Favourite Depeche Mode singles (1981-1990)

Excluded "Little 15", "Strangelove '88" and "Everything Counts (Live)".

Just Can't Get Enough
See You
Everything Counts
Personal Jesus
Enjoy the Silence

 

"Everything Counts" to me was really their first great single.

There are many, many artists whose singles don't necessarily represent their best work, or who had huge hits that were almost singles by accident, but I think Depeche Mode almost always nails it in picking the best and most representative songs for singles.

 

Mostly I love them all, so it was hard to pick just 5 - Get The Balance Right, Strangelove, Never Let Me Down Again, Enjoy The Silence, Policy Of Truth. I don't really like Somebody or A Question Of Lust and Personal Jesus has become one of those songs I never really need to ever hear again.

 

Very tough choices. Depeche Mode were great in this era and I like all their singles and albums.

I went for Dreaming of Me and New Life as I like the sound of synth pop from the early 80s a lot and they are two favourites.

I then chose the sublime Enjoy The Silence and Get The Balance Right. I can't pinpoint why I like that one so much, I just do. Lastly, Everything Counts. They were starting to get their own sound together then.

I'm a big fan of all this era Depeche Mode, but my interest fades after Violator.

 

Singleswise I love their early stuff so:

Dreaming Of Me
Just Can't Get Enough
See You
The Meaning Of Love
Leave In Silence

 

Too many good songs too choose only a handful...!!!

 

Little 15 is a favorite

Enjoy The Silence looks like the winner and rightly so.

 

Everything Counts
A Question of Lust (just pipping Shake the Disease)
Never Let Me Down Again
Personal Jesus
Enjoy the Silence

 

I don't care at all for this band , but I really like Everything counts , the rest leaves me totally cold (in the true sense of the word)

 

They've got you covered

 

See You
Everything Counts
Never Let Me Down Again
Personal Jesus
Enjoy the Silence

Little 15 was released as a single in some countries only, but should've been included as well. It's a true gem.

 

Blasphemous Rumours is still my favorite of theirs.

 

Picked my favorite single from each Alan Wilder-era album listed in the poll: "Everything Counts", "Master and Servant", "Stripped", "Never Let Me Down Again", and "Enjoy the Silence".

[If this poll included the Songs of Faith and Devotion singles, I'd have added "Walking in My Shoes".]

 

These were picked mostly for what was available for b-sides and mixes reasons
Never Let Me Down Again
World In My Eyes
Strangelove
Blasphemous Rumours and Live
Master and Servant

 

Dreaming of Me
Love in itself
Never Let me Down Again
Behind the Wheel
Personal Jesus

 

Shake The Disease
Stripped
A Question Of Time
Never Let Me Down Again
Enjoy The Silence

If I could pick a couple more - they'd probably be:

Just Can't Get Enough
Get the Balance Right!
Master and Servant
Blasphemous Rumours

 

To me, these are perfect singles and remixes, that have not been matched since:

1. Get the Balance Right! (1983)
   
   
2. Everything Counts (1983)
   
3. Love in Itself (1983)
   
4. People Are People (1984)
   
   
5. Master and Servant (1984)

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Is there a singles collection that sounds good, and uses the proper single mixes?

 

There's only this original collection of singles 81-85 (DR 14):

Depeche Mode - The Singles 81 → 85

The remastered version of this (DR 7) and the singles collection 86-98 (DR 6) are both very compressed.

And there are of course the first three singles box sets, originally released 1991 and re-released in 2004 with identical mastering. Unfortunately box sets #4-6 are very compressed, too.

 

The only single i have ever liked is the one thats getting regular radio plays now.

 

My list would encompass more if we could vote for more choices and if I didn't love Violator so much:

1. Personal Jesus
2. Never Let Me Down Again
3. Enjoy The Silence
4. Policy Of Truth
5. World In My Eyes

 

Everything Counts
Strangelove
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down
Somebody

 

What a GREAT singles band. Hard to cut the list down to five favorites.

Everything Counts
People Are People
Shake The Disease
Personal Jesus
Enjoy the Silence

 

Tough to choose, but here are my (five) faves:

- Dreaming Of Me
- Just Can't Get Enough
- Get The Balance Right
- Everything Counts
- Stripped

I even like the b-side of their first single, 'Ice Machine'.

 

Dreaming, Balance, Wheel, Love In Itself, and one of my favorite extended remixes of all time, the epic Never Let Me Down. In fact, I really only like these songs as remixes, and one in particular, the Behind The Wheel/Route 66 mashup (Megamix version), is very rare indeed. One of my prized possessions are the DM singles boxes-I wish other artists who made good use of the remix were as thoroughly chronicled as Depeche Mode.