Produced at Hansa Studios in Berlin and originally released on 29 April 1985, Shake The Disease is the 13th single by Depeche Mode (and their seventh in the US). It’s also the second single not to appear on a studio album and one of two previously unreleased tracks featured on the compilation The Singles 81→85.
7-inch – UK
Mute – 7 BONG 8 (released 29 April 1985)
A1 Shake The Disease 4:48
B1 Flexible 3:11
12-inch – UK
Mute – 12 BONG 8 (released 29 April 1985, generic inner sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended) 8:44
B1 Flexible (Remixed Extended) 6:15
12-inch limited edition – UK
Mute – L12 BONG 8 (released 29 April 1985, generic inner sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Edit The Shake) 7:10
A2 Master And Servant (Live in Basel 1984) 5:37
B1 Flexible (Pre-deportation Mix) 4:40
B2 Something To Do (Metal Mix) 7:26
7-inch – red transparent vinyl edition – Germany
Mute – 7 BONG 8 – Intercord Ton – INT 111.827 (released 29 April 1985)
A1 Shake The Disease 4:47
B1 Flexible 3:09
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12-inch – grey marbled vinyl edition – Germany
Mute – 12 BONG 8 – Intercord Ton – INT 126.828 (released 29 April 1985, reissue released in 1987 or 1988 as part of the ‘Colour Collection’, generic inner sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended) 8:44
B1 Flexible (Remixed Extended) 6:15
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12-inch – grey marbled vinyl special edition – Germany
Mute – L12 Bong 8 – Intercord Ton – INT 126.829 (released 29 April 1985, generic inner sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Edit The Shake) 7:10
A2 Master And Servant (Live in Basel 1984) 5:35
B1 Flexible (Pre-deportation Mix) 4:38
B2 Something To Do (Metal Mix) 7:25
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12-inch – Australia & New Zealand
Mute – Possum Records – ETUM-805 (released in June 1985, generic inner sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended) 8:44
B1 Flexible (Remixed Extended) 6:15
7-inch – US
Mute – Sire – 7-28835 (released 30 October 1985)
A1 Shake The Disease (Fade) 3:59
B1 Flexible 3:09
7-inch promo – US
Mute – Sire – 7-28835 (released in 1985, generic sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Fade) 3:59
B1 Shake The Disease (Fade) 3:59
12-inch – Philippines
Mute – 12 BONG 8 – New York Records – OC-EP-17037 (released in 1985, generic inner sleeve)
A1 Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended) 8:42
B1 Flexible (Remixed Extended) 6:13
CD – France
Mute – Virgin – 30135 (released in 1988)
- Shake The Disease (Edit The Shake) 7:10
- Master And Servant (Live in Basel 1984) 5:37
- Flexible (Pre-deportation Mix) 4:39
- Something To Do (Metal Mix) 7:26
- Shake The Disease (7-inch Version) 4:49
CD – Germany
Mute – CD L12 Bong 8 – Intercord Ton – INT 826.829 (release in 1990)
- Shake The Disease (Edit The Shake) 7:09
- Master And Servant (Live in Basel 1984) 5:38
- Flexible (Pre-deportation Mix) 4:40
- Something To Do (Metal Mix) 7:25
CD – UK / US
Mute – CD BONG 8 / Mute – Sire – 40314-2 (released 25 November 1991 / 3 December, as part of the box set 3 – Singles 13-18, and separately)
- Shake The Disease (7-inch Version) 4:47 / 4:48
- Flexible (7-inch Version) 3:10 / 3:11
- Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended) 8:45 / 8:46
- Flexible (Remixed Extended) 6:16 / 6:16
- Shake The Disease (Edit The Shake) 7:10 / 7:11
- Something To Do (Metal Mix) 7:27 / 7:27
Music video – Worldwide
Mute – no catalogue number (directed by Peter Care, released in April 1985)
Depeche Mode – Shake The Disease
- all tracks written by Martin Gore
- produced by Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones, and Depeche Mode
- highest chart position 18 (UK)
- appears on the compilations The Singles 81→85, Catching Up With Depeche Mode, and The Best Of Volume 1
- 1985 Depeche Mode was Andrew Fletcher, David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Alan Wilder
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