Depeche Mode – Playing The Angel
Tracklist
| SACD-1 | A Pain That I'm Used To | 4:11 | |
| SACD-2 | John The Revelator | 3:42 | |
| SACD-3 | Suffer Well | 3:49 | |
| SACD-4 | The Sinner In Me | 4:56 | |
| SACD-5 | Precious | 4:10 | |
| SACD-6 | Macro | 4:03 | |
| SACD-7 | I Want It All | 6:09 | |
| SACD-8 | Nothing's Impossible | 4:21 | |
| SACD-9 | Introspectre | 1:42 | |
| SACD-10 | Damaged People | 3:29 | |
| SACD-11 | Lilian | 4:49 | |
| SACD-12 | The Darkest Star | 6:55 | |
| Playing The Angel (In 5.1 And Stereo) | (52:44) | ||
| DVD-1.1 | A Pain That I'm Used To | 4:12 | |
| DVD-1.2 | John The Revelator | 3:43 | |
| DVD-1.3 | Suffer Well | 3:55 | |
| DVD-1.4 | The Sinner In Me | 4:50 | |
| DVD-1.5 | Precious | 4:19 | |
| DVD-1.6 | Macro | 4:06 | |
| DVD-1.7 | I Want It All | 6:10 | |
| DVD-1.8 | Nothing's Impossible | 4:24 | |
| DVD-1.9 | Introspectre | 1:42 | |
| DVD-1.10 | Damaged People | 3:32 | |
| DVD-1.11 | Lilian | 4:51 | |
| DVD-1.12 | The Darkest Star | 7:00 | |
| DVD-2 | Making The Angel | 8:25 | |
| DVD-3 | Precious (Video) | 4:04 | |
| DVD-4 | Clean (Bare) | 3:45 | |
| DVD-5 | Photo Gallery |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Venusnote Limited
- Copyright © – Venusnote Limited
- Licensed To – Mute Records Ltd.
- Published By – EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
- Published By – Grabbing Hands Music Overseas Ltd.
- Published By – Grabbing Hands Music Ltd.
- Published By – JJSR Productions Inc.
- Published By – Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
- Produced For – 140dB
- Recorded At – Santa Barbara Sound Design
- Recorded At – Stratosphere Sound
- Recorded At – Whitfield Street Studios
- Mixed At – Whitfield Street Studios
- Mastered At – The Lodge, New York
- Mixed At – The Instrument
- Mastered At – BK Audio
- Mastered At – Super Audio Mastering
- Filmed At – Whitfield Street Studios
- Glass Mastered At – Mediamotion
- Pressed By – Mediamotion
Credits
- Art Direction, Photography By, Design [Cover Design] – Anton Corbijn
- Authoring [SACD Authored By] – Bastiaan Kuijt (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Design – Four5one.com*
- Engineer – Richard Morris (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Engineer [Additional 5.1 Engineering] – Richard Morris
- Management – Jonathan Kessler
- Management [Depeche Mode Office] – Venusnote Ltd.*
- Management [For] – Baron Inc.
- Mastered By [5.1] – Simon Heyworth
- Mastered By [Assisted By, SACD Co-mastered By] – Sarah (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Mastered By, Mastered By [SACD] – Emily Lazar (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Mixed By – Steve Fitzmaurice (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12, DVD-4)
- Mixed By [5.1] – Ben Hillier
- Performer [Depeche Mode Is] – Martin Gore* (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Producer – Ben Hillier (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Programmed By – Richard Morris (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Programmed By [Original] – Christian Eigner (tracks: SACD-3, SACD-7, SACD-8)
- Recorded By [Assisted By] – Rudyard Lee Cullers (tracks: SACD-1 to SACD-12)
- Written-By – Martin L. Gore (tracks: SACD-1, SACD-2, SACD-4 to SACD-6, SACD-9 to SACD-12, DVD-3, DVD-4)
Notes
Some copies with a sticker on the front jewel case saying "DELUXE EDITION Including bonus DVD featuring 5.1 version of Playing The Angel, Making The Angel documentary, Precious video and exclusive performance of Clean".
DVD contains the entire "Playing The Angel" album in either LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and has a running time of 52:40. DVD tracks 2 to 4 are in LPCM Stereo. All Photos in the Photo Gallery taken by Ben Hillier.
