Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
Tracklist
| A1 | Black Celebration | 4:57 | |
| A2 | Fly On The Windscreen - Final | 5:20 | |
| A3 | A Question Of Lust | 4:23 | |
| A4 | Sometimes | 1:55 | |
| A5 | It Doesn't Matter Two | 2:52 | |
| B1 | A Question Of Time | 4:10 | |
| B2 | Stripped | 4:18 | |
| B3 | Here Is The House | 4:17 | |
| B4 | World Full Of Nothing | 2:49 | |
| B5 | Dressed In Black | 2:35 | |
| B6 | New Dress | 3:44 |
Companies, etc.
- Marketed By – Intercord Ton GmbH
- Manufactured By – Intercord Ton GmbH
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mute Records
- Copyright © – Mute Records
- Published By – Grabbing Hands
- Published By – Sonet
- Recorded At – Westside Studios
- Recorded At – Hansa Tonstudios
- Mixed At – Westside Studios
- Mixed At – Hansa Tonstudios
- Designed At – T& Associates
- Pressed By – Sonopress – B-4425
Credits
- Artwork [Covergestaltung] – M. Atkins*
- Engineer [Assistant] – Richard Sullivan
- Mastered By – Tim Young
- Performer [Depeche Mode....] – Martin Gore*
- Photography By – Brian Griffin (3)
- Photography By [Assistant] – Stuart Graham (3)
- Producer – Gareth Jones
- Recorded By – Dave Allen* (tracks: A2)
- Recorded By [Assistant] – Phil Tennant (tracks: A2)
- Written-By – M.L. Gore*
Notes
Track B5 on Cover: " Dressed In Black", on Label: "Dressed Is Black" (see Pictures)
Programmed at Worldwide International.
Recorded & mixed at Westside, London & Hansa, Berlin except "Fly on the Windscreen" recorded at Genetic, re-mixed at Hansa, Berlin.
[labels]
All songs published by Sonet Publishing Ltd.
℗ & © 1986 Mute Records Ltd.
Marketed by Intercord Ton GmbH, Licensee.
Printed in W.
Second cat.nr. in brackets on backcover and on the label (where it appears as ''Stumm 26'').
First cat.nr. on spine, label and backcover.
Released in an embossed cover with a sticker announcing the coloured vinyl and printed sleeve with lyrics.
Direct Metal Mastering.
Manufactured by Intercord Ton GmbH, Stuttgart, Licensee.
Covergestaltung at T+ London.
Some copies were released with a sticker with German tourdates.
German editions of this LP with same cat#:
2. 1986 Black vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man") - edition with printed autographs on front cover
3. 1986 Grey vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man") (this one)
7. Grey vinyl, repress with Mute logo 3 ("M") side A and Mute logo 1 ("Walking man") side B
Later issued with cat# - INT 136.809:
1993 Black vinyl with Mute logo 3 ("M")
Programmed at Worldwide International.
Recorded & mixed at Westside, London & Hansa, Berlin except "Fly on the Windscreen" recorded at Genetic, re-mixed at Hansa, Berlin.
[labels]
All songs published by Sonet Publishing Ltd.
℗ & © 1986 Mute Records Ltd.
Marketed by Intercord Ton GmbH, Licensee.
Printed in W.
Second cat.nr. in brackets on backcover and on the label (where it appears as ''Stumm 26'').
First cat.nr. on spine, label and backcover.
Released in an embossed cover with a sticker announcing the coloured vinyl and printed sleeve with lyrics.
Direct Metal Mastering.
Manufactured by Intercord Ton GmbH, Stuttgart, Licensee.
Covergestaltung at T+ London.
Some copies were released with a sticker with German tourdates.
German editions of this LP with same cat#:
2. 1986 Black vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man") - edition with printed autographs on front cover
3. 1986 Grey vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man") (this one)
7. Grey vinyl, repress with Mute logo 3 ("M") side A and Mute logo 1 ("Walking man") side B
Later issued with cat# - INT 136.809:
1993 Black vinyl with Mute logo 3 ("M")
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Scanned): 4006751468188
- Barcode (Text): 4 006751 468188
- Label Code: LC 5834
- Rights Society (Boxed): GEMA
- Pressing Plant ID (Embossed on side B label): Bass clef
- Other (Direct Metal Mastering): DMM
- Other (Cat# CD): 846.818
- Other (Cat# MC): 446.818
- Matrix / Runout (Label A): DMM B-4425 A
- Matrix / Runout (Label B): DMM B-4425 B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): DMM B-4425 A-1/3-86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): DMM B-4425 B-2/3-86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): DMM B-4425 A-2/3-86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): DMM B-4425 B-1/3-86 S III
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): DMM B-4425 A-1/3-86 S
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): DMM B-4425 B-1/3-86 S III
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): DMM B-4425 A-3/5 - 87 C II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S III
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, variant 5): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S III
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S IV
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 7): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 8): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S III
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 8): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 9): DMM B-4425 A-1/3-86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 9): DMM B-4425 B-1/3-86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 10): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 10): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 11): DMM B-4425 A-2/3-86 S II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 11): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S IV
Other Versions (5 of 385)
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| Black Celebration (CD, Album, MPO) | Mute | CD STUMM 26 | UK | 1986 | |||
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Black Celebration (LP, Album, Embossed Cover, Specialty Pressing) | Sire | 9 25429-1, 1-25429 | US | 1986 | ||
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Black Celebration (LP, Album, Stereo, Lyntone Pressing, Embossed Cover) | Mute | STUMM 26 | UK | 1986 | ||
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Black Celebration (Cassette, Album, Reissue, AR, Clear) | Mute | 4-25429, 9 25429-4 | US | 1986 | ||
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Black Celebration (CD, Album) | Mute | INT 846.818, CD STUMM 26 | 1986 |
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Yeah, may the best album, but this grey vinyl just looks cool,but doesn't..Grey and DMM, but it's a useless release.Sound quality is weak, it has really thin sound.Not recommended, only if you collect colored vinyls. -
This was one of the big records of my teenage years. You probably know about growing up in the 80s, dressing all in black, sniffing mama's nail polisher while reading Baudelaire, cultivating world-weary melancholy...
Listening to it again after all those years not only do i surprise myself by still knowing all the lyrics by heart but the music is still holding up too. Some of the stuff i can appreciate even more today: the amazing arrangements, the great harmony singing (check out the Beach Boyish vocals in "Sometimes"!), the blend of proto-techno electronic sounds and very traditional songwriting skills (there's even a few acoustic guitars hidden in the mix!)...i can't think of another band that could do all this and still be so incredibly catchy. I mean, they were posterboys of "Bravo" (the leading german teenie mag) back then.
Thematically it's all sex & death of course (the two great attractions of puberty) plus a rather harmless dose of social criticism ("Princess Di is wearing a new dress").
"Black Celebration" is a great album without a single weak song. It all fits together, the music, the grey vinyl, the classy cover design...self-contained perfection.
A shame they had to go to California and become fake rockers soon after that.
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