Depeche Mode Master And Servant

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Master And Servant

Composer: Martin Lee Gore
Released: 1984
Available on: Some Great Reward, Master And Servant


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Spoiler: Master And Servant Lyrics

Master And Servant

There's a new game
We like to play you see
A game with added reality
You treat me like a dog
Get me down on my knees

We call it master and servant
We call it master and servant

It's a lot like life
This play between the sheets
With you on top and me underneath
Forget all about equality

Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant

It's a lot like life
And that's what's appealing
If you despise that throwaway feeling
From disposable fun
Then this is the one

Domination's the name of the game
In bed or in life
They're both just the same
Except in one you're fulfilled
At the end of the day

Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant

Let's play master and servant
Come on master and servant

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1984 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Master And Servant All Remixes

1dEN - New Level Demo - Remix	0:15​	1dEN Remix Box 002, 1dEN Depeche Remix Mode [2010],	1dEN
2002 Lee Mix	4:36​		DJ Lee
2nd Hand Remix	6:40​	The Spirit Of Love Remix Versions	Erdbaer
707's XL Version	5:48​	Ultra Strike 22	DM707
Album Version, LP Version	4:12​	Some Great Reward, People Are People, Master And Servant, The Best Of - Volume 1, Depeche Mode Volume 1 - Carte Collector Digital, Best Of Depech Mode, Depeche Mode 5-CD Box	Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones
All In One Long Version	15:27​	Becherovka - The Remixes Part 3	Becherovka
An On-USound Science Fiction Dance Hall Classic, ON-U-Sound Mix, ON-USound Re-remixed by Adrian Sherwood, On USound Remix, On USound Science Fiction, USound SciFi DanceHall Remix	4:34​	Master And Servant, Remixes 81-04,	Adrian Sherwood
Andreaux's Daily Wants Mix, Andreauxs Daily Wants Mix, The Daily Wants Mix	4:02​		Andreaux
Backing Tape, Tour Backing Tape	3:45​	The Tour Backing Tapes
Black Day DJ Edit	4:58​	Black Day DJ Edit	Black Day
Black Light Odyssey Remix	5:10​	Inside Remixe Vol.18	Black Light Odyssey
Bondage Remix	4:30​	Playing The Mode Vol. 03	Eis Maschine (aka Anton R.)
Cesar Ufo Remix	8:15​		Cesar Ufo
Chains And Leather Mix	4:11​	Some Great Masters	Painkillers
Chains Construction	1:32​	The Soundtrack of My Life - Construction #01	Weste
Chaos Mix	7:08​	Ultra Strike 13	X-tended
Cherry 2011 Remix	5:02​		Chris Cherry
Chris B Remix	6:46​	World Full Of Remixes Vol. 9	Chris B.
Clubmix 2006	4:55​	World Full Of Remixes Vol. 31	Titus
Cosmix	4:37​	Remix Videos Vol. 1	DJ/EF

 

