Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From '' Can U Dig It? ''
Label: Beste! Unterhaltung β BU096LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Mar 7, 2025
Tracklist
A1 Can U Dig It?
A2 Two Hearts
A3 The Man He Used To be
A4 Boogie Woogie Country Girl
A5 One After 909
A6 Slinger Speedway
B1 Town Called Malice
B2 Personal Jesus
B3 King Of The Club
B4 The Race Is On
B5 Get Out
B6 Can U Dig It? (Reprise)
Notes
40th Anniversary
Β© 2025 Beste! Unterhaltung
β 2025 Beste! Unterhaltung
π΅ [SONG INFO]
"Personal Jesus" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode.
It was released as the lead single from their seventh studio album, Violator (1990), in 1989.
It reached No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The single was their first to enter the US top 40 since 1984's "People Are People" and was their first gold-certified single in the US.
In Germany, "Personal Jesus" is one of the band's longest-charting songs, staying on the West German Singles Chart for 23 weeks.
In 2004, "Personal Jesus" was ranked No. 368 in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and in September 2006 it was voted as one of the "100 Greatest Songs Ever" in Q magazine.
"Personal Jesus" was rereleased as a single on 30 May 2011 for the Depeche Mode remix album Remixes 2: 81β11, with the leading remix by the production team Stargate.
The song has been covered by numerous artists, including Johnny Cash, Marilyn Manson, Def Leppard, Iggy Pop and Mindless Self Indulgence.
Background and composition
In mid-1989, the band began recording in Milan with record producer Flood. The result of this session was the single "Personal Jesus", which featured a catchy bluesy riff and drum-based sound, radically different from anything the band had released thus far. Although not the first Depeche Mode song to feature guitar parts ("Behind the Wheel" and their cover of "Route 66" featured a guitar; "Love, in Itself" and "And Then..." from Construction Time Again and "Here is the House" from Black Celebration featured an acoustic guitar), it was the first time a guitar was used as a dominant instrument in a Depeche Mode song. The song was inspired by the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley.
According to songwriter Martin Gore:
It's a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It's about how Elvis Presley was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody's heart is like a god in some way. We play these god-like parts for people but no one is perfect, and that's not a very balanced view of someone, is it?
"Personal Jesus" is written in the key of Fβ― minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute in 12
8 time.
Impact and legacy
In 2011, Slant Magazine listed the song at number 81 in their ranking of "The 100 Best Singles of the 1990s".
In 2017, Billboard ranked "Personal Jesus" second behind only "Enjoy the Silence" on a list of their "20 Best Depeche Mode Songs".
Robert Smith listed "Personal Jesus" as one of his 30 favourite songs from the 1980s.
John Lydon commented on the track: "it's a serious problem for me, all this technology. The people who've used it best would be Depeche Mode. 'Your own Personal Jesus!' Bloody 'ell mate, they got it! They were using the Casiotone effect and they wrapped a song around it, but they didn't let it dictate to the song. That's another tune I just absolutely love β I was so impressed with the bravery of attempting such a subject matter."
Cover versions
In 2002, American country singer Johnny Cash covered "Personal Jesus" for his album American IV: The Man Comes Around.
The idea to cover the song was suggested by record producer Rick Rubin.
For the song, Rubin asked Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante to re-work an acoustic version of the song, which featured a simple acoustic riff that stripped down the song to a blues style. βThatβs probably the most evangelical song [Iβve] ever recorded,β said Cash, βI donβt know that the writer ever meant it to be that, but thatβs what it is.β
Marilyn Manson released their cover version of the track as the only previously unreleased recording included on their 2004 greatest hits album Lest We Forget: The Best Of.
In 2013, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar covered the song on his twelfth studio album Sammy Hagar & Friends.
In 2018, British rock band Def Leppard released their own version of the song.
Gravity Kills,
Jerry Williams,
Lollipop Lust Kill,
Nina Hagen,
Richard Cheese,
Mindless Self Indulgence.
π [LINKS]
https://besteunterhaltung.biz/
facebook.com/the.hot.rod.gang
Available on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/2TtGlJeyEWpaOIbIMW2PKq
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/us/album/can-u-dig-it-40th-anniversary/1782876051
Amazon Music:
amazon.com/Can-U-Dig-40th-Anniversary/dp/B0DPG5HS2X
and Deezer:
deezer.com/us/album/678326841
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#rockabilly
#depechemodecover
From '' Can U Dig It? ''
Label: Beste! Unterhaltung β BU096LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Mar 7, 2025
Tracklist
A1 Can U Dig It?
