This version of the single was also released on CD."Somebody", which was sung by Martin Gore in the studio in the nude, includes one of Gore's "little twists", where the song builds as if it's a song about finding your perfect love, only to have him reveal at the end "though things like this make me sick / in a case like this I'll get away with it." Track listings When Depeche Mode announced that they were planning to release "Blasphemous Rumours" as a single, pushback from the religious community resulted, and consequently, the band decided as a compromise to release the single as a double-A side with "Somebody." The chorus uses these incidents to conclude, "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour / And when I die, I expect to find him laughing." Like other songs on Some Great Reward, the song uses a dense sound with extensive sampled percussion. She experiences a religious revival but then "Hit by a car / Ended up / On a life support machine" (from the lyrics). I prefer it to contain doubt, when it does not rule out the possibility that a loving relationship may go wrong.The verses to "Blasphemous Rumours" describe a 16-year-old girl who attempts suicide but fails. I usually arrange songs in such a way that they take an unexpected turn at some point. Looking back on it, I think it's too soft and tender. When Depeche Mode was interviewed about the songs on the '101' CD for the April 1989 issue of French magazine 'Best', Martin Gore said (translated from French): "We sent Steffi down there, who's the girl taper in Germany, to check out some wires, and Martin, not knowing she was coming down and us knowing that Martin has stripped off, and then we heard a little shriek when she got down there, and Martin going "Eh, eh, sorry, eh."" In fact I sang it completely naked in the cellar of the studio which we use for ambiance, and the others sent the female tape op downstairs while I was doing it to 'check the connections'."
It's performed all together – it just needed three takes, mainly to get the sound okay – and really uses the bare essentials. The song is based on a sort of Jonathan Richman back-to-basics theory. Martin: 'Somebody' is pretty much a straightforward 'I love you' song if you like, certainly not an anti-love song.
Suggesting that 'Some Great Reward' is dominated by "anti-love" songs brings a considered but emphatic "No" from Martin. I turned the piano away as I was playing, but yeah, we recorded it live, just him and me, in the big studio 2 hall, and he stripped off for that one." There's bound to be a couple of songs that Martin writes for the album where it works better with his voice."Īndy Fletcher: "It was really down to two things: If we thought it suited Martin's voice more, or if they were of a more personal nature, like Somebody."Īlan Wilder: "It was probably the first of what you'd call an acoustic performed track on an album. It might as well have been that Dave tried it and it didn't work out. Quotes from the documentary on the DVD of the Some Great Reward remaster from 2006:ĭaniel Miller: "There are a lot of stories about how Somebody was recorded. In the documentary on the 2006 remaster CD/DVD of 'Some Great Reward', you can see footage of Dave studying this song at Hansa Studios. Just a piano played by Alan and Dave singing and Andy playing tapes on the Fostex X15. "We're going to go for a completely human feel on that one. While Depeche Mode were working on Some Great Reward at Hansa Studios, Martin Gore told the November 1984 issue of International Musician And Recording World:
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