Stripped
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7. Stripped List of Black Celebration songs |
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Stripped
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| Song | Stripped |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Martin L. Gore |
| Produced by | Depeche Mode Gareth Jones Daniel Miller |
| Recorded at | Worldwide International Studios, London, UK Westside Studios, London, UK Hansa Mischraum, Berlin, Germany |
| Length (mm:ss) | 4:14 (album version) 3:52 (7" version) 6:42 (12" version) |
| Tempo | 90 BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | G Major |
| Programmed by | Martin L. Gore |
| Engineering assistance | Richard Sullivan Peter Schmidt |
| Additional engineering | Kevin Paul Kevin Vanbergen Roger Johnson |
| Additional mixing | Kevin Paul |
| Mastering engineer | Tim Young |
| Remastering engineer | Simon Heyworth |
| Recording | Dave Allen |
| Recording assistance | Phil Tennant |
| Design | T&CP Associates |
| Photography | Brian Griffin |
| Photography assistance | Stuart Graham |
| Recorded | Late 1985 |
| Originally released | 10 February 1986 |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 866 times * |
| Total live performances | 866 times * |
"Stripped" is a song from the 1986 album Black Celebration by Depeche Mode. It was released as a lead single on 10 February 1986.
Notes
Depeche Mode said in the 1986-02-22 issue of No.1 magazine:
Andy: "The idea of 'Stripped' is to get away from technology and civilisation for a day and get back to basics in the country. It's about two people stripping down to their bare emotions. In the video we're seen demolishing a car and taking a TV apart... it's a bit, er, symbolic."
Dave: "It's not about sex. It's to do with having nothing except yourself. The people in the song could strip off if they wanted to though. The song is also a bit chancy. It doesn't capture you immediately. Some people hear it and say "Is that it?" Others go "Brilliant!"."
Dave also told Gear Magazine in 1998:
"This came from a period when Martin was really looking into himself; it's about stripping layers back and seeing what's left. Sampling was very, very, new. We used to run all over town looking for interesting sounding things to turn into a rhythmical element of the song. That's my Porsche 911 starting at the beginning. They've long since gone."
Martin Gore in Bong issue no. 37, 1998:
"I think that since the 'Black Celebration' album we’ve started getting things right and 'Stripped' is one of the best atmospheres we've ever captured."
Quotes from the documentary on the DVD of the Black Celebration remaster from 2006:
Alan Wilder: "One of the first tracks we recorded, I think, was Stripped. And that just flowed, probably the only track on the album that did, and it was easy.[1] And I think I have to give credit to Martin's demo, because recorded the demo using the opening sound to that, which is an Emulator sample of a motorbike, ideally. And we said, "Well, let's just replicate that in the studio", and everything else just followed. We recorded Dave's Porsche, if you're trying to be [specific], a Porsche, and we recorded its ignition, which starts the track."
Gareth Jones: "Fireworks on Stripped, as well, is another famous piece. Obviously, on November the 5th, it was."
Daniel Miller: "It was rockets that we were doing, so we thought, if we angled them at a fairly low angle, we could set up a series of microphones and we would still be able to pick up the sound as it travelled along. If we straight up, we would have got just one sound, it would just have sort of disappeared, so we did that. We set up a sort of bottle at a very narrow angle and had, like, 5 microphones maybe, at, I don't know, 15 feet apart, something like that."
Martin Gore told Electronics and Music Magazine in 1986:
"[...] the rhythm of 'Stripped' was made up of the sound of an idling motorbike played half-an-octave down from its original pitch."
When Depeche Mode was interviewed about the songs on the '101' CD for the April 1989 issue of French magazine 'Best', Martin Gore said (translated from French):
"It's one of our best songs. It emerges out of the evolution of our music. After 'Some Great Reward', which was a pretty harsh album, we went in a more melodic direction with 'Black Celebration', and 'Stripped' illustrates this change well. It's a song that releases good vibrations, perfect for on stage. We all agree on that one."
Lyrics
Stripped
Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Metropolis
Has nothing on this
You're breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everything's ours
For a few hours
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me hear you crying
Just for me
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1986 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Music video
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "Stripped"
- Main article: List of dates where "Stripped" was played
Live versions
This section provides an example of a live version of Stripped from each tour that it was played.
- Play 1986 Black Celebration Tour: 1986-04-10 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK
- Play 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour: 1988-01-11 Wembley Arena, London, England, UK
- Play 1990 World Violation Tour: 1990-07-21 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Play 1993 Devotional Tour: 1993-07-31 Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, England, UK
- Play 1994 Exotic Tour: 1994-03-26 Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Play 1998 The Singles Tour: 1998-12-19 Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA
- Play 2005-2006 Touring The Angel: 2006-06-04 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany
- Play 2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe: 2009-05-06 Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Play 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour: 2018-06-26 Volt Festival, Sopron, Hungary
- Play 2023-2024 Memento Mori Tour: 2023-03-30 T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV, USA
References
- ↑ In the same documentary, Martin contradicts him, saying: "Stripped took 9 days mixing and God knows how long recording."
