"Everything Counts"
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Construction Time Again
B-side(s)	"Work Hard"
Released	July 11, 1983
Format	Vinyl record (7" and 12"), CD (1991 box set)
Recorded	1983
Genre	Synthpop
Length	7" - 3:58 12" - 7:18
Label	Mute Records
Writer(s)	Martin Gore
Producer(s)	Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller, and Gareth Jones
Chart positions
#6 (UK) #17 (US Dance)
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Get the Balance Right" (1983)	"Everything Counts" (1983)	"Love, in Itself" (1983)

"Everything Counts (Live)"
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album 101
B-side(s)	"Nothing [Live]"
Released	February 13, 1989
Format	Vinyl record (7", 10", and 12"), CD
Recorded	June 18, 1988
Genre	Synthpop
Length	6:45
Label	Mute Records
Writer(s)	Martin Gore
Producer(s)	Depeche Mode
Chart positions
#22 (UK) #13 (US Modern Rock) #16 (US Dance)
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Little 15" (1988)	"Everything Counts (Live)" (1989)	"Personal Jesus" (1989)

"Everything Counts" is Depeche Mode's eighth UK single (released on July 11, 1983) and third US single (released on November 2, 1983), from the then upcoming album Construction Time Again. The single is a pivotal release in the band's career, as the members attempted to transition from the pop numbers of their early years to a more sophisticated sound; it would be the first single of the transition period to hit the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. It was the first in a long line of industrial-inspired singles released by the band, and has been referred to as "arguably...the first English-language industrial pop hit."^[1] The single was re-released (in live format) on February 13, 1989 (March 25, 1989 in the US) to support the live album, 101. Image File history File links Depeche_Mode_Everything_Counts. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... 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Background and themes

In January of 1983, shortly before the release of the "Get the Balance Right!" single, lyricist Martin Gore attended an Einstürzende Neubauten concert, giving him the idea to experiment with the sounds of industrial music in the context of pop.^[2] This experimentation hinged on the band's first use of a Synclavier, a synthesizer that not only contained a large number of pre-programmed sounds, but also allowed for samples to be imported. With this, the band proceeded to travel around the neighborhood where they could tape "found" sounds and feed them into the Synclavier, then manipulate the noises to fit into their songs. These sounds consisted mainly of hammering anvils, clanging pipes, running water, and the like. In addition to the "found" sounds used as samples, the single also samples a variety of musical instruments, such as the xylophone and a melodica (which Martin has been known to play on stage for the song). Get the Balance Right is the seventh single by Depeche Mode originally released on January 31, 1983. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Einstürzende Neubauten is an ever-changing experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... The New England Digital Synclavier System was a powerful, integrated system for music synthesis and recording, first developed at Dartmouth College by Jon Appleton and colleagues. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Xylophone in Bali 1937 The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ... A Hohner melodica The melodica is a free-reed instrument similar to the accordion and harmonica. ...

That spring, the band converged in London to begin recording their third album, Construction Time Again, and changed recording studios as well. For the previous two albums, the band had recorded at Blackwing Studios, but would switch to John Foxx's "The Garden" studio. This change, along with the addition of Gareth Jones to the production team facilitated the band's transition from the hook driven pop songs of their past (a transition that had begun to take shape in 1982 with the more noticeably melancholy "Leave in Silence"). The band continued perfecting their industrial formula over their next two albums, 1984's Some Great Reward and 1986's Black Celebration. Album photograph from In Mysterious Ways John Foxx is the stage name of English musician Dennis Leigh. ... Gareth Jones is a record producer who has worked on many recordings, including numerous singles and albums by Depeche Mode. ... Leave in Silence is the sixth UK single by Depeche Mode originally released on August 16, 1982. ... Some Great Reward is pop music band Depeche Modes fourth proper studio album, released September 24, 1984 on the Mute Records label in the UK and on October 29, 1984 on the Sire Records label in the USA. // Track listing Something to Do (3:47) Lie to Me (5... Black Celebration is the fifth proper studio album by Depeche Mode. ...

"Everything Counts" would go on to be the first single pulled from the album. In addition to the change in the band's musical influence, the single would introduce a transition in lyrical content as well. Construction Time Again would include a bevy of political themes, sparked by the poverty Gore had seen on a recent trip he had taken to Thailand.^[3] These themes were in stark contrast from the inoffensive, love-themed pop numbers of the band's early career. "Everything Counts", specifically addresses corporate greed and corruption in the music industry, as the chorus sings of "grabbing hands" that "grab all they can". Perhaps surprisingly, the single was released at a time when the band itself was not under a formal contract with Mute Records. The music industry is the industry that creates, performs, promotes, and preserves music. ... Mute Records is a record label formed in 1978 by Daniel Miller primarily to release his own single, T.V.O.D./Warm Leatherette, under the moniker The Normal. ...

