Hi guys, check the exclusive interview with Alan Wilder, related to the release of SubHuman album. We did it in 2008. depechemodeforum.pl/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6711 🔥
I love the fact ONLY Dave and Alan are here. Alan is absolutely incredible and so intelligent and talented. His talent really lifted Depeche Mode to the next level. To the stratosphere.
Wrong Alan Wilder is overrated. If Vince Clark stayed they would've been more successful than they ended being and they remained pretty successful after Wilder which proved that they never really needed him to begin with.
@@robertisham5279Utter nonsense. Alan Wilder was pivotal in developing D M’s unique sound. If Vince had stayed I very much doubt we would ever have experienced albums like Music for the Masses & Violator.
Alan Wilder embodies Depeche Mode. He is a talent. He has the look. I mean he just fits in every way. Alan will forever be considered as part of the Depeche Mode family. I am glad DM is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and Alan is in it, too.
The good old days when you turned on MTV after school and you actually saw artists that mattered who played music that had substance. David Gahan and Alan Wilder were and still are my favorite members of Depeche Mode. Thank you for posting this 🖤🖤🖤
Likewise. ❤ from France...Alan is still one of a kind with a humble, sensible, wise but independent personality. A generous beautiful soûl with no resentment. Without him, DM before SOFAD would have sounded duller...not as gripping. BYE With no translator. DM devotee till the end. ❣️🎇🌹
For those not fortunate enough to be around at that time. This was the pinnacle time for DM. You look at Dave, that's his rockstar look. He was super popular around the girls and has to put on the cool rocker looks all the time. A lot of women actually prefers Alan actually but he is so cool about it. DM is one group where almost every member looks sharp.
I like that they are walking around for this interview, it has character and isn't in some sterile studio. Not to mention they are walking in areas where they would collect sounds, and you can actually hear the types of things they would record.
It's not that simple. Alan obviously was important but for what price and direction he wanted the band didn't agreed with him. It wasn't a 2 way straight, it was 4 ways.
100% agree. Love these guys, always will, however the party ended in 1994 after the Devotional tour. I saw DM twice on that tour and it was f'n MAGICAL AND MAGNIFICENT. After Alan Wilder left everything changed. There is a huge void that will never, ever be filled by mediocre session musicians. I miss Alan terribly. I totally respect his decision, but I will always be heartbroken about his departure.
@@marguskiis7711 Agreed 👌🏻♥️ I wonder why! I also wonder why it was performed so much on The Global Spirit Tour! Obviously because it was released in 1997 and Spirit in 2017" exactly 20 years later... So they celebrated its anniversary, I meant Ultra, of course, which is one of my favourite albums by the way! Although Violator is the best in my humble opinion and my Favourite of all time...
@@marguskiis7711 What exactly do you mean? Radio stereotypes? Or actually staples? Hahaha 😀😀 You know as if you were talking about steel staples, to attract radio listeners! I think you meant something like that didn't you?
Despite the time of this interview they were already on front of music industry and still ordinary people, I m very impress how mature and fluence are in opinions, and how good analyse what rounds them. Today artists seems to be far from that normality and hard to get for a simple city-walk interview.
the first song by DM was Somebody, I heard it for the first time around 1986. Then I became interested in their music. I quickly identified with the sound, but the whole thing touched me. Alan's work put an undeniable amount of effort into it and was so unique from album to album. I was very sorry when he quietly left the band. I have a constant feeling of missing! The new albums are not bad, nor will they be as big hits as the songs created during his time. Martin was a genius but Alan was the implementer. Maybe we should have put up with it a little longer, but we can't know that. with each new album I hope to call him. Martin or Dave, but no... and time passes .. I am sincerely sorry that not even now. An Italian female sound engineer and a possibly English guy are working on the new album. I do not know.. I'm sad but I have to admit that we won't see Alan working with them again. This is...
