Speak & Spell (album)

Speak & Spell
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LP by Depeche Mode
Released 1981
Recorded Blackwing Studios, London.
Genre Synth pop, New Wave
Length 44 min 58 s
Record label Mute Records
Producer Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller
Professional reviews
Allmusic.com 4 stars out of 5 link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hq63tr69kl4x)
Depeche Mode Chronology
Speak & Spell
(1981)
A Broken Frame
(1982)

For the game of the same name by Texas Instruments see Speak & Spell (game)

Speak and Spell is Depeche Mode's first album. It was released in 1981. This is the only album with Vince Clarke on board (having also written most of the songs), before he left to work with other bands such as Yazoo and Erasure.

Contents

Track Listing

UK LP

  1. "New Life" (3:43)
  2. "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead" (2:14)
  3. "Puppets" (3:55)
  4. "Boys Say Go!" (3:03)
  5. "Nodisco" (4:11)
  6. "What's Your Name?" (2:41)
  7. "Photographic" (4:44)
  8. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (4:34)
  9. "Big Muff" (4:20)
  10. "Any Second Now (Voices)" (2:35)
  11. "Just Can't Get Enough" (3:40)

US LP/CD

  1. "New Life" (3:56)
  2. "Puppets" (3:57)
  3. "Dreaming of Me" (3:42)
  4. "Boys Say Go!" (3:04)
  5. "Nodisco" (4:13)
  6. "What's Your Name?" (2:41)
  7. "Photographic" (4:58)
  8. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (4:24)
  9. "Big Muff" (4:21)
  10. "Any Second Now (Voices)" (2:33)
  11. "Just Can't Get Enough" (6:41)

UK CD (with Bonus Tracks)

  • * denotes bonus track
  1. "New Life" (3:46)
  2. "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead" (2:18)
  3. "Puppets" (3:58)
  4. "Boys Say Go!" (3:07)
  5. "Nodisco" (4:15)
  6. "What's Your Name?" (2:45)
  7. "Photographic" (4:44)
  8. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (4:37)
  9. "Big Muff" (4:24)
  10. "Any Second Now (Voices)" (2:35)
  11. "Just Can't Get Enough" (3:44)
  12. * "Dreaming of Me" (4:03) [this version does not fade out]
  13. * "Ice Machine" (4:05) [this version does not fade out]
  14. * "Shout!" (3:46)
  15. * "Any Second Now" (3:08)
  16. * "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" (6:44)

For all versions, all songs were written by Vince Clarke, except for "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff", written by Martin Gore.

Singles

  1. "Dreaming of Me" *
  2. "New Life"
  3. "Just Can't Get Enough"
  • * The first of several Depeche Mode singles not to be included on an album release until its inclusion on later editions of Speak & Spell (as a bonus track) and on The Singles (81-85).

Personnel

pl:Speak and Spell

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