I Want You Now
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7. I Want You Now List of Music for the Masses songs |
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I Want You Now
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| Song | I Want You Now |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Martin L. Gore |
| Produced by | Depeche Mode Dave Bascombe Daniel Miller |
| Recorded at | Guillaume Tell (Paris) Konk (London) |
| Length (mm:ss) | 3:44 |
| Tempo | 103 BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | E Minor |
| Recorded | February - July, 1987 |
| Originally released | 28 September 1987 |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 139 times * |
| Total live performances | 139 times * |
"I Want You Now" is a song from the 1987 album Music For The Masses by Depeche Mode.
Notes
Dave Bascombe said in the 2006 Music For The Masses Remaster DVD documentary:
"It was actually an accordion with just no keys held down. There's a button you press on the accordion which lets all the air out. And that's all it was. But it does sound really disgusting. It's great! Well, that song has got some heavy breathing on it anyway, which we sampled from God knows where - I think we actually sampled it from a porn movie, and then we got some girls in to add to it, to make it a bit more hi-fi or something."
Dave Bascombe elaborated on it to Super Deluxe Edition in July 2019:
"Well, the breathing, the two samples, originally were sampled from a porn film. They were really lo-fi. Then it was Fashion Week when we were in Paris which terrible [sic], you know [laughs] so models turned up at the studio and we got them to do the samples, just to get it a bit more hi-fi!"
Although I Want You Now was not played during the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour, it was performed at least once during the Soundcheck.
Studio outtake
This outtake, recorded at the Guillaume Tell Studios, is significantly different from the album version; due to this fact, this version is sometimes thought to be a demo, but it is definitely an outtake.
Live versions
This section provides an example of a live version of I Want You Now from each tour that it was played.
- Play 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour (Soundcheck): 1988-01-19 G-MEX Centre, Manchester, England, UK
- Play 1990 World Violation Tour: 1990-08-04 Dodgers Stadium, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Play 1994 Exotic Tour: 1994-05-14 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Play 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour: 2018-02-16 SKK, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lyrics
I Want You Now
I want you now
Tomorrow won't do
There's a yearning inside
And it's showing through
Reach out your hands
And accept my love
We've waited for too long
Enough is enough
I want you now
My heart is aching
My body is burning
My hands are shaking
My head is turning
You understand
It's so easy to choose
We've got time to kill
We've got nothing to lose
I want you now
And I don't mean to sound
Like one of the boys
That's now what I'm trying to do
I don't want to be
Like one of the boys
I just want you now
'Cause I've got a love
A love that won't wait
A love that is growing
And it's getting late
Do you know what it means
To be left this way
When everyone's gone
And the feelings they stay
I want you now
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1987 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "I Want You Now"
- Main article: List of dates where "I Want You Now" was played
