The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1


The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 is a greatest hits album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released on 8 November 2006 by Mute Records. The album consists of select Depeche Mode singles from their then-25-year career, as well as the previously unreleased track "Martyr"—recorded during the Playing the Angel sessions—which was released as a single in late October 2006.
The album has sold over one million copies in Europe alone and has been awarded the IFPI Platinum Europe Award.

Track listing

  1. "Personal Jesus" – 3:47
  2. "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:43
  3. "Everything Counts" – 4:01
  4. "Enjoy the Silence" – 4:15
  5. "Shake the Disease" – 4:52
  6. "See You" – 3:58
  7. "It's No Good" – 5:59
  8. "Strangelove" – 3:47
  9. "Suffer Well" – 3:53
  10. "Dream On" – 3:42
  11. "People Are People" – 3:46
  12. "Martyr" – 3:25
  13. "Walking in My Shoes" – 5:01
  14. "I Feel You" – 4:35
  15. "Precious" – 4:09
  16. "Master and Servant" – 3:49
  17. "New Life" – 3:46
  18. "Never Let Me Down Again" – 4:18
;iTunes Store bonus tracks
  1. "Personal Jesus" – 6:55
  2. "Never Let Me Down Again" – 4:40
  3. "Everything Counts" – 6:55
  4. "People Are People" – 7:24
  5. "Personal Jesus" – 5:15

    Special edition bonus DVD

Limited edition copies of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 include a bonus DVD of music videos. A few of the videos feature songs that were not on The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 and a few of the songs on the album are not on the DVD. The cover art has a pink flower rather than the white flower depicted on the cover of the regular CD.
The electronic press kit contains commentary on all the singles that made it onto the CD release of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1.
On 16 March 2007, the DVD was released on its own as The Best of Videos Volume 1.
;Track listing
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough" – Directed by Clive Richardson*
  2. "Everything Counts" – *
  3. "People Are People" – **
  4. "Master & Servant – *
  5. "Shake the Disease" – *
  6. "Stripped" –
  7. "A Question of Time" –
  8. "Strangelove" –
  9. "Never Let Me Down Again" –
  10. "Behind the Wheel" –
  11. "Personal Jesus" –
  12. "Enjoy the Silence" –
  13. "I Feel You" –
  14. "Walking In My Shoes" –
  15. "In Your Room" –
  16. "Barrel of a Gun" –
  17. "It's No Good" –
  18. "Only When I Lose Myself" –
  19. "Dream On" – **
  20. "I Feel Loved" – **
  21. "Enjoy the Silence '04 – **
  22. "Precious" –
  23. "Suffer Well" –
  24. The Best of: Volume 1: A short film
* First official release on DVD

** First official release period

Personnel

Depeche Mode

Weekly charts

Chart Peak
position

Year-end charts

Chart Position
European Albums 44
German Albums 39
Hungarian Albums 44
Italian Albums 62
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums 4

Certifications

Release history