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Daniel Miller Mix	6:27​	Kernfusion 7	Dominatrix
Demo, Demo Version, Pre-Demo, Pre Mix, Pre-Mix, Rough Mix, Studio Outtake, Studio Pre-Mix	3:46​	A Perfect Frame, The Demo Collection (2014), Demos and Studio Outtakes (2018), ...But Rare
Dino vs Dado Remix	10:52​	A Smile In The Crowd	Dino vs Dado
Dirty Dreams Mix	4:59​	Electronic Boys Vol. 5, 25th Anniversary,	Inoid
DJ Alex Remix	8:16​		DJ Alex
DJ Kor's Reform School Mix	8:38​	In The Mix 10	DJ Kor
DJ Pepino & Friends Bootleg	6:27​		DJ Pepino
DJ Ray C Remix	3:02​	Nothing But The Remix Vol. 1	DJ Ray C
DJ Runken Mix	10:36​	Personal Mixes	DJ Runken
DJ Stauby Mix I	8:00​	DJ Stauby Remixes	DJ Stauby
DJ Stauby Mix II	7:21​	DJ Stauby Remixes	DJ Stauby
Dolby Dub	3:47​	Becherovka Mixes (Nostalgic Edition Part 1)	Becherovka
Double Dub	5:58​	Becherovka Mixes (Nostalgic Edition Part 2)	Becherovka
Double Ear Mix	3:45​		Becherovka
Dub by Great Grey Owl, Dominant Dub, Dub	4:15​	Great Grey Owl Archive 2002-2007 Vol. 4, Black Day	Great Grey Owl
Edit, Pre-Release Promo Version, Single Edit, Single Remix, US Single Edit	3:27​	Master And Servant (Promo)	Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones
Edit The Whip Mix	9:18​	The Remixes Vol. 4	Brooster
Efresh Mix	8:32​	A Grey City Under An Orange Sky 37: That All Hope Is Gone	Fred Zaedow
Embryo Remix	3:32​		Embryo
En Masse Sweaty Rework	6:11​	Martyrdom	En Masse
Endless Destruction Mix	7:28​	A Grey City Under An Orange Sky 15: The Damage Is Done, [thread=614]400 Remixes[/thread],
Equality Mix	5:35​	reDMixed by SLAPPER	Slapper
Exotic Integration, Dislexic Integration, Dyslexic Integration, Exotic Integration Mix, Mix Happiest Boys	3:37​	Netbeat	MaTo

 

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FMG Remix	3:43​		Frenzied Marty Gras
For Isabelle Who Is The Master	7:17​	Hot Wire Mixe 3	JFlash
H@k Remix	6:38​	Playing The Mode Vol. 04	H@k
Hammerhead Mix, Power Mix	8:10​	The 4th Strike, 400 Remixes	Marc Jonston
HJ Slavery Whip Edit	6:31​	HJ Modifications	HJ
House Mix	12:36​	The 12th Strike
Iceman's Voxless Intro	4:18​	Iceman's Edited & Mutiled Versions	Iceman
Intro Mix	1:30​		Thomas Nissen
It's A Lot (D.K. Dance Extended Mix), It's A Lot - DK Dance Extended Mix	6:32​	Prozac Nation 1
It's A Lot Mix	4:37​	A Grey City Under An Orange Sky 02 - Level Two, A Grey City Under An Orange Sky 02 RM (Remastered)	D-Fens Sabotage
James Sadoway Remix, James S. 2007 Remix	6:57​	Ultra Strike 43, 400 Remixes	James Sadoway
J-Storez 'In Modified Mode' Version	9:16​		John Storez
Just Dance Mix	4:18​
Kaiser Cosmo Light Remix	6:36​	Editing The Mode Vol. 4: Some Great Reward	K_S
Longer UltraTraxx Remix	11:15​	The UltraTraxx Remixe Vol. 1	Hellraiser
Master(bate) And Serve Mix	6:55​	In The Mix 1
Megamode's Long Remix	14:56​	The Megamode Edition - Part One	Megamode
Modeness Mix, The Modeness Mix, The Modness Mix	5:18​	More Than A Remix

 