It was also the first song in the band's catalogue which includes both of the band's singers prominently (at different times). Lead vocalist David Gahan sings the verses, while song writer Martin Gore sings the chorus. David Dave Gahan (born May 9, 1962 in Epping, Essex, England) is the baritone lead-singer for English synth pop stalwarts, Depeche Mode. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Live performances and re-release

The song would quickly catch on as a fan favorite at the band's concerts, and was used as the opening song for the Construction Time Again tour.^[4] The first live version of the song to appear on a commercial release came from the Some Great Reward tour in 1984, when a recording from a show in Liverpool appeared on the double A-sided "Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody" single. During the Music for the Masses tour, the band used "Everything Counts" as the final encore and in 1989, the song would be re-released as a single in live form, to promote the live album 101. All live tracks from the release were recorded on June 18, 1988 at the Pasadena Rose Bowl during the final performance of the aforementioned Music for the Masses tour. This version of the song is famous for the recording of the crowd continuing to sing the chorus long after the music had stopped. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody is Depeche Modes twelfth UK single (released on October 29, 1984), from the album Some Great Reward. ... Music for the Masses is the sixth proper studio album by Depeche Mode. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... The Rose Bowl is a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, California. ...

It also appears in Devotional as the closer. It was played during the first two legs of Touring the Angel in the first encore. (It will appear in a DVD by Blue Leach later in 2006) Devotional is a video release by Depeche Mode, featuring almost an entire concert from their 1993 Devotional Tour, filmed in Barcelona, Spain and Frankfurt, Germany. ... Dave Gahan at the Hyde Park, 25. ... Blue Leach is the video director for the Depeche Mode Touring the angel tour. ...

Music videos

Andrew Fletcher (left) and Alan Wilder play the shawm and xylophone, respectively, in the original music video

The music video for "Everything Counts" was directed by Clive Richardson in and around Berlin. The band returned to Richardson after not being satisfied with the work of Julien Temple for the A Broken Frame singles. Richardson had previously directed the video to "Just Can't Get Enough" two years earlier. According to Wilder, "It was felt that after the Julien Temple years, we needed to harden up not only our sound but also our image. Clive had lots of new ideas which didn't involve stupid storyboards where we were required to act."^[5] In the original music video, the xylophone, the melodica, and the shawm are played by Alan Wilder, Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher, respectively. The shawm, however, is produced by a synthesizer on the studio recording, but the band used the real shawm in the music video and television performances for show. Image File history File links EverythingCountsVideo. ... Image File history File links EverythingCountsVideo. ... Clive Richardson is an English director who made music videos for the British band Depeche Mode. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Julien Temple is a British film director. ... A Broken Frame is Depeche Modes second proper studio album and was released on September 27, 1982. ... A song by Depeche Mode Reached number 8 in the UK Singles Charts in 1981 - Avalible on Speak & Spell and The Singles 1981-1985 A remix by Daniel Miller is avalible on the album Remixes 81-04. ... Woman playing a bass shawm, (Tobias Stimmer ca. ... Alan Wilder, circa 2000. ... Andrew John Fletcher (known as Fletch) , was born on 8 July 1961 in Nottingham, England. ...

The "Everything Counts (Live)" video was directed by D.A. Pennebaker. The video not only includes portions of the live performance, but also contains various references to the money made from merchandise and ticket sales at the concert, humourosly connected to the theme of corruption and greed of the song. D. A. Pennebaker speaking at the University of Florida in February 2003. ...

B-side

The original release's B-side "Work Hard" is notable in that it is the first Depeche Mode song (excluding instrumentals) that is credited to both Martin Gore and Alan Wilder (the only other case of this is 1986's "Black Day", an alternate version of "Black Celebration," credited to Gore, Wilder, and Daniel Miller). Daniel Miller is a researcher and lecturer at the University College London (UCL) department of anthropology. ...

The B-side of the live re-release is a live recording of "Nothing", a track from Music for the Masses. The 12" release also includes live recordings of "Sacred" and "A Question of Lust". A Question of Lust is Depeche Modes sixteenth UK single, released on April 14, 1986. ...

