Had to re-upload this one because the audio cut out half way through and never came back.... Sorry to everyone who watched it like that!! Hopefully this never happens again!

Flood’s and Allan wilder’s work on this track and the whole album is truly amazing.

One of their best songs, I love the strings at the end

Timeless song........one of the best.......Clean the cleanest i' ve been.......

The imagery for this song during the concert was beautiful

yes, for me it´s a journey, a spiritual journey perhaps, but a great ride with Depeche Mode when I hear the album. I love it when the songs going into each other, than I can feel the deeper meaning for me. It´s art ❣💚💚💚

I never watch reaction videos but I've been absolutely thrilled with your depeche mode journey. Your reactions are very wholesome and sincere. So excited for you to discover songs of faith and devotion along with their later gems. So good! Depeche mode is more than the sum of its parts. It's a lifestyle!

I love this song! One of my favorite DM songs ever. It' so eerie and has such a futuristic sound - way ahead of it's time.

Thank you Alan Wilder!

This is the worlk of Alan Wilder and Flood. Yes, i miss the Sound programing and aranging of the Songs by Alan 😔

I started to listen to Songs of Faith and Devotion again, damn those are great as well. 🤩Can’t wait to see your reaction videos. I ❤your Depeche Mode musical journey.

Remember it is a song written my Martin albeit sung by Dave. Martins issue was alcohol whereas Daves was drugs. It can probably be taken both ways. Martin Gore wrote everything on this masterpiece of an album. Incredible was a song writing engine he is.

Dave's singing with this last syllable a little lower is indeed magnificent. This technique will be used again in the song "useless" which should be listened to in its album version but also in the remixed version by Kruder and Dorfmeister that many consider much better than the original. Thank you very much Seph for the sincerity of your reactions. They bring us back to the emotions of our own first listenings... a few years ago 😅

Fun fact - the sample of the strings grabbed from the 5th symphony of Mahler... And it's another deep layer of this song imho

Coming back to my old story, from 1990, 1991 all night many times in the car with this and 1O1 and my DM loving 20 year old lady. I was 18. Put violator and 101 on a loop with your lady, in some secluded spot. Next to a Cornish beach, country lane or river park. It's a trip.

Can't wait to see you reacting to "Songs of faith and devotion" and "Ultra"

Onto the B-sides now, looking forward to Dangerous,Happiest Girl and Sea Of Sin now.I really hope you have listened to the whole album from beginning to end on your own time, the flow of it from one song to another is great ,which i feel same can be said of SOFAD along with Ultra.

A lot of people think this song is about drugs. But I say not. A lot of Depeche mode songs are about faith/religion. In this one he is singing about trying to be righteous on Moral and walking the right path. But as in all of us we slip up from time to time. We ain’t perfect. You could say it’s the devil in his Conscience saying to him “Sometimes”?? Great song. Apparently the bass line is lifted from a pink Floyd song. “ One of these days” you can tell.

Thanks for your channel. It's so amazing. I remembered how i felt first time hearing these songs. It's really sweet....) "You know that i mean" )))

I agree. This is one of the best 'structured' albums I have heard. The song progression itself is a story and journey. Only one other time have I run across an album that was so intentionally structured to tell a larger story.... Boston's album "Third Stage". It was recorded to sound and feel like the journey of a rocket, from it's preparation for launch, up to it's descent to its destination world. The songs themselves carry with them the feel of rocket thrusters, the hope of survival, the long journey there, and the wonders of a new home. The penultimate song on the album, "Can'tcha Say (You Believe In Me)" always brings tears to my eyes. If you ever get a chance I'd highly recommend it.... if not just for an appreciation of the sound engineering behind it.

You should watch the music video for this one. Truly a piece of art 😄

depeche mode's most complete album. the best album. clean perfect song to close Violator album

One of the best albums ever made...gotta be an A!

Meditative. Contemplative. DEEP. p.s. I've always meant to say, I LOVE your hat Seph!!👍👍So cool.

This is from my personal top 10 of DM, I’ve been waiting for the moment when you react to this. Transcendent track, epic, sincere, the arrangement is one of the best they’ve ever had and the meaning, again, open to so many interpretations. I liked the one I read last year on one website: it said that the song is about someone who has finally taken over his or her own life and not being afraid to be who he or she really is without any fears regarding to what that true nature of one’s character is and what others think about it

An Amazing last Song of the best album ever!....

Dave's finest vocal performance. Those low notes are exquisite.

Of course you like that. This is the Ingmar Bergman of pop music. What a band. Changed the world for me

The most underrated song from violator.

