Jase on Martin Gore

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Sometimes people have a hard time differentiating Martin's voice in Depeche Mode songs. Here's a list of DM songs on which Martin sings the lead vocal:

• Any Second Now (Voices)
• Shouldn't Have Done That
• Pipeline
• It Doesn't Matter
• Somebody
• A Question of Lust
• Sometimes
• It Doesn't Matter Two
• World Full of Nothing
• Things You Said
• I Want You Now
• Route 66
• Sweetest Perfection
• Blue Dress
• Enjoy the Silence (Harmonium)
• Death's Door
• Judas
• One Caress
• Home
• The Bottom Line

Besides these songs, Martin sings a duet with Dave on several songs, notably "Here is the House", "Behind the Wheel", and "Waiting for the Night".

Reviews

CDs by Martin Gore in Jase's CD Collection:

1. Counterfeit EP (1989)

Bootlegs:

1. Martin Gore - Like You've Never Heard Him Before (1997)

Martin Gore songs on Compilations/Soundtracks

Counterfeit EP

EP Info:	EP Tracks:
Released in 1989 Label: Sire 9 25980-2 Produced by Martin Gore Rico Conning Rating: A-	Compulsion In a Manner of Speaking Smile in the Crowd Gone Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth Motherless Child

This short collection of cover tunes is pretty interesting. The production is pretty bare-bones, but sounds a lot like Depeche Mode (big surprise). My favorite song is "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth". His version of the African-American traditional "Motherless Child" is interesting. I wonder what African-Americans think of it.

I'm trying to track down the original artists that performed these songs. If you can help me fill in any of the blanks, please e-mail me.

Vini Reilly of Durutti Column, who wrote "Smile in the Crowd", later played guitar for Morrissey.

Here's an odd recording of Martin Gore sitting down at a piano in a bar in Cologne sometime in 1997. With some friends, he runs through a bunch of songs, including The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday", Elvis Presley's "Crying in the Chapel", The Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale", Abba's "Mamma Mia", Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire", OMD's Electricity, The Doors' "Light My Fire", Oasis's "Wonderwall", and The Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen". Other songs inlcude "Coming Back to You", the Leonard Cohen song Martin recorded later for a tribute album, "Queer", the Garbage song that Martin remixed, and the Depeche Mode song "Sometimes". It sounds like a great recording, but Martin doesn't really know most of the songs that well, and most of the tracks end up being short and confused. It is kind of fun to listen to the spontaneous jam, however.

I have seen other versions of this recording listed on the internet with the track "A Question of Lust" at the end. Unfortunately, this version does ends with "Sometimes".

Martin Gore Songs on Compilations/Soundtracks

• Several tracks on the Depeche Mode bootleg Life in the so-called space age (1999). This is a bootleg that I made of rare Depeche Mode and Martin Gore tracks. You can read the review of the CD on my Depeche Mode page. The Martin Gore songs featured are:
  1. Coming Back to You
  2. Down in the Boondocks
  3. I Love You Love Me Love
  4. Crying the Chapel
• "In a Manner of Speaking": from the Just Say Mao (Volume III of Just Say Yes) compilation (1989). This is the same version as on Counterfeit.

Wish List

Here are some Martin Gore releases that I wish I had but haven't bought for some reason or another:

• Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen: This is where Martin contributed the cover of "Coming Back to You".

Related Artists in Jase's CD Collection

• Abba
• Depeche Mode
• The Doors
• Morrissey
• OMD

Links

Here are some good Martin Gore sites on the internet:

• A Tribute to Martin Gore: About the only high-quality Martin-only page on the internet.

Most sites about Martin Gore are just extensions of other Depeche Mode pages. Check out my favorite DM sites here.

Buy Martin Gore CDs on-line!