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In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)

"In Your Room"
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Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Songs of Faith and Devotion
B-side "Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix)"
Released 10 January 1994
Format 12" vinyl, Cassette, CD
Recorded January 1993; Madrid, Hamburg, London
Genre Alternative rock, synthpop
Length 4:52 (single version)
6:26 (album version)
Label Mute
Songwriter(s) Martin Gore
Producer(s) Depeche Mode and Flood
"Zephyr Mix" produced by Butch Vig
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Condemnation"
(1993)
"In Your Room"
(1994)
"Barrel of a Gun"
(1997)
"Condemnation"
(1993)
"In Your Room"
(1994)
"Barrel of a Gun"
(1997)
Songs of Faith and Devotion track listing
"Judas"
(5)
"In Your Room"
(6)
"Get Right with Me"
(7)

"In Your Room" is Depeche Mode's fourth and final single from their 1993 album Songs of Faith and Devotion, and the 30th UK single overall, released on 10 January 1994 in the UK and 18 January in the USA. The song reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart.

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 "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."

In 2003, Fallon Bowman's band, Amphibious Assault, covered the song for their debut LP District Six and Tori Amos has covered the song live several times. In 2015 the industrial rock band Latexxx Teens (LXT) has released a cover version of the song, as tribute to Depeche Mode.

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" (Dave Gahan dressed as a king, holding the folding chair while walking in the road), "Personal Jesus" (the bandmembers wearing cowboy hats), "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 so it was uncertain whether the band would still exist for another video to be made.


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