Master And Servant

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Notes

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."

Dates with available recordings of Master And Servant

There are currently 295 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.