no 5.1 audio here. Only the 2.0 stereo album remastered. And sounds great! CD: Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (2006 remastered) 01. I Feel You [0:04:36.17] 02. Walking In My Shoes [0:05:26.08] 03. Condemnation [0:03:29.22] 04. Mercy In You [0:04:20.41] 05. Judas [0:05:13.20] 06. In Your Room [0:06:23.03] 07. Get Right With Me [0:03:51.70] ** 08. Rush [0:04:40.52] 09. One Caress [0:03:33.60] 10. Higher Love [0:05:56.19] ** "Interlude #4" – 0:59 (hidden song starting at 2:53) is an excerpt from the "Swamp Mix" of "I Feel You". It is often used to introduce the song when played live. DOCUMENTARY 91-94 We Were Going to Live Together, Record Together and it Was Going to be Wonderful [0:36:01] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ALLMUSIC REVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Ned Raggett In between Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion, a lot happened: Nirvana rewrote the ideas of what "alternative" was supposed to be, while Nine Inch Nails hit the airwaves as the most clearly Depeche-influenced new hit band around. In the meantime, the band went through some high-profile arguing as David Gahan turned into a long-haired, leather-clad rocker and pushed for a more guitar-oriented sound. Yet the odd thing about Songs of Faith and Devotion is that it sounds pretty much like a Depeche Mode album, only with some new sonic tricks courtesy of Alan Wilder and co-producer Flood. Perhaps even odder is the fact that it works incredibly well all the same. "I Feel You," opening with a screech of feedback, works its live drums well, but when the heavy synth bass kicks in with the wailing backing vocals, even most rockers might find it hard to compete. Martin Gore's lyrical bent, as per the title, ponders relationships through distinctly religious imagery; while the gambit is hardly new, on songs like the centerpiece "In Your Room," the combination of personal and spiritual love blends perfectly. Outside musicians appear for the first time, including female backing singers on a couple of tracks, most notably the gospel-flavored "Condemnation" and the uilleann pipes on "Judas," providing a lovely intro to the underrated song (later covered by Tricky). "Rush" is the biggest misstep, a too obvious sign that Nine Inch Nails was a recording-session favorite to unwind to. But with other numbers such as "Walking in My Shoes" and "The Mercy in You" to recommend it, Songs of Faith and Devotion continues the Depeche Mode winning streak. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME WIKIPEDIA INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth studio album by Depeche Mode, first released in March 1993. The album incorporated more guitar textures than previous releases. Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached #1 in both the UK and US album charts. The album was also the last one the band recorded with Alan Wilder. To support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the eighteen-month Devotional Tour. As of April 2006, Songs of Faith and Devotion has sold 920,000 units in the United States. All art for the album was directed by Anton Corbijn, which included photography and the front cover. The front cover is the only Depeche Mode studio album cover to feature the band. In 2006, Songs of Faith and Devotion was re-released with a bonus DVD. It was released as a part of the second wave of re-issues. (Along with A Broken Frame and Some Great Reward) The first CD was remastered and (except in the USA) was released on a CD/SACD hybrid. The bonus DVD includes the B-Side "My Joy" along with the Jazz Mix of "Death's Door" (similar to the original version) and several other remixes. Also included was a 36 minute documentary on Songs of Faith and Devotion called Depeche Mode 91-94 (We Were Going To Live Together, Record Together And It Was Going To Be Wonderful) named after a quote from Alan Wilder on the potential of living in their Madrid-area recording studio. It features interviews with Depeche Mode (including Alan, who would leave the band shortly thereafter) and other important DM figures like Daniel Miller, Anton Corbijn and Daryl Bamonte. There is also footage from the movie Devotional and the music videos. The documentary mainly focuses on the extreme difficulty of recording the album, and the even more frustrating 14-month tour that followed. It was released October 2, 2006 in the UK and October 3, 2006 in the US. