Released on 21 April 1991 and featuring 46 tracks on four CDs, X² is the second official box set by Depeche Mode. The European and North American markets did not see a release of this title as it was made and compiled exclusively for Japan. The X² limited edition CD box is the second set in a two-part series, the first one is X¹.
4xCD limited edition box set – Japan
Mute – Alfa – ALCB 205-208 (released 21 April 1991)
Instrumentals – Cinco
- Any Second Now (Altered) 5:47 vc
- Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden 4:23
- Oberkorn (It’s A Small Town) (Development Mix) 7:38
- The Great Outdoors! 5:03 gw
- Christmas Island (Extended) 5:30 gw
- It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental) 2:48
- Fpmip 5:21
- Agent Orange 5:05
- Stjarna 4:21
- Moonlight Sonata No.14 in C#m 5:36 ♭
- Memphisto 4:10
B-sides – Sex
- Ice Machine 4:00 vc
- Shout! 3:43 vc
- Any Second Now (Voices) 2:39 vc
- Now, This Is Fun 3:45
- Work Hard 4:24 aw
- In Your Memory 4:03 aw
- Flexible 3:12
- Fly On The Windscreen 5:08
- But Not Tonight 4:23
- Pleasure, Little Treasure 2:55
- Route 66 4:10 ★
Live One – CeMb
- My Secret Garden (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 7:42
- Shout! (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 4:19 vc
- Photographic (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 3:25 vc
- New Life (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 4:06 vc
- Boys Say Go! (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 2:36 vc
- Nothing To Fear (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 4:23
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 3:47
- See You (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) 4:07
- Just Can’t Get Enough 5:28 (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982) vc
- Ice Machine (Live in Liverpool 1984) 3:46 vc
- Everything Counts (Live in Liverpool 1984) 5:52
- More Than A Party (Live in Birmingham 1986) 4:50
Live Two – Oziem
- Black Celebration (Live in Pasadena 1988) 4:28
- If You Want 5:09 (Live in Basel 1984) aw
- Shame (Live in Basel 1984) 4:12
- Two Minute Warning (Live in Basel 1984) 4:33 aw
- Master And Servant (Live in Pasadena 1988) 4:24
- Something To Do (Live in Birmingham 1986) 3:48
- Somebody (Live in Liverpool 1984) 4:21
- People Are People (Live in Pasadena 1988) 4:43
- Told You So (Live in Liverpool 1984) 4:39
- Blasphemous Rumours (Live in Birmingham 1986) 5:25
- Stripped (Live in Pasadena 1988) 6:16
- A Question Of Time (Live in Pasadena 1988) 4:21
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Depeche Mode – X²
- all tracks written by Martin Gore, except vc by Vince Clarke, gw by Gore and Wilder, ♭ by Ludwig van Beethoven, aw by Alan Wilder, and ★ by Robert William Troup Jr
- produced by Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones, David Bascombe, and Depeche Mode
- highest chart position 99 (Japan)
- 1991 Depeche Mode was Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Alan Wilder
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