Depeche ModeSpeak & Spell

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Electronic

Style:

Synth-pop

Year:

Tracklist

New Life
I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
Puppets
Boys Say Go!
Nodisco
What's Your Name?
Photographic
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Big Muff
Any Second Now (Voices)
Just Can't Get Enough

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Notes

Debut studio album 05. October 1981.

Includes the singles: "Dreaming Of Me".
Most releases outside the UK include this song instead of "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead".
The original USA/Canada/Japan editions also contain the 12" versions of "New Life (Remix)" and "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" instead of the UK album versions, however these remix titles are not mentioned.

First charted in the UK album charts on 14 November 1981, peaking at position 10 for 2 weeks. Stayed for 33 weeks in the UK Top 100 charts.

Certified Silver (min. 60.000 copies sold) and Gold (min. 100'000 copies sold) by the BPI on 01 December 1981.

UK vinyl (STUMM 5) releases:
- lacquer cut at Tape One, pressed by WEA West Drayton, JA (Jack Adams) and EG (Eddy Gorecki) etched in matrix.
- lacquer cut at Tape One & mastered at MusiTech, pressed by Linguaphone Institute Ltd., DB (Denis Blackham) etched in matrix.
- lacquer cut at Tape One & mastered at MusiTech, pressed by MPO, DB (Denis Blackham) etched in matrix (repress).
- lacquer cut at Tape One, mastered at Gedmal Galvanic Ltd., JA (Jack Adams) etched in matrix.
- lacquer cut at Tape One, pressed by MVS (Record Pressing) Ltd., JA (Jack Adams) etched in matrix (repress).
- lacquer cut at Tape One, pressed by MPO, JA (Jack Adams) etched in matrix (reissue).
- lacquer cut at Tape One, mastered at MusiTech, pressed by Damont, DB (Denis Blackham) etched in matrix (reissue with a barcode).
- lacquer cut at Tape One, JA (Jack Adams), pressed by CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton, plated by EG (Eddy Gorecki) (repress).
- lacquer cut at Tape One & mastered at Gedmal Galvanic Ltd., pressed by Linguaphone Institute Ltd., JA (Jack Adams) etched in matrix (repress).

German vinyl (INT 146.801) releases:
- 1981, Limited Edition, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man").
- 1981, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man").
- 1984, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man"), without "Hiring, Lending" in the copyright perimeter text.
- 1984, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man"), with "Hiring, Lending" in the copyright perimeter text.
- 1990, with Mute logo 3 ("M").

First charted in the German album charts on 22 February 1982, peaking at position 49 in March. Stayed for 8 weeks in the Top 75 charts.

French Vogue vinyl (540016) releases:
- with credit for A. Giacomoni on rear of sleeve, pressed by MPPV.
- no credit for A. Giacomoni on rear of sleeve, pressed by MPPV.
- with credit for A. Giacomoni on rear of sleeve, pressed by Disco .
- post 1985, pressed by Disco .

Album first charted in in 2017 at position 192.

German CD releases:
INT 846.801:
- 05/1984 First edition, metallic blue stripe, Polygram, Hanover pressing.
- 1985 Blue stripe, Sonopress pressing, LC 5834 and Mute logo at back sleeve.
- 1986 Blue stripe, Sonopress pressing, without LC 5834 and Mute logo at back sleeve.

INT 846.844:
- 06/1988 Blue stripe, Sonopress pressing, barcode: 4 006758 468440.

INT 836.805:
- 1991 Sonopress pressing, clear CD center, barcode: 4 006758 368054.
- 1994 Sonopress pressing, mirror CD center, barcode: 4 006758 368054.
- 1995 EMI Uden pressing, barcode: 4 006758 368054 / 7243 4 84011 2 0.
- 1997 EMI Uden pressing, clear CD center, barcode: 7 24348 40112 0.
- 1998 EMI Uden pressing, black CD center, barcode: 7 24348 40112 0.

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