It's Called a Heart
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| "It's Called a Heart" | ||
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| Single by Depeche Mode | ||
| from the album The Singles 81>85 | ||
| B-side(s) | "Fly on the Windscreen" | |
| Released | September 16, 1985 | |
| Format | Vinyl record (7" and 12"), CD (1991 box set) | |
| Recorded | 1985 | |
| Genre | Synthpop | |
| Length | 7" - 3:48 12" - 7:19 |
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| Label | Mute Records | |
| Writer(s) | Martin Gore | |
| Producer(s) | Depeche Mode, and Daniel Miller | |
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| Depeche Mode singles chronology | ||
| "Shake the Disease" (1985) |
"It's Called a Heart" (1985) |
"Stripped" (1986) |
"It's Called a Heart" is Depeche Mode's fourteenth UK single (released on September 16, 1985), and was not released on an actual studio album but was released on the compilation The Singles (81-85) in the same year, along with "Shake the Disease". The American version of The Singles 81>85, Catching Up with Depeche Mode, also includes "It's Called a Heart"'s B-side, "Fly on the Windscreen".
This single is considered to be one of Depeche Mode's weakest. Alan Wilder considers it to be his most hated track, and fought for "Fly on the Windscreen" to be the A-side. After the band realized their mistake, they put an updated version of "Fly on the Windscreen" on the following album Black Celebration.
There is no limited edition ("L12 Bong") of this single in the way it was released for other DM singles. Instead there was a "D12 Bong", a double 12", that featured both the standard 12" and the remix 12".
The music video was directed by Peter Care.
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[edit] Track listings
[edit] 7": Mute / 7Bong9 (UK)
- "It's Called a Heart" (3:48)
- "Fly on the Windscreen" (5:03)
[edit] 12": Mute / 12Bong9 (UK)
- "It's Called a Heart [Extended]" (7:19)
- "Fly on the Windscreen [Extended]" (7:47)
[edit] 12": Mute / D12Bong9 (UK)
- "It's Called a Heart [Extended]" (7:19)
- "Fly on the Windscreen [Extended]" (7:47)
- "It's Called a Heart [Slow Mix]" (4:49)
- "Fly on the Windscreen [Death Mix]" (5:06)
[edit] 12": Sire / 0-20402 (US)
- "It's Called a Heart [Emotion Remix]" (6:48)
- "It's Called a Heart [Emotion Dub]" (5:33)
- "Flexible [Deportation Mix]" (4:38)
- "It's Called a Heart" (3:48)
[edit] CD: Mute / CDBong9 (UK)
- "It's Called a Heart" (3:48)
- "Fly on the Windscreen" (5:03)
- "It's Called a Heart [Extended]" (7:19)
- "Fly on the Windscreen [Extended]" (7:47)
- "Fly on the Windscreen [Death Mix]" (5:06)
The CD single was released in 1991 as part of the singles box set compilations
All songs written by Martin Gore.
