Greatest Hits (Depeche Mode album)
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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Recorded | April 1983 – January 1986 | |||
| Length | 49:17 | |||
| Label | Amiga | |||
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Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released in 1987 by Amiga. It was released exclusively in East Germany on LP and cassette.
Background and release
[edit]Depeche Mode had acquired a fanbase in East Germany from illegal recordings and their performances behind the Iron Curtain starting in 1985,[1] and Greatest Hits was their first legally available release in the GDR.[2] Their UK label, Mute Records, worked with Intercord and Amiga Records in West and East Germany to produce an official release for East Germany.[3] There was only an agreement for a single release, and limited funds available, so they jointly decided to release a twelve-track greatest hits LP.[4] Only 15,000 copies were pressed, and the cover was a slightly altered version of the cover used for The Singles 81→85 (1985) / Catching Up with Depeche Mode (1985).[4]
Amiga released the album on LP (catalogue number 8 56 260) and cassette (0 56 260).[5] Specially-printed copies for exclusive use of VEB Deutsche Schallplatte were also printed.[4] The master plates used to create the pressing were found in a scrapyard in 2006.[4]
Track listing
[edit]Source for this section:[4]
- Side 1
- "Shake the Disease" – 4:45
- "A Question of Lust" – 4:24
- "It's Called a Heart" – 3:45
- "Blasphemous Rumours" – 5:06
- "Everything Counts" – 3:57
- "People Are People" – 3:43
- Side 2
- "Master and Servant" – 3:50
- "Something to Do" – 3:44
- "Stripped" – 4:13
- "Here Is the House" – 4:16
- "It Doesn't Matter" – 4:45
- "It Doesn't Matter Two" – 2:49
References
[edit]- ↑ Deboick, Sophia (16 March 2014). "Western Pop In The Eastern Bloc: Depeche Mode – Monument". The Quietus. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ↑ Spice, Anton (21 July 2017). "The making of Marcel Dettmann: 10 records that shaped the techno producer's East German childhood". thevinylfactory.com. The Vinyl Factory. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ↑ Burmeister & Lange 2017, p. 379.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Burmeister & Lange 2017, p. 380.
- ↑ Burmeister & Lange 2017, pp. 380–381.
- Burmeister, Dennis; Lange, Sascha (2017). Depeche Mode: Monument. New York: Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-61775-593-4.