Song versions

Remixes of "Everything Counts"

On the original release, there was only one remix available. The 12" version of the single is called "Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts)", although sometimes (such as on the US release of Construction Time Again) it is referred to simply as the "long version".

The live re-release of the single, however, contains a pleathora of mixes, from a variety of remixers, despite the fact that the standard 7" and 12" versions contained no remixes. This release is first Depeche Mode single to be released in a 10" vinyl format; the A-side of the 10" inch version is the "Absolut Mix", remixed by Alan Moulder (certain versions refer to this mix as the "Alan Moulder Mix"). The B-side included the original release's 12" version as well as the "Reprise", a 55-second reprisal of the song's chorus originally placed following the final track ("And Then...") on the Construction Time Again album. Specifically, it is the ending of "Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts)" with the beat removed. Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is one of Britains premier alternative rock record producers. ...

The limited edition 12" version is the "Bomb the Bass Mix", remixed by Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders. Simenon would eventually be used by the band as a producer, for the 1997 album Ultra. Bomb the Bass was the creation of the British musician Tim Simenon. ... Tim Simenon (born on 21 June 1967) is a record producer, who has previously worked with the group, Depeche Mode. ... Ultra is Depeche Modes ninth full-length album, which was released on April 15, 1997. ...

B-side remixes

A variety of mixes of other songs would appear on these single releases as well. On the 1983 release, the 12" B-side contains an extended version of "Work Hard" titled the "East End Remix". The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England. ...

Two remixes of "Nothing" appear on the 1989 release as well, including the "Remix Edit" (sometimes referred to as the "US 7" Mix" as it was the 7" B-side to the US-only single "Strangelove '88") and the "Zip Hop Mix" by Justin Strauss. Strangelove is Depeche Modes eighteenth UK single, released on April 13, 1987, and the first single for the then upcoming album Music for the Masses. ...

A remix of "Strangelove" also appeared on the B-side of the limited edition 12" vinyl, referred to as the "Highjack Mix" by Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders, who also mixed the A-side.

Covers of "Everything Counts"

• Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames covered the song for their 1997 album, Whoracle.
• In 1998, Meat Beat Manifesto covered the song for the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses.

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Sample

The song sample centers around the bridge of the song, which presents the band's inventive use of a variety of instruments (as mentioned earlier in the article) in quick succession. The xylophone enters three seconds into the sample, while the "shawm" enters at six seconds, and the bridge's centerpiece, the melodica, plays from the eight second mark to the 18 second mark. Image File history File links Depeche_Mode_Everything_Counts. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ...

Track listing

1983 release

Notes and Personnel

• Depeche Mode in 1983 was: Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Alan Wilder.
• "Everything Counts", "Nothing to Fear", and "The Meaning of Love" written by Martin Gore.
• "Work Hard" written by Martin Gore and Alan Wilder.
• "New Life" and "Boys Say Go!" written by Vince Clarke.
• Tracks recorded at The Garden Studios, London.
• "Everything Counts" mixed at Hansa Mischraum, Berlin.
• Gareth Jones was the tonmeister.
• Live tracks recorded 25 October 1982 at Hammersmith Odeon in London.

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1989 live release

Notes and Personnel

• Depeche Mode in 1989 was: Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Alan Wilder.
• All songs written by Martin Gore.
• Live tracks recorded at the Pasadena Rose Bowl on June 18, 1988.
• The "Bomb the Bass Mix" of "Everything Counts" was remixed at Konk Studio, London by Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders.
• The "Zip Hop Mix" and "Remix Edit" of "Nothing" remixed at Soundtracks Studio, New York by Justin Strauss.
• The "Highjack Mix" of "Strangelove" was remixed at Livingston Studios, London by Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders.
• The "Absolut Mix" of "Everything Counts" was remixed at Trident Studio, London by Alan Moulder.

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References

• ↑ All Music Guide song review by Ned Raggett, retrieved March 7, 2006
• ↑ "The Landscape is Changing" by Dave Thompson, Q Magazine, January 14, 2005, retrieved March 7, 2006
• ↑ Construction Time Again tour dates and setlist
• ↑ Editorial: The Singles 81>85 by Alan Wilder, retrieved March 7, 2006
• Depeche Mode Visual Discography: "Everything Counts"
• Depeche Mode Visual Discography: "Everything Counts (Live)"
• UK Singles Chart trajectories
• US single chart positions from the All Music Guide

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External links

• "Everything Counts" lyrics
• "Work Hard" lyrics
• "Everything Counts" single information from the official Depeche Mode web site
  
• "Everything Counts (Live)" single information