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“Useless” is Depeche Mode’s thirty-fourth UK single, released on October 20, 1997, and the fourth and final single for the album Ultra. It was released with “Home” as a double A-side in the US due to “Useless” getting airplay on US radio stations before “Home” was announced. “Useless” is an industrial rock track in the vein of “Barrel of a Gun”, with more of a pop twist. The single remix, by Alan Moulder, changes the intro and has an updated beat (similar to the changes done to the 7” versions of “Walking In My Shoes” and “Condemnation”) and adds some extra synth during the chorus. It also contains much more grainy vocals. The “The Kruder + Dorfmeister Session” is a very prominent remix by the DJ duo of the same name. On the US single, the single... Read on...