The re-mastered edition includes several b-sides as bonus cuts. The pure pop of “Strangelove” and the noir-groove of “Behind the Wheel” exhibit the band’s powerful keyboard-fueled wall of sound while “Never Let Me Down Again,” “The Things You Said,” “Nothing,” and “I Want You Now” evoke the quiet misery once envisioned by the existential coldness of Joy Division. A whopping 18 discs' worth of music, MODE charts the band's evolution from their debut studio recording (the pulsing synth-pop 'Photographic' from the 1981 Some Bizzare Album compilation) all the way to an electronic-washed cover of.
After the early departure of Vince Clarke to Yaz and Erasure, Martin Gore assumed songwriting duties and crafted his own doom-laden visions of the future for singer David Gahan to render with strong, defiant emotion. Initially the title must have sounded like an incredibly pretentious boast, except that Depeche Mode then went on to do a monstrous world tour, score even more hits in America and elsewhere than ever before, and pick up a large number of name checks from emerging house and techno artists on top of all that. Collecting nearly four decades of material in one stylish package, Depeche Mode delivers their most comprehensive studio collection to date with the MODE box set. The group’s 1987 album Music for the Masses is less a boast than an admission of just how far its unconventional sound had infiltrated the mainstream. Throughout the ‘80s, Depeche Mode went from being excited outside agitators creating unusual snythesizer-driven music to the standard-bearers of the new sound sweeping dance clubs and concert arenas.
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