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME TRACKS REVIEWED AT ALLMUSIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I FEEL YOU by Tim DiGravina Depeche Mode settle into a storming, squalid rock swagger to open Songs of Faith and Devotion. "I Feel You" feels quite a bit like a sequel, at least musically and in tone, to Violator's "Personal Jesus." The fuzzy, extreme guitar twang might bring memories of that earlier song, but the vibe is more confessional and spiritual, at least on the surface. David Gahan almost screams Martin Gore's lyrics, venting as emotionally as if he's confessing his love to God in a church. Gahan's punchy inflection sits perfectly against the thunderous, fuzzy buzz of electronics and guitar samples. The driving, throbbing beat invokes imagery of repetitive industrial manual labor, perhaps of workers pounding away in the blistering sun to build a railroad. If one was to take the album's title literally, "I Feel You" would be a song of devotion, but it's delivered as if it's a song of faith. When he sings, "This is the morning of our love, it's just the dawning of our love," it's quite easy to mishear the vocals as "this is the morning of Allah, it's just the dawning of Allah." Depeche Mode always tie love and lust together with other feelings, whether religion, violence, or sorrow. That "I Feel You" feels simultaneously like a religious song and a dark love song is merely a testament to how powerful Gore is as a songwriter and how tight the band was musically at this point, even as it collapsed internally. WALKING IN MY SHOES by Tim DiGravina With rampant depression, drug abuse, world tours with ridiculous schedules, and interpersonal conflicts ravaging the members of Depeche Mode, walking in their shoes was the last thing anybody would hope for at this point in the band's career. But this darkly melodic and starkly revealing song from the great Songs of Faith and Devotion proves that even through obscene adversity, Martin Gore and company could achieve musical catharsis. Like "I Feel You," "Walking in My Shoes" feels like a throwback to Violator's lush electronic sweep. Even though it's musically quite ornate and smooth, Dave Gahan threatens to turn Gore's lyrics into a battle cry. Melodically, the song is similar to Ultra's "Barrel of a Gun," but where producer Tim Simenon would lead Depeche Mode down an aggressive, bombastic path, Flood embellishes the band's sound with mournful, weeping synths. Of all the tracks on Songs of Faith and Devotion, "Walking in My Shoes" shares perhaps the most in common musically with Depeche Mode's previous albums. With so much of the album leaning toward spiritual revelation and hinting of gospel and blues, "Walking in My Shoes" strays the least from the band's formula of keyboards and depressed subject matter. That it feels like the band is recycling trademark sounds doesn't detract one bit from the song's power and swarthy charm. "Walking in My Shoes" is a sure highlight of Songs of Faith and Devotion even if it doesn't seek new ground thematically or musically. CONDEMNATION by Tim DiGravina With its handclap samples, heavenly background chorus, spiritual piano, and, of course, Dave Gahan's gut-wrenching vocals, "Condemnation" is the heart and soul of Songs of Faith and Devotion. Since the album's release, Depeche Mode has inexplicably expressed some disgust with the album as a final product and revealed that "Condemnation" most matches the album's original thematic blueprint. The song certainly follows the album's title to a tee. Gahan absolutely pours emotion from his larynx, his somewhat slurring vocals at once expressing the rejuvenation of Martin Gore's lyrics and his own concurrent emotional and physical downfall. Gahan's constant plea of "please open your eyes" as Gore moans ecstatically in the background captures a religious sense of rapture. Perhaps the most genre-bending Depeche Mode song in the band's first 20 years, "Condemnation" is an honest, vibrant musical revelation. As great as the rest of the album is, one can only guess how fascinating Songs of Faith and Devotion would have been had Depeche Mode been able to come together as a unit to forge the masterpiece it had planned. As the band fell apart as a whole and as individuals, the result is still a fascinating and joyous journey, with "Condemnation" the hint and tip of the iceberg of what could have been. IN YOUR ROOM by Tim DiGravina "In Your Room" is all about atmosphere. Dave Gahan sounds angry in his almost sinister vocal delivery, offering the album's least religious-oriented lyrics. Noirish keyboards, ominous industrial textures, a pounding mid-tempo beat, and a bizarre cut-and-paste moan sample provide a cinematic backdrop. Despite Gahan's serious tone, Gore's lyrics depict a masochistic demeanor. "Will you leaving me lying here in your favorite darkness?" Gahan wonders. He knows he's his lover's "favorite passion, game, mirror, and slave." It's