Goodnight Lovers

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"Goodnight Lovers"
"Goodnight Lovers" cover
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Exciter
B-side(s) Various remixes
Released February 11, 2002
Format 12", CD
Recorded 2000
Genre Synthpop
Length 3:48
Label Mute Records
Writer(s) Martin Gore
Producer(s) Mark Bell
Chart positions
  • The single did not chart
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Freelove"
(2001)
"Goodnight Lovers"
(2002)
"Enjoy the Silence 04"
(2004)

"Goodnight Lovers" is Depeche Mode's thirty-ninth UK single, released on February 11, 2002. It is the fourth and final single for the album Exciter.

"Goodnight Lovers" is a lullaby of sorts, a weird choice for a single that surprised many fans who were expecting "The Dead of Night" or "The Sweetest Condition". It was also surprising as the song was not played live during the Exciter Tour, making it the first single that wasn't played live at its album's tour since "Little 15" (It was later featured in the encore of Touring the Angel). The single version is the same as the album closer from Exciter.

The single did not qualify for the UK Singles Chart due to the fact that it had excess songs. Singles with more than one unique track need no more than 3 tracks, while this single had 4. The B-sides are remixes of "When the Body Speaks", "The Dead of Night", and "Goodnight Lovers". However, it did qualify for the Budget Albums Chart and went straight to Number One before falling rapidly, the first Depeche Mode single to reach Number One in an official UK chart.

The UK only had a CD release, but there were other European countries that got a 12" release, their tracklists are all the same. The single was not released in the USA.

The music video for "Goodnight Lovers" was directed by John Hillcoat, filmed in Germany following the final Exciter Tour concert in Mannheim. It is not available on a public release.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD: Mute/Labels/Virgin / CDBong33 (UK)

  1. "Goodnight Lovers" (3:48)
  2. "When the Body Speaks" (Acoustic) (6:00)
  3. "The Dead of Night" (Electronicat Remix) (7:38)
  4. "Goodnight Lovers" (isan Falling Leaf Mix) (5:53)

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Depeche Mode
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Depeche Mode discography

Studio albums: Speak & Spell | A Broken Frame | Construction Time Again | Some Great Reward | Black Celebration | Music for the Masses | Violator | Songs of Faith and Devotion | Ultra | Exciter | Playing the Angel

Compilations: People Are People | The Singles 81>85 | Catching Up with Depeche Mode | The Singles 86>98 | Remixes 81 - 04 | The Best Of, Volume 1

Live Albums: 101 | Songs of Faith and Devotion Live

Tribute Albums: For the Masses | A Techno Tribute to Depeche Mode

Singles: Dreaming of Me | New Life | Just Can't Get Enough | See You | The Meaning of Love | Leave in Silence | Get the Balance Right | Everything Counts | Love, in Itself | People Are People | Master and Servant | Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody | Shake the Disease | It's Called a Heart | Stripped | A Question of Lust | A Question of Time | Strangelove | Never Let Me Down Again | Behind the Wheel | Little 15 | Everything Counts (Live) | Personal Jesus | Enjoy the Silence | Policy of Truth | World in My Eyes I Feel You | Walking in My Shoes | Condemnation | In Your Room | Barrel of a Gun | It's No Good | Home | Useless | Only When I Lose Myself | Dream On | I Feel Loved | Freelove | Goodnight Lovers | Enjoy the Silence 04 | Precious | A Pain That I'm Used To | Suffer Well | John the Revelator / Lilian | Martyr

Videography

Videos: The World We Live In and Live in Hamburg | Some Great Videos | Strange | 101 | Strange Too | Devotional | The Videos 86>98 | One Night in Paris | Touring the Angel: Live in Milan

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