Freelove

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"Freelove"
"Freelove" cover
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Exciter
B-side(s) "Zenstation"
Released November 5, 2001
Format 12", CD, DVD
Recorded 2000
Genre Synthpop
Length 3:59
Label Mute Records
Writer(s) Martin Gore
Producer(s) Mark Bell
Chart positions
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"I Feel Loved"
(2001)
"Freelove"
(2001)
"Goodnight Lovers"
(2002)

"Freelove" is Depeche Mode's thirty-eighth UK single, released on November 5, 2001 in the UK and December 11th in the US. It is the third single for the album Exciter.

David Gahan prior to Exciter called it the best song he's ever sung since "Condemnation".

The single version of "Freelove" is completely remixed from the album version. The mix was done by Flood, who produced the albums Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion. Flood's return is quite surprising, because he previously wanted to never work with Depeche Mode again after the nerve-racking experience of recording of the latter album, during which the whole band was in-fighting with each other.

The B-side is an instrumental called "Zenstation".

There is also a DVD release of "Freelove", a first for Depeche Mode. It contained video footage of "Freelove" from the Philadelphia concert in 2001, as well as audio of some of the other songs. It also contained four bonus 30-second videos of the band. The videos were directed by Anton Corbijn.

The main music video for "Freelove" was directed by John Hillcoat. It is not available on a public release.

Contents

[edit] Track listings

[edit] 12": Mute / 12Bong32 (UK)

  1. "Freelove" (Console Remix) (4:46)
  2. "Freelove" (Schlammpeitziger "Little Rocking Suction Pump" Version) (6:52)
  3. "Zenstation" (Atom's Stereonerd Remix) (5:39)
  4. "Freelove" (Bertrand Burgalat Remix) (5:30)
  5. "Freelove" (DJ Muggs Remix) (4:26)
  • The tracklist for "P12Bong32" is the same

[edit] CD: Mute / CDBong32 (UK)

  1. "Freelove" (Flood Mix) (3:59)
  2. "Zenstation" (6:24)
  3. "Zenstation" (Atom's Stereonerd Remix) (5:39)

[edit] CD: Mute / LCDBong32 (UK)

  1. "Freelove" (Bertrand Burgalat Remix) (5:30)
  2. "Freelove" (Schlammpeitziger "Little Rocking Suction Pump" Version) (6:52)
  3. "Freelove" (DJ Muggs Remix) (4:26)

[edit] DVD: Mute / DVDBong32 (UK)

  1. "Freelove" (Live) (6:57)
  2. "Breathe" (Live) (5:32)
  3. "The Dead of Night" (Live) (5:08)
  • "Freelove" is a video. "Breathe" and "Dead of Night" are audio. There's also four 30-second video clips of the band, one of which includes footage of "Black Celebration".
  • Also released in the US by Reprise, Catalog number: 2-38564
  • Live tracks recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on June 30, 2001

[edit] 2x12": Mute / PL12Bong32 (UK)

  1. "Freelove" (Deep Dish Freedom Remix) (11:47)
  2. "Freelove" (Josh Wink Vocal Interpretation) (8:44)
  3. "Freelove" (Deep Dish Freedom Dub) (11:16)
  4. "Freelove" (Powder Productions Remix) (8:00)

[edit] CD: Reprise / 2-42419 (US)

  1. "Freelove" (Flood Mix) (3:59)
  2. "Freelove" (DJ Muggs Remix) (4:26)
  3. "Zenstation" (6:24)
  4. "Freelove" (Bertrand Burgalat Remix) (5:30)
  5. "Freelove" (Schlammpeitziger "Little Rocking Suction Pump" Version) (6:52)
  6. "Zenstation" (Atom's Stereonerd Remix) (5:39)

[edit] CD: Reprise / n/a (US)

  1. "Freelove" (Flood Mix) (4:13)
  2. "Freelove" (Johnny Dollar Mix) (4:06)
  3. "Freelove" (DJ Muggs Remix) (4:26)
  4. "Freelove" (David Bascombe Remix) (4:07)
  • "Flood Mix" is a tad longer than normal.
  • "David Bascombe Remix" is by David Bascombe, who helped produce the Music for the Masses album.

[edit] External links

Depeche Mode
David Gahan | Martin Gore | Andrew Fletcher
Vince Clarke | Alan Wilder
Depeche Mode discography

Studio albums: Speak & Spell | A Broken Frame | Construction Time Again | Some Great Reward | Black Celebration | Music for the Masses | Violator | Songs of Faith and Devotion | Ultra | Exciter | Playing the Angel

Compilations: People Are People | The Singles 81>85 | Catching Up with Depeche Mode | The Singles 86>98 | Remixes 81 - 04 | The Best Of, Volume 1

Live Albums: 101 | Songs of Faith and Devotion Live

Tribute Albums: For the Masses | A Techno Tribute to Depeche Mode

Singles: Dreaming of Me | New Life | Just Can't Get Enough | See You | The Meaning of Love | Leave in Silence | Get the Balance Right | Everything Counts | Love, in Itself | People Are People | Master and Servant | Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody | Shake the Disease | It's Called a Heart | Stripped | A Question of Lust | A Question of Time | Strangelove | Never Let Me Down Again | Behind the Wheel | Little 15 | Everything Counts (Live) | Personal Jesus | Enjoy the Silence | Policy of Truth | World in My Eyes I Feel You | Walking in My Shoes | Condemnation | In Your Room | Barrel of a Gun | It's No Good | Home | Useless | Only When I Lose Myself | Dream On | I Feel Loved | Freelove | Goodnight Lovers | Enjoy the Silence 04 | Precious | A Pain That I'm Used To | Suffer Well | John the Revelator / Lilian | Martyr

Videography

Videos: The World We Live In and Live in Hamburg | Some Great Videos | Strange | 101 | Strange Too | Devotional | The Videos 86>98 | One Night in Paris | Touring the Angel: Live in Milan

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