A thread for the Depeche Mode reissues

but apparently no: it's "their first-ever best-of collection" (hmm: still all singles, though, which makes it, what, their fourth singles collection?) and has a NEW TRACK, called "martyr", that i'm about to listen to in the next couple of seconds.

tracklisting etc is in the link above. i know it's not a reissue as such but this seemed the best thread for it.

mrs fiendish has just hoyed in and said: "it sounds like every other depeche mode song ever" but she's completely and utterly wrong there.

is it like 'but not tonight'? or not quite that jaunty?

Construction Time Again:

1. Disc One: SACD Love in Itself (4:27)
2. More Than a Party (4:30)
3. Pipeline (6:08)
4. Everything Counts (4:24)
5. Two Minute Warning (4:10)
6. Shame (3:50)
7. The Landscape Is Changing (4:46)
8. Told You So (4:25)
9. And Then... (5:40)
10. Everything Counts (Long Version) (7:23)

* Disc Two: DVD Entire Album in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo
* Bonus Tracks in PCM Stereo
1. Get The Balance Right
2. Great Outdoors
3. Work Hard
4. Fools
5. Get The Balance Right (Combination Mix)
6. Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts)
7. Love In Itself 4
* A Short Film - Depeche Mode 1983: Teenagers Growing Up, Bad Government and All That Stuff

Black Celebration:

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

* Disc Two: DVD Entire Album in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo
* Bonus Tracks in PCM Stereo
1. Live In Birmingham, 1986 Black Celebration
2. Question Of Time
3. Stripped
* Additional Bonus Tracks
1. Shake The Disease
2. Flexible
3. It's Called A Heart
4. Fly On The Windscreen
5. But Not Tonight
6. Breathing In Fumes
7. Black Day
8. Christmas Island
* A Short Film - Depeche Mode 1985-86: The Songs Aren't Good Enough, There Aren't Any Singles

Ultra

1. Disc One: SACD Barrel of a Gun (5:35)
2. The Love Thieves (6:34)
3. Home (5:42)
4. It's No Good (5:58)
5. Uselink (2:21)
6. Useless (5:12)
7. Sister of Night (6:04)
8. Jazz Thieves (2:54)
9. Freestate (6:43)
10. The Bottom Line (4:26)
11. Insight (6:26)
12. Junior Painkiller (Unlisted) (2:09)

* Disc Two: DVD Entire Album in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo
* Bonus Tracks in PCM Stereo
1. Live In London, 1997 Barrel Of A Gun
2. It's No Good
3. Useless
* Additional Bonus Tracks
1. Painkiller
2. Slowblow
3. Only When I Lose Myself
4. Surrender
5. Headstar
* Short Film - Depeche Mode 1995-1998

Exciter:

1. Disc One: SACD Dream On (4:19)
2. Shine (5:32)
3. The Sweetest Condition (3:42)
4. When the Body Speaks (6:01)
5. The Dead of Night (4:50)
6. Lovetheme (2:02)
7. Freelove (6:10)
8. Comatose (3:24)
9. I Feel Loved (4:20)
10. Breathe (5:17)
11. Easy Tiger (2:05)
12. I Am You (5:10)
13. Goodnight Lovers (3:48)

* Disc Two: DVD Entire Album in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo
* Bonus Tracks in PCM Stereo
1. Live In Paris, 2001 Dead Of Night
2. Sweetest Condition
3. Dream On
4. When The Body Speaks
5. Breathe
6. Freelove
* Additional Bonus Tracks
1. Easy Tiger (Full Version)
2. Dirt
3. Zensation
4. When The Body Speaks (Acoustic)
* Short Film - Depeche Mode 1999-2002

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In sum part of me is still disappointed in this reissue series compared to the Cure one -- relatively few actual new or rare tracks featured for a start. Still, the mega-documentary that the DVDs have created is enjoyable, and it's nice to have these in a final definitive CD version before that format starts to slip away. I am kinda glad, though, that I've never had to pay for any of the reissues so far, relying instead on Amoeba credit for used copies...

On to the other piece you slippedd in there about, "it's nice to have these in a final definitive CD version before that format starts to slip away," I think you just started a whole new thread there. There probably already is a thread or one million pieces of a thread spread across other threads, but do you think the record industry is heading towards abandoning the cd format? All downloads? No physical form for releases (cause you know majors aren't going to revert to vinyl)? And why did I read that the music industry actually had total higher sales last year that 2005 but since a much higher percent was from paid downloads, "they" still weren't happy because downloads aren't as profitable as physical album sales (or somesuch)? How could that be possible? Where are we headed Ned?

