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"Suffer Well"
"Suffer Well" cover
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Playing the Angel
B-side(s) "Better Days"
Released 27 March 2006
Format CD, DVD, 7", 12"
Recorded 2005
Genre Synthpop
Electronica
Length 3:49
Label Mute Records
Writer(s) David Gahan, Andrew Philpott, Christian Eigner
Producer(s) Ben Hillier
Chart positions
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"A Pain That I'm Used To"
(2005)		 "Suffer Well"
(2006)		 "John the Revelator / Lilian"
(2006)

"Suffer Well" is the third single off the album Playing the Angel by Depeche Mode, and their forty-third single overall. It was released in the UK on 27 March 2006. Like "A Pain That I'm Used To", it has been released in the US via digital downloads (i.e. iTunes). [1]

It is the first Depeche Mode single whose lyrics are written by David Gahan. It is not the first single written by him overall, however, since he wrote the lyrics for his solo work. It is also the first Depeche Mode single that's not written by Martin Gore since "Just Can't Get Enough" in 1981 which was written by Vince Clarke and the first Depeche Mode single ever to be co-written with non-Depeche Mode members (Andrew Phillpot and Christian Eigner wrote the music). The B-Side for the single is "Better Days," a short song with an industrial-punk feel to it. It was nominated in the category of "Best Dance Recording" at the 2007 Grammy Awards but lost to Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack". [2]

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[edit] Music video (Anton's return)

The video was filmed by Anton Corbijn in mid-December 2005 in California, following DM's appearance at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas on December 11, 2005. It was his first music video for the band, excluding tour projections and promo videos, since "Useless" in 1997. It will likely be his last music video for a while, since he's taking a break from music videos to work on his first film, Control, which is about the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. The video started to air on TV in early February.

The video features a cameo appearance by Gahan's wife, Jennifer, once as the angel and once as herself. Another cameo is by the band's manager, Jonathan Kessler, who plays Gahan's limo driver. Other highlights include Gore as a bride and Fletcher as a groom. It also features the disco ball seen in the cover art of "Suffer Well". Some say the video is a metaphor for Gahan's drug troubles in the 1990s that almost led to suicide.

[edit] Simlish version

In December 2005, Gahan recorded a special vocal track for the song; with help from EA Games, the lyrics were translated into "Simlish" (the language of the game The Sims 2) and later appeared in The Sims 2: Open For Business as one of the games new songs. Other New Wave songs were also remixed in Simlish and added to the game, such as Howard Jones's "Things Can Only Get Better".

[edit] Charts and airplay

[edit] U.S.

The song was issued to "go for adds" in the U.S. in the first week of February 2006; that is, a promotional copy of the single was submitted to Modern Rock radio stations during that week in an effort to convince the stations to add it to their playlists. At this time, it has been added to the playlists of several stations in the United States West, including KXRK (Salt Lake City), KROQ (Los Angeles), KNDD (Seattle), and KBTZ (San Diego).

By mid-February 2006, the song had been added to the playlists of twenty-three modern rock stations in the United States. The stations offering it the most play were KXRK, KJEE (Santa Barbara), KCXX (Riverside), and WGVX (Minneapolis). Several stations added "John the Revelator" to their playlists during the time when it was slated to be released as the second single from Playing the Angel in the U.S. Even after the release of "Suffer Well", they continued to offer "John the Revelator" heavy airplay, and none of them added "Suffer Well" to their playlists during this time, possibly hindering the single's potential in the U.S. market in the time soon after its release.

Nonetheless, "Suffer Well" was consistently added to about three stations each week following its release and by early March 2006 was receiving exposure on 45 stations. The song moved comfortably within the top fifty alternative rock songs in the U.S. at this time. It reached number thirty-eight on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

"Suffer Well" reached number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, the band's seventh song to top this chart.

