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The [[Anton Corbijn]]-directed music video for "Personal Jesus" is his first Depeche Mode video in color, and features the band in a ranch. [[MTV]] edited out some suggestive mouth movements of Martin Gore during the bridge and replaced it with some other footage from the video. |
The [[Anton Corbijn]]-directed music video for "Personal Jesus" is his first Depeche Mode video in color, and features the band in a ranch. [[MTV]] edited out some suggestive mouth movements of Martin Gore during the bridge and replaced it with some other footage from the video. |
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In 2004, the song was listed at #368 on [[Rolling Stone|Rolling Stone's]] [[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|list of the 500 greatest songs of all time]]. |
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Revision as of 22:02, 7 January 2006
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"Personal Jesus" is Depeche Mode's twenty-third UK single, released on August 29, 1989, and the first single for the then upcoming album Violator. The song was covered by Johnny Cash and Gravity Kills in 2002 and by Marilyn Manson in 2004. It is also included in the repertoire of Richard Cheese, who performs an upbeat jazz cover of the song. It was featured on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Depeche Mode recording
The song became a big hit across the world, and is one of Depeche Mode's most successful songs, along with the following single, "Enjoy the Silence". It may be first time the guitar was used as the main instrument on a Depeche Mode song. This country-ish number took the world by storm and featured more advertising than usual with Depeche Mode, with magazine ads and a telephone campaign (people could call a number seen on magazine ads that would play the song). In addition, the single was particularly successful commercially thanks to the fact that it was released six months prior to the album it would later appear on. Up to that point, it was best selling 12" single in Warner Brothers history. [1]
"Personal Jesus" has a pleathora of remixes, almost unprecented for Depeche Mode at the time. While most other Depeche Mode singles prior to "Personal Jesus" usually had band-made extended mixes, Depeche Mode started to invite more DJs and mixers to the fold, which would become the mainstay for all future Depeche Mode singles. François Kevorkian (who did the mixing for the Violator album, in general) mixed the single version, the "Holier Than Though Approach" and the "Pump Mix," while producer Flood mixed the "Acoustic" version and the "Telephone Stomp Mix" as well as the single version and "Sensual Mix" of the single's B-side "Dangerous," a more disco-electronic track. The "Hazchemix" and "Hazchemix Edit" were mixed by Daniel Miller.
The back-cover of "Personal Jesus" features one of the band members and the back-side of a naked girl. The band member she is with depends on whether you have the 7" Vinyl (Martin Gore), the 12" Vinyl (David Gahan), the Cassette (Andrew Fletcher), or the original CD (Alan Wilder). On some copies she does not appear at all, such as the 2004 CD rerelease, and on promo copies. On some limited releases, like the GBong17, all four pictures are available.
The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for "Personal Jesus" is his first Depeche Mode video in color, and features the band in a ranch. MTV edited out some suggestive mouth movements of Martin Gore during the bridge and replaced it with some other footage from the video.
In 2004, the song was listed at #368 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Track listings
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This CD is the 2004 re-release
US single released September 19 1989 |
All songs written by Martin L. Gore
Marilyn Manson recording
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Marilyn Manson's 2004 cover version of "Personal Jesus" appears on the band's greatest-hits compilation, Lest We Forget, and was that album's lead single. The cover, recorded by Marilyn Manson with instrumentation and arrangement by Tim Skold, does not deviate to any large degree from Depeche Mode's original version. It was recorded at Manson's studio, Doppelherz Blood Treatment Facility, and mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent, a veteran producer who had also frequently worked with Depeche Mode.
Like the original version, the 2004 cover was also remixed by other artists. The "Personal Jesus Rude Photo Motor Mix" was produced by Felix Da Housecat, Brian Black and Olivier Grasset, and appears as a b-side on the vinyl versions of the single.
The single was accompanied by a music video directed by Manson and Nathan "Karma" Cox, which features the band members in Tableaux Vivants accompanied by rear-projection images depicting various scenes of American and international political nature.
Track listings
- UK Enhanced CD single
- Personal Jesus
- New Shit Invective – Obiter Dictum Mix by Bitteren Ende
- mOBSCENE Replet – Mea Culpa Mix by Bitterne Ende
- "Personal Jesus" video
- Australian Enhanced CD single
- Personal Jesus
- mOBSCENE Replet – Mea Culpa Mix by Bitterne Ende
- Personal Jesus (Rude Photo Motor Remix)
- "Personal Jesus" video
- German 3" CD single
- Personal Jesus
- This Is the New Shit (remix by Sergio Golayan)
- UK 10" and UK 7"
- Personal Jesus (LP version)
- Personal Jesus (Rude Photo Motor Remix)