STRANGELOVE '88

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Released September 1988
Highest Chart Position (US): 55

In the US, STRANGELOVE was re-released after DM's successful "Concert for the Masses" in Pasadena, which would be released in 1989 as DEPECHE MODE 101. To capitalize on the band's triumph, Sire unleashed the Highjack mix, done by Bomb the Bass (Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders) along with a Justin Strauss mixed version of NOTHING. The below 12" release became a major dance hit at clubs all across the US and received strong airplay in most of the US major radio markets.

 Sire also made the band film another video for STRANGELOVE. The band totally refuused but caved in, even DM couldn't pass up the possibilty of big success in the US. So Martin Atkins, of T+CP, was hired on to film the band surrounded by their own MUSIC FOR THE MASSES symbollism. The re-release peaked at #55 and was by far Sire's best promotion effort of the band. This was at this point DM's most successful follow-up to PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, and would set the band up for future single and album successes with 101, VIOLATOR, SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION, and ULTRA.

Sire 7" 27777-7, Sire 3" CD 27777-2:

 STRANGELOVE (remix/edit)
NOTHING (remix/edit)

Sire 12" 21022-0, Sire CD 21022-2 (?):

STRANGELOVE (highjack mix)
STRANGELOVE (remix/edit)
NOTHING (zip-hop mix)
NOTHING (dub)

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PROMOS

Sire Promo CD
(Comes with sticker promoting DM's performance
of STRANGELOVE at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards)
PRO-CD-3213:

STRANGELOVE (remix/edit)
STRANGELOVE (7" mix)
STRANGELOVE (7" blind edit)
STRANGELOVE (highjack mix)

Dreaming of Me/New Life/Just Can't Get Enough/See You/The Meaning of Love/Leave in Silence
Get the Balance Right/Everything Counts/Love, in Itself/People Are People/Master and Servant
Blasphemous Rumours and Somebody/Shake the Disease/It's Called a Heart/Stripped/A Question of Lust
A Question of Time/Strangelove/Never Let Me Down Again/Behind the Wheel and Route 66
Strangelove '88/Little 15/Everything Counts (live)/Personal Jesus/Enjoy the Silence/Policy of Truth
World in My Eyes/I Feel You/Walking in My Shoes/Condemnation/In Your Room/Barrel of a Gun
It's No Good/Home/Useless

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