Depeche Mode – Black Celebration

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Label:	Mute – INT 146.818, Mute – Stumm 26
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Misprint, Stereo, Grey
Country:	Germany
Released:	Mar 17, 1986
Genre:	Electronic, Pop
Style:	Synth-pop

Tracklist

A1	Black Celebration	4:57
A2	Fly On The Windscreen - Final	5:20
A3	A Question Of Lust	4:23
A4	Sometimes	1:55
A5	It Doesn't Matter Two	2:52
B1	A Question Of Time	4:10
B2	Stripped	4:18
B3	Here Is The House	4:17
B4	World Full Of Nothing	2:49
B5	Dressed In Black	2:35
B6	New Dress	3:44

Companies, etc.

Marketed By – Intercord Ton GmbH
Manufactured By – Intercord Ton GmbH
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mute Records
Copyright © – Mute Records
Published By – Grabbing Hands
Published By – Sonet
Recorded At – Westside Studios
Recorded At – Hansa Tonstudios
Mixed At – Westside Studios
Mixed At – Hansa Tonstudios
Designed At – T&CP Associates
Pressed By – Sonopress – B-4425

Credits

Artwork [Covergestaltung] – D. A: Jones*, M. Higenbottam*, M. Atkins*
Engineer [Assistant] – Peter Schmidt, Richard Sullivan
Mastered By – Tim Young
Performer [Depeche Mode....] – Alan Wilder, Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan*, Martin Gore*
Photography By – Brian Griffin (3)
Photography By [Assistant] – Stuart Graham (3)
Producer – Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones
Recorded By – Dave Allen* (tracks: A2)
Recorded By [Assistant] – Phil Tennant (tracks: A2)
Written-By – M.L. Gore*

Notes

Track B5 on Cover: " Dressed In Black", on Label: "Dressed Is Black" (see Pictures)

Programmed at Worldwide International.
Recorded & mixed at Westside, London & Hansa, Berlin except "Fly on the Windscreen" recorded at Genetic, re-mixed at Hansa, Berlin.

[labels]
All songs published by Sonet Publishing Ltd.

℗ & © 1986 Mute Records Ltd.
Marketed by Intercord Ton GmbH, Licensee.
Printed in W. Germany
Second cat.nr. in brackets on backcover and on the label (where it appears as ''Stumm 26'').
First cat.nr. on spine, label and backcover.

Released in an embossed cover with a sticker announcing the coloured vinyl and printed sleeve with lyrics.
Direct Metal Mastering.

Manufactured by Intercord Ton GmbH, Stuttgart, Licensee.
Covergestaltung at T+CP London.

Some copies were released with a sticker with German tourdates.

German editions of this LP with same cat#:
1. 1986 Black vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man")
2. 1986 Black vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man") - edition with printed autographs on front cover
3. 1986 Grey vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking Man") (this one)
4. 1987 Black vinyl, Mute logo 1 ("Walking man")
5. 1990 Black vinyl, repress with Mute logo 3 ("M")
6. 1990 Grey vinyl, repress with Mute logo 3 ("M")
7. Grey vinyl, repress with Mute logo 3 ("M") side A and Mute logo 1 ("Walking man") side B

Later issued with cat# - INT 136.809:
1993 Black vinyl with Mute logo 3 ("M")

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Scanned): 4006751468188
Barcode (Text): 4 006751 468188
Label Code: LC 5834
Rights Society (Boxed): GEMA
Pressing Plant ID (Embossed on side B label): Bass clef
Other (Direct Metal Mastering): DMM
Other (Cat# CD): 846.818
Other (Cat# MC): 446.818
Matrix / Runout (Label A): DMM B-4425 A
Matrix / Runout (Label B): DMM B-4425 B
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): DMM B-4425 A-1/3-86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): DMM B-4425 B-2/3-86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): DMM B-4425 A-2/3-86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): DMM B-4425 B-1/3-86 S III
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): DMM B-4425 A-1/3-86 S
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): DMM B-4425 B-1/3-86 S III
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): DMM B-4425 A-3/5 - 87 C II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S III
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, variant 5): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S III
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S IV
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 7): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 8): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S III
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 8): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 9): DMM B-4425 A-1/3-86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 9): DMM B-4425 B-1/3-86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 10): DMM B-4425 A-1/3 - 86 S
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 10): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 11): DMM B-4425 A-2/3-86 S II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 11): DMM B-4425 B-1/3 - 86 S IV

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	Black Celebration (CD, Album, MPO)	Mute	CD STUMM 26	UK	1986
Recently Edited	Black Celebration (LP, Album, Embossed Cover, Specialty Pressing)	Sire, Mute, Sire	9 25429-1, 1-25429	US	1986
Recently Edited	Black Celebration (LP, Album, Stereo, Lyntone Pressing, Embossed Cover)	Mute	STUMM 26	UK	1986
Recently Edited	Black Celebration (Cassette, Album, Reissue, AR, Clear)	Sire, Sire, Mute, Mute	4-25429, 9 25429-4	US	1986
Recently Edited	Black Celebration (CD, Album)	Mute, Mute	INT 846.818, CD STUMM 26	Germany	1986

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Reviews

rush4you Feb 3, 2013
Yeah, may the best album, but this grey vinyl just looks cool,but doesn't..Grey and DMM, but it's a useless release.Sound quality is weak, it has really thin sound.Not recommended, only if you collect colored vinyls.
djmushroom Mar 31, 2011
This was one of the big records of my teenage years. You probably know about growing up in the 80s, dressing all in black, sniffing mama's nail polisher while reading Baudelaire, cultivating world-weary melancholy...
Listening to it again after all those years not only do i surprise myself by still knowing all the lyrics by heart but the music is still holding up too. Some of the stuff i can appreciate even more today: the amazing arrangements, the great harmony singing (check out the Beach Boyish vocals in "Sometimes"!), the blend of proto-techno electronic sounds and very traditional songwriting skills (there's even a few acoustic guitars hidden in the mix!)...i can't think of another band that could do all this and still be so incredibly catchy. I mean, they were posterboys of "Bravo" (the leading german teenie mag) back then.
Thematically it's all sex & death of course (the two great attractions of puberty) plus a rather harmless dose of social criticism ("Princess Di is wearing a new dress").
"Black Celebration" is a great album without a single weak song. It all fits together, the music, the grey vinyl, the classy cover design...self-contained perfection.
A shame they had to go to California and become fake rockers soon after that.