This song and Halo are my two favorites of Violator. :) Next mission for you right now is to react to the b-sides from the Violator singles! :)

Have to disagree with the ranking I'm afraid, definitely an s class track. The instrumental on this is one of their best works for sure :D

"Clean" prepare you to what comes next - for deep, dark, dirty sound of Songs of Faith and Devotion and Ultra 😂 Strings at the end of the song comes from Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Alan likes to sample classical pieces and use them in DM songs, like Halo 😇

Violator is their most successful album...til today.

well, actually the drugs have come after violator. dave was clinically dead for three minutes in 1996. fortunately he stoped after that.

Seph is beginning to transform into a Devotee 😊

Saludos desde México, seph. Es bueno ver uno más adentrándose en la música de la mejor banda 🤟

When I first heard this in 1990 as a 20 yr old it was my least fav track on the album but now I absolutely love it....

My mom's favourite song from Depeche Mode Very melancholic & deep

The use of drugs and alcohol exploded during and after the Violation Tour. Such a great tour with a particular ambiance in it. A lot of people put Devotional before it but I think they have the same level of quality, they are basically very different tours. Violation was dark and techno oriented, while devotional was more happy heavy and rock.

Its majestic! What depth of meaning and sound...ugh when those strings come in ...towards the end...goose bumps...and the eeirie ' sometimes' alluding to temptation to regress and the life supports sounds at the end ...harkening back to blasphemous rumours...now for the B sides...that are really A sides to other folks albums lol

Now the b-sides.. they are so great that basically it's another album ;)

Watching your reactions to the Violator songs has been a real treat. You seem like a really cool guy. I bet you’re fun to just hang out and listen to great music with! Can’t wait to see your reactions to the next Depeche Mode album. In my opinion Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion were DM’s greatest studio albums. Happy listening!!!

If you are going to do b-sides there is Sea of Sin and Happiest Girl. Both could have been on the album in my opinion.

The next song from the B-side, depeche mode dangerous

It is never really clear what martin want to say, this is it what makes the lyrics so special😊 Thanks for this seph, i put some faith and devotion in your next videos😉

Songs of Faith and devotion album comes next. Please listen to all the Album versions of the songs, especially In your room, I feel you, walking in my shoes. Later see the Live versions of these - which may shed an insight into the trauma they were facing.

Clean, a song he sings in the shower!

6:50 I love the hard beats. I used to listen to this whole album full blast in my bedroom.

This album needed a long outro and you don't want it to end

Make sure you cover the B sides (some of the best) from any of the other albums, Happiest Girl, Sea of Sin and Dangerous. Should have been on the album.

Can’t wait for you to dive into songs of Faith and devotion

One of the best album-closing songs ever 🤩 ... of one of the best albums ever 🥳😊. - And this is exactly why I love Martin's song-writing and lyrics (literally, really). They are so suitable for any situation in life, whatever dependency is meant (drugs, lover, ....), "now I'm clean" ... and we all too well know the recurrences, "sometimes". - Seph, please give us your closing comments and conclusions on the eagerly awaited Violator 🙏

Well...this Song is a Great Final ..Violator 😎

we told you that Violator is gonna be good :) lookih forward to SOFAD.

Such a hypnotic song. Great way to end an album, I agree. The whole "sometimes" in the lyric adds that element of doubt about being clean, and the fact that getting clean from drugs is actually hard and you are often drawn back to it in spite of yourself. It's a fairly small part of the song but it says so much and the rest of the song pivots around it. They were so smart in how they wrote and produced songs

I used to consider it the weakest song off violator, i appreciate it a lot more these days.....

So, the last song on Violator. What was that sound? That was Alan being a genius. He famously nicked the bass line from a Pink Floyd song. He didn't sample it but it's fashioned after it. I always felt like it had a slightly Western feel, kind of a "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The meaning of the words could be anything, one of Martin's famously ambiguous lyrics, whatever bad stuff one gets into but then gets clean of. I see it as a sister song to "To Have and to Hold." Seph, I really encourage you to now go back and hear the album as a whole. You can hear how those odd interludes led into the next song, it's really brilliant! Everyone is going to list them, but don't forget the six(!) B-sides, Dangerous, Memphisto, Sibeling, Kalied (sound like collide), Happiest Girl, and Sea of Sin. There's another song that I lump in with the Violator era, called Death's Door, released the following year on the movie soundtrack, "Until the End of the World." It's the first time they did a commissioned song for somebody. It has samples of Martin's guitar playing from the Violator sessions. To me, Violator is the last "pure" Depeche album, at least of what I consider to be their first phase. Even though Alan's on "Songs of Faith..." to me, that's when Phase 2 started. So the title "Death's Door" is strangely fitting.

