Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

Released 31 May 2019, “Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles” is a Depeche Mode box set collection of all the 12-inch vinyls from the 1986 album “Black Celebration”. Included single titles – on remastered audiophile-quality 180g heavy vinyl made from the original master tapes – are “Stripped”, “A Question Of Lust”, and “A Question Of Time”. The front cover design of the box echoes the original album artwork and the six sleeves feature the original 12-inch artwork.


Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

6×12-inch in a numbered limited edition box set – Europe / US
Mute – Columbia – Sony – 12DMBOX05 – 19075890241 / Mute – Sire – Rhino Records – 12DMBOX05 – 603497852512 (includes download code for uncompressed digital audio files and a reproduced original “A Question Of Lust” marketing poster, released 31 May 2019)

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Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

Stripped | 12BONG 10 (embossed front cover, standard inner sleeve)

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

  • A1 Stripped (Highland Mix) 6:41
  • A2 But Not Tonight (Extended Remix) 5:10
  • B1 Breathing In Fumes 6:05
  • B2 Fly On The Windscreen (Quiet Mix) 4:23
  • B3 Black Day 2:36 gwm

A Question Of Lust | 12BONG 11 (standard inner sleeve)

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

  • A1 A Question Of Lust 4:22
  • A2 Christmas Island (Extended) 5:39 gw
  • B1 People Are People (Live in Basel 1984) 4:23
  • B2 It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental) 2:48
  • B3 A Question Of Lust (Minimal) 6:47

A Question Of Lust | L12BONG 11 (originally released in 1986 as a UK cassette and German 12-inch, standard inner sleeve)

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

  • A1 A Question Of Lust (Flood Mix) 5:08
  • A2 Christmas Island 4:50 gw
  • B1 If You Want (Live in Basel 1984) 5:16 aw
  • B2 Shame (Live in Basel 1984) 4:13
  • B3 Blasphemous Rumours (Live in Basel 1984) 5:30

A Question Of Time | 12BONG 12 (standard inner sleeve)

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

  • A1 A Question Of Time (Extended Remix) 6:39
  • B1 Black Celebration (Live in Birmingham 1986) 5:58
  • B2 Something To Do (Live in Birmingham 1986) 3:50
  • B3 Stripped (Live in Birmingham 1986) 6:22

A Question Of Time | L12BONG 12 (standard inner sleeve)
Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

  • A1 A Question Of Time (New Town Mix) 6:50
  • A2 A Question Of Time (Live in Birmingham 1986) 4:21
  • B1 Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix) 6:30
  • B2 More Than A Party (Live in Birmingham 1986) 4:59

Poster

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles


Digital download – various editions
Europe: Legacy Recordings – no catalogue number (released 31 May 2019)

US: Rhino Records – 603497839063 (released 31 May 2019)

Worldwide: Legacy Recordings – G010004735818Y (reissue, released 18 March 2022)

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12" Singles

  1. Stripped (Highland Mix) 6:44
  2. But Not Tonight (Extended Remix) 5:12
  3. Breathing In Fumes 6:07
  4. Fly On The Windscreen (Quiet Mix) 4:25
  5. Black Day 2:37 gwm
  6. A Question Of Lust 4:28
  7. Christmas Island (Extended Version) 5:41 gw
  8. People Are People (Live in Basel 1984) 4:24
  9. It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental) 2:47
  10. A Question Of Lust (Minimal) 6:50
  11. A Question Of Lust (Flood Mix) 5:09
  12. Christmas Island 4:54 gw
  13. If You Want (Live in Basel 1984) 5:15 aw
  14. Shame (Live in Basel 1984) 4:11
  15. Blasphemous Rumours (Live in Basel 1984) 5:32
  16. A Question Of Time (Extended Remix) 6:30
  17. Black Celebration (Live in Birmingham 1986) 6:05
  18. Something To Do (Live in Birmingham 1986) 3:50
  19. Stripped (Live in Birmingham 1986) 6:23
  20. A Question Of Time (New Town Mix) 6:47
  21. A Question Of Time (Live in Birmingham 1986) 4:22
  22. Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix) 6:34
  23. More Than A Party (Live in Birmingham 1986) 5:09

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles

  • all tracks written by Martin Gore, except gwm by Gore, Alan Wilder, and Daniel Miller, gw by Gore and Wilder, aw by Wilder
  • produced by Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones
  • highest chart position 30 (UK) 22 (Ger)
  • 2019 Depeche Mode was Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, and Martin Gore (Alan Wilder was in the band from 1982 to 1995)