Depeche Mode 101 ( Live ) ( vinyl 2LP )

Release date: 14-10-2016 (originally released in 1989) 

 

2024 EU reissue 180g vinyl 2LP- feat. "Behind The Wheel," "Strangelove", "Blasphemous Rumors" and "A Question Of Time".

A live album and a greatest-hits album all in one, 101 proves that Depeche Mode are just as capable of performing onstage as they are working in a studio. The listener is easily swept up in the hysteria of the fans screaming in the audience. From the brooding "Never Let Me Down Again" to the sickly sweet "Somebody," the live component of this album makes one realize that there really are humans behind the machines, accompanied by a range of real human emotions.

 

Tracks: (VINYL 2LP)
LP1
A1 Pimpf
A2 Behind The Wheel
A3 Strangelove
A4 Something To Do
A5 Blasphemous Rumours

B1 Stripped
B2 Somebody
B3 Things You Said
B4 Black Celebration

LP2
C1 Shake The Disease
C2 Pleasure Little Treasure
C3 People Are People
C4 A Question Of Time

D1 Never Let Me Down Again
D2 Master And Servant
D3 Just Can't Get Enough
D4 Everything Counts

 

The listener is easily swept up in the hysteria of the fans screaming in the audience. From the brooding "Never Let Me Down Again" to the sickly sweet "Somebody," the live component of this album makes one realize that there really are humans behind the machines, accompanied by a range of real human emotions.

 

 

 

Roughly 28 years ago, Depeche Mode performed the 101st date of their tour behind Music for the Masses at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on June 18, 1988, a concert which was filmed and recorded for release as the film and album entitled – appropriately enough – 101.

 

Originally conceived by members of Depeche Mode as a method of clarifying how the group fit into the ‘80s, things changed for 101 when famed documentarian D.B. Pennebaker stepped into the role of director and felt that it was going to be too difficult to cover the topic at hand in a manner which would prove cinematically entertaining. Instead, he switched things up to follow a collective of Depeche Mode fans who'd won a "Be in a Depeche Mode Movie" contest. In turn, 101 was able to spotlight both the devotion of the band's fans and the live Depeche Mode experience.

 

Unfortunately, those who came into the proceedings looking for a full-fledged concert film may have walked away disappointed by the end result, which in no way showed the band's performance in its entirety, but those folks still ended up with a double-disc live album, one which did an excellent job of sampling the DM discography up to that point. Plus, whether you want to attribute it to the film, the album, or a combination of both, the end result was that Depeche Mode's profile grew so substantial as a result of 101 that their next studio album, 1990's Violator, gave them the first US top-10 album of their career.