safe to say that "In Your Room" is a kind of love song, but it's the morbid, diseased kind of love that perpetually fascinates Gore. Musically, the somewhat bland keyboards and string arrangements don't conjure Depeche Mode's trademark mystery and power. Ultimately, "In Your Room" feels like a moody experiment where the music can't quite match Gahan's fine vocals. That it's still a fine song and a favorite from the album for some fans signals that even when Depeche Mode isn't firing on all cylinders, Gore's songwriting and Gahan's passion can still work considerable magic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME TRACKS REVIEWED AT WIKIPEDIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I FEEL YOU "I Feel You" is Depeche Mode's twenty-seventh UK single, released on February 15, 1993, and the first single for the then upcoming album Songs of Faith and Devotion. The song peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart and also made #1 and #3 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart respectively. It is the band's highest charting single worldwide. "I Feel You" brings Depeche Mode's rockier side to the table, using more non- electronic instruments than ever before. For example, Alan Wilder plays drums, and Martin Gore plays the guitar, but there's still plenty of electronics, like the synth screeching intro. Unlike most other pop and rock songs "I Feel You" superimposes a 6/8 beat (played by the guitar riff) into the 4/4 time, creating hemiola. The 7" version of "I Feel You" is the same as the album version. The "Throb Mix" is a 12" version, but with incomplete lyrics. A part of the mixes from the Limited Edition is used as an interlude on the Songs of Faith and Devotion album between "Get Right With Me" and "Rush", and that same part is also used for the intro in the Live versions as you can hear for example on the Songs of Faith and Devotion Live album. On the cover of "I Feel You", there are four symbols, each representing a member. To tell which member it is, there's a number on the right-corner of each symbol, which is that band member's birthdate OR you can match the symbols up with the symbols on the Songs of Faith and Devotion cover, which overlap a picture of that band member. Using the latter, the top left corner is Alan Wilder, the top right corner is David Gahan, the bottom left corner is Martin Gore, and the bottom right corner is Andrew Fletcher. The B-side is "One Caress", which is a Martin vocal track from Songs of Faith and Devotion. In the USA, Sire / Reprise released "One Caress" as a promo-only single. One promo copy has the original version. The other has the version from Songs of Faith and Devotion Live. There is no remix for the song. The music video for "I Feel You" is directed by Anton Corbijn. The girl in the video is English actress Lysette Anthony. There is also a music video for "One Caress", it was directed by Kevin Kerslake and was filmed during one of the off -days of the Devotional Tour in the US. It was a promo-only video that was later released onThe Videos 86>98. Prior to its inclusion on The Videos 86>98, the music video for "One Caress" was frequently broadcast on MTV's Alternative Rock video block 120 Minutes. The song is also used in a scene in Fatih Akin's Turkish-German film Gegen die Wand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKING IN MY SHOES "Walking in My Shoes" is Depeche Mode's twenty-eighth UK single, released on April 26, 1993, and the second single for the album Songs of Faith and Devotion. The song reached #14 on the UK singles chart and matched the success of previous single "I Feel You" on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it hit #1. The 7" version of "Walking in My Shoes" is not the same as the one in the Songs of Faith and Devotion album. The sound has been made more noisy and dirty, especially the drums in the verse, and the intro has been shortened. The B-side is "My Joy", the only exclusive B-Side from the Songs of Faith and Devotion album, and is a rock track in the vein of "I Feel You". The music video for "Walking in My Shoes" was directed by Anton Corbijn and is based on Dante's Divine Comedy. At the beginning of the second verse, there's a shot of Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, and Alan Wilder with naked women on their laps. This was removed in the MTV version in the US and replaced with footage the three members standing still, alone, from earlier in the video. The uncut version is on The Videos 86-98, the Devotional and The Best Of, Volume 1 DVDs. The song was covered by Canadian Grunge Band, Finger Eleven and was placed on their 2000 album The Greyest of Blue