“I Want You Now” by Depeche Mode

"I Want You Now" turns up on Music for the Masses, the sixth Depeche Mode album, issued in September 1987 by Mute in Britain and Sire in America, and it's Martin L. Gore's song twice over: he wrote the words and music and sings the lead himself. David Bascombe engineered it and co-produced with the band, and Daniel Miller added extra production.

The album around it, the follow-up to Black Celebration, was made between Paris and London, with the mixing done in Denmark, and it was the first Depeche Mode record with Alan Wilder in charge of the production. It marked a turn in the group's sound toward darker, more inward themes set in a wider, grander frame, and it was the record that finally won them the American audience that had slipped past them before.

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