A2 Two Hearts
A3 The Man He Used To be
A4 Boogie Woogie Country Girl
A5 One After 909
A6 Slinger Speedway
B1 Town Called Malice
B2 Personal Jesus
B3 King Of The Club
B4 The Race Is On
B5 Get Out
B6 Can U Dig It? (Reprise)
Notes
40th Anniversary
Β© 2025 Beste! Unterhaltung
β 2025 Beste! Unterhaltung
π΅ [SONG INFO]
"Personal Jesus" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode.
It was released as the lead single from their seventh studio album, Violator (1990), in 1989.
It reached No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The single was their first to enter the US top 40 since 1984's "People Are People" and was their first gold-certified single in the US.
In Germany, "Personal Jesus" is one of the band's longest-charting songs, staying on the West German Singles Chart for 23 weeks.
In 2004, "Personal Jesus" was ranked No. 368 in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and in September 2006 it was voted as one of the "100 Greatest Songs Ever" in Q magazine.
"Personal Jesus" was rereleased as a single on 30 May 2011 for the Depeche Mode remix album Remixes 2: 81β11, with the leading remix by the production team Stargate.
The song has been covered by numerous artists, including Johnny Cash, Marilyn Manson, Def Leppard, Iggy Pop and Mindless Self Indulgence.
Background and composition
In mid-1989, the band began recording in Milan with record producer Flood. The result of this session was the single "Personal Jesus", which featured a catchy bluesy riff and drum-based sound, radically different from anything the band had released thus far. Although not the first Depeche Mode song to feature guitar parts ("Behind the Wheel" and their cover of "Route 66" featured a guitar; "Love, in Itself" and "And Then..." from Construction Time Again and "Here is the House" from Black Celebration featured an acoustic guitar), it was the first time a guitar was used as a dominant instrument in a Depeche Mode song. The song was inspired by the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley.
According to songwriter Martin Gore:
It's a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It's about how Elvis Presley was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody's heart is like a god in some way. We play these god-like parts for people but no one is perfect, and that's not a very balanced view of someone, is it?
"Personal Jesus" is written in the key of Fβ― minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute in 12
8 time.
Impact and legacy
In 2011, Slant Magazine listed the song at number 81 in their ranking of "The 100 Best Singles of the 1990s".
In 2017, Billboard ranked "Personal Jesus" second behind only "Enjoy the Silence" on a list of their "20 Best Depeche Mode Songs".
Robert Smith listed "Personal Jesus" as one of his 30 favourite songs from the 1980s.
John Lydon commented on the track: "it's a serious problem for me, all this technology. The people who've used it best would be Depeche Mode. 'Your own Personal Jesus!' Bloody 'ell mate, they got it! They were using the Casiotone effect and they wrapped a song around it, but they didn't let it dictate to the song. That's another tune I just absolutely love β I was so impressed with the bravery of attempting such a subject matter."
Cover versions
In 2002, American country singer Johnny Cash covered "Personal Jesus" for his album American IV: The Man Comes Around.
The idea to cover the song was suggested by record producer Rick Rubin.
For the song, Rubin asked Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante to re-work an acoustic version of the song, which featured a simple acoustic riff that stripped down the song to a blues style. βThatβs probably the most evangelical song [Iβve] ever recorded,β said Cash, βI donβt know that the writer ever meant it to be that, but thatβs what it is.β
Marilyn Manson released their cover version of the track as the only previously unreleased recording included on their 2004 greatest hits album Lest We Forget: The Best Of.
In 2013, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar covered the song on his twelfth studio album Sammy Hagar & Friends.
In 2018, British rock band Def Leppard released their own version of the song.
Gravity Kills,
Jerry Williams,
Lollipop Lust Kill,
Nina Hagen,
Richard Cheese,
Mindless Self Indulgence.
π [LINKS]
https://besteunterhaltung.biz/
facebook.com/the.hot.rod.gang
Available on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/2TtGlJeyEWpaOIbIMW2PKq
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/us/album/can-u-dig-it-40th-anniversary/1782876051
Amazon Music:
amazon.com/Can-U-Dig-40th-Anniversary/dp/B0DPG5HS2X
and Deezer:
deezer.com/us/album/678326841
#thehotrodgang
#personaljesus
#rockabilly
#depechemodecover
