What's the best track on "Black Celebration"?

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Considered by lots of people to be their first great album, this is the oldest Depeche Mode album that lots of non-synthpop fans may be familiar with. IMO it also remains one of their best ever and it has a tendency to be a fave pick by really devout fans.
Hopefully enough people on ILM are familiar with it that it will be an interesting poll too.

I am using the original US version of the album because I realise "But Not Tonight" is an important inclusion for some US fans. (And including all of the CD bonus tracks wouldn't be right anyway). The cassette version that I used to own, and also the European vinyl version, ended with "New Dress".

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Stripped	6
A Question of Lust	3
A Question of Time	3
Here Is the House	2
Black Celebration" – 4:55	2
Sometimes	1
Fly on the Windscreen - Final" – 5:18	1
But Not Tonight	1
It Doesn't Matter Two	0
World Full of Nothing	0
Dressed in Black	0
New Dress	0

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 30 September 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

And count my vote for the glorious title track. One of the best album openers ever!

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 30 September 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 6 October 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

"Stripped"

― stephen, Saturday, 6 October 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

It's the thread that had to be made

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 6 October 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

went for "stripped". i adore "but not tonight" but for me it's not a proper part of the album ;)

i come and go with this album. sometimes it's a piece of out-of-time wonder; a slighter, more pernicious precursor to the stomp of "music for the masses". other times it just sounds a bit ... weedy. last time i listened, though, it sounded like the best thing i'd heard in months, so hey.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 7 October 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, I missed this thread.

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 7 October 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

you and almost everyone else, sadly :(

what would you have voted for, curtis?

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 7 October 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

I honestly cannot stand "Strippped." "Fly On The Windscreen" it is for me.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 7 October 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if I could have chosen.

and I am v. surprised at Alex's not liking "Stripped."

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 8 October 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

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