Released on 31 May 2019, Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles is a box set collection featuring the 12-inch vinyls associated with Depeche Mode’s 1986 album Black Celebration. The set consists of the singles Stripped, A Question Of Lust, and A Question Of Time, all pressed on audiophile-quality 180g heavy vinyl with audio mastered from the original tapes. The front cover design of Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles uses iconography inspired by the legacy album artwork, while the five sleeves replicate the original 12-inch artwork.
5×12-inch in a numbered limited edition box set – Europe / US
Mute – Columbia – Sony – 12DMBOX05 – 19075890241 / Mute – Sire – Rhino Records – 12DMBOX05 – 603497852512 (released 31 May 2019, includes download code for uncompressed digital audio files and a reproduced original A Question Of Lust marketing poster)
Stripped | 12BONG 10 (embossed front cover, generic inner sleeve)
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 (generic inner sleeve)
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 German 12-inch and UK cassette, generic inner sleeve)
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 (generic inner sleeve)
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 (generic inner sleeve)
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
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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)
- Stripped (Highland Mix) 6:44
- But Not Tonight (Extended Remix) 5:12
- Breathing In Fumes 6:07
- Fly On The Windscreen (Quiet Mix) 4:25
- Black Day 2:37 gwm
- A Question Of Lust 4:28
- Christmas Island (Extended Version) 5:41 gw
- People Are People (Live in Basel 1984) 4:24
- It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental) 2:47
- A Question Of Lust (Minimal) 6:50
- A Question Of Lust (Flood Mix) 5:09
- Christmas Island 4:54 gw
- If You Want (Live in Basel 1984) 5:15 aw
- Shame (Live in Basel 1984) 4:11
- Blasphemous Rumours (Live in Basel 1984) 5:32
- A Question Of Time (Extended Remix) 6:30
- Black Celebration (Live in Birmingham 1986) 6:05
- Something To Do (Live in Birmingham 1986) 3:50
- Stripped (Live in Birmingham 1986) 6:23
- A Question Of Time (New Town Mix) 6:47
- A Question Of Time (Live in Birmingham 1986) 4:22
- Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix) 6:34
- 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 a member of the band when the singles from Black Celebration originally were released)