God bless you 🙏🏻 I honestly Love 💕 what you wrote, it's incredibly Beautiful 🥰💯% and I agree with you with all my heart ❤️ believe me if I say it's one of those compliments of my favourite group, I never heard before! So again I am absolutely astonished by the way you said it, actually I think I'm going to save your Outstanding Compliment! Congrats 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎈🎈 I'm completely thankful to You 😃😃
@@wattage2007 Vince and Martin work together alot, they have several colab albums out there, the beef was Vince wanted DM to be much more popy than it is while Martin wanted the sound to be darker and moddy. Just look at Vinces bands Yazoo and Erasure, top of the pops material.
Who's idea was it to film an interview under the Westway and next to the Great Western Railway into Paddington? Quite possibly one of the noisiest parts of London. The kids don't help. Otherwise a great interview of a band about to step up to a new level of success and what would be the height of their career.
Dave is right. Depeche Mode was never in “ the trend” with modern music… thank God! Especially in the 80’s and 90’s; pop music was so awful and disgusting, and the concert in the Rose Bowl proved that with ‘Music for the Masses’. Goodbye to our lovely “Fletch”❤️
Not lazy as couldn’t be bothered but as he was the better song writer and didn’t push his songs as Vince was quite formidable in the studio and Martin is quite shy. As Dave said ‘it allowed Martin to come out of his shell’
Andy Fletcher: “He [Gahan] could have felt a bit isolated with Alan leaving, because it used to be two and two-Dave and Alan, and Martin and me.” Jonathan Miller. Stripped. ALAN WILDER: “MARTIN AND FLETCH WERE ALWAYS A DEFINITE FACTION; FLETCHER WOULD OFTEN ACT AS A KIND OF INTERPRETER/SPOKESPERSON FOR MARTIN, WHO TENDED TO CLAM UP WHENEVER SOMETHING IMPORTANT NEEDED TO BE DISCUSSED. I WOULDN’T SAY DAVE AND I NECESSARILY FORMED A COUNTER - FACTION - WE WERE MORE INCLINED TO DO OUR OWN THING.” A Biography
That's exactly what came to my mind too. Dave was into the grunge scene and wanted the band to go into a different direction, hence SOFAD. I have to say it is my favorite album. Nothing beats that album. Violator runs a close second with me.
Hi guys, check the exclusive interview with Alan Wilder, related to the release of SubHuman album. We did it in 2008. depechemodeforum.pl/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6711 🔥
I love the fact ONLY Dave and Alan are here. Alan is absolutely incredible and so intelligent and talented. His talent really lifted Depeche Mode to the next level. To the stratosphere.
Wrong Alan Wilder is overrated. If Vince Clark stayed they would've been more successful than they ended being and they remained pretty successful after Wilder which proved that they never really needed him to begin with.
@@robertisham5279 I like your satire! 😀
Totally agreed with u. 😊
@@brody5211totally disagree. Depeche Mode's Violator & SOFAD was their best albums in my opinion. They would have never gotten there with Vince.
@@robertisham5279Utter nonsense. Alan Wilder was pivotal in developing D M’s unique sound. If Vince had stayed I very much doubt we would ever have experienced albums like Music for the Masses & Violator.
Alan Wilder embodies Depeche Mode. He is a talent. He has the look. I mean he just fits in every way. Alan will forever be considered as part of the Depeche Mode family. I am glad DM is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and Alan is in it, too.
The good old days when you turned on MTV after school and you actually saw artists that mattered who played music that had substance. David Gahan and Alan Wilder were and still are my favorite members of Depeche Mode. Thank you for posting this 🖤🖤🖤
Their golden age. Guys I'm sorry but Depeche Mode has felt and will always feel *incomplete* without Alan Wilder. I'm a late 90s kid btw
Late 80s kid here. Agreed.
Likewise. ❤ from France...Alan is still one of a kind with a humble, sensible, wise but independent personality. A generous beautiful soûl with no resentment.
Without him, DM before SOFAD would have sounded duller...not as gripping. BYE With no translator. DM devotee till the end. ❣️🎇🌹
The interviewer asks good questions and does not interrupt them, she lets them talk. (We love you Alan, please come back). ❤💘💥xxxx
Alan❤️
Alan's the actual heart of Depeche Mode ))
Going down a DM rabbit hole this weekend after Andy's death. This is one of the loveliest things I've seen so far, thanks for posting.
