Product Details
Artist : Depeche Mode
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075992542920
Label : Sire-Wbr
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1986-09-04
UPC : 075992542920
ASIN : B000002L9M
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Black Celebration
2. Fly on the Windscreen [Final]
3. Question of Lust
4. Sometimes
5. It Doesn't Matter Two
6. Question of Time
7. Stripped
8. Here Is the House
9. World Full of Nothing
10. Dressed in Black
11. New Dress
12. But Not Tonight
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
Depeche Mode's most foreboding album, leaning toward the gothic, is DM at their most bleak, black-armband, and nihilistic--no doubt played over and over by countless self-loathing teens as they dyed their hair black behind locked bedroom doors. The tracks are tastefully minimalist, yet the few sounds that dominate each song have a consuming, even overwhelming feel--like a big, heavy black cloud that descends upon and surrounds listeners until their knees buckle from the weight. Rhythmically, songs like "A Question of Time" are driven with moderately paced 16th notes pounded out on synths filling out the low end. Other tracks follow the path of "Stripped," an all-out lamentfest powered by David Gahan's overproduced baritone. --Beth Bessmer
Customer Reviews
Depeche Mode Masterpiece (2004-04-30)  Remember the year 1986 in the music industry and if you have some memory you will notice that not much happened over that years. Well, with this album was for Depeche Mode the beginning of a series of fantastic recordings. Martin Gore always says that he pretty much like everything DM put out since Black Celebration. The song itself and the whole album represents a lot to the dark community. I could split the album in two pieces:1- The ballads (all sang by Mr. Gore)- A question of lust: Great song, I did not like much the video for this song, but Martin's lyrics are amazing.-Sometimes: I would not be fair if I say this was another song in the album, it's a very simple song, with no additional production because the song was good as it was, there's anything else to say about it.-It doesn't matter II: It was great to listened to Martin performing this song again on the Exciter tour, this time an acoustic version with Peter Gordeno in keyboards. -World full of nothing: Another song Martin performed in the Excited tour (I think it was in Germany). My favourite ballad from Black celebration.2-The "dark songs": The opening song is a classic nowadays. If you say Black Celebration you say Depeche Mode. What can I say? The song was inspired by that time and the Germany of the eighties (Martin lived in Berlin in the mid eighties), but it's a song with no time or place.-Fly on the windscreen:"Death is everywhere": I remember the version from the Devotional tour of this song, what a performance! In these kind of songs you see the touch of Gareth Jones, Daniel Miller and of course Alan Wilder.-Stripped: the first single, another classic. "Let me see you stripped down to the bones". Say no more.-Here is the house: I listened to the demo of this song and the album version is very similar. The song was good from the beginning so why change it?-Dressed in black, New dress: two more dark songs, I prefer not to make any comment about the second one.-But not tonight: soundtrack from the film "Modern girls". It's really good to play this song when you are driving in your car at night. It's a very optimistic song to me. It's a good decision that band made by including this song to the album, it was originally a b-side.
The dark cloud atop the silver lining (2004-03-18) The Amazon review that postulates that "Black Celebration" was the album thousands of dyed hair and make-up kids in the late 80's poured their alienated hearts out over hits it square on the head. "Black Celebration" is almost unmatched in its relentless gloom-mongering and only on the closing "But not Tonight" does the tone turn even vaguely optimistic. (Oddly enough, it's the one song to which the lyrics are omitted.) Not that the music wasn't outstanding. That was the main attraction about the richer sounding "Black Celebration." The state of the synthesizer had risen considerably since "Some Great Reward," and the breakthrough of Compact Discs had just begun. It brought a fuller sound out of Depeche Mode and gave them more room to deepen -- or maybe darken -- their sound. They had also stumbled into areas when less meant more, as the haunting "Stripped" exemplifies. Just because the mood was dark also did not mean "Black Celebration" stayed mired in dirges. The frantic tempo of "A Question of Time" continued DM's ongoing string of modern rock dance singles, keeping them astride the likes of New Order and positioning them as the anti-Duran Duran. (Even though all three of these bands were at their creative peaks in this period.) The DM videos were getting better and it was just one more album before all three bands were world wide massive stars at the same time!!! (Duran Duran with "Big Thing," New Order with "Substance" and Depeche Mode with "Violator.") It was certainly heady times for lovers of synth-rock, and "Black Celebration" remains one of my favorite CDs from that period.
