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  • I had heard that Dave could no longer sing the song because it was too sad. (Reference forgotten.) Martin is wonderful! I really prefer the album (Songs of Faith and Devotion) version best because I don't care for the choir. I was sad they put the choir version on their Singles 86-98 double album. Anyway, brilliant song. They are Depeche Mode after all!

  • I remember listening to Depeche Mode for the first time thinking "this is music with the highest level of technology built into it with all the advanced sound systems built in it." that was 24 years ago.

  • i love depeche mode, and i feel awful for ppl that dont understand them, but this song is truly beautiful, one of my faves if not my fave..Marty Gore= Genious !! end of

  • What the Voice!!! Such a beautiful voice..

  • All things Martin Gore : )

  • I prefer Martin singing this one

  • They always deliver.

  • I LOVEEEE IT!! Oh myyy!! My love dances he makes me cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­y!!!!!!!!!! =DDDDDD I simply ADORE MART!!! LO IDOLATROOOO CON OBSESIVA INTENSIDAD!!!

  • martin my love!

  • when marty sings this song, its the most beautiful thing ive ever heard my all time fave song, sorry dave, but its martys song...whoa hella incredible...just beautiful...i love love love love this song so much... i want to be buried with my depeche CDS

  • I love DM. Do you?

  • yes i do

  • its the most beautiful song ive ever heard, somebody is a close 2nd Dm is the bomb, marty sings this so much better than dave

  • to the previous commenter i appreciate that u love the song, but Marty has the most beautiful voice ive ever heard, besides the fact that he is a GENIOUS and writes all the songs,,,,his voice lifts me to another place, this is my all time fave song by far , but only when Marty sings it....i saw them live not long ago and all i can say is WOW....Marty isnt human, he is a special class of person Dm forever

  • your right he just somthing els, saw them myself in dec and fed just gone and like you said WOW just hope thay keep making music

  • I love Martin's singing, but I think I prefer Dave singing this song with Martin doing the backup - it's missing something without Martin in the back, hands outstretched, hitting the high notes.

  • i loved !!

  • Lovely version! Martin Gore is amazing.

  • What the lirics, amazing......

  • wow, so good.

  • Love love love...he takes the words out from me. Perfect! <3

  • I preferred Gore singing it in the devotional tour, I think he does a way better job!

  • I have this song on my iPod and I guess I hadn't listened to it because I did last night and realised it was Martin!!

    Such a beautiful version of this song!

    I wish Martin would sing it more often <3

  • oh so goooooooood!! (:-))

  • I love it!!!! Did you know Condemnation was originally supposed to be a Gore song? But Dave fought them down to sing it lol. I love both versions though ^_^

  • That's true.

  • Yeah, dave was on drugs at that time, he had an overdose speedball in 1996 I think :-(((

  • I love Dave's voice but I much prefer Martin's voice singing that song..

  • where is Dave?

  • probably backstage, getting some gig fuel ;)

  • So beautiful!

  • Martin Rocks!!!

  • This Live performance is / sounds better than the actual studio / CD version

  • from a mississippi DM fan, this video is one of my faves; thanks!

  • I was at this show. WOW Thanks for recording it and putting it on youtube!

  • Wow, Martin's version is so much sweeter. It's lovely

  • strange..... because i did too

  • wow, i've never heard Martin sing this!

    what an angel.  sigh

  • wow Martin vocals are great here!!

  • Martin sing pretty cool!!!Pure faith and devotion!!

  • i love this version, I love Martin`s voice, but like as well he says some songs suits in hin better, some others in Dave is better, i think this is better in Davem, no is my fav track from SOFAD, but Dave leaves his soul when hi sings this song (he consideres his fav song)

  • WOW....epic.

  • wtf wheres dave

  • Esta cancion estaba originalmente para Martin, pero Dave se adentro mucho en ella y le metio mucho sentimiento, por eso al final la termino cantando Dave.

  • Depeche mode 4 ever

  • fucking GORGEOUS

  • fucking GORGEOUS

  • the angelic voice of martin,makes me dream *_*

    he's a genius of the music.

  • Martin is amazing

  • God, that is so beautiful. Martin has such a gorgeous voice.

  • what more can i say, what lyrics amazing

  • My God! This song have never been so beautiful, when Dave sings it! I prefer thousand times Martin's version. His voice is amazing. It almost made me cry. If only I could have been at this concert é_è

  • Dave's rendition of Condemnation is... I can't even describe it. His vocals, like, touch your soul or something. The best song off SOFAD.

  • I would love to hear this song sung by Dave again... like he did before Martin began singing it. Seems to me that Dave had a distinct way of singing this song that made the public connect with it. I love how Martin does the singing aswell but it`s a bit too soft. :) Too bad Dave can`t sing it anymore... he was so good at it...

  • Dave sang Condemnation on the Exciter tour. OH! There's a little story in the tour diary from the Exciter tour where Dave almost lost it singing this song on the last show of the tour. He said it was all he could do to keep it together and finish the song. This song is very emotional for him.

  • great dm

    go watch my account (COBRET2)

  • Does anyone know if Martin singing this song is on a Depeche Mode CD of any sort? I'd love to add it to my audio collection, but this video will suffice for as long as it's left here on YouTube.  Also, if it's ever taken down, please repost.

  • how the hell does one "die temporarily"?

  • when the emt says 'i think we lost him'

  • He died for two minutes, then doctors brought him back to life, for his and our luck...

  • I love to hear Martin songs been sing by him. He is wonderful. I love him! Thanks for posting.

  • Dave didn`t sing Condemnation at all during the second part of the Devotional Tour, because heroin affected his voice. If you see interbiews with him from that period you can see he sounds pretty ragged.

  • Martin is awesome. Question though, what happened to Dave this particular concert?

  • He had died temporarily not long after. He just could not endure Condemnation vocals at that time I suppose. If you saw the complete Biloxi video you could notice that Dave was not looking so good.

  • Are you from Biloxi?

  • @watersfan heroin is helluva drug

  • Martin has SUCH better voice than Dave. LOVE IT.

  • I'd like to see the video version of this, which I've not seen in years. I recall it had some bloke dragging a cross or a yoke across some fields. He didn't look very happy.

  • that's really are beatiful!

    thanks for posting, is a treasure.

  • Awesome. I saw Martin sing this live that tour too. Over the years, so many have told me I was full of it. Thanks for posting this, I hope it's not taken down like the prior video someone posted once was.

  • thanks :)

  • nice!

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