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Songs That Changed Music | Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Over the course of the 80s, British electronic music legends Depeche Mode led the forefront of the synthpop and industrial pop music scenes, catapulting the alternative sounds of these worlds into mainstream attention.

At the decade’s end (and seemingly at the top of their potential) the band returned to the studio to record their seventh studio album Violator. This landmark album includes several iconic singles including “Personal Jesus” and “Enjoy the Silence”. With “Enjoy the Silence” Depeche Mode took a serene ballad of satisfaction, and wrapped it in disco dance-ability….kicking off the nineties with a new wave of poignant, self-reflective songwriting which embraced the infectious sounds of pop.

“Enjoy the Silence” was released on February 5, 1990, as the album’s second single. The album itself followed on March 19. The song was an international hit, reaching the top ten throughout Europe and the US. It took the number one spot on the US Alternative Airplay, and the number two spot on the dance charts, it also held the number one singles spot in Denmark, Poland and Spain. Violator hit number two on the UK albums chart.

“Enjoy the Silence” won the Best British Single award in 1991, and the song can be credited as one of the defining tracks of Depeche Mode’s career – one that brought the band’s groundbreaking electronic, industrial, and synth-pop sounds into truly mainstream attention.

Depeche Mode’s music dominated the end of the 20th century and their legacy has earned them entrance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they were inducted in 2020.

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