Black Celebration

I had this on cassette and then CD as a teenager during Depeche Modes imperial phase, during the late 80's and 90s when along with The Cure they seemed to get even more love from our transatlantic cousins.This Violator, and Songs Of Faith and Devotion being my absolute favourites.I'm glad to say as with the Violator reissue the sound quality is astounding, and the pressing is near perfect no pops or clicks. Alot of modern repressing and release suffer from poor production this does not even quite songs like Sometimes sound spot on.So happy with this purchase im hearing things I never heard before.10/10 for the album10/10 for the product.Great stuff

On initial release I found this album a bit too heavy to handle, although I liked a lot of the singles taken from it. As a whole it was just so darned intense! My crackly vinyl went awry many years ago and was only replaced this week with an 'unremastered' CD at budget price.This album improves with age, and I deliberately chose the version with 3 bonus tracks just to opt for the lighter tail-end (if I wanted). The intensity is still there, and tracks like "New Dress" and "Stripped" still sound dramatic even after all this time. I'd got so used to hearing Razormaid! extended re-edit of the former that I'd forgotten how much tighter the album track is! A pivotal moment for the band, even if a inordinate amount of material is sung by Martin (3 tracks in a row on 'side A'). However I still rate "Question Of Lust" as one of his finest, but "Sometimes" as one of his weakest fillers.So, what is good and bad about this particular release of the album, with the light-coloured emblems on the front colour and the same cat no as the 1990 release? Firstly, it occasionally distorts, or rather picks upsome distortion on source material, such as the car engine effect loop on "Stripped" on the right hand channel, and the slightly annoying digital sounding click on the left hand channel during the intro of the same. Otherwise the sound is pretty good, if a little top-heavy in places. The copy I've got came with original 11 track booklet, so I don't know if that was always the case or whether the extra tracks were listed on the artwork too.The 3 bonus tracks are nice extras, the extended mix of "But Not Tonight" is the UK 12" EP mix, not the US remix, and isn't half bad. "Black Day" is a short experimental interpretation of snippets from the title track, which actually works quite well as a closing track, and "Breathing In Fumes" is just awesome. One of the rare decent Mode 'dub' mixes, arguably!This still isn't a favourite of mine, but it's definitely worth adding to the collection, whether this version or one of the 2006/7 remastered issues.

Great album by the pioneers of music. Black celebration to me is a masterpiece was hoping for " but not tonight ", but that's only on the deluxe version of this album great album none the less...Postage was great came in an heavy duty sealed cardboard box no damage to vinyl .

Great Depeche sound. Arguably their best.

their best album in my opinion，and sound is also amazing , problem is that the record not flat

Brilliant album well worth waiting for one of the very best from Depeche Mode in my very humble opinion Thank You.

Love this cd

MISSED OUT FIRST TIME-NOW ADDED TO COLLECTION-GREAT !!!