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Track List
01) New Life
02) I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
03) Puppets
04) Boys Say Go!
05) Nodisco
06) What's Your Name?
07) Photographic
08) Tora! Tora! Tora!
09) Big Muff
10) Any Second Now (Voices)
11) Just Can't Get Enough
01) New Life
02) I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
03) Puppets
04) Boys Say Go!
05) Nodisco
06) What's Your Name?
07) Photographic
08) Tora! Tora! Tora!
09) Big Muff
10) Any Second Now (Voices)
11) Just Can't Get Enough
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First Released
1981
Synthpop
Moody
Rock/Pop
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2,100,000 copies
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Speak & Spell is the debut album from the British electronic group Depeche Mode, recorded and released in 1981.
This was the only Depeche Mode album with Vince Clarke as a member of the band. Clarke wrote most of the songs for the band, before departing to form the synthpop duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet and, later, the duo Erasure with Andy Bell.
The album is significantly lighter in tone and melody than their later work, a direction which can largely be attributed to Clarke's writing. After he left, Martin Gore took over songwriting duties, writing almost all of the band's material. Later albums written by him would explore darker subjects and melodies.
The album title alludes to the then-popular "Speak & Spell" electronic toy.
When interviewed by Simon Amstell for Channel 4's Popworld programme in 2005, Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher both stated that the track "What's Your Name?" was their least favourite Depeche Mode song of all time.
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Speak & Spell is the debut album from the British electronic group Depeche Mode, recorded and released in 1981.
This was the only Depeche Mode album with Vince Clarke as a member of the band. Clarke wrote most of the songs for the band, before departing to form the synthpop duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet and, later, the duo Erasure with Andy Bell.
The album is significantly lighter in tone and melody than their later work, a direction which can largely be attributed to Clarke's writing. After he left, Martin Gore took over songwriting duties, writing almost all of the band's material. Later albums written by him would explore darker subjects and melodies.
The album title alludes to the then-popular "Speak & Spell" electronic toy.
When interviewed by Simon Amstell for Channel 4's Popworld programme in 2005, Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher both stated that the track "What's Your Name?" was their least favourite Depeche Mode song of all time.
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