Ultra

Ultra is the ninth studio album by Depeche Mode and the first to be produced without Alan Wilder as a member since 1982's A Broken Frame. The album was released on 14 April 1997 by Mute Records. Though not directly supported by a full length tour, it was promoted via a brief series of concerts promoted as Ultra Parties.
== Track list ==
#Barrel Of A Gun
#The Love Thieves
#Home
#It's No Good
#Uselink
#Useless
#Sister Of Night
#Jazz Thieves
#Freestate
#The Bottom Line
#Insight
For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Ultra songs.
== Singles ==
#Barrel Of A Gun – 3 February 1997
#It's No Good – 31 March 1997
#Home – 16 June 1997
#Useless – 20 October 1997
== Quotes ==
Dave Gahan: "Ultra was a very important record to finish in retrospect. You know, we didn't tour with that record. That was probably the best decision that we made. Probably the only studio record that we ever didn't tour with, actually."
Martin Gore: "Did we actually make that decision?"
Gahan: "I don't know."
Andrew Fletcher: "Yeah, we did, didn't we?"
Gahan: "Yeah. I seem to remember sitting in a meeting and everybody's going ..."
Gore: "I think when we couldn't answer. I think they took it as a no."
Gahan: "Yeah. And I might've gotten arrested again or something like that."Source: "Synth and Sensibilities" – NME – 25 January 1997.
— Dave Gahan, , Andrew Fletcher – NME, January 1997
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I think there was a feeling of us having to prove ourselves, a bit like after when Vince left. It gave us a new challenge and I think in some ways it's spurred on us to do better things.Source: "Andy Fletcher Interview" – Dotmusic – 4 May 2001.
— Andrew Fletcher – Dotmusic – 4 May 2001
I felt a big part of what we were doing was missing - a leader, musically, and for me Alan was that. The others would say he was too controlling, but he just worked his arse off because he really believed in it and the idea of pushing himself musically, which you can hear on his own records. I find that really inspiring. I miss him.Source: "In the Mode for Love" – Time Out – 4 April 2001.
— Dave Gahan – Time Out – 4 April 2001
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I can't hear it in the same way as a record I was involved with, but I certainly don't feel a yearning to be involved again, and I've no regrets about leaving at all. The album is difficult for me to comment on, though I do have something of a stock answer, which is: you can probably work out what I think about it by listening to Unsound Methods and then Ultra, because the two records tell you everything you need to know about what the musical relationship was between myself and Martin. It's almost as if we've gone to the two extremes of what we were when we were together. What the band had before was a combination of those extremes.Source: "Unsound Recordings" – Sound On Sound – January 1998.
— Alan Wilder – Sound On Sound – January 1998
== Trivia ==
*The total number of live song plays from Ultra is . This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.
*Ultra is the first Depeche Mode studio album to not be directly supported by a major tour.
== Statistics ==
== References ==
Category:Album
Category:Depeche Mode albums
Category:Depeche Mode albums released between 1990-1999
Category:Albums released between 1990-1999
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