Skies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONDEMNATION "Condemnation" is a song by Depeche Mode, released as the group's twenty-ninth United Kingdom single on September 13, 1993 (September 14 in the USA), and the third single from their album Songs of Faith and Devotion. The song reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart[1]. "Condemnation" is a gospel-esque song with a rock twist. One of David Gahan's favourite Depeche Mode songs, he always enjoys playing it live. He even did an acoustic version during some Exciter Tour concerts, because the song was not meant to be played, but later on he really wanted to sing it. The 7" version of "Condemnation" is the "Paris Mix", because it's basically a re-recording of "Condemnation" done in Paris, with female backing vocals added and an emerging drum beat scheme. Dave voted for "Condemnation" to be the first single for Songs of Faith and Devotion, but obviously lost. The B-sides are remixes of "Death's Door" and "Rush", and some live tracks from the Devotional Tour. "Death's Door" was a song from the 1991 Until the End of the World soundtrack. The original version is still exclusive to that CD, recorded only by Martin Gore and Alan Wilder after the World Violation Tour was over. The music video for "Condemnation" was directed by Anton Corbijn. For unknown reasons, it did not appear on The Videos 86-98 in 1998, replaced by the live version from Devotional. The original video eventually resurfaced on The Videos 86-98's 2002 re-release (The Videos 86-98+). Both videos appear on the Devotional DVD re-release in 2004. (Although the "Condemnation Live" video was edited so that it wasn't identical to the one in the main Devotional movie) The video was shot in Hungary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN YOUR ROOM "In Your Room" is Depeche Mode's fourth and final single for the album Songs of Faith and Devotion, released on January 10, 1994 and January 18 in the USA. It reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart[1]. The common single version of "In Your Room", the "Zephyr Mix", is radically different from the original version on the album. The music is completely redone by Butch Vig of Nirvana fame, with only Dave Gahan's vocals remaining unchanged. Other official single remixes include the "Apex Mix", produced by Brian Eno, which sounds closer to the album version and Johnny Dollar's "The Jeep Rock Mix", which appears on Remixes 81 - 04. During concerts in 1993 and early 1994, the album version was played live. From the 1998 Singles Tour onwards, the "Zephyr Mix" of the song has been played live instead. However, in Tour of the Universe a mixture of both versions is played live. The single was released in a special foldout digipak with room to hold three different versions of the "In Your Room" single: the original release (CDBong24), a live disc (LCDBong24) and a remix disc (XLCDBong24). The b-sides consist of a remix of album track "Higher Love", along with some live songs from the Devotional Tour. In 2003, Fallon Bowman's band, Amphibious Assault, covered the song for their debut LP District Six. The music video for "In Your Room" was directed by Anton Corbijn and features references to the "Strangelove" (a model posing in her underwear), "I Feel You" (a woman dressed as Dave Gahan, wearing a pinstripe suit, sunglasses, and a wig), "Walking in My Shoes" (the bird costume), "Halo" (the people wearing clown makeup), "Enjoy the Silence" (Dave Gahan dressed as a king, holding the folding chair while walking in the road), "Personal Jesus" (the bandmembers wearing cowboy hats), and "Condemnation" (the white dress with ribbons on it that one of the women wears) videos. Corbijn described the video as a retrospective at the work he had done with Depeche Mode. He said he made it that way because he was sure frontman Dave Gahan was going to die before Depeche Mode could release more songs. The video features Alexandra Kummer, who sometimes is partially clothed. Because of the partial nudity and scenes of bondage the video only aired after prime time on MTV in the US. Since the video had only limited screen play the single was not a hit in the USA. This is the last Depeche Mode single with Alan Wilder as a band member, and thus the last music video he appears in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EAC LOG EXTRACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008 EAC extraction logfile from 4. 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zuruk (2009-08-17)

Thanks!!

mauro145 (2009-08-21)

gracias

 neon (2009-10-03)

good album thanks

lucidpaul (2009-12-23)

Thanks for all your depeche remasters
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