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Speak & Spell (album)

For the game of the same name by Texas Instruments see Speak & Spell (game)

Speak and Spell is Depeche Mode's first album. It was released in 1981. This is the only album with Vince Clarke on board (having also written most of the songs), before he left to work with other bands such as Yazoo and Erasure.

Genres: Synth Pop, New Wave

Singles

• Dreaming Of Me
• New Life - Reached #11 on the U.K. music charts
• Just Can't Get Enough - Reached the British Top Ten, broke big in the U.S.

Track listing

1. "New Life" (3:56)
2. "Puppets" (3:57)
3. "Dreaming Of Me" (3:42)
4. "Boys Say Go!" (3:04)
5. "Nodisco" (4:13)
6. "What's Your Name?" (2:41)
7. "Photographic" (4:58)
8. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (4:24)
9. "Big Muff" (4:21)
10. "Any Second Now (Voices)" (2:33)
11. "Just Can't Get Enough" (6:41)

Total album length: 44 minutes:58 seconds

• All songs were written by Vince Clarke, except for "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff", written by Martin Gore.

Personnel

• Depeche Mode is:
• Vince Clarke
• Andy Fletcher
• Martin Gore
• David Gahan

• Producers: Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller
• Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London
• Engineers: John Fryer, Eric Radcliffe
• Album Photography by Brian Griffin
• CDD Pre-Mastering: Mute Records
• Distributor: Mute Records