
Formed in 1981, Depeche Mode - Dave Gahan, Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher and Martin Gore - have spent over 400 combined weeks on the UK charts and continue to win critical acclaim across the world. Depeche Mode also rank number 98 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. All tracks are taken from 11 of the band's studio albums released between 19. Q magazine calls Depeche Mode "the most popular electronic band the world has ever known" and included the band in the list of the "50 Bands That Changed the World!". Depeche Mode have to this day sold over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the most commercially successful electronic bands and one of the world's best-selling music artists in the world. The release of Exciter confirmed Depeche Mode's willingness to remain together, the subsequent, and very successful, Exciter Tour being their first tour in support of an original album in eight years since the Devotional Tour, although the band had toured in 1998 to support The Singles 86–98 compilation album.ĭepeche Mode have had fifty songs in the UK Singles Chart and thirteen top 10 albums in the UK charts, two of which debuted at No. But the reason that’s all the case is because it’s so damn good. Now a trio once again, the band released Ultra in 1997, recorded at the height of Gahan's near-fatal drug abuse, Gore's alcoholism and seizures and Fletcher's depression. Every Depeche Mode fan knew this song would be somewhere on this list, as it’s one of the very few songs that has the trifecta of a) being sung by Gore, b) actually a radio hit, and c) played at pretty much every concert they’ve done since its release. Show all songs by Depeche Mode Popular Depeche Mode albums Video Singles Collection. The subsequent album, Songs Of Faith And Devotion, and the supporting Devotional Tour exacerbated tensions within the band to the point where Alan Wilder quit in 1995, leading to intense media and fan speculation that the band would split. In the new decade, Depeche Mode released Violator, a mainstream success. It was released on 28 September 1987 by Mute Records, and was supported by the Music for the Masses Tour. A highlight of this era was the band's concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, where they drew a crowd in excess of 60,000 people. Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. One of the first acts to establish a musical identity based completely around the use of synthesizers. The band's last albums of the 1980s, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses, established them as a dominant force on the mainstream electronic music scene. Q magazine calls Depeche Mode the most popular electronic band the world has ever known and included the band in the list of the. Pioneering English band Depeche Mode took the underground electronic club sounds of the early '80s and expanded them to stadium-sized levels within a decade, becoming one of the best-selling international groups in the process. Gore took over lead songwriting duties and, later in 1982, Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, occasional songwriter) officially joined the band to fill Clarke's spot, establishing a line up that would continue for the next thirteen years. Clarke left the band after the release of the album, leaving the band as a trio to record A Broken Frame, released the following year. Stream songs including 'Welcome to My World', 'Angel' and more. Depeche Mode released their debut record in 1981, Speak & Spell, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. Listen to Live in Berlin Soundtrack by Depeche Mode on Apple Music. Dicky bow or no dicky bow, Martin Gore must have been thrilled. Stripped finds them examining the effects of industry and technology on the human psyche and not likening what they see. When Depeche Mode gets dark, they don’t do it in a half-hearted way. Seen by the masses on Top Of The Pops in 1982, this casually framed electropop fourth single sounded positively futuristic, but was delivered by a band looking as if they were swanning off to some swanky wine bar after the show. Here’s our pick of the 20 best Depeche Mode songs of all time.

Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andy Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter from 1980 until 1981). Top 40 Depeche Mode Songs 39 See You (1982). List of all songs by Depeche Mode (A-Z) The following is a A-Z list of all songs by Depeche Mode: A Photograph Of You. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals, occasional songwriter since 2005), Martin L. The songs are listed with the most widely successful first.English electronic music band formed March 1980 in Basildon, Essex, and named after a popular French fashion magazine.

This page lists the song chart entries of Depeche Mode.A list of the hit albums by Depeche Mode is also available.