[edit] UK

"Suffer Well" was added to the playlist of Xfm London on 27 February 2006. However, it failed to make the playlist of any BBC Radio station. Despite this, it entered the UK charts at number twelve, besting "A Pain That I'm Used To"'s performance.

[edit] Cover images

UK (CD: CDBONG37)

UK (CD: LCDBONG37)

UK (DVD: DVDBONG37)

[edit] Track listings

[edit] In the UK

  • CD CDBONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" (single version) - 3:20
  2. "Better Days" - 2:28
  • CD LCDBONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Remix) - 6:28
  2. "Suffer Well" (Narcotic Thrust Vocal Dub) - 6:44
  3. "Suffer Well" (Alter Ego Remix) - 6:14
  4. "Suffer Well" (M83 Remix) - 4:31
  5. "Suffer Well" (Metope Vocal Remix) - 6:28
  6. "Suffer Well" (Metope Remix) - 6:53
  • DVD DVDBONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" (video) - 3:50
  2. "Suffer Well" (Alter Ego Dub)
  3. "Better Days" (Basteroid "Dance Is Gone" Vocal Mix) - 7:09
  1. "Suffer Well" (Metope Vocal Remix) - 6:28
  2. "The Darkest Star" (Monolake Remix) - 5:54
  1. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Remix) - 6:28
  2. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Dub) - 5:29
  3. "Suffer Well" (Narcotic Thrust Vocal Dub) - 6:44
  • 12" L12BONG37 scheduled for release 10 April 2006
  1. "Suffer Well" (Metope Remix) - 6:53
  2. "Suffer Well" (Metope Vocal Remix) - 6:28
  3. "Suffer Well" (M83 Remix) - 4:31
  4. "Better Days" (Basteroid "Dance Is Gone" Vocal Mix) - 7:09

[edit] UK promos

  • CD PCDBONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" - 3:50
  2. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Remix) - 6:28
  3. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Dub) - 5:29
  4. "Suffer Well" (Narcotic Thrust Vocal Dub) - 6:44
  5. "Suffer Well" (Alter Ego Remix) - 6:14
  6. "Suffer Well" (Metope Remix) - 6:53
  7. "Suffer Well" (Metope Vocal Remix) - 6:28
  8. "Suffer Well" (M83 Remix) - 4:31
  9. "Suffer Well" (M83 Instrumental) - 4:42
  10. "Better Days" (Basteroid "Dance Is Gone" Vocal Mix) - 7:09
  11. "Better Days" (Basteroid "Dance Is Gone" Remix) - 7:10
  • CD RCDBONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" (single version) - 2:47
  2. "Suffer Well" - 3:50
  • 12" P12BONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Remix) - 6:28
  2. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Dub) - 5:29
  3. "Suffer Well" (Narcotic Thrust Vocal Dub) - 6:44
  • 12" PL12BONG37
  1. "Suffer Well" (Metope Remix) - 6:53
  2. "Suffer Well" (Metope Vocal Remix) - 6:28
  3. "Suffer Well" (M83 Remix) - 4:31
  4. "Better Days" (Basteroid "Dance Is Gone" Vocal Mix) - 7:09
  • 12" PXL12BONG37
  1. "The Darkest Star" (Holden Remix) - 7:47
  2. "The Darkest Star" (Holden Dub) - 7:56

[edit] Digital downloads

  1. "Suffer Well" (Single Version)
  2. "Suffer Well" (M83 Instrumental)
  3. "Suffer Well" (Tiga Dub Version)

[edit] References

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 | The Complete Depeche Mode

Live Albums: 101 | Songs of Faith and Devotion Live | Recording the Angel

Tribute Albums: For the Masses | A Techno Tribute to Depeche Mode | Color Theory presents 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/ But Not Tonight | 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
Related articles
Synthpop | Depeche Mode Tours | Mute Records | Paper Monsters | Counterfeit e.p. | Counterfeit² | Toast Hawaii | Recoil
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