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National Revolt Mix	5:13​		Becherovka
New Servant Mix	6:38​	Personal Devotion Vol. 1	Snare
New Step 2005	10:00​	The Mixes '05	Rat-X
Not Exactly A Remix	12:21​	Personal Mixes 5	DJ Runken
Pasqua Remix	3:27​		Pasqua
Phantomaz Mix	5:37​		Phantomaz
ReDdEvIl_72 Violent Machinary Mix	16:12​		ReDdEvIl_72
Reworked	4:03​	Reworked Vol. 1 (The Different Studio Version)
Rough Demo, Demo, Rough Mix, Rough Mix - Pre Release, Work-In-Progress Version	3:42​	The 33rd Strike - Millennium 33, The Complete Singles And Remix Collection 28 (2003)
RSS Dance Hall Remix	5:58​	Nothing But The Remix Vol. 1	DJ Ray C
RSS Radio Mix	3:10​	Remixes 2: 81-11 (Promo Edits)	MMC (aka Koen)
RSS Remix	4:45​	Remixes 2: 81-11 Sampler (Promo)	RSS
Single Version, 7" Version	3:46​	Master And Servant, Singles Box Set 2, The Singles 81-85, Catching Up With Depeche Mode, Greatest Hits (DDR), Selections .... Box Sets One And Two, The Indie Scene 84, PRIMER,	Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones
Slap And Tickle Mix	10:26​	The darkspringxl Mixes Vol. 2	darkspringxl
Slavery Whip Mix	9:39​	Master And Servant, Singles Box Set 2, The Remixes 81-85 (Promo), Selections .... Box Sets One And Two, The Twelve Inches (zwei),	Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones
Synth Version	4:02​	Some Great Reward 2002	DJ Be-Love-In & DV Serge
Twister Mix, DXL's Twister Mix	3:20​	The darkspringxl Mixes Vol. 4	darkspringxl

 

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UK Instrumental Mix	2:22​	Hot Wire Mixe Instrumental
Ultrasound Extended Remix	10:11​	(DJ Ultrasound presents) Rare Remixes Vol. 2	DJ Ultrasound
US Black And Blue Mix, US Black And Blue Version, Black And Blue Dance Mix, Black And Blue Mix, Razormaid Mix, U.S. Black & Blue Version Edited by J. Watt, US Black & Blue	8:02​	Master And Servant, Remixes 81-04 (Promo), The Twelve Inches (uno), Rare, Deleted & Promo Only Remixes,	Joseph Watt
Voxless, Instrumental	4:00​	Master And Servant, Singles Box Set 2,	Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones
Voxless Edit	4:05​	The Fifth Album	DM707
Whiplash Mix	7:05​	Re-Mix 1
Who Let Me Do This Mix?	1:09​	Elixir 2	Senator Scratch
XXX Mix	4:10​		Olivier de Lille
Zeroed Mix, Teroed Mix	6:48​	Gold Edition 4

 

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Master And Servant All Cover Versions

	Instrumental	3:14​	Hot Wire Mixe Instrumental
Beto Pedroza	Beto Edit	6:37​
Buschfunk	Buschfunk Version	3:24​
David Bentley	Hot Tracks Mix	8:27​	Hot Tracks NRG Series Vol. 50
Dorsetshire	Dorsetshire Version	3:46​	Beast
Frisky	Frisky Mix	7:56​	Proteus & Frisky - Master & Servant
Gary Torres	Human Factory Instrumental Remake	4:22​
Hate Dept.	Hate Dept. Version	5:12​	Newer Wave
Ignorabimus	Ignorabimus Version	3:43​	No Hidden Catch - Eesti Depeche Mode Tribuut
Illdisposed	Slave Version	4:28​	Burn Me Wicked
Jobki77	Perfect Instrumental Version	3:51​	Perfect Instrumental Songs
Just IV Fun	Mix 93	4:31​	Just IV Fun - Question Of Time 12"
Kim Vs. Syncro	Kim Vs. Syncro Version	4:42​	MODEified 6: Get Your Kicks On MODEified 6 - The B-Sides
Krystal System	Aiboforcen Mix	5:00​	Alfa Matrix Re:Covered Vol.2 - A Tribute To Depeche Mode
Krystal System	Disco Mix	3:37​	The Re:Covered Singles - A Tribute To Depeche Mode
Krystal System	Krystal System Version	3:46​	Alfa Matrix Re:Covered - A Tribute To Depeche Mode
Krystal System	The Whip It Side	3:28​	Voodoo Night Sessions
L Kan	Ama Y Esclavo	3:46​	Devocion Por Las Masas
Latex Empire	Latex Empire Mix, Empire Mix	4:14​	Trancemode Express 1.01
Locust	Locust Version	3:39​	For The Masses
Maleñczuk & Tuta	Maleñczuk & Tuta Version	2:23​	Master Of Celebration - Polish Artists Present DM's Songs
Master & Servant	Club Mix	6:37​	Master & Servant EP
Master & Servant	Danny Freakazoid Remix	7:02​	Master & Servant EP
Master & Servant	House Mix	6:34​	Master & Servant EP
Master & Servant	Radio Edit	3:41​	Master & Servant EP
Mobster	Mobster Version	3:33​	Master & Servant

