Martyr (song)
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| Single by Depeche Mode | ||
| from the album The Best Of, Volume 1 |
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| Released | October 30, 2006 | |
| Format | CD, Maxi-CD, DVD | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | Synthpop | |
| Length | 3:23 | |
| Label | Mute Records | |
| Writer(s) | Martin Gore | |
| Producer(s) | Ben Hillier | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Depeche Mode singles chronology | ||
| "John the Revelator" / "Lilian" (2006) |
"Martyr" (2006) |
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"Martyr" is a single by Depeche Mode. It is Depeche Mode's most recent non-album single, intended to promote the new compilation, The Best Of, Volume 1, to be released on November 13, 2006. [1] The single was released on October 30, 2006 in three formats: CD single, CD maxi and DVD single.
The song, originally titled "Martyr for Love", is a well-known missing track from the Playing the Angel sessions. The song was mentioned on one of the FletchCam videos (where it can faintly be heard playing in the background), and has been mentioned in interviews. Playing the Angel programmer Dave McCracken has said that it did not make the album due to it being a bit poppier than the rest of the album.[2] There are no other new songs on the single; the B-Sides are remixes of Martyr and previous releases.
A video was being directed by Andreas Nilsson, who was reportedly hired because Dave Gahan was impressed by his video for The Knife's "Silent Shout".[3] The video was made in Gothenberg, Sweden, and members of the group do not appear in it. [4] The band subsequently rejected this video, which was replaced with a video montage produced by Mute Records in which Dave Gahan seemingly sings the song, this being achieved by the succesion of short clips of Depeche Mode's videos in which Dave either says the words featured in the lyrics of "Martyr" or his lips move in a similar fashion when one prononces the same words.
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[edit] Track listings
[edit] CD: Mute / CDBong39 (UK)
- "Martyr" (Single Version)
- "Martyr" (Booka Shade Full Vocal Mix)
[edit] CD: Mute / LCDBong39 (UK)
- "Martyr" (Paul van Dyk Remix Edit)
- "Martyr" (Alex Smoke Gravel Mix)
- "Never Let Me Down Again" (Digitalism Remix)
[edit] DVD: Mute / DVDBong39 (UK)
- "Martyr" (Video Montage)
- "Martyr" (Dreher & S.M.Art B.N. Reload Remix)
- "Martyr" (Booka Shade Travel Mix)
[edit] CD: Mute / PCDBong39 (UK)
- "Martyr" (Single Version) (3:23)
- "Martyr" (Paul van Dyk Radio Mix) (3:40)
- "Martyr" (Paul van Dyk Vonyc Lounge Mix) (7:06)
- "Martyr" (Paul van Dyk Dub) (10:21)
- "Martyr" (Paul van Dyk Dub Vox) (10:21)
- "Martyr" (Booka Shade Dub) (8:17)
- "Club Promo #1"
- UK promo
[edit] CD: Mute / PLCDBong39 (UK)
- "Personal Jesus" (Boys Noize Rework) (6:53)
- "Never Let Me Down Again" (Digitalism Remix) (4:36)
- "Everything Counts" (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin Dub) (6:52)
- "People Are People" (Underground Resistance Remix) (7:20)
- "Everything Counts" (Troy Pierce Unofficial Business Mix) (5:58)
- "Personal Jesus" (Hearthrob Reworkd 2) (5:13)
- "Sinner in Me" (Ricardo Villalobos Conclave Remix) (12:59)
- "Personal Jesus" (Timo Maas Remix) (7:50)
- "Club Promo #2"
- UK promo
[edit] Digital Downloads
- "Martyr (Paul Van Dyke Dub)"
- "Martyr (Alex Smoke Bones Edit)"
- "Martyr (Booka Shade Dub)"
- "Martyr (U-MYX feature)"
