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 Speak & Spell, released in 1981 through Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the US, is the debut studio album by English Synth-Pop band Depeche Mode. Their first and only album with keyboardist and songwriter Vince Clarke, who departed the following year, the album stands as a significant contrast to the material that the band would later become famous for. Owing to Clarke's personal songwriting preferences, the music on the album is much more minimalistic and bubbly compared to Depeche Mode's later brand of moody Alternative Dance, with Silly Love Songs all throughout the record. Only two songs on Speak & Spell were written by the band's longer-lasting chief songwriter Martin Gore, those being "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff".Regarding the background to the album, Depeche Mode first courted around a number of labels, and in turn were courted by a number of big names in the music industry. However, not wanting to commit to the proposed multi-album contracts, the band turned them all down, eventually settling with nascent indie label Mute Records after grabbing the interest of head Daniel Miller, who had attended one of their gigs. The first result of this was the single "Dreaming of Me", which peaked at number 57 on the UK Singles chart; while this didn't equate to groundbreaking success, it was still big for a band as green as Depeche Mode, encouraging them to record and release the singles "New Life" and "Just Can't Get Enough", each of which were a successively greater success for the band. With "New Life", the band were able to make their first appearance on Top of the Pops, and "Just Can't Get Enough" proved to be the band's Breakthrough Hit in Britain, charting at number 8 on the UK Singles chart and leading to the release of Speak & Spell the following month.Thus was the first chapter in the history of Depeche Mode, one that would veer into a radically different direction just one month after the release of this album thanks to the departure of one heavily disillusioned Vince Clarke. Clarke would later go on to form Yazoo in the immediate aftermath, and then Erasure just two years after that fell through.Speak & Spell produced three singles: "Dreaming of Me" (in the US onlynote the single was released in both the US and the UK, but was only included on the US release of Speak & Spell), "New Life", and "Just Can't Get Enough".Tracklists:UK Mute Records release: Side One "New Life" (3:43) "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead" (2:16) "Puppets" (3:55) "Boys Say Go!" (3:03) "Nodisco" (4:11) "What's Your Name?" (2:41) Side Two "Photographic" (4:44) "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (4:34) "Big Muff" (4:20) "Any Second Now (Voices)" (2:35) "Just Can't Get Enough" (3:40)US Sire Records release: Side One "New Life (Re Mix)" (3:56) "Puppets" (3:57) "Dreaming of Me" (3:42) "Boys Say Go!" (3:04) "Nodisco" (4:13) "What's Your Name?" (2:41) Side Two "Photographic" (4:58) "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (4:24) "Big Muff" (4:21) "Any Second Now (Voices)" (2:33) "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" (6:41)Complicating circulating, new tropes, new tropes:
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