The Data Migration Thread

So that might be where to turn for further discussion. Where we're headed? Honestly, no idea -- the way I see it, reissues like these are kinda the deluxe 'here's as good as it gets' variant on CDs as such. Depeche wisely are hedging their bets via the complete back catalog on iTunes, just to get that out of the way. And while I was snarking on this in its separate thread, there is actually a chunk of stuff on there which is as yet ungathered in physical form which I do want, so I'll post that here:

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Singles Box Set 7 - DMBX7
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X01. - I Feel Loved (Single Version) (3.41)
X02. - Dirt (Single Version) (5.00)
X03. - I Feel Loved (Extended Instrumental) (8.28)
X04. - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenaglia's Labor Of Love Edit) (7.59)
X05. - I Feel Loved (Thomas Brinkmann Mix) (5.29)
X06. - I Feel Loved (Chamber's Remix) (6.16)
X07. - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenaglia's Labor Of Love Dub) (12.07)
X08. - I Feel Loved (Umek Mix) (4.58)
X09. - Freelove (Flood Mix) (4.03)
X10. - Zenstation (6.26)
X11. - Zenstation (Atom's Stereonerd Remix) (5.36)
X12. - Freelove (Bertrand Burgalat Version) (5.30)
X13. - Freelove (Schlammpeitziger "Little Rocking Suction Pump Version") (6.53)
X14. - Freelove (DJ Muggs Remix) (4.24)
X15. - Freelove (Console Remix) (4.44)
X16. - Breathe (Live) (5.36)
X17. - The Dead Of Night (Live) (5.11)
X18. - Goodnight Lovers (3.50)
X19. - When The Body Speaks (Acoustic Version) (6.02)
X20. - The Dead Of Night (Electronicat Remix) (7.38)
X21. - Goodnight Lovers (Isan Falling Leaf Mix) (5.53)
X22. - Enjoy The Silence (Reinterpreted by Mike Shinoda) (3.33)
X23. - Halo (Goldfrapp Remix) (4.24)
X24. - Enjoy The Silence (Timo Maas Extended Remix) (8.45)
X25. - Enjoy The Silence (Ewan Pearson Remix (Radio Edit)) (3.34)
X26. - Something To Do (Black Strobe Remix) (7.15)
X27. - Enjoy The Silence (Richard X Extended Mix) (8.25)
X28. - Enjoy The Silence (Ewan Pearson Extended Remix) (8.39)
X29. - World In My Eyes (Cicada Remix) (6.19)
X30. - Mercy In You (The BRAT Mix) (7.04)
X31. - Photographic (Rex The Dog Dubb Mix) (6.23)
X32. - Clean (Colder Version) (7.12)
X33. - Little 15 (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) (4.58)
X34. - Precious (4.10)
X35. - Precious (Sasha's Spooky Mix) (Single Edit) (5.46)
X36. - Precious (Sasha's Gargantuan Vocal Mix) (Full Length) (9.46)
X37. - Precious (Misc Full Vocal Mix) (5.43)
X38. - Free (5.12)
X39. - Precious (Motor Remix) (6.37)
X40. - Precious (Michael Mayer Ambient Mix) (3.39)
X41. - Precious (Sasha's Spooky Mix (Full Length)) (10.36)
X42. - Precious (Michael Mayer Balearic Mix) (7.20)
X43. - Precious (Misc Crunch Mix) (6.55)
X44. - A Pain That I'm Used To (4.13)
X45. - Newborn (5.34)
X46. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Jacques Lu Cont Remix) (7.55)
X47. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Jacques Lu Cont Dub) (8.02)
X48. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Goldfrapp Remix) (4.43)
X49. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Bitstream Spansule Mix) (7.26)
X50. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Telex Remix) (3.28)
X51. - Newborn (Foster Remix By Kettel) (5.29)
X52. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Bitstream Threshold Mix) (6.10)

