Thursday, January 18, 2024

Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, Britain, 7-31-1993

Here is another full-length Depeche Mode concert done for the BBC. It apparently is also the last one, since I don't know of any others.

I previously posted concerts from the band's early years, with concerts from 1983 and 1984. There's a big leap from that time to this concert about ten years later, in 1993. In the meantime, the band had their most commercially successful years, with lots of big hits. So this is a good companion to those earlier concerts, with almost no songs from 1984 or before. (I think the only one is the finale, "Everything Counts.")

As far as the recording of this unreleased concert goes, kudos to Depeche Mode Live Wiki, at https://dmlive.wiki. They did all the grunt work to fix the flaws in this concert that I often have to do on my own. No single recording was complete, so this is seamlessly put together from no less than four different sources. And some minor flaws were fixed, so everything sounds great.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 Higher Love (Depeche Mode)
02 Policy of Truth (Depeche Mode)
03 Walking in My Shoes (Depeche Mode)
04 Halo (Depeche Mode)
05 Stripped (Depeche Mode)
06 Condemnation (Depeche Mode)
07 Judas (Depeche Mode)
08 I Feel You (Depeche Mode)
09 Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode)
10 Rush (Depeche Mode)
11 In Your Room (Depeche Mode)
12 Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
13 Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
14 Everything Counts (Depeche Mode) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/16177869/DPESHEMDE1993_BBSessnsVlum3InCncrtCrystlPlceSprtsGrndLndnBrtn__7-31-1993_atse.zip.html

The cover just shows the band's lead singer, Dave Gahan. It's from a concert in Brussels, Belgium, on May 25, 1993.

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