Master and Servant 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 at the time the other staffers voted on whether to add "Master and Servant" to their playlist. The production and mixing process of "Master and Servant" are remembered by Alan Wilder, Daniel Miller, and Gareth Jones, as among the longest that Depeche Mode ever endured. One famous story
Confessions of a Pop Group Eighties: One Day, One Decade", journalist Dylan Jones described "Confessions of a Pop Group" as the pinnacle of the band's career, and that Weller's only problem "was convincing other people that this was the case." Several writers have placed "Confessions of a Pop Group" within different contexts, both socially and within Weller's career. Writer Paolo Hewitt wrote that the album was Weller's attempt to obtain complete musical freedom, "not answering to anyone," describing it as "the strangest record Weller ever involved himself in." Liberal politics magazine the "New Statesman" found the album to provide proof that left-leaning bands in Britain