In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)


"In Your Room" is Depeche Mode's fourth and final single from their 1993 album Songs of Faith and Devotion, and the 30th UK single overall, released on 10 January 1994 in the UK and 18 January in the USA. The song reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number two in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

Song details

The version of "In Your Room" used for the single release is the "Zephyr Mix", a radically different mix of the original album version, nearly completely redone by Butch Vig of Nirvana fame. Other official single remixes include the "Apex Mix", produced by Brian Eno, which sounds closer to the album version, and Johnny Dollar's "The Jeep Rock Mix", which appears on Remixes 81 - 04.
During concerts in 1993 and 1994, the album version was played live. From the 1998 Singles Tour onwards, the "Zephyr Mix" of the song has been played live instead. However, during the 2009 Tour of the Universe, a mixture of both versions was played live. During the "Global Spirit Tour" the band returned to the album version again.
The single was released in a special foldout digipak with room to hold three different versions of the "In Your Room" single: the original release, a live disc and a remix disc. The b-sides consist of a remix of album track "Higher Love", along with some live songs from the Devotional Tour.
Depeche Mode's first appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman", filmed during a stop on their "The Singles Tour", featured an abbreviated version of "In Your Room."

Music video

The music video for "In Your Room" was directed by Anton Corbijn and features references to the videos for "Strangelove", "I Feel You", "Walking in My Shoes", "Halo", "Enjoy the Silence", "Personal Jesus", "Condemnation" and "Never Let Me Down Again". Corbijn described the video as a retrospective of the work he had done with Depeche Mode. He said he made it that way because he wasn't sure if he was going to do another Depeche Mode video after it.. He later elaborated stating, that this video was made during the rise of band troubles so it was uncertain whether the band would still exist for another video to be made.
The video features Alexandra Kummer, who sometimes is partially clothed. Because of the partial nudity and scenes of bondage, the video only aired after prime time on MTV in the US. Since the video had only limited screen play the single was not a hit in the US.
This is the last Depeche Mode single with Alan Wilder as a band member, and the last music video he appears in.

Track listings

All songs written by Martin Gore.
Cassette: Mute / CBong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 4:52
  2. Higher Love " – 4:48
12": Mute / 12Bong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 4:52
  2. "In Your Room " – 6:45
  3. "In Your Room " – 6:19
  4. "Higher Love " – 7:49
  5. "In Your Room " – 6:43
12": Mute / L12Bong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 6:52
  2. "Policy of Truth " – 5:08
  3. "World in My Eyes " – 6:16
  4. "Fly on the Windscreen " – 5:20
  5. "Never Let Me Down Again " – 5:01
  6. "Death's Door " – 2:45
CD: Mute / CDBong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 4:52
  2. "In Your Room " – 6:43
  3. "Never Let Me Down Again " – 5:01
  4. "Death's Door " – 2:45
CD: Mute / LCDBong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 6:52
  2. "Policy of Truth " – 5:08
  3. "World in My Eyes " – 6:16
  4. "Fly on the Windscreen " – 5:20
CD: Mute / XLCDBong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 6:19
  2. "In Your Room " – 6:45
  3. "Higher Love " – 7:49
CD: Mute / CDBong24X
  1. "In Your Room " – 4:52
  2. "Higher Love " – 4:48
  3. "In Your Room " – 6:45
  4. "In Your Room " – 6:19
  5. "Higher Love " – 7:49
  6. "In Your Room " – 6:43
  7. "In Your Room " – 6:52
  8. "Policy of Truth " – 5:08
  9. "World in My Eyes " – 6:16
  10. "Fly on the Windscreen " – 5:20
  11. "Never Let Me Down Again " – 5:01
  12. "Death's Door " – 2:45
Promo 12": Mute / P12Bong24
  1. "In Your Room " – 6:19
  2. "Higher Love " – 7:49
  3. "In Your Room " – 6:43
12": Sire/Reprise / 41362-0
  1. "In Your Room " – 6:43
  2. "In Your Room " – 6:45
  3. "In Your Room " – 6:19
  4. "Higher Love " – 7:49
CD: Sire/Reprise / 9 41362-2
  1. "In Your Room " – 4:52
  2. "In Your Room " – 6:45
  3. "Higher Love " – 7:49
  4. "In Your Room " – 6:20
  5. "Policy of Truth " – 5:07
  6. "In Your Room " – 6:44
  7. "In Your Room " – 6:52

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Notable cover versions

's band, Amphibious Assault, covered the song for their debut LP District Six in 2003.