Celebration Indeed (2004-02-10)  The first of the mature DM albums, Black Celebration is 2nd only to Violator in rank of best DM albums. There are no fillers on this, only beautifully crafted works of art. "Black celebration" is a great song to start of the album. "Question of Lust" and "Stripped" start the pace after "Sometimes" and "It Doesn't Matter II". "New Dress" is a dark song about how simple minded people are. The album ends with "But Not Tonight". That is one of my favorite songs of all time. It also ends the album with a somewhat happy note which would lead into "Music for the Masses". All in all, not many albums can beat this 12 tracked masterpiece.
A Brief Period of Rejoicing (2004-01-04) Black Celebration represents many things for Depeche Mode. Sonically, we're looking at an evolution of their synthesized, sampled, semi-industrial pop sound -- a little less tinny than Some Great Reward. Lyrically and thematically, what we have is a full realization of the bleakness DM had been flirting with on songs like "Blasphemous Rumours," "Love, in Itself," and "Shake the Disease." This is important because it is the final, complete break with the cheerier sound associated with early Depeche Mode albums, and a transformation into the greatest band to emerge from the 1980s. The title track sets the tone for the album very effectively, using a thick layer of menacing bass under twinkling melodic keynotes. "Black Celebration" is not quite as dark as most of the other songs on this album; but maybe it's really just that it is a declaration of the need to hang onto whatever happiness we can in the face of all-encompassing misery. A perfect opening to a near-perfect album. The eerie underlying synth of the first track evolves into the backdrop for the second: "Fly on the Windscreen." This is DM at their gloomiest; a pummeling bass underpins the need for human contact as a reminder that there is such a thing as life. "A Question of Lust" begins a hat trick of delicate songs sung by Martin Gore. It's an earnest, airy tale of the needless suspicion of jealousy in a relationship that probably won't last. A shimmering, sad ballad in an album of despair, yet a nice bounce-back from "Windscreen." "Sometimes," the next song, is I believe very underrated -- I've seen someone deride it as an ersatz "Somebody," which is really not at all accurate. It employs only Martin's voice, echoed in a strange fashion, over a lazy, very pretty piano piece. A short and sad little number that fits the album without question. The next track is "It Doesn't Matter Two" (to be distinguished from "It Doesn't Matter" on SGW). I like this song for its use of a choral sample, manipulated almost beyond recognition, as its main rhythm. Martin sings of lost sexual innocence here, his voice lending a requisite fragility that Dave Gahan's would not. Dave resumes a lead singing role on "A Question of Time," with a fast synth beat picking up the pace. I did not like this song much at first, but in the concert version, Martin whacks a guitar to replace the kazoo-like effect of the synth found here - a definite improvement. "Stripped" is the centerpiece of BC. Fragile synth keynotes convey a shared, secret sensuality, while a constant backing hum coats everything in sweaty pheromones. The muffled rhythm of a train drives the song from start to finish. Altogether an addictively beautiful song about the search for intimacy in a bleak, black, filthy, distant world. From the escapism without in "Stripped," we turn to escapism within in "Here is the House." Acoustic guitar is used well here against a barely danceable beat, creating one of the more obscure, underappreciated DM songs. Martin's last lead singing role is "World Full of Nothing," an account of loveless sex as told from an omniscient, third-party perspective. Haunting, especially with the repeated "Though it's not love, it means something." "Dressed in Black" is the weakest song on BC. It seems to redeem every tidy cliche about mods that has ever been thrown at them, and consequently feels trite. It should have traded places with one of the B-sides, "Christmas Island." What follows is the pounding, trenchant bass of "New Dress," a political statement about the stupid things society values as important. A very cool song as relevant today as it was in 1986. Black Celebration closes with "But Not Tonight" - as upbeat as any song gets on this album, though it does not feel out of place. It is carried by a fast beat and just a hint of optimism in the darkness. A fitting final chapter in DM's darkest tome. If you like 80s music at all, buy this album. If you like 80s music and were raised on Moby, NIN, or Orbital, DEFINITELY buy this album. You will be glad you did.
Depeche Mode's ultimate mood album (2003-11-03) If you like Depeche Mode and want an album that captures a mood and flows throughout the album, this is it. This is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite DM album. The best way I can describe it is "dark" yet "warm". Most people think of a dark mood as being depressing but in this album it's more like being next to a warm fireplace is a dark room, so to speak. The songs are all great and envoke passion. Even though it's a "dark" celebration it brings solice when I'm in a "dark" mood if that makes any sense.
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