Master and Servant about the song includes a mixing duration of seven days, and after all the reworking and final mastering of the mix, they realized they left the channel with the snare drum muted during the last chorus. Some of the sounds on "Master and Servant", such as the whip effect, are based on Daniel Miller standing in the studio hissing and spitting. According to the band, they tried to sample a real whip but "it was hopeless". The "Slavery Whip Mix" was the longest 12" Depeche Mode song at the time, with the outro being turned into a swing version of
Billboard Top Hits: 1984 Billboard Top Hits: 1984 Billboard Top Hits: 1984 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1992, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1984. The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, with the remaining three songs—"Hold Me Now", "Jump (For My Love)" and "Talking in Your Sleep"—each reaching the top 5 on the Hot 100. Giving the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, Heather Phares of AllMusic cited the album as "one of the decade's strongest collections of singles." Robert Christgau of "The Village Voice" gave the album an A rating