Shake the Disease
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| "Shake the Disease" | ||
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| Single by Depeche Mode | ||
| from the album The Singles 81>85 | ||
| B-side(s) | "Flexible" | |
| Released | April 29, 1985 | |
| Format | Vinyl record (7" and 12"), CD (1991 box set) | |
| Recorded | 1985 | |
| Genre | Synthpop | |
| Length | 7" - 4:48 12" - 8:46 |
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| Label | Mute Records | |
| Writer(s) | Martin Gore | |
| Producer(s) | Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller, and Gareth Jones | |
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| Depeche Mode singles chronology | ||
| "Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody" (1984) |
"Shake the Disease" (1985) |
"It's Called a Heart" (1985) |
"Shake the Disease" is Depeche Mode's thirteenth UK single (released on April 29, 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 "It's Called a Heart". The American version of The Singles 81-85, Catching Up with Depeche Mode, also includes "Shake the Disease"'s B-side, "Flexible".
The song was intended for the band's future album Black Celebration which was released a little less than a year later. However it was finished too soon and the band decided to make a Singles compilation in order to release the song early.
The music video is the first Depeche Mode video directed by Peter Care and features an innovative camera trick that makes it look like the band are falling when they are not.
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[edit] Track listings
[edit] 7": Mute / 7Bong8 (UK)
- "Shake the Disease" (4:48)
- "Flexible" (3:11)
[edit] 7": Sire / 7-28835 (US)
- "Shake the Disease [Fade]" (3:59)
- "Flexible" (3:11)
[edit] 12": Mute / 12Bong8 (UK)
- "Shake the Disease [Remixed Extended Version]" (8:43)
- "Flexible [Remixed Extended Version]" (6:15)
[edit] 12": Mute / L12Bong8 (UK)
- "Shake the Disease [Edit the Shake]" (7:08)
- "Master and Servant [Live]" (5:38)
- "Flexible [Pre-Deportation Mix]" (4:40)
- "Something to Do [Metal Mix]" (7:25)
- "Master and Servant" was recorded at the Basel, Switzerland show on November 30, 1984.
[edit] CD: Mute / CDBong8 (UK)
- "Shake the Disease" (4:48)
- "Flexible" (3:11)
- "Shake the Disease [Remixed Extended Version]" (8:43)
- "Flexible [Remixed Extended Version]" (6:15)
- "Shake the Disease [Edit the Shake]" (7:11)
- "Something to Do [Metal Mix]" (7:26)
- The CD single was released in 1991 as part of the singles box set compilations
All songs written by Martin Gore.
[edit] Trivia
- The lyric "I've got things to do, and I've said before I know that you have too" is possibly a reference to the song "Stories Of Old" on the 1984 Depeche Mode album Some Great Reward, which contains the lyric "I've got things to do/You have too/And I've got to be me, you've got to be you."
- Los Angeles modern rock radio station KROQ named "Shake The Disease" as the number one song of 1985.
- The song was covered by the Belgian band Hooverphonic for the 1998 tribute album For the Masses.
