With Depeche Mode: M coming next week, we already had quite a bit to look forward to but, today, we got more exciting news. On 5th December, the band will release a new live album called Memento Mori: Mexico City and that release will also include four new songs recorded during the Memento Mori sessions. The first of these, In The End, will be available on all streaming services from Friday 24th October. That means we can all stop watching dodgy YouTube videos filmed at various screenings of the film.
The live album features the setlist from the first part of the tour. The tracklist is:
Intro, My Cosmos Is Mine, Wagging Tongue, Walking In My Shoes, It's No Good, Sister Of Night, in Your Room, Everything Counts, Precious, Speak To Me, Home, Soul With Me, Ghosts Again, I Feel You, A Pain That I'm Used To, World In My Eyes, Wrong, Stripped, John The Revelator, Enjoy The Silence, Waiting For The Night, Just Can't Get Enough, Never Let Me Down Again, Personal Jesus
I enjoyed the sets on the last tour and I thought the opening pair of My Cosmos Is Mine and Wagging Tongue were tremendous openers. It'll be cool to hear the set again though it's a pity the incredible version of Black Celebration we heard later in the tour isn't here. That's just being picky however.
The cover has a bit of a bootleg feel to it which I hope is intentional. If not, it doesn't feel like a great deal of time was spent on the artwork here.
Finally on the live part, I think we can all agree that the sound on the last live album was crap (see my wordier review here - https://almostpredictablealmost1.blogspot.com/2020/07/well-its-about-time-depeche-mode-live.html) and sounded nothing like the actual gigs. Let's hope that's not the case here.
The four new songs also feature on all formats. They are called: Survive, Life 2.0, Give Yourself To Me and In The End. I can't wait to hear them, starting with In The End this Friday. Suddenly getting four new Depeche tracks as a surprise is a very good thing and if they match or get close to Memento Mori in quality, happy early Christmas to us all.
As it is 2025 and a new thing is being released, we have a multitude of formats to deal with. Buy one or be an idiot (hello me) and buy most of them, the choice is yours! Here is a rundown of them and some links to buy them. This isn't exhaustive, just a selection so please don't shout at me.
VINYL:
Quadruple black vinyl (see top of blog): Official store https://depechemodeuk.store/?lf=3624b999881c86f8f5db5042cc9b4d95
Quadruple blue vinyl -Depeche Mode US Storehttps://depeche-mode-us.myshopify.com/products/memento-mori-mexico-city-4lp
Quadruple silver vinyl - HMV UK https://hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/memento-mori-mexico-city!-limited-edition-4lp?_gl=1*10szgoc*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwgeLHBhBuEiwAL5gNEclx8EbLASwLQsDSFG9CpTIG7JlVbfsOswRO2T4H3GKbb1IfngCS1xoCDZUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&gbraid=0AAAAACmFV8V5J1vCJ7sgZiQFip6sJhHJL
Quadruple pink vinyl (see above) - jpg.de https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/depeche-mode-memento-mori-mexico-city/hnum/12513380
Quadruple Golden Pearl (whatever the hell colour that is) vinyl exclusive to Amazon - https://t.co/eYpqW4T2jt
(NB the Amazon picture shows blue vinyl. It isn't that)
CASSETTE
Double cassette - Official store UK or US https://depechemodeuk.store/products/memento-mori-mexico-city-2cassette
CD
Double CD - Official store US or UK https://depechemodeuk.store/products/memento-mori-mexico-city-2cd
DVD AND BLU RAY
Disc 1 (Blu Ray and DVD) - Depeche Mode: M
Disc 2 (Blu Ray and DVD) - Memento Mori: Mexico City - that's a full length concert film directed by Fernando Frias featuring over two hours of footage from the 2023 Foro Sol shows. Exciting stuff
2 x CD - Memento Mori: Mexico City
Buy it from the official stores https://depechemodeuk.store/products/depeche-mode-m-2dvd-2cd or Mutebank https://mutebank.co.uk/products/depeche-mode-memento-mori-mexico-city-2cd-blu-ray
I'm very much looking forward to this. First up is the film which I'm seeing in Glasgow next week. Podcast preparations are somewhat behind so the review of that will be here in writing rather than in a mumbled Scottish accent in your headphones at some point soon.
I've got a problem with this cover. That would have been a good idea to put a shoot with all the band (with Peter and Christian).
ReplyDeleteAnd another better idea to put them all in front of the huge Fletch photographs that we've seen on stage.
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The cover looks cheap indeed. But no need to put Peter and Christian on it. They never have been band members. And I hope they'll never be.
DeleteThe artwork on the audio formats is shockinly bad :(
DeletePut me off buying any format
What? No Black Celebration? Why not in a live bonus?
ReplyDeleteWasn't played in Mexico
DeleteIf you think vinyl prices are a rip off, wait until you see the cassette price. No way on earth it should cost anything like that . Bruce.
ReplyDeleteGreat to have new Mode "product" out there and will obviously be picking this up. But that cover art is AWFUL. What were they thinking! Seemingly nothing to do with the MM tour or artwork - it's like a bad bootleg. I'd have probably bought the entire lot if this had a decent cover so maybe it's not all bad. But honestly, amazing songs terrible cover.
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