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Depeche Mode's catalog, over a dozen albums in all, will be reissued on vinyl throughout the winter and spring. Everything from their 1981 debut, SPEAK & SPELL through last year's release will be available in glossy gatefold sleeves with thick slabs of 180 gram vinyl, all containing inserts and liner notes. 

Next Tuesday, February 4th, the reissue campaign begins with the following albums, available for pre-order now:

SOME GREAT REWARD - http://smarturl.it/DMSmGrRe

MUSIC FOR THE MASSES - http://smarturl.it/DMMusic4Masses

BLACK CELEBRATION - http://smarturl.it/DMBlackClbrtn

SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION - http://smarturl.it/DMSongsFaith

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So they're re-pressing these again...

 

Their catalog was entirely remastered in 2006 for CD and DVD Audio in 24/96 quality and issued in cd/dvd packages.

They were really nice products and the high res DVD-Audio sounded really great and had really nice screens during playback. The lengthy documentary series included with every album was delightful to say the least. There's about 8-9 hours in total of Depeche Mode documentary in interviews complete with their story from their very beginnings, newly made exclusively for these re-issues.

 

They also decided to take the high res transfers, remastered mind you, and press vinyl which was issued in 2007-2008.

These, unfortunately weren't as good sounding. They don't sound terrible but you can tell they're digitally processed.

The only one that sounds actually good was the Exciter remastered 2LP pressing. 

 

Honestly, if you only care about the music, the CD/DVD reissues from 2006 are all the DM you could wish for.

If you really need your DM on vinyl, any original pressing will be better than those, and they're widely available still except of course for Playing the Angel which I agree, really needs to be re-issued.

 

I'm curious if these new ones will have the same sources as the last ones.

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Also, regarding the 2007-2008  re-issues, there were Eurpean pressings (on Mute) and Noth-American pressings (on Rhino/Reprise).

The American pressings sounded better than the European ones, can't explain it, but they did.

 

And final observation, the American versions had sloppier appearance overall (dinged jackets, fucked up inner sleeves, scuffed surface on the records) while the European packaging seemed immaculate and sturdier (heavier stock for the inner sleeves for example) and clean shiny records.

 

Am I too big of a DM fan?

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It's amazing how almost every one of those listings is just barely, barely converted to 50 U.S. dollars for some international shipping deal on a VG record from some European country. Come on, dude. Just because those records are available and ready to be bought doesn't mean they oughta be. I would never pay 50 bucks for Violator with international shipping from Sweden from some guy because some guy from VC told me those are better than the 18 dollar copies that will soon be available to me. Your enticing argument of "The American pressings sounded better than the European ones, can't explain it, but they did." only furthers the point that I shouldn't buy a 50 dollar 1990 copy from some guy in Spain.

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I think I picked up the new reissue of SOFAD yesterday from my local store. They had all 4 listed in the links in the first post, and the timing would lead me to believe it's them, since they come out on Tuesday... but I can't tell for sure. It's on Rhino, 180g, but doesn't have any indication it's a 2014 reissue. The label and sleeve both have the 2007 date. If someone else gets these, please post and let me know what yours say.

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You called it...all four albums bundled on Pop Market:

 

https://www.popmarket.com/details/29334861?feature_id=29322135

 

Not bad, works out to under $13 an album 

And I pulled the trigger.

My 15% off for doing a survey from them brought it to $10.41 an album!

I think they may have some active coupon codes... coulda swore I saw that in another thread.

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