Friday, December 8, 2023

Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-2-1984

Here's the second Depeche Mode BBC sessions album. Once again, it's a full concert. I plan on posting at least one more album in this series.

This BBC concert took place only one year after the last one I posted. But in the meantime the band released the album "Some Great Reward," which featured some hits like "People Are People," "Master and Servant," "Blasphemous Rumours," and "Somebody," raising the profile of the band. So the set list has a lot of differences.

Many versions of this concert are missing songs. But I found the most comprehensive version at a Depeche Mode wiki site. Unfortunately, the final encore of "Shout" and "Just Can't Get Enough" is still missing, since those were never broadcast in any version of this concert.

This unreleased concert has excellent sound quality. But it's one of those cases where what happened on stage was recorded so well that there's very little of the crowd. There's also very little banter. At times, it almost sounds like the band was practicing their concert set list in a studio setting. That has pluses and minuses, but I decided to keep it as it is instead of patching in a bunch of audience applause.

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long.

01 Something to Do (Depeche Mode)
02 Two Minute Warning (Depeche Mode)
03 Puppets (Depeche Mode)
04 If You Want (Depeche Mode)
05 People Are People (Depeche Mode)
06 Leave in Silence (Depeche Mode)
07 New Life (Depeche Mode)
08 Shame (Depeche Mode)
09 Somebody (Depeche Mode)
10 Ice Machine (Depeche Mode)
11 Lie to Me (Depeche Mode)
12 Blasphemous Rumours (Depeche Mode)
13 Told You So (Depeche Mode)
14 Master and Servant (Depeche Mode)
15 Photographic (Depeche Mode)
16 Everything Counts (Depeche Mode)
17 talk (Depeche Mode)
18 See You (Depeche Mode)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16029799/DepcheMde_1984_BBSessonsVolum2InConcrtHmmersmthOdeonLondnBrtain__11-2-1984_atse.zip.html 

The cover photo is from a concert in Schleiden, Germany, in April 16, 1984.

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