Construction Time Again

Construction Time Again
Depeche Mode studio album
Publication (s)	22nd August 1983
Label (s)	Mute Records , Sire Records
Genre (s)	Synth-pop , industrial , new wave , dance alternative , dance-rock
Title (number)	10
running time	42:10
occupation	Dave Gahan Martin Gore Alan Wilder Andrew Fletcher
production	Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller
Studio (s)	The Garden, London
Location (s)	London
chronology A Broken Frame (1982) Construction Time Again Some Great Reward (1984)
Single releases July 11, 1983 Everything Counts September 19, 1983 Love, in Itself 1984 Told You So (Spain only)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Construction Time Again   DE 7th 09/19/1983 (34 weeks)   CH 21st 11/06/1983 (3 weeks)   UK 6th 09/03/1983 (12 weeks)

Singles

Everything Counts   DE 12 08/15/1983 (31 weeks)   CH 8th 11/06/1983 (7 weeks)   UK 6th 07/23/1983 (11 weeks) Love, in Itself   DE 28 11/14/1983 (15 weeks)   UK 21st 10/01/1983 (7 weeks)

Construction Time Again is the third studio album by British synthpop band Depeche Mode from 1983.

With this album, the band used the sampling technique that is common today, but was still young at the time , in which individual sounds (samples) are first recorded and then combined to form a song. The song Pipeline , for example, from whose text the name of the album is taken, consists almost entirely of samples. Not only instruments were recorded, but also noises that are generated by everyday objects and especially metal objects. These samples were played on the “ Synclavier ” computer musical instrument from the manufacturer “New England Digital”. This sound also shaped the following Depeche Mode albums.

Construction Time Again is the first album that Alan Wilder was involved in as a band member. It was recorded by John Foxx in The Garden Studio in London and mixed in the Hansa Studios in Berlin . The band kept returning to Berlin for later albums.

Track list

1. Love, in Itself - 4:29
2. More Than a Party - 4:45
3. Pipeline - 5:54
4. Everything Counts - 4:19
5. Two Minute Warning - 4:13
6. Shame - 3:50
7. The Landscape is Changing - 4:47
8. Told You Sun - 4:24
9. And Then ... - 4:34
10. Everything Counts (recapitulation) - 0:55

All songs were written by Martin Gore, except for Two Minute Warning and The Landscape is Changing , which Alan Wilder composed. Gore sings the song Pipeline and most of the backing vocals. Dave Gahan all other songs.

Single releases

• Everything Counts - July 11, 1983
• Love, in Itself - September 19, 1983

The B-side of Everything Counts , Work Hard , is one of four songs that Martin Gore and Alan Wilder wrote together. The others are Black Day (together with Daniel Miller; a version of Black Celebration ), as well as the instrumentals The Great Outdoors! and Christmas Island .

The different versions of Love, in Itself have been numbered: Love, in Itself 1 is the version on the album, Love, in Itself 2 is the single Edit, Love, in Itself 3 is the extended mix of the 12 "single and Love, in Itself 4 a lounge- style version .

Setlist for the Construction Time Again Tour 1983–1984

1. Everything Counts
2. Now this is fun
3. Two minute warning
4. Shame
5. See you
6. Get the Balance Right!
7. Love in Itself
8. • pipeline
   • Big Muff
   • People Are People
9. The landscape is changing
10. And then
11. Photographic
12. Told You So
13. New Life
14. More than a party
15. The Meaning of Love
16. Just Can't Get Enough
17. Boys Say Go!

Re-release

On March 23, 2007 a re-release of Construction Time Again was released as a hybrid SACD and DVD . The DVD contains the album songs in multi-channel sound ( Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS ) and the following bonus tracks :

• Get the Balance Right!
• The Great Outdoors!
• Work hard
• Fools
• Get the Balance Right! (Combination Mix)
• Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts)
• Love, In Itself 4

The documentary Depeche Mode 1983 can also be seen : “Teenagers, growing up, bad government and all that stuff” .

Web links

• Singles Discography on 45cat.com
• Construction Time Again , Everything Counts and Love, in Itself on the official band homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official German charts: Depeche Mode in the German single charts
2. ↑ hitparade.ch: Depeche Mode in the Swiss charts
3. ↑ Depeche Mode in the Official UK Charts (English)