In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)

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"In Your Room"
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Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Songs of Faith and Devotion
B-side"Higher Love" (Adrenaline Mix)
Released10 January 1994 (1994-01-10)[1]
RecordedJanuary 1993 (Madrid, Hamburg, London)[2]
GenreDance-rock
Length4:52
LabelMute
Songwriter(s)Martin Gore
Producer(s)
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Condemnation"
(1993) 		"In Your Room"
(1994) 		"Barrel of a Gun"
(1997)
Music video
"In Your Room" on YouTube

"In Your Room" is the fourth and final single released from English electronic music band Depeche Mode's eighth studio album, Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993). Released on 10 January 1994, the song reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number two in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.

Song details[]

The version of "In Your Room" used for the single release is the "Zephyr Mix", a radically different mix of the original album version, nearly completely redone by Butch Vig of Nirvana fame. Other official single remixes include Brian Eno's "Apex Mix", which sounds closer to the album version, and "The Jeep Rock Mix", produced by Jonny Dollar and Portishead, which appears on Remixes 81 - 04.

During concerts in 1993 and 1994, the album version was played live. From the 1998 Singles Tour onwards, the "Zephyr Mix" of the song has been played live instead. However, during the 2009 Tour of the Universe, a mixture of both versions was played live. During the "Global Spirit Tour" the band returned to the album version again.

The single was released in a special foldout digipak with room to hold three different versions of the "In Your Room" single: the original release (CDBong24), a live disc (LCDBong24) and a remix disc (XLCDBong24). The b-sides consist of a remix of album track "Higher Love", along with some live songs from the Devotional Tour.

Depeche Mode's first appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman", filmed during a stop on their "The Singles Tour", featured an abbreviated version of "In Your Room."[3]

Critical reception[]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that the song "sees the band move further into dance-rock territory." He added, "Typically haunting vocals and intense lyrics are enhanced by rugged beats and a quasi-industrial guitar sound that will ring true in the hearts of alternative DJs."[4] Martin Aston from Music Week gave it five out of five.[5] Another editor, Alan Jones, picked it as Pick of the Week, saying, "Less obviously a rock record than some of their recent releases, the new Depeche Mode single is a fairly dark but nonethe less quite commercial record in which some dense guitar work is punctuated by a pleasant chorus."[6]

Music video[]

The music video for "In Your Room" (using the Zephyr mix) was directed by Anton Corbijn and features references to the videos for "Strangelove" (a model posing in her underwear), "I Feel You" (a woman dressed as Dave Gahan, wearing a pinstripe suit, sunglasses, and a wig), "Walking in My Shoes" (the bird costume), "Halo" (the people wearing clown makeup), "Enjoy the Silence" (a woman dressed as a king, holding the folding chair while walking in the road), "Personal Jesus" (a woman wearing a cowboy hat like the band members did), "Condemnation" (the white dress with ribbons on it that one of the women wears) and "Never Let Me Down Again" (tea drinking). Corbijn described the video as a retrospective of the work he had done with Depeche Mode. He said he made it that way because he wasn't sure if he was going to do another Depeche Mode video after it.[7] He later elaborated stating, that this video was made during the rise of band troubles and of Dave Gahan's drug addiction so it was uncertain whether the band would still exist for another video to be made.

The video features Alexandra Kummer, who sometimes is partially clothed. Because of the partial nudity and scenes of bondage, the video only aired after prime time on MTV in the US. Since the video had only limited screen play the single was not a hit in the US.

This is the last Depeche Mode single with Alan Wilder as a band member and the last music video he appears in.

Track listings[]

All songs were written by Martin Gore.

Charts[]

Notable cover versions[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Music Week. 8 January 1994. p. 15. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. ^ Shaw, William (April 1993). "In The Mode". Details: 90–95, 168. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  3. ^ http://www.depechemode.com/video/television/letterman_inyourroom.html
  4. ^ Flick, Larry (12 February 1994). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 93. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  5. ^ Aston, Martin (8 January 1994). "Market Preview: Alternative" (PDF). Music Week. p. 7. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  6. ^ Jones, Alan (15 January 1994). "Market Preview: Mainstream - Singles - Pick of the Week" (PDF). Music Week. p. 12. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  7. ^ Audio Commentary: "In Your Room" from the DVD Video Singles Collection (2016)
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  9. ^ In Your Room (UK & Australian CD2 liner notes). Depeche Mode. Mute Records. 1994. LCD BONG 24.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ^ In Your Room (UK & Australian CD3 liner notes). Depeche Mode. Mute Records. 1994. XLCD BONG 24.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  12. ^ In Your Room (UK 12-inch single 1 sleeve). Depeche Mode. Mute Records. 1994. 12 BONG 24.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  13. ^ In Your Room (UK 12-inch single 2 sleeve). Depeche Mode. Mute Records. 1994. L12 BONG 24.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  14. ^ In Your Room (US 12-inch single vinyl disc). Depeche Mode. Mute Records, Sire Records, Reprise Records. 1994. 0-41362.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  16. ^ In Your Room (US CD single liner notes). Depeche Mode. Mute Records, Sire Records, Reprise Records. 1994. 9 41362-2.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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