Approved by a state run label and released on 1 July 1987, Greatest Hits is an East German version of the UK and European compilation album The Singles 81→85. However, the track listing is quite different. On this release all the singles from 1981 and 1982, plus Get The Balance Right! and Love, In Itself from 1983, are excluded. Instead, the 1986 single A Question Of Lust from Black Celebration, plus other tracks from that album and Some Great Reward, are included. The compilation was released with two different vinyl labels; the regular blue AMIGA label and an alternative yellow one. Greatest Hits is the only Depeche Mode record issued exclusively in the GDR.
LP – East Germany (GDR)
AMIGA – 8 56 260 (released 1 July 1987, generic inner sleeve)
blue label edition
yellow label edition
A1 Shake The Disease 4:45 (1985)
A2 A Question Of Lust (Album Version) 4:24 (1986)
A3 It’s Called A Heart 3:45 (1985)
A4 Blasphemous Rumours (7-inch Version) 5:06 (1984)
A5 Everything Counts 3:57 (1983)
A6 People Are People 3:43 (1984)
B2 Something To Do (missing the first second) 3:44 (1984)
B3 Stripped (Album Version) 4:13 (1986)
B4 Here Is The House (not separated from Stripped) 4:16 (1986)
B5 It Doesn’t Matter 4:45 (1984)
B6 It Doesn’t Matter Two 2:4 (1986)
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Note: Greatest Hits was also released on the cassette format.
Depeche Mode – Greatest Hits
- all tracks written by Martin Gore
- produced by Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones, and Depeche Mode, except A3 and A5 by Miller and Depeche Mode
- highest chart position N/A
- 1987 Depeche Mode was Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Alan Wilder
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