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 (2008) "shares the passionate schizophrenia" as "Confessions of a Pop Group" and the Beatles' "White Album", an opinion echoed by Lewis who felt that "22 Dreams" was Weller's most adventurous album since "Confessions". Jason Fox of the "NME" also cited the raga instrumental "Spring (at Last)", from 2002's "Illumination", as falling "almost in "Confessions of a Pop Group" territory." All tracks written by Paul Weller, except where noted. Note : The above is the tracklisting for the UK release. In the US, the original halves of the album were reversed, with tracks 6-11 above coming first, followed by tracks 1-5.