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Depeche Mode

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2023 - Ghosts Again
2023 - Memento Mori
2020 - MODE: The definitive Depeche Mode studio collection
2018 - Construction Time Again | The 12" Singles
2018 - A Broken Frame | The 12" Singles
2018 - Speak & Spell | The 12" Singles
2017 - Spirit
2017 - Cover Me
2017 - Going Backwards (Remixes)
2017 - Where's the Revolution (Remixes)
2014 - Live in Berlin
2013 - Should Be Higher
2013 - Heaven
2013 - Soothe My Soul
2013 - Delta Machine
2011 - Personal Jesus 2011
2011 - Remixes 2: 81““11
2010 - Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09
2009 - Sounds of the Universe
2009 - Peace
2009 - Wrong
2009 - Fragile Tension / Hole to Feed
2006 - John the Revelator / Lilian
2006 - Suffer Well
2006 - Touring the Angel: Live in Milan
2006 - The Best of Depeche Mode, Volume 1
2006 - Martyr
2005 - Playing the Angel
2005 - A Pain That I'm Used To
2005 - Precious Remixes
2005 - Precious
2004 - Remixes 81...04
2004 - Enjoy the Silence 04
2004 - Devotional
2002 - Goodnight Lovers
2001 - Exciter
2001 - Rarities, B-Sides & Instrumentals
2001 - Freelove
2001 - I Feel Loved
2001 - Dream On
2001 - The Singles 81>98
1998 - The Singles 86>98
1998 - Only When I Lose Myself
1998 - The Videos 86>98
1997 - Ultra
1997 - Home
1997 - It's No Good
1997 - Barrel of a Gun
1997 - Useless
1994 - In Your Room
1993 - Condemnation
1993 - Songs of Faith and Devotion
1993 - Songs of Faith and Devotion: Live
1993 - I Feel You
1993 - Walking in My Shoes
1991 - Singles 1–6
1991 - Singles 7–12
1991 - X²
1991 - X¹
1991 - Singles 13–18
1990 - Enjoy the Silence
1990 - Policy of Truth
1990 - World in My Eyes
1990 - Violator
1989 - Everything Counts / Nothing / Sacred / A Question of Lust
1989 - Personal Jesus
1989 - 101
1988 - Little 15
1988 - The Unreleased Boxset
1987 - Behind the Wheel
1987 - Never Let Me Down Again
1987 - Strangelove
1987 - Music for the Masses
1986 - A Question of Lust
1986 - Stripped
1986 - Black Celebration
1986 - A Question of Time
1985 - The Singles 81>85
1985 - Catching Up With Depeche Mode
1985 - Shake the Disease
1985 - It's Called a Heart
1984 - People Are People
1984 - People Are People
1984 - Master and Servant
1984 - Blasphemous Rumours
1984 - Some Great Reward
1983 - Construction Time Again
1983 - Everything Counts
1983 - Get the Balance Right
1983 - Love in Itself
1982 - See You
1982 - A Broken Frame
1982 - The Meaning of Love
1982 - Leave in Silence
1981 - New Life
1981 - Just Can't Get Enough
1981 - Dreaming of Me
1981 - Speak & Spell

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3 Male

Origin
Basildon, England

Genre
Synthpop

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Moody

Born

1980

Active
1980 to Present...

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6 users Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
6 users Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
5 users Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
4 users Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
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Master and Servant	Blasphemous Rumours	Everything Counts
Should Be Higher	Walking in My Shoes	Personal Jesus
Going Backwards	Precious	Never Let Me Down Again

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Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals, occasional songwriter since 2005), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andy Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter 1980-81). Vince Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album, Speak & Spell, and was replaced by Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, occasional songwriter) with Gore taking over songwriting. Wilder left the band in 1995; Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher have since continued as a trio.
Depeche Mode's origins date back to 1977, when schoolmates Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a The Cure-influenced band called No Romance in China, with Clarke on vocals and guitar and Fletcher on bass. Fletcher would later recall, "Why am I in the band? It was accidental right from the beginning. I was actually forced to be in the band. I played the guitar and I had a bass; it was a question of them roping me in." In 1979, Clarke played guitar in an "Ultravox rip-off band", The Plan, with friends Robert Marlow and Paul Langwith. In 1978–79, Martin Gore played guitar in an acoustic duo, Norman and The Worms, with school friend Phil Burdett on vocals. In 1979, Marlow, Gore, and friend Paul Redmond formed a band called The French Look, with Marlow on vocals/keyboards, Gore on guitar and Redmond on keyboards. In March 1980, Clarke, Gore and Fletcher formed a band called Composition of Sound, with Clarke on vocals/guitar, Gore on keyboards and Fletcher on bass.
Soon after the formation of Composition of Sound, Clarke and Fletcher switched to synthesisers, working odd jobs in order to buy or borrow the instruments from friends. Dave Gahan joined the band in 1980 after Clarke heard him perform at a local scout hut jam session, singing to a rendition of David Bowie's "Heroes", and Depeche Mode were born. When explaining the choice for the new name taken from a French fashion magazine, Dépêche mode (from French dépêche that means here "dispatch" - from Old French despesche/despeche - or "news report" and mode that means "fashion"), Martin Gore said, "It means hurried fashion or fashion dispatch. I like the sound of that." Gore recollects that the first time the band played as Depeche Mode was a school gig in May 1980. The band made their recording debut in 1980 on the Some Bizzare Album with the song "Photographic", which was later re-recorded for their debut album Speak & Spell.
The band made a demo tape but, instead of mailing the tape to record companies, they would go in and personally deliver it. They would demand the companies play it; according to Dave Gahan, "most of them would tell us to **** off. They'd say 'leave the tape with us' and we'd say 'it's our only one'. Then we'd say goodbye and go somewhere else."
According to Gahan, prior to securing their record contract, they were receiving offers from all the major labels. Phonogram offered them "money you could never have imagined and all sorts of crazy things like clothes allowances".
While playing a live gig at the Bridge House in Canning Town, the band were approached by Daniel Miller, an electronic musician and founder of Mute Records, who was interested in their recording a single for his burgeoning label. The result of this verbal contract was their first single, "Dreaming of Me", recorded in December 1980 and released in February 1981. It reached number 57 in the UK charts. Encouraged by this, the band recorded their second single, "New Life", which climbed to number 11 in the UK charts. The next single was "Just Can't Get Enough". This relentlessly upbeat piece of synthpop became the band's first UK top ten hit and it remains one of their best known songs. It was also the first Depeche Mode song to get a music video and is the only one of the band's videos to feature Vince Clarke. Depeche Mode's debut album, Speak & Spell, was released in November 1981 and peaked at number ten on the UK album charts. Critical reviews were mixed – Melody Maker described it as a "great album... one they had to make to conquer fresh audiences and please the fans who just can’t get enough", while Rolling Stone was more critical, calling the album "PG-rated fluff".


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