Official release date is Monday the 17th October 2005, but available via Mute on Friday the 14th October 2005.
The booklet mistakenly credits Dave McCracken as the piano player in "I Want It All". However, there is no piano in "I Want It All". He really should be credited for the piano in "The Darkest Star."
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Very similar issue: SACD pressed by Sonopress Arvato
DVD contains the entire "Playing The Angel" album in either LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and has a running time of 52:40. DVD tracks 2 to 4 are in LPCM Stereo. All Photos in the Photo Gallery taken by Ben Hillier.
Official release date is Monday the 17th October 2005, but available via Mute on Friday the 14th October 2005.
The booklet mistakenly credits Dave McCracken as the piano player in "I Want It All". However, there is no piano in "I Want It All". He really should be credited for the piano in "The Darkest Star."
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Very similar issue: SACD pressed by Sonopress Arvato
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Scanned): 094634243025
- Label Code: LC5834
- Rights Society: bel BIEM
- Other (Additional Cat #, SACD): 0094634243124
- Other (Additional Cat #, DVD): 0094634243094
- Matrix / Runout (SACD Layer 0 ; Variants 1 to 5): VS343-L0-PV1.3 3424312
- Mastering SID Code (SACD Layer 0 ; Variants 1 to 5): IFPI LQ48
- Mould SID Code (SACD Layer 0 ; Variants 1, 3, 5): IFPI EV48
- Mould SID Code (SACD Layer 0 ; Variant 2): IFPI EV49
- Mould SID Code (SACD Layer 0 ; Variant 4): IFPI EV??
- Matrix / Runout (SACD Layer 1 ; Variants 1 to 5): VS343-L1 3424312
- Mastering SID Code (SACD Layer 1 ; Variants 1 to 5): IFPI LQ42
- Mould SID Code (SACD Layer 1 ; Variants 1, 2 & 4): IFPI EV50
- Mould SID Code (SACD Layer 1 ; Variant 3): none
- Mould SID Code (SACD Layer 1 ; Variant 5): IFPI EV49
- Matrix / Runout (DVD ; Variant 1): www.mediamotion.com 3424309 PAL @ 3 01-01-14-NL
- Matrix / Runout (DVD ; Variant 2): www.mediamotion.com 3424309 PAL @ 3 010101-NL
- Matrix / Runout (DVD ; Variant 3): WWW.MEDIAMOTION.COM 3424309 PAL @ 3 010101-NL
- Matrix / Runout (DVD ; Variant 4 to 6): WWW.MEDIAMOTION.COM 3424309 PAL @ 3 010108-NL
- Matrix / Runout (DVD ; Variant 7): WWW.MEDIAMOTION.COM 3424309 PAL @ 3 010115-NL
- Matrix / Runout (DVD ; Variant 8): WWW.MEDIAMOTION.COM 3424309 PAL @ 3 010105-NL
- Mastering SID Code (DVD ; Variants 1 to 8): IFPI LW04
- Mould SID Code (DVD ; Variant 1 & 4): ifpi AAH02
- Mould SID Code (DVD ; Variants 2 & 3): IFPI AAH05
- Mould SID Code (DVD ; Variant 5): IFPI AAH03
- Mould SID Code (DVD ; Variant 6): IFPI AAH02
- Mould SID Code (DVD ; Variant 7): IFPI AAHM3
- Mould SID Code (DVD ; Variant 8): IFPI AAH03
Other Versions (5 of 118)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Playing The Angel (CD, Album, Copy Protected) | Mute | int.cdstumm260, 0094634057523 | Europe | 2005 | |||
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Playing The Angel (CD, Album) | Mute | 49348-2 | US | 2005 | ||
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Playing The Angel (CD, Album) | Mute | cdstumm260, 0094634057707 | UK | 2005 | ||
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Playing The Angel (2×LP, Album, Stereo) | Mute | stumm260, 0094634020114 | Europe | 2005 | ||
| Playing The Angel (CD, Album, DVD, DVD-Video, Multichannel, NTSC, All Media, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Super Jewel Box) | Mute | 49456-2 | US | 2005 |
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Reviews