Singles Box Set 8 - DMBX8
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Y01. - Suffer Well (3.52)
Y02. - Better Days (2.28)
Y03. - Suffer Well (Tiga Remix) (6.30)
Y04. - Suffer Well (Narcotic Thrust Vocal Dub) (6.44)
Y05. - Suffer Well (Alter Ego Remix) (6.09)
Y06. - Suffer Well (M83 Remix) (4.33)
Y07. - Suffer Well (Metope Vocal Remix) (6.29)
Y08. - Suffer Well (Metope Remix) (6.53)
Y09. - Suffer Well (Alter Ego Dub) (8.49)
Y10. - Better Days (Basteroid 'Dance Is Gone' Vocal Mix) (7.12)
Y11. - The Darkest Star (Monolake Remix) (5.43)
Y12. - Suffer Well (Tiga Dub) (5.32)
Y13. - The Darkest Star (Holden Remix) (7.48)
Y14. - The Darkest Star (Holden Dub) (7.59)
Y15. - John The Revelator (Single Version) (3.19)
Y16. - Lilian (Single Version) (3.35)
Y17. - John The Revelator (Dave Is In The Disco Tiefshwarz Remix) (7.54)
Y18. - John The Revelator (Murk Mode Remix) (7.16)
Y19. - John The Revelator (UNKLE Re Construction) (5.02)
Y20. - John The Revelator (Boosta Club Remix) (4.50)
Y21. - John The Revelator (Tiefschwarz Dub) (8.13)
Y22. - Nothing's Impossible (Bare) (4.05)
Y23. - Lilian (Chab Vocal Remix) (9.07)
Y24. - John The Revelator (UNKLE Dub) (5.49)
Y25. - Lilian (Robag Wruhme Slomoschen Kikker) (3.46)
Y26. - Lilian (Chab Dub) (7.12)
Y27. - John The Revelator (Murk Mode Dub) (8.36)
Y28. - Martyr (Single Version) (3.21)
Y29. - Martyr (Booka Shade Full Vocal Mix Edit) (6.22)
Y30. - Martyr (Paul Van Dyk Remix Edit) (7.18)
Y31. - Martyr (Alex Smoke Gravel Mix) (6.40)
Y32. - Never Let Me Down Again (Digitalism Remix) (4.38
Y33. - Martyr (Dreher & S.M. Art B.N. Reload Remix (5.19
Y34. - Martyr (Booka Shade Travel Mix) (6.20)
Y35. - Martyr (Booka Shade Dub Mix) (8.17)
Y36. - Personal Jesus (Boys Noize Rework) (6.53
Y37. - Everything Counts (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin Dub) (6.53)
Y38. - People Are People (Underground Resistance Remix) (7.22)

Digital Only Remixes
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Z01. - Enjoy The Silence (Richard X Mix) (3.32)
Z02. - Something To Do (Black Strobe Alternative Mix) (8.27)
Z03. - Photographic (Rex The Dog Faithful Mix) (4.42)
Z04. - Enjoy The Silence (Timo Maas Instrumental) (8.44)
Z05. - Enjoy The Silence (Ewan Pearson Extended Instrumental) (8.36)
Z06. - Precious (Calderone & Quayle Damaged Club Mix) (12.09)
Z07. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Telex Club Mix) (5.53)
Z08. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Telex Remix 2) (3.29)
Z09. - A Pain That I'm Used To (Radio Version) (3.27)
Z10. - Suffer Well (M83 Instrumental) (4.34)
Z11. - John The Revelator (Bill Hamel's Audio Magnetics Club Remix) (7.49)
Z12. - John The Revelator (Bill Hamel's Audio Magnetics Dub) (7.49)
Z13. - John The Revelator (Bill Hamel's Audio Magnetics Edit) (4.43)
Z14. - John The Revelator (Boosta Edit) (3.58)
Z15. - John The Revelator (James T. Cotton Dub) (6.04)
Z16. - John The Revelator (Murk Miami Remix) (9.20)
Z17. - John The Revelator (Tiefschwarz Edit) (3.57)
Z18. - John The Revelator (UNKLE Edit) (3.19)
Z19. - John The Revelator (UNKLE Instrumental) (5.03)

Previously Unreleased Rehearsal Recordings and Rare Acoustic Performances
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[01. - John The Revelator (New York Rehearsal) (3.40)
[02. - Walking In My Shoes (New York Rehearsal) (6.11)
[03. - Home (New York Rehearsal) (5.31)
[04. - The Sinner In Me (New York Rehearsal) (5.01)
[05. - Suffer Well (New York Rehearsal) (3.36)
[06. - I Feel You (New York Rehearsal) (7.04)
[07. - Goodnight Lovers (New York Rehearsal) (4.02)
[08. - Clean (Bare) (3.44)
[09. - Surrender (Bare) (4.04)
[10. - Waiting For The Night (Bare) (4.22)
[11. - Nothing's Impossible (Bare) (4.05)