 

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New Life Generation	Gardenrockaz Danceslave Edit	4:09​	Dance Mode - A Tribute To Depeche Mode Vol. 2
No Name Desire	No Name Desire Version	4:35​	Some Great Celebration - Czech Depeche Mode Tribute
Nouvelle Vague feat. Martin Gore	[post=1689]Nouvelle Vague Version[/post]	3:17​	[thread=21]Master And Servant (Promo)[/thread], [thread=20]Master And Servant/Parade (Promo)[/thread], Nouvelle Vague 3
Pat MacDonald	Pat MacDonald Version	3:04​	Strange Love - PM Does DM
Peter F. (X-tended)	Peter F. Instrumental Version	3:33​	An Instrumental Tribute To Depeche Mode
Project For The Masses	Project For The Masses	3:16​	Just Can't Get Enough
Proteus	Proteus Mix	7:05​	Proteus & Frisky - Master & Servant
Ross Alexander	Ross Alexander's Rawhide Mix	5:33​	Massive Ego - Master & Servant CDS
Sólo Instrumental	Sólo Instrumental Version	2:35​	Depeche Mode - Sólo Instrumental
Soundmachine	Backing Track Version	4:14​	Ultimate Tracks: Classic Pop V5
Studio 99	Studio 99 Version, Master & Servant Version, Post Productions Version, The Best Songs Version	3:45​	Studio 99 Perform Depeche Mode
Sunfly Karaoke	Sunfly Karaoke Version	3:51​	Sunfly Gold Series - 17 karaoke tracks in the style of DM
Surfpatrouille	Geronto Mix 2005	3:25​	Instronaut
Sweet Little Band	Sweet Little Band Version	3:48​	Babies Go Depeche Mode
The String Quartet	The String Quartet Version	3:25​	The String Quartet Tribute To Depeche Mode
The Tributes	The Tributes Version, Deepish Mauve Version, Red Sauce Version	3:50​	A-Z Of the 80's, Vol. 9
Thick Liquid	Thick Liquid Mix, Coverversion By Thickliquid	3:36​	A Grey City Under An Orange Sky 21: People Are Everything
Transient	Transient Mix	3:07​	The Electronic Tribute To Depeche Mode
Váczi Eszter feat. XPC Prod.	Váczi Eszter Version	3:22​	A Tribute To Depeche Mode - Thank U... Too

 

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Martin Gore Demo & Studio Outtakes 1984

Master And Servant (studio outtake). This outtake has some female backing vocals which are not present in the final album version. The vocals were contributed by Inga & Annette Humpe, aka Humpe Humpe . They were recording their debut album at Hansa Studios at the same time Depeche Mode were recording "Some Great Reward".

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Martin Gore told Martin Townsend of VOX magazine in 1993:

"I think I've always written nice songs. Even when I've been accused of being depressing, I think the songs have always shown the light at the end of the tunnel.. 'Master And Servant' is the one that people will pick out, because they think it's just about S&M. If you analyse it, it's not.

Martin also said in the commentary track on the DVD of '101' in 2003:

Martin Gore: "I wrote ['Master And Servant'] around 1985 [sic]. Around that time I was going out to quite a few S&M clubs and stuff, and I just started seeing a correlation between what's happening there and life and politics and stuff. And it's [where] just this idea, this germ of an idea, started."

