Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, Barrowland, Glasgow, Britain, 3-26-2017

Here's another BBC concert by the band Depeche Mode. It's from 2017.

I have to confess that I lost track of Depeche Mode's music some point in the 1990s. But they're a rare band that made it big in the new wave genre in the early 1980s and kept selling well until today. They've sold over 100 million albums worldwide. 

This album is unreleased. The sound quality was a bit rough for a BBC recording. I ran all the songs through the UVR5 audio editing program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments. That helped. But still, the crowd noise is not great, making this almost sound like an audience boot at times. There's also no banter between the songs at all.

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 talk (Depeche Mode)
02 Going Backwards (Depeche Mode)
03 So Much Love (Depeche Mode)
04 Corrupt (Depeche Mode)
05 A Pain that I'm Used To (Depeche Mode)
06 World in My Eyes (Depeche Mode)
07 Cover Me (Depeche Mode)
08 Home (Depeche Mode)
09 Where's the Revolution (Depeche Mode)
10 Barrel of a Gun (Depeche Mode)
11 Walking in My Shoes (Depeche Mode)
12 Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
13 Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Wm7U2WEG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/VZuD5slLK2gxkkf/file

The cover photo is a screenshot of a video of this exact concert. It shows the band's lead singer Dave Gahan.

Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, Britain, 7-31-1993

Here is another full-length Depeche Mode concert done for the BBC, from 1993. 

I previously posted concerts from the band's early years, with concerts from 1983 and 1984. There's a big leap from that time to this concert about ten years later, in 1993. In the meantime, the band had their most commercially successful years, with lots of big hits. So this is a good companion to those earlier concerts, with almost no songs from 1984 or before. (I think the only one is the finale, "Everything Counts.")

As far as the recording of this unreleased concert goes, kudos to Depeche Mode Live Wiki, at https://dmlive.wiki. They did all the grunt work to fix the flaws in this concert that I often have to do on my own. No single recording was complete, so this is seamlessly put together from no less than four different sources. And some minor flaws were fixed, so everything sounds great.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 Higher Love (Depeche Mode)
02 Policy of Truth (Depeche Mode)
03 Walking in My Shoes (Depeche Mode)
04 Halo (Depeche Mode)
05 Stripped (Depeche Mode)
06 Condemnation (Depeche Mode)
07 Judas (Depeche Mode)
08 I Feel You (Depeche Mode)
09 Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode)
10 Rush (Depeche Mode)
11 In Your Room (Depeche Mode)
12 Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
13 Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
14 Everything Counts (Depeche Mode) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bzqDSgG9

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/wW1uCyQ09cXF8Ba/file

The cover just shows the band's lead singer, Dave Gahan. It's from a concert in Brussels, Belgium, on May 25, 1993.

Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-2-1984

Here's the second Depeche Mode BBC sessions album. Once again, it's a full concert. I plan on posting at least one more album in this series.

This BBC concert took place only one year after the last one I posted. But in the meantime the band released the album "Some Great Reward," which featured some hits like "People Are People," "Master and Servant," "Blasphemous Rumours," and "Somebody," raising the profile of the band. So the set list has a lot of differences.

Many versions of this concert are missing songs. But I found the most comprehensive version at a Depeche Mode wiki site. Unfortunately, the final encore of "Shout" and "Just Can't Get Enough" is still missing, since those were never broadcast in any version of this concert.

This unreleased concert has excellent sound quality. But it's one of those cases where what happened on stage was recorded so well that there's very little of the crowd. There's also very little banter. At times, it almost sounds like the band was practicing their concert set list in a studio setting. That has pluses and minuses, but I decided to keep it as it is instead of patching in a bunch of audience applause.

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long.

01 Something to Do (Depeche Mode)
02 Two Minute Warning (Depeche Mode)
03 Puppets (Depeche Mode)
04 If You Want (Depeche Mode)
05 People Are People (Depeche Mode)
06 Leave in Silence (Depeche Mode)
07 New Life (Depeche Mode)
08 Shame (Depeche Mode)
09 Somebody (Depeche Mode)
10 Ice Machine (Depeche Mode)
11 Lie to Me (Depeche Mode)
12 Blasphemous Rumours (Depeche Mode)
13 Told You So (Depeche Mode)
14 Master and Servant (Depeche Mode)
15 Photographic (Depeche Mode)
16 Everything Counts (Depeche Mode)
17 talk (Depeche Mode)
18 See You (Depeche Mode)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16029799/DepcheMde_1984_BBSessonsVolum2InConcrtHmmersmthOdeonLondnBrtain__11-2-1984_atse.zip.html 

The cover photo is from a concert in Schleiden, Germany, in April 16, 1984.

Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 10-8-1983

Back in the early 1980s, when I was an early teenager, I enjoyed the first few Depeche Mode albums. I gradually lost track of them by the end of the 1980s though. It just so happens that although Depeche Mode hasn't performed for the BBC all that much, they did do two concerts in the early 1980s, which still is my favorite time period of their music. So here's the first of those two.

This concert took place shortly after the release of the "Construction Time Again" studio album. Depeche Mode was still rising in popularity so they probably felt they needed the BBC's help to get more publicity. 

Two more songs, "And Then..." and "Boys Say Go," were played at this concert. However, they weren't on any broadcasts or bootlegs of it, so they don't appear here. Also, most bootlegs say this concert happened on October 6th, but according to a definitive Depeche Mode wiki, it actually happened on October 8th.

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 Everything Counts (Depeche Mode)
02 Now, This Is Fun (Depeche Mode)
03 Two Minute Warning (Depeche Mode)
04 Shame (Depeche Mode)
05 See You (Depeche Mode)
06 Get the Balance Right (Depeche Mode)
07 Love, in Itself (Depeche Mode)
08 Pipeline (Depeche Mode)
09 The Landscape Is Changing (Depeche Mode)
10 Photographic (Depeche Mode)
11 Told You So (Depeche Mode)
12 talk (Depeche Mode)
13 New Life (Depeche Mode)
14 More than a Party (Depeche Mode)
15 The Meaning of Love (Depeche Mode)
16 Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ktQ4erAr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/V9SfIsHp53K8lcY/file

This cover photo may or may not be from this exact concert, I don't know. What I do know if that I found it on the expired BBC page for this concert. So at least it's not from this exact concert, it's from that time period. Too bad it only shows two of the four band members at the time.