![]() ![]() The CD single was released in 1991 as part of the singles box set compilations.Īll live tracks recorded at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool, England on 29 September 1984.Ĭharts Chart performance for "Blasphemous Rumours" / "Somebody".No Bong number, same cover as the vinyl version. This version of the single was also released on CD."Somebody", which was sung by Martin Gore in the studio in the nude, includes one of Gore's "little twists", where the song builds as if it is a song about finding your perfect love, only to have him reveal at the end "though things like this make me sick / in a case like this I'll get away with it." Ī significant moment in the Tour of the Universe at the Royal Albert Hall, Alan Wilder made a surprise appearance accompanying by playing the piano while Martin Gore sung 'Somebody'. When Depeche Mode announced that they were planning to release "Blasphemous Rumours" as a single, pushback from the religious community resulted, and consequently, the band decided as a compromise to release the single as a double-A side with "Somebody." Somebody When Martin initially showed Andy the song, he found it quite offensive and said, "It certainly verges on the offensive." The song stems from the times that Martin Gore would go with bandmate Andy Fletcher and former bandmate Vince Clarke to the church. The chorus uses these incidents to conclude, "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour / And when I die, I expect to find him laughing." Like other songs on Some Great Reward, the song uses a dense sound with extensive sampled percussion. She experiences a religious revival but then "Hit by a car / Ended up / On a life support machine" (from the lyrics). The verses to "Blasphemous Rumours" describe a 16-year-old girl who attempts suicide but fails. You know, stations out here in Long Island, WDRE, played us, started to play it, on the sort of underground, alternative stations.Song information Blasphemous Rumours That’s what Depeche Mode did too and everything turned out quite good for us, didn’t it? Last year I wasn’t even at home on Christmas! And I can do that to my mother twice, whether she’s in the Salvation Army or not!ĭave is quoted in the 2006 documentary of the album:Īlternatively, over in the States, it got played. You have to choose yourself what you wanna do with your life. Whether it’s politics or something else, that doesn’t matter. The song only wants to say that no one should let someone force anything upon him. Together with my sister, we usually went for a ride with the bike and told mom afterwards how lovely the homily was. So she sent me to the church every Sunday till my 18th birthday. I’m by the way not anti-religious at all! I only oppose a certain kind of religion that was forced upon me when I was young. It just seemed so strange to me, so ridiculous and so removed from real experiences.Īs for the controversy that surrounded the song, Dave Gahan told Belgian Magazine Joepie: The person at the top of the list was guaranteed to die, but still everyone went right ahead thanking God for carrying out his will. Particularly a part of the service called the prayer list, when the preacher rattles off the names of those sick and about to die. The whole setup is quite handy but I’m not sure that’s what God intended. I found the service very hard to take seriously. I was going to church a lot at the time, not because I believed in it, but because there was nothing else to do on a Sunday. This all after she finds renewed strength in God. The tale of a 16-year-old girl whose suicide attempt fails, she is still cut down in her prime two years later in a fatal car wreck. In 2017, a music critic explained on Billboard’s website that the song is: The song (as part of the double A-side single) peaked at #16 in the UK, and did even better in Ireland peaking at #8. Insisting that the song still be the next single, the band agreed to the compromise of releasing the much less controversial “Somebody” as another ‘A-side’ on the same release. And the Independent Broadcasting Authority and the Sun (UK tabloid) both condemned the song. Melody Maker Magazine called it “a prime candidate for official censure”. Long-rumored among fans to be written as a response to Martin Gore’s sister’s suicide, he told Spin Magazine the song was actually inspired by seeing ‘prayer lists’ while he and Dave Gahan separately attended church services and agreed it was ‘strange’ and ‘ridiculous’ that despite the fact people at the top of the list are ‘guaranteed to die’, everyone continues to thank God for carrying out his will.Ī controversial track, “Blasphemous Rumours” was almost banned by the BBC. “Blasphemous Rumours” (along with “Somebody” as part of a double A-side) was the third single from Some Great Reward. ![]()
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