However, in this radio interview from 1984 he says something totally different:

"If you wanna know where I first got the idea [for the song], it's when I was reading a newspaper before about a man who was named
"the Notthinghill murderer ". He would take these young gays to his flat and murder them. And it sort of struck me - this game, I found it very interesting - he used to play this game, "master and servant" with them."

Quotes from the documentary on the DVD of the Some Great Reward remaster from 2006:
Daniel Miller: "

The monster of the album in terms of - there's always one monster on the album in terms of getting it finished, is Master And Servant. I suppose there was a bit of a reaction after the success of People Are People. "Oh, we're going too poppy, Dan, we gotta be careful", which is good, which is correct. And think we didn't make a conscious effort to make... We felt that the next single had to be a lot harder, a lot kind of... and different, again."

Alan Wilder:

"We spent a lot of time on that track. Not just recording it - it was quite complicated - but also when we came to mixing, I think we spent, like, 7 days on the mix."

Daniel Miller:

"I remember being up all night with Gareth, on the last night, editing the tapes, and the tape all over the room, and I remember leaving in the morning to go to the airport, and there had been this huge snowstorm overnight, it was really freezing, it was 7 in the morning, and I had been up for, like, 3 days. Because everything was late, I had not been able to play the tracks to anybody. So, I arranged for them to come to the mastering room, we were listening through it, and the last chorus came in, and something weird was happening. And we realised that the snare drum had been left out. We spent 10 days mixing the track, and it was so complicated, we were so burnt by the end of it, that we hadn't noticed that we'd muted out the snare drum. We sort of sat around for about five minutes, "What are we gonna do? Are we going to re-mix it?" and everybody said, "No, nobody will notice.""

Alan Wilder wrote in his Singles 81>85 editorial :

Though M+S proved another success for Depeche Mode, it is somewhat surprising considering the unfortunate incidents that dogged the recording. Released at the same time as Frankie Goes To Hollywood's massive hit, 'Relax', the aim was to emulate the same "fat, round bass sound". So desperate were the studio team to achieve this that "we went completely up our arses and ended up with exactly the opposite, topping it all off at the end of a 7 day mix by leaving out a small detail....the snare drum."
"The cost of this crucial omission was realised when Gareth and Dan hot-footed it down to a local Berlin club one night, armed with a test pressing and fully expecting to blow the local's minds. By the law of sod, the track came on straight after the pounding bass of 'Relax'. Not surprisingly, it cleared the dance floor, leaving both of them standing, red-faced in their raincoats, clutching their briefcases. Then again, it was quite a laugh recording it - if you listen very carefully, as well as the whip sounds, you can hear two Basildon girls singing 'Treat me like a dog'."

Dave Gahan tells in the summer 1984 issue of Star Hits magazine the unusual sounds used in the recording of this song:

"We've got a whip, an air compressor from a builder's nail gun, a water drop, a toy piano and you can hear Andy being spanked by Martin."

When asked in 2009 what the strangest sound was that they ever recorded, Andy Fletcher told Uncle Sally*s magazine (translated from German):

"I was once whipped. The result can be heard on 'Master And Servant'. That was really strange."

The 1984-09-22 issue of Melody Maker reports that some of the sounds on 'Master And Servant', such as the whip effect, are based on Daniel Miller standing in the studio hissing and spitting; then an unnamed band member is quoted as saying, "we tried to sample a real whip but it was hopeless."

When Depeche Mode was interviewed about the songs on the '101' CD for the April 1989 issue of French magazine 'Best', Dave Gahan said (translated from French):

"Ever since we recorded it, we have always played 'Master And Servant' on stage. As soon as the first chords are heard, the audience recognises it. It is the hymn of Depeche Mode. It's a bit of an equivalent to what 'Baba O'Riley' is for The Who."

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Nouvelle Vague & Martin Gore ‎– Master And Servant (Nouvelle Vague Version)

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