Props to the camera guy for walking backwards throughout the interview and keeping the subjects in frame.
For those not fortunate enough to be around at that time. This was the pinnacle time for DM. You look at Dave, that's his rockstar look. He was super popular around the girls and has to put on the cool rocker looks all the time. A lot of women actually prefers Alan actually but he is so cool about it. DM is one group where almost every member looks sharp.
I still liked Dave best for his looks then, but appreciated Alan. I miss him in the band.
Spot on comment!
And I was a fan from 1984!
I like that they are walking around for this interview, it has character and isn't in some sterile studio. Not to mention they are walking in areas where they would collect sounds, and you can actually hear the types of things they would record.
Alan's style is so iconic!
It's always a joy to see old interviews with him. Miss him terribly! 🖤❤️
David Gahan was the only one who felt some respect and appreciation for Alan Wilder
That’s odd because Martin and Fletch complimented Alan in almost every interview I’ve ever seen.
It's not that simple. Alan obviously was important but for what price and direction he wanted the band didn't agreed with him. It wasn't a 2 way straight, it was 4 ways.
Martin, Dave & Alan coming together again, a girl can dream...
I love Dave's laugh at 2:29 such a lad :')
To me the band ended when Alan left so to watch this interview is a great reminder of just how cool they were, also shot near Alan's manor!!
100% agree. Love these guys, always will, however the party ended in 1994 after the Devotional tour. I saw DM twice on that tour and it was f'n MAGICAL AND MAGNIFICENT. After Alan Wilder left everything changed. There is a huge void that will never, ever be filled by mediocre session musicians. I miss Alan terribly. I totally respect his decision, but I will always be heartbroken about his departure.
@@rubaidaallen2764 Ultra is their most played album in radios nowadays.
@@marguskiis7711 Agreed 👌🏻♥️ I wonder why! I also wonder why it was performed so much on The Global Spirit Tour! Obviously because it was released in 1997 and Spirit in 2017" exactly 20 years later... So they celebrated its anniversary, I meant Ultra, of course, which is one of my favourite albums by the way!
Although Violator is the best in my humble opinion and my Favourite of all time...
@@antoniabermudezann4233 from Violator they play PJ and less Silence. But from Ultra -- No Good, Use Less, Barrell are radio staples.
@@marguskiis7711 What exactly do you mean? Radio stereotypes? Or actually staples? Hahaha 😀😀 You know as if you were talking about steel staples, to attract radio listeners! I think you meant something like that didn't you?
Alan Wilder.
Despite the time of this interview they were already on front of music industry and still ordinary people, I m very impress how mature and fluence are in opinions, and how good analyse what rounds them.
Today artists seems to be far from that normality and hard to get for a simple city-walk interview.
Me encantan pero mucho más mi amor Alan lo amo😍😍❤️❤️💋💋💋💋💋❤️❤️❤️❤️
We love Alan!!🖤
Bring Alan back!!! Make one more Violator Great album for many more generations ahead!!
I love this interview, and their voices
Construction Time Again sounds in the background XD
😂😁👍⛏🔩🔗
I literally thought the same.
Very “Inception” 😂
the first song by DM was Somebody, I heard it for the first time around 1986. Then I became interested in their music. I quickly identified with the sound, but the whole thing touched me.
Alan's work put an undeniable amount of effort into it and was so unique from album to album.
I was very sorry when he quietly left the band. I have a constant feeling of missing! The new albums are not bad, nor will they be as big hits as the songs created during his time. Martin was a genius but Alan was the implementer. Maybe we should have put up with it a little longer, but we can't know that.
with each new album I hope to call him. Martin or Dave, but no... and time passes ..
I am sincerely sorry that not even now.
An Italian female sound engineer and a possibly English guy are working on the new album. I do not know..
I'm sad but I have to admit that we won't see Alan working with them again. This is...
Great interview, thanks for uploading! :)
Great interview, unique band and sounds, can hear the hammers in the back ground get the tape recording out love it, construction time again.
