Depeche Mode - Speak And Spell (1981)[FLAC]

I recently decided to stop seeding this and all other albums due to the fact that Piratebay users simply don't seed or care about ratios at all. I will make another try in maybe a month from now at best with a new album. I'm sorry, but the only one you can blame is probably yourself.





Today I seed the fourth out of 7 (9 albums, fixed 2 more) Depeche Mode albums I currently have as Flac. For the upcoming week there'll be one new Depeche album every day. So stay tuned =)

Note that FLAC is NOT a lossy format such as Mp3s which might injur your HiFi equipment badly. FLAC is nothing but the best and without all the DRM enabled crap Apple and Microsoft push out these days.

If you don't know about FLAC or why it is the future, head over to http://flac.sf.net and get convinced yourself.
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Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell


Tracklist
01. New Life [0:03:46.02]
02. I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead [0:02:18.26]
03. Puppets [0:03:57.80]
04. Boys Say Go! [0:03:07.37]
05. Nodisco [0:04:15.73]
06. What's Your Name? [0:02:45.53]
07. Photographic [0:04:45.73]
08. Tora! Tora! Tora! [0:04:36.49]
09. Big Muff [0:04:24.53]
10. Any Second Now (Voices) [0:02:35.44]
11. Just Can't Get Enough [0:03:44.46]
12. Dreaming of Me [0:04:03.93]
13. Ice Machine [0:04:05.40]
14. Shout [0:03:46.86]
15. Any Second Now [0:03:08.86]
16. Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix) [0:06:44.89]


AMG Review by Ned Raggett

Though probably nobody fully appreciated it at the time -- perhaps least of all the band! -- Depeche Mode's debut is at once both a conservative, functional pop record and a groundbreaking release. While various synth pioneers had come before -- Gary Numan, early Human League, late-'70s Euro-disco, and above all Kraftwerk all had clear influence on Speak and Spell -- Depeche became the undisputed founder of straight-up synth-pop with the album's 11 songs, light, hooky, and danceable numbers about love, life, and clubs. For all the claims about "dated" '80s sounds from rock purists, it should be noted that the basic guitar/bass/drums lineup of rock is almost 25 years older than the catchy keyboard lines and electronic drums making the music here. That such a sound would eventually become ubiquitous during the Reagan years, spawning lots of crud along the way, means the band should no more be held to blame for that than Motown and the Beatles for inspiring lots of bad stuff in the '60s. Credit for the album's success has to go to main songwriter Vince Clarke, who would extend and arguably perfect the synth-pop formula with Yazoo and Erasure; the classic early singles "New Life," "Dreaming of Me," and "Just Can't Get Enough," along with numbers ranging from the slyly homoerotic "Pretty Boy" to the moody thumper "Photographic," keep everything moving throughout. Gahan undersings about half the album, and Gore's two numbers lack the distinctiveness of his later work, but Speak and Spell remains an undiluted joy.


Extraction Info

Extracted: EAC
Used drive: Lite-on LTR-52327S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode: Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction: 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out: Yes

Used output format: Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

Other options:
Fill up missing offset samples with silence: No
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks: No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Converted: Converted: flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version 1.1.0 Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Josh Coalson

Log, cue, playlist, FLAC fingerprint


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