OBERKORN STORY
This Story was to be read once in NEW LIFE No. 3, I repeat it again at the request of many new readers who wanted to read this story as well. As it has been clearly shown above, Depeche has a pronounced sense for humor.  The name choice for the B-side of "The Meaning Of Love"  proved the group's originality and sense of humour. They connected a quite personal experience with this song, which they had experienced quite awhile before the A-side. As with most of their instrumentals, the titles are usually very hard to find. Depeche were helpless and couldn't decide which title to give to the song. They didn't consider for too long, knowing a suitable title would be found soon or later. When the A-side was ready, Daniel Miller asked Martin to start thinking of a title. Martin promised to invent something and then forgot because he was too busy with the preparations for the European tour,
which should begin in Madrid with two concerts in March. Miller became nervous. The single would appear on April 26 and the title was still not certain. Finally Miller gave the unimaginative boys an ultimatum, which, naturally, was also forgotten. "By tomorrow  you should know the name, we have to print the single!"  It was called again and again
-futile! Martin and his buddies worked and worked. Miller was very pi**** off, come March 29 "has it now a title, or not? " he asked his favorites.
But Depeche just looked helplessly at themselves  "we've reached a point to where we  need a name, it doesn't matter which one - we just need it IMMEDIATELY! " Again they thought hard before they suddenly had a saving thought : "where are we? what's this village called?" They, somewhere in Luxembourg, asked the land lady, who answered "Oberkorn" - the title of the song was found!
How the addition "It's a small town " came about is by the following:
Martin loves boiled eggs for breakfast. Since he missed it on the table in his Oberkorn hotel, he asked the same landlady why she didn't put some on the desk. But she excused herself with: "We don't have any, we are here in the country and this is a small village - it's a small town!" Depeche and Miller found this "apology" so original that they built an equal utterance into the name of the song.
The final title was found: Oberkorn (IT'S A SMALL TOWN)