Alan Wilder vocals

This page lists confirmed examples of Alan Wilder's vocal contributions in Depeche Mode songs and in his personal demos, with accompanying audio examples. All audio examples from the albums have been extracted from the SACD multi-channel remasters, except where noted.

Alan's speech can be heard in various interviews; see Interviews featuring Alan Wilder. One particularly good example is 1990-03-20 The Wherehouse (Sire-Reprise PRO-C-4329).

Demo recordings

Alan Wilder contributed four demo songs for Some Great Reward.

See more: Alan Wilder's 1984 "Some Great Reward" demo tape

Construction Time Again

Everything Counts

"Everything counts in large amounts" from the album version chorus.

"Everything counts in large amounts" from "Everything Counts (Reprise)":

Two Minute Warning

"Time has come, my days are numbered":

"Time has come, my days are numbered / two minute warning":

"Time has come, my days are numbered":

Some Great Reward

In Your Memory (Slik Mix)

Alan singing "place it in your memory" can be heard in the "Slik Mix" of In Your Memory, starting at 6:44.

Black Celebration

Black Celebration

"I'll drink to that"

Music For The Masses

Sacred

"Trying to sell the story of love's eternal glory"

Violator

Sweetest Perfection

Alan sings the ending backing vocals alongside Dave Gahan. "Nothing can stop me / Takes me completely / Touches so sweetly / Reaches so deeply" repeated until the end of the song.

This excerpt is just Alan's vocals:

And for comparison, here are Dave's vocals alone:

And both sets of vocals, Alan in left channel, Dave in right channel:

Enjoy The Silence

"Here in my arms / they can only do harm"

Live recordings

Alan contributes significant live backing vocals.

• Alan is prominently heard in the right channel of 1982-03-28 De Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands/Source 1.
• Alan is prominently heard in the right channel of 1982-02-21 Tiffany's, Glasgow, Scotland, UK/Source 1.
• Alan is prominently heard in the left channel of 1983-10-08 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK/Source 1. Interestingly, Alan's vocals seem to be mixed louder than Martin's vocals on this recording.
• Alan is prominently heard in the left channel of 1984-06-02 Suedwest Stadium, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 2.
• Alan is prominently heard in the left channel of 1984-11-02 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK/Source 1.
• Alan is prominently heard in the right channel of 1993-07-31 Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, England, UK/Source 1.

Devotional

Several isolated backing vocal excerpts of Alan's backing vocals from the Devotional video soundtrack, prepared by alan_files, are below. Because they are vocal isolations from the stereo soundtrack, the quality is not as clear as the excerpts from multichannel mixes above.

Policy Of Truth

"Never again is what you swore the time before"

Halo

"And when our worlds they fall apart / when the walls come tumbling in / though we may deserve it / it will be worth it"

World In My Eyes

"Now let your body do the moving / and let my hands do the soothing / let me show you the world in my eyes"

Recoil

Missing Piece (Night Dissolves)

Alan contributes backing vocals to the "Night Dissolves" mix of Missing Piece from the "Stalker / Missing Piece" single releases.