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Dave Gahan tells in the [https://www.facebook.com/starhitsmag/photos/a.777249462358284.1073741854.515955968487636/935140426569186/?type=3&theater summer 1984 issue of Star Hits magazine] the unusual sounds used in the recording of this song: "We've got a whip, an air compressor from a builder's nail gun, a water drop, a toy piano and you can hear Andy being spanked by Martin."
Dave Gahan tells in the [https://www.facebook.com/starhitsmag/photos/a.777249462358284.1073741854.515955968487636/935140426569186/?type=3&theater summer 1984 issue of Star Hits magazine] the unusual sounds used in the recording of this song:  
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When asked in 2009 what the strangest sound was that they ever recorded, Andy Fletcher told Uncle Sally*s magazine (translated from German):
When asked in 2009 what the strangest sound was that they ever recorded, Andy Fletcher told Uncle Sally*s magazine (translated from German):

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Notes

Martin Gore said in the commentary track on the DVD of '101':

Martin Gore: "I wrote ['Master And Servant'] around 1985 [sic]. Around that time I was going out to quite a few S&M clubs and stuff, and I just started seeing a correlation between what's happening there and life and politics and stuff. And it's [where] just this idea, this germ of an idea, started."

Quotes from the documentary on the DVD of the Some Great Reward remaster from 2006:

Daniel Miller: "The monster of the album in terms of - there's always one monster on the album in terms of getting it finished, is Master And Servant. I suppose there was a bit of a reaction after the success of People Are People. "Oh, we're going too poppy, Dan, we gotta be careful", which is good, which is correct. And think we didn't make a conscious effort to make... We felt that the next single had to be a lot harder, a lot kind of... and different, again."

Alan Wilder: "We spent a lot of time on that track. Not just recording it - it was quite complicated - but also when we came to mixing, I think we spent, like, 7 days on the mix."

Daniel Miller: "I remember being up all night with Gareth, on the last night, editing the tapes, and the tape all over the room, and I remember leaving in the morning to go to the airport, and there had been this huge snowstorm overnight, it was really freezing, it was 7 in the morning, and I had been up for, like, 3 days. Because everything was late, I had not been able to play the tracks to anybody. So, I arranged for them to come to the mastering room, we were listening through it, and the last chorus came in, and something weird was happening. And we realised that the snare drum had been left out. We spent 10 days mixing the track, and it was so complicated, we were so burnt by the end of it, that we hadn't noticed that we'd muted out the snare drum. We sort of sat around for about five minutes, "What are we gonna do? Are we going to re-mix it?" and everybody said, "No, nobody will notice.""

Dave Gahan tells in the summer 1984 issue of Star Hits magazine the unusual sounds used in the recording of this song:

"We've got a whip, an air compressor from a builder's nail gun, a water drop, a toy piano and you can hear Andy being spanked by Martin."

When asked in 2009 what the strangest sound was that they ever recorded, Andy Fletcher told Uncle Sally*s magazine (translated from German):

"I was once whipped. The result can be heard on 'Master And Servant'. That was really strange."

When Depeche Mode was interviewed about the songs on the '101' CD for the April 1989 issue of French magazine 'Best', Dave Gahan said (translated from French):

"Ever since we recorded it, we have always played 'Master And Servant' on stage. As soon as the first chords are heard, the audience recognises it. It is the hymn of Depeche Mode. It's a bit of an equivalent to that what 'Baba O'Riley' is for The Who."

Dates with available recordings of Master And Servant

There are currently 294 recordings of Master And Servant available.

Dates where Master And Servant was played

1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour

Master And Servant was played 81 times during this tour.

1986 Black Celebration Tour

Master And Servant was played 75 times during this tour.

1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour

Master And Servant was played 101 times during this tour.

1990 World Violation Tour

Master And Servant was played 88 times during this tour.

1993 Devotional Tour

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

1994 Exotic Tour

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

1997 Ultra Parties

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

1998 The Singles Tour

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

2001 Exciter Tour

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

2003 Paper Monsters Tour (Dave Gahan solo)

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

2003 "A Night With Martin L. Gore" (Martin L. Gore solo)

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

2005-2006 Touring The Angel

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

Master And Servant was played 25 times during this tour.

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

  • Master And Servant was not played during this tour.