Devotional (video) explained

Devotional
Type:	video
Artist:	Depeche Mode
Cover:	Devotional(film).jpg
Recorded:	1993, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Liévin
Length:	94 minutes
Director:	Anton Corbijn
Prev Title:	Strange Too
Prev Year:	1990
Next Title:	The Videos 86>98
Next Year:	1998

Devotional – A Performance Filmed by Anton Corbijn is a video release by Depeche Mode, featuring almost an entire concert from their 1993 Devotional Tour, filmed in Barcelona, Spain (Palau Sant Jordi), Liévin, France (Stade Couvert Régional) and Frankfurt, Germany (Festhalle). It was directed by Anton Corbijn, and released in 1993. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 1995. The soundtrack was recorded in Liévin, Stade Couvert Régional, on 29 July 1993.

This tour was particularly notable for the personal troubles the band members were struggling with at the time, most notably Dave Gahan's heroin addiction. The video is the last release to feature Alan Wilder before his departure in 1995.^[1]

In 2004, the movie was re-released on DVD. The film is the same, but there are extras, such as songs that were left out of the VHS movie for time (but they have to be viewed separately), isolated footage of setlist projections, an interview with Corbijn on Devotional (1993), pictures from the Devotional Tour programme, and all the music videos from the Songs of Faith and Devotion era.For the first time, the complete soundtrack of Liévin is available ("Halo" was the only missing song before the release of the 2DVD set). Only a few moments of dead air and speech were edited out.

Track listing

VHS: BMG / 74321 17213-3 (UK)

1. "Higher Love"
2. "World in My Eyes"
3. "Walking in My Shoes"
4. "Behind the Wheel"
5. "Stripped"
6. "Condemnation"
7. "Judas"
8. "Mercy in You"
9. "I Feel You"
10. "Never Let Me Down Again"
11. "Rush"
12. "In Your Room"
13. "Personal Jesus"
14. "Enjoy the Silence"
15. "Fly on the Windscreen"
16. "Everything Counts"
17. "Death's Door" (Acoustic) [no video footage, audio only and is played during the credits]

DVD: Mute Film / DMDVD4 (UK – 2004)

Disc one

1. Devotional: A Performance Filmed by Anton Corbijn (see above for songlist)

Bonus tracks

18. "Halo"
19. "Policy of Truth"

Disc two

• Tour projections

1. "Walking in My Shoes"
2. "Stripped"
3. "Condemnation"
4. "Judas"
5. "I Feel You"
6. "Never Let Me Down Again"
7. "In Your Room"
8. "Enjoy the Silence"

• Promotional music videos

1. "I Feel You"
2. "Walking in My Shoes"
3. "Condemnation"
4. "In Your Room"
5. "One Caress"
6. "Condemnation" (live) [mixed in with the tour projection video]

• MTV Documentary – Depeche Mode Rockumentary 1993
• Monologue by Anton Corbijn – A short film by James Rose
• Devotional and Exotic tour programmes

UMD: Mute Film / DMUMD4 (UK)

1. Devotional: A Performance Filmed by Anton Corbijn (see above for songlist)

• All songs written by Martin Gore.

Personnel

• Dave Gahan – lead vocals
• Martin Gore – guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals
• Alan Wilder – keyboards, piano, drums, percussion pads, backing vocals
• Andy Fletcher – keyboards, backing vocals
• Hildia Campbell – backing vocals
• Samantha Smith – backing vocals

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Austrian Music DVDs Chart^[2]	7
Belgian (Flanders) Music DVDs Chart^[3]	2
Belgian (Wallonia) Music DVDs Chart^[4]	1
German Albums Chart^[5]	25
Norwegian Music DVDs Chart^[6]	2
Spanish Music DVDs Chart^[7]	1
Swedish Music DVDs Chart^[8]	1
US Music Videos Chart^[9]	27

Notes and References

1. Web site: DM Archives Discography / Home Videos: Devotional. depechemode.com. 25 October 2023.
2. Web site: Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 24.10.2004 . Austriancharts.at . Hung Medien . de . 3 March 2013.
3. Web site: Ultratop 10 Muziek-DVD . . Hung Medien . nl . 3 March 2013.
4. Web site: Ultratop 10 DVD Musicaux . Ultratop . Hung Medien . fr . 3 March 2013.
5. Web site: Album – Depeche Mode, Devotional [DVD] . https://web.archive.org/web/20140905191509/http://www.officialcharts.de/album.asp?artist%3DDepeche%2BMode%26title%3DDevotional%2B%5BDVD%5D%26country%3Dde#91;DVD]&country=de . dead . 5 September 2014 . Charts.de . . de . 3 March 2013.
6. Web site: DVD Audio Uke 41, 2004 . . no . 3 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131227172214/http://lista.vg.no/liste/dvd-audio/10/dato/2004/uke/41 . 27 December 2013 . dead . dmy-all .
7. Web site: Lista de DVDs Musicales . . Media Control . es . 3 March 2013 .
8. Web site: Sveriges Officiella Topplista . . sv . 3 March 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151226154145/http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/ . 26 December 2015 . dmy . Search for Depeche Mode Devotional and click Sök.
9. 9 October 2004 . Top Music Videos . . 116 . 41 . 48 . 0006-2510 . 3 March 2013 .