“It’s a lot like life”….Depeche Mode
Posted: September 18, 2018 Filed under: Clothing, D/s Relationship, Entertainment | Tags: BDSM, D/s, Depeche Mode, dievca, Dominance and submission, Dominant, erotic, Fetish, Kink, Life, Master, Master and Servant, music, Nouvelle Vague, Slave, submissive 7 CommentsAmazing how a brand new R13 T-shirt can throw you back 34 years:
R13 Depeche Mode Master and Servant Tee (click photo to purchase)
“Master and Servant” is Depeche Mode‘s eleventh UK single (August 20th,1984) It is the second single from the Some Great Reward album. The subject is BDSM relationships, which caused some controversy. It reached #9 in the UK Singles Chart, #49 in the American Dance Chart and #87 on the Billboard Hot 100
The overtly sexual, BDSM-themed lyrics of “Master and Servant” — complete with synthesized whip-and-chain sound effects — reportedly meant that the song was banned by many radio stations in the United States (though the song reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart anyway, albeit only at number 87 and for only a three-week chart stay).
Reportedly, the song narrowly avoided a radio ban by the BBC as well. “Master and Servant” might have been banned if the one BBC staffer who wanted to ban the record had not been away on holiday when the other staffers voted on whether to add “Master and Servant” to their playlist.
Live At The Pasadena Rose Bowl, June 18th 1988
A female version struck dievca’s fancy, you heard this group before on her blog here.
dievca 
Can’t get the video to work 😐
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Oh, no! I went back and tried it on my computer + phone and they all worked for me.
Which one were you trying to listen to?
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The female version. Still says video unavailable
But maybe it’s because I’m on my phone 😐
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Hmmm, I have a Samsung – maybe if you have an iphone its something. Click on the “video unavailable”, sometimes it goes to the youtube space. Here’s the studio version;
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I’d love to assemble a list of songs like this one………
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Something for the future. I’m coming for air and need to get back to your music posts, I always have such fun with them. Whew!
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Cool !!
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