The melody that can be heard in the middle of the song is of the children’s Christian song “Jesus Love Is Very Wonderful”. I would think it was then sampled and reproduced from either the Emulator or Synclavier."
When Alan Wilder was asked about this on Shunt, he replied: "I can't really remember exactly - you are asking me about a sound made about 14 years ago! It sounds like it was a piece of speech put through a modular synth (possibly some other effects) and distorted. Throughout this track, an "arr, arr" sound can be heard that can be heard at the beginning of 'Something To Do' as well. So we just took the Stellavox out into the middle of this big, ambient space and miked up the ground and hit it with a big metal hammer. The engineer / producer we use, Gareth Jones, has got this brilliant little recorder called a Stellavox which we use with two stereo mikes and it's as good as any standard 30ips reel-to-reel but this is very small and therefore very portable. All that entailed was us hitting a big lump of concrete with a sampling hammer. We sampled some concrete being hit for what turned out to be the snare sound. It certainly verges on the offensive.Īlan says in the November 1984 issue of International Musician And Recording World: When Martin first played me 'Blasphemous Rumours' I was quite offended. There was a prayer list of people who were sick in some way and you'd pray for the person on top of that list until they died. The song 'Blasphemous Rumours' stems from our experiences then. I know a lot of people out there are not gonna agree with me.Īndy Fletcher told the 18th May 1985 issue of No.1 Magazine: And it's just, when you're not part of it, it just seems very ridiculous, very funny. But they took that as, like, being very, very positive, that was "God's will" and "They've gone to somewhere better". One thing I often quoted is this thing called the "prayer list": every week they would sit and pray for people who were seriously ill, and you could guarantee that most of them, the majority of the people who they prayed for, would die. And when you're not involved in it, I think you really notice the hypocrisy and just the funny side to things. I was never a practicing Christian, although they were. Was mainly inspired from the early days of the band or even before the band got started, when Andy and Vince were regular churchgoers, and I just used to go along because they were my friends.
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