In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)

"In Your Room"
DepecheModeInYourRoom.jpg
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Songs of Faith and Devotion
B-side"Higher Love" (Adrenaline Mix)
Released10 January 1994 (1994-01-10)
RecordedJanuary 1993 (Madrid, Hamburg, London)
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 the "Apex Mix", produced by Brian Eno, which sounds closer to the album version, and Johnny Dollar's "The Jeep Rock Mix", 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."

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." Martin Aston from Music Week gave it five out of five. 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."

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. 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.

Cassette: Mute / CBong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)" – 4:52 (remixed by Butch Vig, additional guitars by Doug Erikson)
  2. Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix Edit)" – 4:48 (remixed by François Kevorkian and Goh Hotoda)

12-inch: Mute / 12Bong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)" – 4:52
  2. "In Your Room (Apex Mix)" – 6:45 (remixed by Brian Eno and Markus Dravs)
  3. "In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" – 6:19 (remixed by Johnny Dollar and Portishead)
  4. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)" – 7:49
  5. "In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)" – 6:43

12-inch: Mute / L12Bong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (Live)" – 6:52
  2. "Policy of Truth (Live)" – 5:08
  3. "World in My Eyes (Live)" – 6:16
  4. "Fly on the Windscreen (Live)" – 5:20
  5. "Never Let Me Down Again (Live)" – 5:01
  6. "Death's Door (Live)" – 2:45

CD: Mute / CDBong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)" – 4:52
  2. "In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)" – 6:43
  3. "Never Let Me Down Again (Live)" – 5:01
  4. "Death's Door (Live)" – 2:45
  • This CD is the 1994 Single Box Release, containing three separately sold cd singles. This one came with the box, with space to hold the other two, LCDBong24 and XLCDBong24, which were released on cardboard sleeve.

CD: Mute / LCDBong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (Live)" – 6:52
  2. "Policy of Truth (Live)" – 5:08
  3. "World in My Eyes (Live)" – 6:16
  4. "Fly on the Windscreen (Live)" – 5:20

CD: Mute / XLCDBong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" – 6:19
  2. "In Your Room (Apex Mix)" – 6:45
  3. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)" – 7:49

CD: Mute / CDBong24X (EU)

  1. "In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)" – 4:52
  2. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix Edit)" – 4:48
  3. "In Your Room (Apex Mix)" – 6:45
  4. "In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" – 6:19
  5. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)" – 7:49
  6. "In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)" – 6:43
  7. "In Your Room (Live)" – 6:52
  8. "Policy of Truth (Live)" – 5:08
  9. "World in My Eyes (Live)" – 6:16
  10. "Fly on the Windscreen (Live)" – 5:20
  11. "Never Let Me Down Again (Live)" – 5:01
  12. "Death's Door (Live)" – 2:45
  • This CD was part of the Remixes Box Set (DMBX5).

Promo 12-inch: Mute / P12Bong24 (UK)

  1. "In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" – 6:19
  2. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)" – 7:49
  3. "In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)" – 6:43

12-inch: Sire/Reprise / 41362-0 (US)

  1. "In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)" – 6:43
  2. "In Your Room (Apex Mix)" – 6:45
  3. "In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" – 6:19
  4. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)" – 7:49

CD: Sire/Reprise / 9 41362-2 (US)

  1. "In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)" – 4:52
  2. "In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)" – 6:45
  3. "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)" – 7:49
  4. "In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" – 6:20
  5. "Policy of Truth (Live)" – 5:07
  6. "In Your Room (Apex Mix)" – 6:44
  7. "In Your Room (Live)" – 6:52
  • All live songs were recorded in Lievin, France, on 29 July 1993.

Charts

Notable cover versions


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