Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Black Celebration
2. Fly On The Windscreen (Final)
3. Question Of Lust
4. Sometimes
5. It Doesn't Matter Two
6. Question Of Time
7. Stripped
8. Here Is The House
9. World Full Of Nothing
10. Dressed In Black
11. New Dress

Disc 2:

1. Depeche Mode 1985-1986
2. Black Celebration
3. Fly On The Windscreen (Final) (1)
4. Question Of Lust
5. Sometimes
6. It Doesn't Matter Two
7. Question Of Time
8. Stripped
9. Here Is The House
10. World Full Of Nothing
11. Dressed In Black
12. New Dress
13. Black Celebration
14. Question Of Time
15. Stripped
16. Shake The Disease
17. Flexible
18. It's Called A Heart
19. Fly On The Windscreen
20. But Not Tonight
21. Breathing In Fumes
22. Black Day
23. Christmas Island

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46735 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-16
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .34 pounds

CD Description
2007 European pressing of the digitally remastered version of their 1986 dark masterpiece. 11 tracks including "A Question of Time", "Stripped", "A Question Of Lust" and more.

Customer Reviews

IMHO their best album...and it just got better!
There's something about this album that has somehow defied 21 years of the time that has elapsed since it's creation.

Perhaps it's the incredible remix job on the dvd mixes in 5.1. Maybe it's the dense atmosphere during recording. Or more likely a combination of the aforementioned, plus the fact that these songs got the "personal lyrics mixed with actually quite uplifting music" axiom absolutely spot on.

Don't get me wrong; VIOLATOR is a great collection of songs and an excellent album but THIS came first, and it sounds more raw, more punchier and less...commercially oriented. It's a very personal and possibly self indulgent work. I actually originally heard this AFTER I'd soaked myslef in violator and music for the masses, and was really blown away by the whole package. In some ways, this is a better descendant to lead up to violator.

the remix work done on the 5.1 mixes, the documentary, the power inherant on repeated listens....this IMHO is almost perfect ( only the dated reference to "princess di" shows the 80's roots), but otherwise the uniqueness of the sounds - thanks to the trimuverate producing and programming as per SOME GREAT REWARD and CONSTRUCTION - and production make it stand up today.



Bolshy, Powerful and near damn perfect...pick up a copy now!

The Darkness Starts Here
And so DM slid gently into the abyss. Dark, moody, miserable, brooding ... but utterly brilliant and largely original.

Stuffed with top tracks (there's a higher concentration of their best stuff here than any other album) and almost no 'we're bored but need to use up time or indulge Alan' filler.

BC itself is a great track - full of the ways DM were going into introspection of themselves and their world. Fly On The Windscreen is a deft piece of social commentary - 'death is everywhere - like a fly on the windscreen' spells out the futility of life in their eyes. A Question Of Lust is a precursor to the later Strangelove, one about lust in the third person and the other about guilt in the first.

As I recall, the tour gigs for this album opened with 'Stripped', a glorious soaring, extended, intro accompnaied by a lighting rig sunrise that defied the meaning of the lyrics. The sound of the engine starting tore holes in your midriff if you were near the front - as I was, several times. A fantstic show opener that's still fresh in the memory twenty-odd years on. Music has to be pretty darn good to be that memorable.

Looking back, the slide into darkness was frightening for Modies. We never knew if the next offering would be the last, such was the obvious range of problems they were having. Would one of them overdose? Would they split? How bad was their depresssion? Who could tell?

BC is another classic DM album, and another step into their journey of gritty realism and drug-fuelled misery. If you listen to this, loud, when your girlfriend's left you and you're half way down a bottle of Jack Daniels, make sure you leave a note in case you the atmosphere gets the better of you.

What fun for the rest of us, though .....

Black is back
This entire series of re releases has been great but the highlight for me has to be Black Celebration.
As most fans fave DM release, it has certainly stood the test of time and just goes to show how original the lads really were.
Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller took a long time to produce and mix the album but the end result was worth the wait as the sounds still work well and the atmosphere that was created has not been lessened by time.

Standout tracks besides the singles are the title track, as well as Fly on the windscreen which was rescued from the b side of Its called a heart, and given a shot in the arm. Also stunning are the ballads that Martin sings. The 5:1 remix, like all the others gives a completely new take on the album and sounds totally different to the CD version, a real treat for the ears.

The Documentary is real bonus as it is almost an hour long as apposed to the other albums that are app 30 mins, and has some stunning footage of the 86 world tour, (wouldnt it be great to have it released in its entirity on DVD, hint, hint) as well as studio footage of the making of BC and behind the scenes clips from the relevant videos.

A must buy for fans and newcomers to the band.