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An Old Fashion Way to see how compressed the music are, to record this on an old Fashion Recorder (CD/HDD Recorder or Old Fashion Cassette). The Peak Limiter Display dances with dynamic source and will stay over Seconds on one Position, If the hell is compressed out of it. I record a lot of music on my Yamaha CDR-HD 1300 (mostly ripping my vinyl and some CDs) and can not only hear a dynamic recording, i can see it in my Record Level Meter. And this SACD has a much more dynamic SACD Stereo Layer than the Red Book CD Layer. -
Dynamic comparison CD-Layer vs. SACD2.0-Layer:
CD-Layer:
DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR2 over -5.90 dB 01 - Depeche Mode - A Pain That I’m Used To.wav
DR2 over -4.44 dB 02 - Depeche Mode - John the Revelator.wav
DR4 over -5.22 dB 03 - Depeche Mode - Suffer Well.wav
DR4 over -6.08 dB 04 - Depeche Mode - The Sinner in Me.wav
DR4 over -6.17 dB 05 - Depeche Mode - Precious.wav
DR4 over -7.33 dB 06 - Depeche Mode - Macro.wav
DR6 over -8.31 dB 07 - Depeche Mode - I Want It All.wav
DR4 over -6.93 dB 08 - Depeche Mode - Nothing’s Impossible.wav
DR12 -1.00 dB -16.26 dB 09 - Depeche Mode - Introspectre.wav
DR6 over -7.67 dB 10 - Depeche Mode - Damaged People.wav
DR4 over -6.96 dB 11 - Depeche Mode - Lilian.wav
DR6 over -9.57 dB 12 - Depeche Mode - The Darkest Star.wav
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Number of files: 12
Official DR value: DR5
SACD2.0-Layer:
DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR8 -0.00 dB -11.92 dB 01 - A Pain That I'm Used To [1].wav
DR13 -0.87 dB -16.11 dB 02 - John The Revelator [1].wav
DR11 -0.00 dB -13.04 dB 03 - Suffer Well [1].wav
DR12 -0.52 dB -14.81 dB 04 - The Sinner In Me [1].wav
DR11 -0.09 dB -13.70 dB 05 - Precious [1].wav
DR10 -0.45 dB -14.61 dB 06 - Macro [1].wav
DR12 -0.97 dB -15.73 dB 07 - I Want It All [1].wav
DR11 -0.00 dB -14.16 dB 08 - Nothing's Impossible [1].wav
DR12 -6.04 dB -21.51 dB 09 - Introspectre [1].wav
DR12 -0.93 dB -14.75 dB 10 - Damaged People [1].wav
DR12 -0.00 dB -14.70 dB 11 - Lilian [1].wav
DR12 -0.45 dB -16.06 dB 12 - The Darkest Star [1].wav
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Number of files: 12
Official DR value: DR11 -
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Edited 3 years agoI cannot let the comments above overrate the mastering done. First, I did a test on the SACD 2.0 channel layer and the original CD layer, and if the loudness is leveled, it is the same source. It just happens that the SACD 2.0 is quieter when it was authored, but not one single dynamic boost comparing to the brickwalled CD. Now, the SACD 5.1 mix is a total different story. However, notice that this is to be played on a 5.1 setup -- downmixing works for some tracks but quite a few of them do sound "funny" when downmixed to stereo (John the Revelator, for instance). 5.1 music is not for 2.0 listening. So make no mistake - SACD 2.0 and CD are the same source. -
Something weird about this album on SACD for me... Back in 2005, when kids were sharing music over bluetooth, I had received a file called Precious.mp3. I've stumbled across it recently when digging through my old hard drives, and decided to plug it into iZotope for laughs.
Turns out, that no-breed bastard mp3 had been a SACD rip! Meaning, someone had the audacity to buy a SACD player, buy this album, plug it into their PC, record the thing (no scad rippers yet) and release it into the wild.
No-name hero, I salute your dedication. -
Edited 10 years agoIt's a shame that the mastering(as it was previously mentioned) for both the CDDA & DVD tracks is a mess, not very enjoyable.
So I ripped the SACD content for myself, hoping... It worked!
SACD mastering is fine, after a little levelling/amplifying/converting into more convenient format & it sounds far better.
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