Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes (Old School Club Mix)

"World In My Eyes" is a song from the 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 17 September 1990.

Martin Gore says in the 17 February 1990 issue of NME:

Stuart Maconie: On the opening track "World In My Eyes" you seem to be saying 'Just for this moment pleasure and gratification are all that matters'. It's almost like (deep breath) existentialism.

Martin Gore: Yes, and it’s a very positive song. It's saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things.

Gore described the evolution of the studio recording of "World In My Eyes" in BONG magazine issue 37:

I remember the original demo of "World In My Eyes" being slightly faster and maybe slightly more obvious. While we were recording it in Milan, Dave was going away for a couple of days, so we worked on it and turned it into this really moody piece. I can remember Dave arriving back in the studio, slightly jet-lagged and being totally shocked, thinking that we just ruined the song, but half a day later he came back and said 'That's really good, the way it's turned out'. It always takes a while to get used to things.

Alan Wilder explains in an editorial on Shunt, the official Recoil website:

"World In My Eyes" had in fact been recorded very early on during the Milan session and, perhaps for this reason, displayed familiar Depeche elements linking it with previous albums. It was completed in London and with its 'drop' 3rd verse and use of vocal double-tracking to fill out and build the later choruses, was probably the most 'electro' sounding track on the LP - something of a homage to Kraftwerk, in a rhythmical sense at least. Laughing in the face of criticism that electronic music was 'soulless' and would only appeal to a small eclectic audience, its success exhibited one of Depeche Mode's most fundamental philosophies.

2006 remaster engineer Kevin Paul explained in a November 2007 interview for Sound On Sound magazine:

I had about 20 or 30 different tapes for "World In My Eyes" and I had to get them all to sync up and try to find the missing sounds. There is a snare-drum drop which is reversed — completely flipped. It wasn't on any of the tapes and it turned out it was most likely to have been done on an Akai with an Atari, run wild, so that was something Roger [Johnson] had to do. He had to find the sample and flip it and get the sound back. Everything then was backed up on floppy disks which now no-one can ever work. It is nigh-on an impossibility to get them to work as they did back then.

Andrew Fletcher explains in a 2017 interview for Hotmix Radio: "For me, ["World In My Eyes"] really shows how we've managed to have all these people from different countries all over the world together, liking Depeche Mode."