0:09 hello Seph this song is fantastic and perfectly concludes the album can't wait for the rest 👍

Another song where Dave’s voice goes into a very low key is Useless from the album Ultra. I’m sure you’re going to love his vocals on that song.

I try it again. I hope it isn´t a spoiler. Dave is doped and performed LIVE Clean. 😉Yes, he had an drug problem in this decade. (1996 almost dead!!!) ... and performed CLEAN. So strange. It was after 1993. The version BARE from 2006 (I can´t remember) is even much more honest, i think.

Not sure if this was mentioned in the earlier comments already but apparently the bass sound in Clean is a tribute to Pink Floyd (most likely One of these Days intro)

Its a long, and tough story of how Dave took his first bath after years of shower- dodging. ;)

Nice reaction. I`m a lifelong DM fan and I get sth else from this track - which is magnificent, in my top 5 all time favourites from them. I think it is about addiction, yes, but rather from a place of tragical denial (hence the totally dark vibe of the production). Also, that ”sometimes”. Things are not yet resolved. He may be ”talking to himself” to keep going on. Ominous would be the word for this track. And risky, like walking on a rope above a chasm you could fall (back) into at any time.

Great reaction again seph. Can't wait for judas and condemnation but you have probably got the b sides next. Hopefully 😁

And about clean I love the saturated square sound in the middle of the second verse. Try to noticd it, itd worth it. Its actually one of the best sound they created along with the voice at the end of enjoy the silence

You need to watch the videos for I Feel You and Walking in My shoes on Songs of Faith and Devotion

That's the first song in band history where they used live drums, and also the only song where they used them during the 1990 World Violation Tour.

"I just write about things that affect me. I find it very unappealing to write songs that are safe, that go nowhere, that do nothing. I know that 'Clean' has a lot of holy imagery, and that intertwines with the sex theme, which are two ideas I find interesting to mix together. But I don't try to analyze things." - Martin L. Gore - Select, December 1990

The obvious interpretation of the song is having to do with drugs, but as usual there is likely a much deeper meaning. Likely has to do with personal growth, overcoming addictions of all sorts (drugs, sex, etc) but then regressing (when he says sometimes in the song) and starting the journey again.

The Song isnt directly about being Clean from drugs as the whole band was using during this period. The song is ambiguous, but in my opinion its about; an awakening, its about shaking off the emotional , physical and spiritual crutches of youth. Like being Clean of your innocence.

Their best album and then the shit hit the fan.

You missed some B-sides. A lovely B-side to take a listen to is Sea of Sin.

I hope you react to B-Sides of the singles from this album that was in 2006 reissue, Dangerous, the instrumentals of Memphisto, Sibeling and Kaleid and then Happiest Girl (Jack Mix) and Sea of Sin (Tonal Mix) rather than go straight onto Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Did you do Policy of Truth already? It was supposed to be after Enjoy the Silence, but I don't see it. It's a great track, if you missed it. I recommend circling back to it.

Makes sure you do the B-sides from this album: dangerous, mephisto etc

you already reacted to Policy of truth months ago but you forgot to put in the ranking.

And... yes. Clean is totally about drugs

Well, they were not so clean anymore at this point :D coming closer to SOFAD I'm not sure what your expectations gonna be lol

Its about showering

I think this song is deceptive. The music, the composition is quite eerie, and you also have the "sometimes" that sort of cuts Dave off is also quite spooky. The music, especially towards the end sounds quite dark but the lyrics sound sort of positive, in a deceptive way.

Probably drugs or alcohol.Since Martin was also having alcohol addiction issues

I think it is about being clean of drugs. I always assumed that's what it was.

Its about Martin stop using his bdsm suits jajajajajaja

Clean off the drugs? Dave was just getting started at this point! 😳 Ironically, this song is more poignant now than it ever was at any time.

Hi, I think there is still a lack of Policy of thruth do not forget it.

I await the reaction with "Songs of faith and devotion" 😉🖤

Deliberately silly comment - you think this is a long outro, ever heard of Shadow Of The Hierophant?

You missed the whole point and the true genius of this song. Yes it’s drugs and no he isn’t clean, just the cleanest he’s been. Notice thealmos6 subliminal use of the word “ sometimes… it’s a genius song about real addiction, not a fairy tale.

I await the reaction with "Songs of faith and devotion 😉🖤

I'm clean... sometimes.