Rare Early Live Performances
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1. - My Secret Garden (Live in Hammersmith) (7.28)
2. - See You (Live In Hammersmith) (4.10)
3. - Satellite (Live In Hammersmith) (4.28)
4. - Tora! Tora! Tora! (Live In Hammersmith) (4.03)
5. - New Life (Live In Hammersmith) (4.12)
6. - Boys Say Go! (Live In Hammersmith) (2.36)
7. - Nothing To Fear (Live In Hammersmith) (4.28)
8. - The Meaning of Love (Live In Hammersmith) (3.17)
9. - Just Can't Get Enough (Live in Hammersmith) (5.36)
\10. - A Photograph of You (Live In Hammersmith) (3.22)
\11. - Shout (Live In Hammersmith) (4.49)
\12. - Photographic (Live In Hammersmith) (3.48)
\13. - Somebody (Live in Liverpool) (4.27)
\14. - Two Minute Warning (Live In Liverpool) (4.36)
\15. - Told You So (Live In Liverpool) (4.56)
\16. - Ice Machine (Live In Liverpool) (3.45)
\17. - Everything Counts (Live In Liverpool) (5.45)
\18. - Master And Servant (Live In Basel) (5.40)
\19. - People Are People (Live In Basel) (4.23)
\20. - If You Want (Live in Basel) (5.15)
\21. - Shame (Live in Basel) (4.11)
\22. - Blasphemous Rumours (Live In Basel) (5.30)

Rare, Deleted & Promo Only Remixes
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]01. - People Are People (ON-Usound Remix) (7.32)
]02. - Are People People? (4.28)
]03. - Master And Servant (Black And Blue Mix) (8.04)
]04. - (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me (US 12" Mix) (8.01)
]05. - Flexible (Pre-Deportation Mix) (4.42)
]06. - It's Called A Heart (Slow Mix) (4.49)
]07. - It's Called A Heart (Emotion Mix) (6.51)
]08. - It's Called A Heart (Emotion Dub) (5.31)
]09. - But Not Tonight (Margouleff US 12" Mix) (5.14)
]10. - But Not Tonight (Margouleff Dance Mix) (6.07)
]11. - A Question Of Lust (Flood Remix) (5.10)
]12. - Route 66/Behind the Wheel (Mega Single Mix) (4.21)
]13. - Route 66/Behind the Wheel (Megamix) (7.51)
]14. - Route 66/Behind the Wheel (Megadub) (6.16)
]15. - Little 15 (Bogus Brothers Mix) (6.10)
]16. - Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix) (4.17)
]17. - World In My Eyes (Daniel Miller Mix) (4.39)
]18. - Walking In My Shoes (Random Carpet Mix (Full Length)) (8.36)
]19. - Slowblow (Mad Professor Mix) (5.24)
]20. - Rush (Black Sun Remix) (6.02)
]21. - It's No Good (Club 69 Future Mix) (8.39)
]22. - Dream On (Morel's Pink Noise Club Mix) (7.44)
]23. - Dream On (Pink Noise Dub) (7.02)
]24. - Dream On (The BRAT Mix) (8.27)
]25. - Dream On (Morel's Pink Is Waiting Mix) (4.58)
]26. - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenaglia's Labor Of Love Mix) (14.13)
]27. - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenagalia's Labor Of Love Instrumental) (13.44)
]28. - Freelove (Deep Dish Freedom Remix) (11.46)
]29. - Freelove (Deep Dish Freedom Dub) (11.17)
]30. - Freelove (Dave Bascombe Mix) (4.06)
]31. - Freelove (Powder Productions Mix) (8.09)
]32. - Freelove (Josh Wink Dub) (8.51)
]33. - Nothing (Headcleanr Rock Mix) (3.31)
]34. - Lie To Me ('The Pleasure Of Her Private Shame' Remix By LFO) (6.35)
]35. - Precious (DJ Dan's 4am Mix) (9.54)
]36. - Precious (DJ Dan's 6am Mix) (9.52)
]37. - Martyr (Paul Van Dyk Radio Mix) (3.38)
]38. - Martyr (Paul Van Dyk Vonyc Lounge Mix) (7.04)
]39. - Martyr (Paul Van Dyk Dub Mix) (10.19)
]40. - Martyr (Paul Van Dyk Remix) (10.19)
]41. - Everything Counts (Troy Pierce Shadows Remix) (5.59)

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Now personally I'll wait on singles sets 7 and 8 in actual form -- no matter what I do with my CD collection over the years, some stuff I'll keep the way it is and Depeche will be one of those acts. But the rest of this I'll snag as I can if, as I presume, they're not going to release it in any other format any time soon.

