Depeche Mode – Some Great Videos

Originally released 14 October 1985, “Some Great Videos” is the second home video by Depeche Mode. Featuring nine singles and a bonus track, it’s also the band’s first music video compilation. Their first two singles – “Dreaming Of Me” and “New Life” (1981) – are naturally not included as no videos were made for those songs. The videos for the three singles from “A Broken Frame” (1982) – “See You”, “The Meaning Of Love”, and “Leave In Silence”, plus the one for “Get The Balance Right!” (1983), were omitted.

In 1998, “Some Great Videos” was redesigned and reissued as “Some Great Videos 81>85”.


VHS (PAL) / Betamax – UK
Mute – Virgin Video – VVD 103 (released 14 October 1985)

Depeche Mode – Some Great Videos

  1. Some Great Videos 45:20

VHS / LaserDisc (NTSC) – US
Mute – Warner Reprise Video – Sire – 38124-3 / 38124-6 (released 6 November 1986)

Depeche Mode – Some Great Videos

VHS

  1. Some Great Videos 45:20

LaserDisc

  1. Just Can’t Get Enough 3:41 vc (1981)
  2. Everything Counts 4:01 (1983)
  3. Love, In Itself 4:02 (1983)
  4. People Are People (Different Mix)  7:16 (1984)
  5. Master And Servant 3:51 (1984)
  6. Blasphemous Rumours  5:08 (1984)
  7. Somebody 4:24 (1984)
  8. Shake The Disease 4:50 ✦ (1985)
  9. It’s Called A Heart 3:50 ✦ (1985)
  10. Photographic (from The World We Live In And Live In Hamburg) 4:13 vc (1981)
  11. A Question Of Lust (1986)

VHS / LaserDisc (NTSC) – Japan
Mute – Virgin Video – VTM-107 / Mute – Virgin Video – SM058-3062 (released in 1986)

Depeche Mode – Some Great Videos

VHS

  1. Some Great Videos 45:20

LaserDisc

  1. Just Can’t Get Enough 3:41 vc (1981)
  2. Everything Counts 4:01 (1983)
  3. Love, In Itself 4:02 (1983)
  4. People Are People (Different Mix)  7:16 (1984)
  5. Master And Servant 3:51 (1984)
  6. Blasphemous Rumours  5:08 (1984)
  7. Somebody 4:24 (1984)
  8. Shake The Disease 4:50 ✦ (1985)
  9. It’s Called A Heart 3:50 ✦ (1985)
  10. Photographic (from The World We Live In And Live In Hamburg) 4:13 vc (1981)

Depeche Mode – Some Great Videos

  • all tracks written by Martin Gore, except vc by Vince Clarke
  • all videos directed by Clive Richardson, except ✦ by Peter Care
  • highest chart position 11 (UK)
  • 1985 Depeche Mode was Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Alan Wilder (Vince Clarke was in the band from 1980 to 1981)