Dave's speaking voice is exactly the same like singing voice.
Woow no inventes! mis 2 amores platónicos Dave y Alan😍😘😗 ❤❤
Damn those kids don't care or likely don't even realize that there is Electronic Music Royalty walking right next to them!
i thought the same thing hahaha
God bless you 🙏🏻 I honestly Love 💕 what you wrote, it's incredibly Beautiful 🥰💯% and I agree with you with all my heart ❤️ believe me if I say it's one of those compliments of my favourite group, I never heard before! So again I am absolutely astonished by the way you said it, actually I think I'm going to save your Outstanding Compliment! Congrats 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎈🎈 I'm completely thankful to You 😃😃
32 years ago. Shocking
Time flies
"We try to work with people that we admire.." That's clever...
oh yes! Remember seeing this in period. :)
Vince didn't like the interviews and touring, so he created Erasure, where he, ya know, did interviews and touring.
I always reckoned Vince found working with Martin and Fletch too difficult and unrewarding to put up with.
@@wattage2007 Vince and Martin work together alot, they have several colab albums out there, the beef was Vince wanted DM to be much more popy than it is while Martin wanted the sound to be darker and moddy. Just look at Vinces bands Yazoo and Erasure, top of the pops material.
@@Thetenmaumau Yeah, they work together a lot nowadays, 40 years later, now that they’re both millionaires who are out of ideas!
Hahahahha yup!
@@Thetenmaumau this^^ and damn am I glad they went dark
Who's idea was it to film an interview under the Westway and next to the Great Western Railway into Paddington? Quite possibly one of the noisiest parts of London. The kids don't help. Otherwise a great interview of a band about to step up to a new level of success and what would be the height of their career.
This noise actually sounds alot like their singles like “Everything Counts”
DM+BMX=my childhood
Thanks to me
11:01 Dave's glowing eyes :)
Dave is right. Depeche Mode was never in “ the trend” with modern music… thank God! Especially in the 80’s and 90’s; pop music was so awful and disgusting, and the concert in the Rose Bowl proved that with ‘Music for the Masses’.
Goodbye to our lovely “Fletch”❤️
Did Alan say Martin was lazy?
Not lazy as couldn’t be bothered but as he was the better song writer and didn’t push his songs as Vince was quite formidable in the studio and Martin is quite shy. As Dave said ‘it allowed Martin to come out of his shell’
Dave seems to not let Alan really get a word in
Andy Fletcher: “He [Gahan] could have felt a bit isolated with Alan leaving, because it used to be two and two-Dave and Alan, and Martin and me.”
Jonathan Miller. Stripped.
ALAN WILDER: “MARTIN AND FLETCH WERE ALWAYS A DEFINITE FACTION; FLETCHER WOULD OFTEN ACT AS A KIND OF INTERPRETER/SPOKESPERSON FOR MARTIN, WHO TENDED TO CLAM UP WHENEVER SOMETHING IMPORTANT NEEDED TO BE DISCUSSED. I WOULDN’T SAY DAVE AND I NECESSARILY FORMED A COUNTER - FACTION - WE WERE MORE INCLINED TO DO OUR OWN THING.”
A Biography
"we're not really swayed by what's in fashion".. fast forward 1992 and he's hanging in LA sporting a goatee and a needle up his arm
And Alan left the group because that stupid situation
That's not necessarily fashion 😭
That's exactly what came to my mind too. Dave was into the grunge scene and wanted the band to go into a different direction, hence SOFAD. I have to say it is my favorite album. Nothing beats that album. Violator runs a close second with me.
You would think by now Andrew Fletcher would be LEAD keyboard player by now.....................
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"hopefully" LOL
Dave and Alan say to much "You know"
You know
It was the previous generation's "like"
All Dave need is a triumph or a bsa motorcycle here.
Demo mode when Alan left. I think ultra is a great record though and playing the angel. Memento is whatever I’ll take it, they’re old man now.
Basta santificare Wilder.Non avrebbe dovuto lasciare la band specialmente nel suo momento più difficile.