In 1989, while doing promotion for the album, the band members were asked on what shows they would like to appear. They jokingly replied (possibly while intoxicated) that they would like to appear on Dance Party USA , since it was the most absurd option they could think of at…
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Written, arranged, and performed by Reznor, Nine Inch Nails’ first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. It marked his first collaboration with Adrian Sherwood (who produced the lead single “Down in It” in London without meeting Reznor face-to-face) and Mark “Flood” Ellis . Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix…
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were released in revised form on the first studio album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989).
In mid-1989, the band began recording in Milan with producer Flood and engineer François Kevorkian . The initial result of this session was the single ” Personal Jesus “. Prior to its release, a marketing campaign was launched with advertisements placed in the personals columns of UK regional newspapers with…
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Nine demos, recorded live in November 1988
On 7 September 1988, Depeche Mode performed “Strangelove” at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
The world tour ended on 18 June 1988 with a concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl .
On 7 March 1988, with no previous announcement that they would be the headlining act, Depeche Mode played in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle , East Berlin, becoming one of the few Western groups to perform in East Germany .
They also performed concerts in Budapest and Prague in 1988.
Don Gehman was unable to produce R.E.M.’s fifth album, so he suggested the group work with Scott Litt . Litt would become the producer for the band’s next five albums. Document (1987) featured some of Stipe’s most overtly political lyrics, particularly on “Welcome to the Occupation” and “Exhuming McCarthy”, which…
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