Catching Up with Depeche Mode

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{{Short description|1985 compilation album by Depeche Mode}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Catching Up with Depeche Mode
| type = compilation
| artist = [[Depeche Mode]]
| cover = Catching Up with Depeche Mode.png
| border = yes
| released = {{Start date|1985|11|11|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.depechemode.com/discography/albums/06_catchingupwithdepechemode.html |title=Catching Up With Depeche Mode |website=DepecheMode.com |access-date=4 October 2017}}</ref>
| recorded = December 1980 – July 1985
| genre =
| length = 51:59
| label = [[Sire Records|Sire]]
| producer =
* Depeche Mode
* [[Daniel Miller (music producer)|Daniel Miller]]
* [[Gareth Jones (music producer)|Gareth Jones]]
| prev_title = [[The Singles 81→85]]
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = [[Black Celebration]]
| next_year = 1986
}}

'''''Catching Up with Depeche Mode''''' is a compilation album by the English [[electronic music]] band [[Depeche Mode]], released solely in North America on 11 November 1985 by [[Sire Records]]. It reached number 113 on the Billboard Top 200 Pop album chart, and was certified Platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA) 15 years after its release.

==Background==
Depeche Mode had released their last studio album, ''[[Some Great Reward]]'' in September 1984{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=104}} and by the end of that year, they already knew that they would not record a new album in 1985, and instead focus on a singles collection to be released instead.{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=115}} News of the impending compilation started rumours that the band was going to break up which the band had to refute in the press.{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=115}} To support the collection, Depeche Mode went into the studio twice in 1985 to record new singles to be included in the collection; once in February to record "[[Shake the Disease]]" and again in June to record "[[It's Called a Heart]]".{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|pp=115-120}}

In the UK, October 1985 saw the international release of the album ''[[The Singles 81→85]]'', which collected the band's seven-inch singles to that date.{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=126}} However, US label [[Sire Records]] had released the compilation album ''[[People Are People (album)|People Are People]]'' in 1984 to help boost the popularity of the band in the US when their previous album, ''[[Construction Time Again]]'' had failed to chart there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.depechemode.com/discography/albums/04_peoplearepeople.html |title=People Are People |publisher=depechemode.com |access-date=2022-06-23}}</ref> Not wanting to release another compilation album with many of the same tracks, Sire records instead modified the track listing from the UK release to avoid any repetition with ''People Are People'' and instead added a few of the band's songs that had not been released in the US yet.{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=126}}

==Release==
''Catching Up with Depeche Mode'' was released by Sire Records in the US in November 1985 with catalogue number 1-25346.{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=126}} The release peaked at number 113 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums]] chart.<ref name="US chart"/> On 2 August 2000, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.<ref name="RIAA"/>

===Artwork===
Except for the 1984 compilation ''People Are People'', pictures of the band had not appeared on the cover of their previous albums.{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=115}} The cover image, taken by photographer by [[Eric Watson (photographer)|Eric Watson]], was also used on the cover of the band's first video compilation, ''[[Some Great Videos]]'' (1985).{{sfn|Burmeister|Lange|2017|p=129}} The image was also later displayed at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] in London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw11942/Depeche-Mode?LinkID=mp10004&page=1&rNo=10&role=art |title=NPG x88142; Depeche Mode – Portrait |publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] |access-date=18 July 2014}}</ref>

{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/catching-up-with-depeche-mode-mw0000189743 |title=Catching Up with Depeche Mode – Depeche Mode |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=8 September 2017}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2score = B+<ref name="RC">{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Depeche+Mode |title=CG: Depeche Mode |website=RobertChristgau.com |access-date=14 June 2011}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |year=2011 |chapter=Depeche Mode |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |edition=5th concise |location=London |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=PA631 631] |isbn=978-0-8571-2595-8}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |year=2004 |chapter=Depeche Mode |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac |url-access=registration |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |edition=4th |location=New York |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/229 229]–230 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Martin Gore|Martin L. Gore]], except where noted. All tracks are produced by [[Daniel Miller (music producer)|Daniel Miller]] and Depeche Mode, except where noted
| extra_column = Original album

| title1 = [[Dreaming of Me]]
| extra1 = Non-album single (UK) / ''[[Speak & Spell (album)|Speak & Spell]]'' (US)
| writer1= [[Vince Clarke]]
| length1 = 3:44

| title2 = [[New Life (song)|New Life]]
| extra2 = ''Speak & Spell''
| writer2= Clarke
| length2 = 3:44

| title3 = [[Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode song)|Just Can't Get Enough]]
| extra3 = ''Speak & Spell''
| writer3= Clarke
| length3 = 3:36

| title4 = [[See You (Depeche Mode song)|See You]]
| extra4 = ''[[A Broken Frame]]''
| length4 = 3:53

| title5 = [[The Meaning of Love]]
| extra5 = ''A Broken Frame''
| length5 = 3:04

| title6 = [[Love, in Itself]]
| extra6 = ''[[Construction Time Again]]''
| length6 = 3:55

| title7 = [[Master and Servant]]
| note7 = producers: Miller, Depeche Mode, [[Gareth Jones (music producer)|Gareth Jones]]
| extra7 = ''[[Some Great Reward]]''
| length7 = 3:50

| title8 = [[Blasphemous Rumours]]
| note8 = producers: Miller, Depeche Mode, Jones
| extra8 = ''Some Great Reward''
| length8 = 5:04

| title9 = [[Somebody (Depeche Mode song)|Somebody]]
| note9 = producers: Miller, Depeche Mode, Jones
| extra9 = ''Some Great Reward''
| length9 = 4:21

| title10 = [[Shake the Disease]]
| note10 = producers: Miller, Depeche Mode, Jones
| extra10 = Non-album single
| length10 = 4:46

| title11 = Flexible
| note11 = producers: Miller, Depeche Mode, Jones
| extra11 = ''Shake the Disease'' B-side
| length11 = 3:09

| title12 = [[It's Called a Heart]]
| extra12 = Non-album single
| length12 = 3:48

| title13 = Fly on the Windscreen
| extra13 = ''It's Called a Heart'' B-side
| length13 = 5:05
| total_length = 51:59
}}

==Personnel==
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Catching Up with Depeche Mode''.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Catching Up with Depeche Mode |type=liner notes |others=[[Depeche Mode]] |publisher=[[Sire Records]] |year=1985 |id=1-25346}}</ref>

* [[Daniel Miller (music producer)|Daniel Miller]] – production {{small|(all tracks)}}
* [[Depeche Mode]] – production {{small|(all tracks)}}
* [[Gareth Jones (music producer)|Gareth Jones]] – production {{small|(tracks 7–11)}}
* [[Eric Watson (photographer)|Eric Watson]] – front cover photography
* Martyn Atkins – design, photo treatment
* Mark Higenbottam – design, photo treatment
* David A. Jones – design, photo treatment

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col"| Chart (1986)
! scope="col"| Peak<br>position
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|113|artist=Depeche Mode|rowheader=true|access-date=8 September 2017|refname="US chart"}}
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Depeche Mode|title=Catching Up with Depeche Mode|award=Platinum|type=album|relyear=1985|certyear=2000|date=2 August 2000|access-date=8 September 2017|refname="RIAA"}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite book |last1=Burmeister | first1=Dennis | last2=Lange | first2=Sascha | title=Depeche Mode: Monument | location=New York | publisher=[[Akashic Books]] | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-61775-593-4}}
{{Refend}}

==External links==
* [http://archives.depechemode.com/discography/albums/06_catchingupwithdepechemode.html Album information from the official Depeche Mode website]

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