Pipeline

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Pipeline
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Song Pipeline
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

The second generation tape that contains the demo for 'Pipeline'.

'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