This song was on the second Depeche Mode album after Vince Clarke had gone to set up Yazoo and a young Martin Gore took over writing the majority of the band’s numbers. The album was called ‘Construction Time Again’ and at the time it had a very new sound and was a very exciting departure for the group as it used samples of industrial sounds and fully utilised this exciting new medium.
This song is my favourite from the album and is a perfect representation of the way in which society was seen with what was happening at the time. The beginning of the new prosperity and the cult of the ‘individual’ coupled with the rise of the ‘Yuppie’, the changing landscape of industry in the UK as a result of the structural decline (the subject of ‘One In Ten’ by UB40 and ‘GhostTown’ by The Specials) all wrapped up in the concept that ‘Everything Counts’.
This is perhaps one of Depeche Modes greatest songs and I suspect that the band never tire of playing it as on all of the occasions that I have seen them, which have spanned the years between 1984 and the present they always perform this number.
Listen to the song….
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