This = awesome, btw.

Actually there is some word about that -- apparently you're only supposed to be able to buy the whole set and not individual songs or sets, which is annoying. (Even more annoying is that this is Mute's policy, not Apple's.) This is however apparently still being talked about behind the scenes.

I want to hear this.

Ultra and Exciter finally out and got 'em the other day. And with that final step, I was able to do something which I had hoped would be the case -- get all the reissues for free thanks to dumping promo discs at Amoeba. A more than fair exchange.

STILL WORKING MY WAY THROUGH THE DIGITAL BOX SET!!!

Nothing wrong with that.

Oh, doubtless. It's just a LOT of music to chew through.

I have yet to invest in "Exciter". Completely pointless as a remaster (after all, what exactly is there to be done with a 2002 recording?), but I guess I will buy it for the documentary and the new surround mixes.

these dvds that come with the reissues are just fantastic aren't they? the early days studio stuff is adorable! i like how they give Daniel Miller and the other key label/production/tour crew bigwigs their due as opposed to the usual round of celebs banging on about what the record means to them and suchlike. some day all reissues would be made this way. a minor gripe is the lack of demos and stuff like you get with The Cure but you can't have everything.

this is as good a place as any to talk about the new remix box set

M83 are terribad remixers here btw

ha so no one besides me got this I guess

Even I didn't. At least, not yet.

tbh it was worth it just to get "Happiest Girl (The Pulsating Orbital Vocal Mix)" on CD (the version on "World In My Eyes" was an instrumental)

it's all on Spotify by the way.

that would be helpful to me if Spotify was available in the US

also trying to figure out why I never heard the Trentemoller Club Remix of "Wrong" before picking this up

Huh. I got it but apparently I haven't listened to it yet. In the queue!

you know what is an underrated album, is Exciter

slowly but surely i am getting the basic single cd remastered editions.
today i found remastered edition of 'violater' for a coin in a charity shop.
not so sure i need 'ultra' to be replaced as i think the original sounds perfectly fine, but should the chance arise then of course i will succumb.
the only other remastered edition i really need of the cds i already have is 'black celebration', however, the edition i have has extra tracks on it (breathing in fumes, but not tonight(ext), black day).
such a shame they did not add extras to the remasters.
that said, i kind of like the fact they stuck to the original albums.
i mean my first exposure to MFTM was on cassette, which had a ton of extras, and what i would give to have that edition available on remastered cd now.

black celebration dvd is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; the docu is *an hour* long and features among other treats; The Cure and the the Mode hiding in a van during a riot.

ultra came out during a period when CDs sounded pretty good, i think. pre-loudness wars, post-"oops got rid of the hi hat". like those great sounding byrds reissues that came around 97/98, i kind of remember those being the first 60s rock reissues that sounded really great and were inexpensive + easy to get. maybe i'm wrong/too young, tho

The original CD issue of Music for the Masses had bonus tracks too, if I recall ('Agent Orange', 'To Have and To Hold (Spanish Taster)', 'Never Let Me Down (Aggro Mix)', a remix of 'Pleasure, Little Treasure' etc.) - I think it was a bit of a ploy by Mute to get people to buy the CD version... same with Erasure's The Innocents which had a couple of bonus tracks on both the cassette and CD versions ('When I Needed You (Melancholy Mix)' and their version of 'River Deep, Mountain High') ...

ultra came out during a period when CDs sounded pretty good, i think. pre-loudness wars, post-"oops got rid of the hi hat"

yeah otm. I mean, I figure it's partially based on what age I was at the time (imagine it sounds dated to a lot of people younger than me), but I love a lot of the way late 90's stuff was produced, before all the squashing. really crisp and clear. Ultra is one of the best-produced albums ever imo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pSozvePvdek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2G7YY8Zr88

Start the tape!

Love the modernized trailer.

I've been watching the various documentaries that came out with the 2006 reissues and occasionally Fletch comes across as the most colossal POS, I don't know much about the inner dynamics of the band, does he have that reputation?

I remember hearing that what eventually drove Alan Wilder out of the band was his indignation that Fletch took the same share of the band's profits, while making no musical contribution whatsoever