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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Posted By: karakalpak1979
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
TVRip | Electronica / Alternative | 1990 | 640x480 | 128 kbit/s | English | mpg | 44.4 mb | 4 min 31 sec

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for "Enjoy the Silence" references the themes and storyline of the philosophical children's book The Little Prince. Footage of Gahan dressed as a stereotypical king wandering the hillsides with a deck chair is intercut with black-and-white footage of the band posing. Brief flashes of a single rose (which is also on the album cover of Violator) appear throughout the scenes.
When Corbijn presented the concept of the video to the band, which at the time was simply "Dave dressed up as a king, walking around with a deck chair", they initially rejected it. They changed their minds, when he explained that the idea was that the King (Dave) was represented "a man with everything in the world, just looking for a quiet place to sit". Andy Fletcher jokes that he favoured the video because "[he] only had to do about an hour's worth of work".
The video uses a slightly different mix of the song (the most notable difference being an new and extended introduction) that has not been released in any audio format. Long shots of the king walking through the snow are not Gahan but rather the video's producer, Richard Bell. Gahan had left the set, tiring of the cold in Switzerland (recounted by Gahan in the intro to the The Videos (86-98)).