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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
<blockquote>'''Martin Gore''': "I saw a record at a London record shop with really lousy music on it, some Shooby dooby stuff. It had the grandiose name 'Music for the Millions'. I liked it straight away. We were into it because it was such an arrogant title. By the way, the title is meant ironically. We absolutely do not consider our music to be music for the masses, even if it actually seems to resonate in some countries such as Germany where we have a mass of fans."<ref>Source: 1987-10-22 - "Zweimal Haben Wir Uns Geprügelt", by Hannsjörg Riemann, Bravo Magazine issue #44, Germany</ref></blockquote>


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'''Martin Gore''': “[...] When we called [the] album ‘Music For The Masses’, we were accused of being patronising and arrogant. In fact it was a joke on the uncommerciality of it. It was anything but music for the masses!”
'''Martin Gore''': "[...] When we called [the] album 'Music For The Masses', we were accused of being patronising and arrogant. In fact it was a joke on the uncommerciality of it. It was anything but music for the masses!"


'''Alan Wilder''': “There’s much more humour than we’re given credit for. Perhaps it’s just that ours, or particularly Martin’s is a little specialised.”<ref name="NME February">Source: Stuart Maconie, <i>NME</i>, February 17 1990 [https://web.archive.org/web/20080303145631/http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/nme170290/nme170290main.htm via SacredDM] (now defunct).</ref>
'''Alan Wilder''': "There's much more humour than we're given credit for. Perhaps it's just that ours, or particularly Martin's is a little specialised."<ref name="NME February">Source: Stuart Maconie, <i>NME</i>, February 17 1990 [https://web.archive.org/web/20080303145631/http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/nme170290/nme170290main.htm via SacredDM] (now defunct).</ref>
— [[Alan Wilder]], [[Martin L. Gore]] - ''NME'', February 1990</blockquote>
— [[Alan Wilder]], [[Martin L. Gore]] - ''NME'', February 1990</blockquote>


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For information on this album's singles, see the Singles section.
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Music For The Masses
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Album Music For The Masses
By Depeche Mode
Catalogue number Stumm47
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HMV1
Stumm 47
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Release date 27 September 1987
Recorded at Guillaume Tell (Paris)
Konk (London)
Puk Studios, Denmark
Produced by Depeche Mode
Dave Bascombe
Engineered by Dave Bascombe
Number of tracks 10

Music For The Masses is the sixth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 27 September 1987 by Mute Records and was supported by the Music For The Masses tour.

Track list

  1. Never Let Me Down Again
  2. The Things You Said
  3. Strangelove
  4. Sacred
  5. Little 15
  6. Behind The Wheel
  7. I Want You Now
  8. To Have And To Hold
  9. Nothing
  10. Pimpf

For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Music For The Masses songs.

Singles

  1. Strangelove - April 13, 1987
  2. Never Let Me Down Again - August 24, 1987
  3. Behind The Wheel - December 28, 1987
  4. Little 15 - May 16, 1988

Quotes

Martin Gore: "I saw a record at a London record shop with really lousy music on it, some Shooby dooby stuff. It had the grandiose name 'Music for the Millions'. I liked it straight away. We were into it because it was such an arrogant title. By the way, the title is meant ironically. We absolutely do not consider our music to be music for the masses, even if it actually seems to resonate in some countries such as Germany where we have a mass of fans."[1]

"The title's [...] a bit tongue-in-cheek, really. Everyone is telling us we should make more commercial music, so that's the reason we chose that title."[2]

— Andrew Fletcher - Stripped: Depeche Mode - Jonathan Miller (2003)

Martin Gore: "[...] When we called [the] album 'Music For The Masses', we were accused of being patronising and arrogant. In fact it was a joke on the uncommerciality of it. It was anything but music for the masses!"

Alan Wilder: "There's much more humour than we're given credit for. Perhaps it's just that ours, or particularly Martin's is a little specialised."[3]

— Alan Wilder, Martin L. Gore - NME, February 1990

Statistics

Album BPM range by song
106
110
118
120
108
125
103
149
107
114

Average:
116
  • BPM values are plotted from 1 to 184 BPM.
  • In cases where a song features a change in tempo, the tempo at which the majority of the song
    plays takes precedence.
  • Unless noted otherwise, BPMs are estimated values determined by Spotify's Audio Analysis
    algorithm and as such are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
Album live plays by song
1076
106
301
101
3
627
139
0
101
101

Average:
255.5
  • Song live play values are plotted from zero to 1,100.
  • All values are determined by summing the number of times each song has been performed
    live by Depeche Mode per tour.
  • These totals do not reflect live plays performed by individual members of Depeche Mode
    as part of solo projects, solo tours, or known one-off performances.

Trivia

  • The total number of live song plays from Music For The Masses is 2555. This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.

References

  1. ↑ Source: 1987-10-22 - "Zweimal Haben Wir Uns Geprügelt", by Hannsjörg Riemann, Bravo Magazine issue #44, Germany
  2. ↑ Source: Stripped: Depeche Mode - Jonathan Miller (2003)
  3. ↑ Source: Stuart Maconie, NME, February 17 1990 via SacredDM (now defunct).


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