Pipeline
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Pipeline
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| Song | Pipeline |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Martin L. Gore |
| Produced by | Daniel Miller Depeche Mode |
| Recorded at | The Garden (London) |
| Length (mm:ss) | 5:54 |
| Tempo | 81 BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | B Minor |
| Engineered by | Ferg Peterkin Gareth Jones |
| Tonmeister | Gareth Jones |
| Mixed at | Hansa Mischraum |
| Mastered by | Christian Stegmaier |
| Design | Martyn Atkins Town & Country Planning |
| Illustrations | Ian Wright |
| Originally released | 22 August 1983 |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 109 times * |
| Total live performances | 109 times * |
"Pipeline" is a song from the 1983 album Construction Time Again by Depeche Mode.
Notes
Andy Fletcher told the 1984-01-07 issue of Melody Maker:
"We went down Brick Lane and just hit everything and then recorded it and took it back to the studio and then put it into the keyboard. That's how we made the track 'Pipeline'. We was like smashing corrugated iron and old cars. The vocals were recorded in a railway arch in Shoreditch - you've got the train three-quarters of the way through and the aeroplane up above. It's really interesting doing that."
Dave Gahan also told the 1983-08-20 issue of Sounds:
"Well 'Pipeline' was very experimental in that every sound on there has been made from us just out on the street hitting things, recording it and playing it back in different ways – like, even the vocal was recorded in a tunnel!"
Lyrics
Pipeline
Get out the crane
Construction time again
What is it this time
We're laying a pipeline
Let the beads of sweat flow
Until the ends have met though
Could take a long time
Working on the pipeline
Taking from the greedy
Giving to the needy
On this golden day
Work's been sent our way
That could last a lifetime
Working on the pipeline
From the heart of our land
To the mouth of the man
Must reach him sometime
We're laying a pipeline
Taking from the greedy
Giving to the needy
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1983 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Martin Gore 1983 home demos
'Pipeline' is one of several song demos prepared by Martin Gore for the 1983 Construction Time Again album.
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "Pipeline"
- Main article: List of dates where "Pipeline" was played
