How it all started ...

"Speak and Spell" was the first album of Depeche Mode, which appeared in 1981. At that time, Depeche Mode one of the few groups who used only the electronics for their music. Of course, they were strongly influenced by groups like Kraftwerk, the already discovered the synthesizer in the 70s, but Depeche Mode managed to make it accessible to those new Musikrichung a wider audience. "Speak and Spell" is the popigste album of the group, since at this time Vince Clark was responsible for writing the songs. Thus, this first album is also the untypical of Depeche Mode, but it still has its own special charm. This is generated particularly by the analog synthesizer then used that produce unlike their digital counterparts tones with very warm tones. So it is not surprising that the song "Just Can not Get Enough" to this day one of the absolute classics of synth-pop. (This is an Amazon.com at the university-student review.)