Songs Of Faith And Devotion

For information on this album's singles, see the Singles section.
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Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Album	Songs Of Faith And Devotion
By	Depeche Mode
Catalogue number	Stumm106 CDStumm106 5016025611065 CStumm106 CStumm106 MDStumm106 DCC STUMM 106 PCDStumm106 Stumm106 Verbong 1 CD Verbong 1 CD Verbong 1 CD No Cat # Depro1cd No Cat # No Cat #
Release date	22 March 1993
Recorded at	Madrid, Spain Chateau du Pape (Hamburg, Germany)
Produced by	Depeche Mode Flood
Engineered by	Steve Lyon Paul Kendall Chris Dickie
Formats	LP • MC • CD • MD • DCC • CD+DVD • LP (remastered)
Number of tracks	10

Songs Of Faith And Devotion is the eighth studio album by Depeche Mode and the final album produced with Alan Wilder as a member. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 22 March 1993 by Mute Records. It was supported by the Devotional and Exotic tour.

Track list

1. I Feel You
2. Walking In My Shoes
3. Condemnation
4. Mercy In You
5. Judas
6. In Your Room
7. Get Right With Me
8. Rush
9. One Caress
10. Higher Love

For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Songs Of Faith And Devotion songs.

Singles

1. I Feel You - February 15, 1993
2. Walking In My Shoes - April 26, 1993
3. Condemnation - September 13, 1993
4. In Your Room - January 10, 1994

Releases

LP

12" STUMM106				RELEASED 1993 Region: Barcode: 5 016025 311064 Labels: Made In England Side A runout groove etching: STUMM 106 A1 DMM Side B runout groove etching: STUMM 106 B1 TOWNHOUSE DMM DMM Format: Stereo
Side A I Feel You 4:35 Walking In My Shoes 5:35 Condemnation 3:20 Mercy In You 4:17 Judas 5:14			Side B In Your Room 6:26 Get Right With Me / Interlude No. 4 2:55 / 0:57 Rush 4:37 One Caress 3:32 Higher Love 5:56
Notes: Printed inner sleeve included. First edition copies included a 15 x 21cm window sticker.

Cassette

Cassette (C STUMM 106)				RELEASED 1993 Region: Barcode: 5 016025 411061 Labels: Made in England
Side A I Feel You 4:35 Walking In My Shoes 5:35 Condemnation 3:20 Mercy In You 4:17 Judas 5:14			Side B In Your Room 6:26 Get Right With Me / Interlude No. 4 2:55 / 0:57 Rush 4:37 One Caress 3:32 Higher Love 5:56
Notes: Printed inner sleeve included. First edition copies included a 15 x 21cm window sticker.

CD

CD (CD STUMM 106)	RELEASED 1993 Region: Barcode: 5 016025 611065 Labels: Made In England Format: Stereo Runout: CDSTUMM 106 • MASTERED BY NIMBUS
Tracklist I Feel You 4:35 Walking In My Shoes 5:35 Condemnation 3:20 Mercy In You 4:17 Judas 5:14 In Your Room 6:26 Get Right With Me / Interlude No. 4 2:55 / 0:57 Rush 4:37 One Caress 3:32 Higher Love 5:56
Notes: Some first edition copies include a "Mute/Documentary Evidence 7" booklet.

MD

MD (MDSTUMM106)	RELEASED 05 February 2001 Region: Barcode: 5 016025 911066
Tracklist I Feel You 4:35 Walking In My Shoes 5:35 Condemnation 3:20 Mercy In You 4:17 Judas 5:14 In Your Room 6:26 Get Right With Me / Interlude No. 4 2:55 / 0:57 Rush 4:37 One Caress 3:32 Higher Love 5:56

Quotes

"There's been a big change in each individual member of the group which I couldn't sum up in a few sentences but particularly over the last few years, I think. Since we've got to our thirties, certain aspects of our lives have become much more important to us. We had a significant break away from each other before we started making this record, and when we came back together you could really see the changes in us."
— Alan Wilder, BONG 23

"I'd like to feel that this music will lift people and make them feel better in whatever they do. I'm just trying to push myself further."
— Dave Gahan, BONG 52

Flood describes the comping process employed when structuring performative musical elements into the finished product for BONG magazine, issue 22:

"A lot of times we'd have a click track or some other rhythmic foundation on the computer (sequencer) and then perhaps I'd send Alan into the studio to do real drums. We'd run through the whole song trying out different drum ideas. Out of that, we might take eight bars from one spot and four bars from another, sample it all and loop it. So we might have a whole drum track made of loops. We did the same for bass and even some of the guitars, although other things are full performances all the way through."

Songs by BPM

Album BPM range by song
I Feel You 122
Walking In My Shoes 93
Condemnation 58
Mercy In You 96
Judas 126
In Your Room 98
Get Right With Me 128
Rush 109
One Caress 100
Higher Love 99
Average: 102.9
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.

Trivia

• Songs Of Faith And Devotion is the final album to be recorded with Alan Wilder as a member of Depeche Mode. Additionally, it is the final Depeche Mode album to have been engineered by Steve Lyon and produced by Flood, though the latter would eventually handle mixing duties on 2013's Delta Machine two decades later.
• Of all songs from Songs Of Faith And Devotion, 'Walking In My Shoes' has been played live the most, having been played 900 times. In contrast, 'Get Right With Me' has the lowest number of live plays, having been played live only 20 times.
• With the exception of 'My Joy', a B-side, every song completed during the production of Songs Of Faith And Devotion has been played live by Depeche Mode.
• 1993's Songs Of Faith And Devotion and 2013's Delta Machine share a 22 March release date.
• Songs Of Faith And Devotion is the second Depeche Mode album to feature sleeve and cover artwork designed by Anton Corbijn.