Scum

Notes

Dave Gahan told Billboard:

"There are songs that are quite literal on the album. “Scum” for instance, it was a lot of fun recording that song and singing it. Great lyric. But to me, I internalize that: “Hey scum, hey scum, what have you ever done for anyone?" I immediately take that in, and I ask myself that question. That’s how I perform that song... really, it’s from my own fear, like, "What the f--k have I ever done? And what am I doing? Am I really helping those around me that are less fortunate? Do I really care?" I don’t know."

Keyboard programmer Matrixxman said in an interview with Mode2joy.pl:

"I didn’t personally work with the vocals at all during the album but in reference to Scum, I’m pretty sure Martin’s original demo had heavily distorted vocals on it. So that would explain why Dave’s vocals had the same treatment on that particular tune."

Dates with available recordings of Scum

• There are currently no recordings of Scum available to download.

Dates where Scum was played

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

Scum was played only once during this tour.

• 2017-03-06 Avatar Studios, New York, NY, USA