The Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1

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Album Description
17 of Depeche Mode's singles from 1981-2005.

Album Description
Import CD/DVD (PAL/Region 0.) Hugely influential and hailed by Q magazine as "the most popular electronic band the world has ever known", Depeche Mode follow 25 incredibly successful years of sublime, superlative electronica with their first ever Best Of collection. Brimming with 17 hit singles that span their incredible and varied career, this eagerly anticipated album also contains the brand new track `Martyr'. Singles include `Just Can't Get Enough', `Everything Counts' `Personal Jesus', `Enjoy The Silence' and `Precious'. All tracks are taken from 11 of the band's studio albums released between 1981 and 2006. One of the most influential groups over the last 25 years, Depeche Mode have inspired generations of new musicians while consolidating their considerable reputation. In the process they have sold over 72 million records and played to audiences in excess of 30 million throughout their remarkable 25-year career. They remain one of the most highly regarded and passionately supported groups in modern music. Mute. 2006.

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4 out of 5 stars

Incomplete overview but lots of great music for the casual (?) DM fan November 20, 2006
19 out of 19 found this review helpful

Music: 5 Stars; Compilation: 3 Stars

Depeche Mode's first album was released 1981, and the band celebrated their 25 years in the music business this year by touring extensively behind last year's "Playing the Angel" album, their 11th studio album. Depeche Mode has issued many, many hit singles over the years which has been compiled in the "Singles 81>85" and "Singles 86>98" compilations. Now comes the very first career-spanning "best of".

"The Best of Depeche Mode, Volume 1" (18 tracks; 74 min.) tries to capture the essence of the band, and indeed a lot of great music is on here: "Personal Jesus", "Emjoy the Silence", "People Are People" and many other hits are on here. There are 3 songs from the most recent 2 albums ("Dream On", "Suffer Well" and "Precious") and one new song, an okay "Martyr" (from the "Playing the Angel" sessions.) Two issues: (1) the music suffers from not being sequenced chronologically: from "See You" straight into "It's No Good"? Not good!; (2) There are a LOT of equally essential hits that are missing. Just to name a few: "Policy of Truth", "Barrell of a Gun", "World In My Eyes", "Leave in Silence", "Get the Balance Right", "It's Called a Heart" and on and on...

The question then is who this compilations is intended for. Surely the more devoted DM fans will not be very interested in this (just buy "Martyr" as a single or as a download). So it's for the casual Depeche Mode fan, who just wants to have the best-known songs in one place. This assumes there are many casual DM fans... As mentioned already, there are a lot of hits missing, but teasingly this compilation is subtitled "Volume 1" so at some point this will be corrected (presumably with the inclusion again of one new track).

3 out of 5 stars

Get the version with bonus DVD December 24, 2006
12 out of 16 found this review helpful

Search for Amazon product ID B000IU3Y1O to find the version which also comes
with a DVD containing the following videos:

Just Can't Get Enough - NEW to DVD
Everything Counts - NEW to DVD
People Are People - NEW to DVD
Master And Servant - NEW to DVD
Shake The Disease - NEW to DVD
Stripped
A Question Of Time
Strangelove
Never Let Me Down Again
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Enjoy The Silence
I Feel You
Walking In My Shoes
Barrel Of A Gun
It's No Good
Only When I Lose Myself
Dream On - NEW to DVD
I Feel Loved - NEW to DVD
Enjoy The Silence 04 (Mike Shinoda mix) - NEW to DVD
Precious - NEW to DVD
Suffer Well - NEW to DVD

1 out of 5 stars

Pointless December 10, 2006
7 out of 13 found this review helpful

Depeche Mode released two greatest hits albums a couple years back. They were good and very complete. They have only released two studio albums since then and not even all of the singles from those albums appear on this collection. The "new" song is just a leftover from last years album. Terrible.

5 out of 5 stars

A Good Compiliation That Was Handled With Care November 18, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

The problem with Best Ofs, especially single disc offerings from bands with a long career, is the fact that some really great songs are dropped in favor of some not as great songs. The fact that there is a volume 1 next to the name makes the fact that some songs that should be on here, like Blasphemous Rumors, a lot easier to accept.

However, this, like all Best Ofs, isn't aimed for the established fan. It's aimed for the neophyte, and a different set of standards has to be used.

First off, all of the big songs are accounted for here. So the songs that people who don't listen to Depeche Mode but would be aware of are presented here. Secondly, is the album a good listen. And it is. Now, some may complain that the singles aren't presented in chronological order, but for Depeche Mode, it really helps the cause to show that they were a consistently great band. The fact that early, bright, poppy singles like "Just Can't Get Enough" can hold their own against the later, more mature singles like "Personal Jesus" only emphasizes the growth and their initial greatness.

For the old fans of Depeche Mode, what is here to entice you? Well first off, the tracks from Playing the Angel have been remastered. In case you didn't hear Playing the Angel, it was a really good album that was mastered very poorly - the CD was mastered too hottly, giving the album a very muddy sound. Now, the two songs from that album sound a lot cleaner and has a much moodier atmosphere than a muddy one.

And Martyr, the new single, is a fun song that shows the band still has life in them.

4 out of 5 stars

Great Overview November 16, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

While there are other singles compilations, this is the only one
to truly encompass their entire career. Most of the selections are
dead on, for a "volume 1" it's to be expected that some songs would
be missing. Surprisingly, there aren't any Martin Gore sang songs
on this disc. Also, nothing from Black Celebration. I think they
could have swapped Leave In Silence for See You and made this better,
as LIS is the better song from A Broken Frame. Also, I probably would
have put Condemnation rather than I Feel You here as it is truly one of
their best songs ever. Dave's voice was so harsh at the time from the
lifestyle he was leading, and his voice and the song go together to create
a truly amazing moment in time. That said, needing a Martin Gore vocal on
this disc, and I agree that It's No Good deserves to be here, (Home is
probably their biggest hit with Martin singing,) so maybe they could have
dug out one of the live versions of Condemnation when Martin sang it (due
to Dave's voice being shot at the time.) That would have made this a
true "must have" for D-Mode fans. As it is, it's nice to have when we
don't have access to our MP3 players or multidisc cd/dvd players. It
replaced Tool's 10,000 Days in my car, which in turn replaced Playing the
Angel in my puter's CD Rom drive. Yes, I have them in MP3s, but sometimes
you just want to hear the album as an album. And if that is the case for
you as well, then this is a great album to get. Give it to your niece,
nephew, cousin, child or step-child and let this be their introduction to
one of the longest lasting yet still relevant bands around. As for you,
longtime D-Mode fan, puts this somewhere where you'll always be able to
hear it at a moments notice, and take a trip through a great career that
seems to have refound its footing and is dug in for the long haul.

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