Black Celebration (album)

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Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records and was supported by the Black Celebration tour.
== Track list ==
#Black Celebration
#Fly On The Windscreen
#A Question Of Lust
#Sometimes
#It Doesn't Matter Two
#A Question Of Time
#Stripped
#Here Is The House
#World Full Of Nothing
#Dressed In Black
#New Dress
For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Black Celebration songs.
== Singles ==
#Stripped - February 10, 1986
#But Not Tonight - February 10, 1986
#A Question Of Lust - April 14, 1986
#A Question Of Time - August 11, 1986
== Quotes ==
"Black Celebration sounds a bit morbid but it's a common thing. At the end of a working day you go out and drown your sorrows no matter how [shit] you feel or how bleak your future looks."
— Dave Gahan - Blitz, April 1986Source: Back to the Wall, No. 1, 22 February 1986.
"We used some melodies from the original demo, some came about in the studio. Actually, [Daniel Miller] and I often felt there were too many counter-melodies and not enough space in the music."Source: recoil.co.uk
— Alan Wilder - SHUNT ARCHIVES Q&A : DEPECHE MODE : BLACK CELEBRATION
"The NME made the point that we were not adventurous enough. They said that we could pull more out of the bag, that we were actually quite lazy. That is true to a point, but it comes from the problem that as a democracy we always tend to end up with a compromise between the adventurous and conservative sides of the band."
— Alan Wilder - Blitz, April 1986Source: Basildon Bond, Blitz, April 1986.
Gahan discusses the reasoning behind the band's decision to record a third album at Hansa studios in a 1986 interview:
"I can't work in England anymore. It's funny. The studio is right next to the Berlin Wall but none of us has ever been to the East. Martin tried once but they refused him entry. Didn't like the way he was dressed. Thought he was a hooligan. People imagine we work here because it's wow, you know, really heavy, but I don't feel that. The place is quite suburban. Berlin's like Brixton. [...] Oh, yeah. [The cellar] is a bit weird, innit? I was down here doing the vocals for 'Shake The Disease' in the dark, last time we were here, and I was terrified. I had all noises in me headphones like whispers, and apparently sometimes you can see the shadow of a projectionist. It's a bit haunted, this studio."Source: Back to the Wall, No. 1, 22 February 1986.
Gahan continues:
"[We] mainly [decided to record a third album at Hansa] because we're too lazy to find another studio! And we know when we come here that it's going to be good. It's probably one of the best studios in the world. Working in London, it's difficult to get into it because we just have so many people coming to see us. We don't go through a manager or anything. The four of us. We are the managers."Source: Record Mirror, 8 February 1986.
— Dave Gahan - No. 1, February 1986.
== Statistics ==
== Trivia ==
*The total number of live song plays from Black Celebration is . This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.
== References ==
Category:Album
Category:Depeche Mode albums
Category:Depeche Mode albums released between 1981-1989
Category:Albums released between 1981-1989
Category:Depeche Mode albums produced with Alan Wilder
<metadesc>Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records.</metadesc>