Just Can't Get Enough

Infobox Single
Name = Just Can't Get Enough


Artist = Depeche Mode
from Album = Speak & Spell
B-side = "Any Second Now"
Released = September 7, 1981
Format = Vinyl record (7" and 12"), CD (1991 box set)
Recorded = 1981
Genre = Synthpop, New Wave
Length = 7" - 3:41
12" - 6:43
Label = Mute Records
Writer = Vince Clarke
Producer = Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller
Chart position =
* #8 (UK)
* #4 (Australia)
* #26 (US Dance)
* #29 (New Zealand)
Reviews =
* allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fg2gtq4zbu46~T00 link]
Last single = "New Life"
(1981)
This single = "Just Can't Get Enough"
(1981)
Next single = "See You"
(1982)

"Just Can't Get Enough" is the third UK single by Depeche Mode originally released in September 1981.It was also the band's first single to be released in the United States, on February 18 1982. The song, a riff-driven Synthpop piece, was the final single to be written by Vince Clarke who left the band in December of 1981. The song would be included on the band's first album, "Speak and Spell", which was released a month after the single.

The single version of "Just Can't Get Enough" is the same version that appears on the UK version of "Speak and Spell". The "Schizo Mix" is an extended version with a different intro and an ambient tune popping up after the choruses. It appears on the US version of "Speak and Spell", the UK rerelease of "Speak and Spell", the rerelease of "The Singles (81-85)" and "Remixes 81 - 04".

In addition, the single's B-side "Any Second Now" was the first commercially available Depeche Mode instrumental. It shows up on the UK rerelease of "Speak and Spell". A version including vocals (the first Depeche Mode vocals to be handled by Martin Gore) would appear on the album as "Any Second Now (Voices)". There is also an extended version, the "Altered" Mix. In the United States, the B-side is "Tora! Tora! Tora!". On the "Speak and Spell" album, the song is crossfaded with the previous track, "Photographic", but on the single, the introduction is clean.

The single reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart and #26 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, making it their highest-charting single at the time on both counts. It also became the band's first (and biggest) hit in Australia, reaching #4.

Trivia

"Just Can't Get Enough" is also the first Depeche Mode song to get a music video. It is the only DM video with Vince Clarke. The director was Clive Richardson.

On September 12, 1999, premiered a Gap advertising spot directed by Pedro Romhanyi, titled "Everybody in Leather", in which "Just Can't Get Enough" was sung by a group of young adults, among which where then-unknowns Alex Greenwald, Monet Mazur and Jason Thompson, the music mix being done by the Dust Brothers. [ [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,270600,00.html Mind the Gap] in: Entertainment Weekly #502 (Sep 10, 1999)] . On October 7, 1999, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno did a parody of the ad, which featured old men singing the song for a fictional Viagra ad. [The Gap ad and its spoof can be viewed at the official Depeche Mode [http://archives.depechemode.com/video/television/index.html website] ]

In 2004, the French band Nouvelle Vague adapted the song in a jazzy / bossa-nova style on the album "Nouvelle Vague". Japanese musician Anna Tsuchiya covered this song on her 2007 single Kuroi Namida except it is re-arranged as a downbeat rock piece.

It was used in a promotion for the now-defunct ITV Day morning-afternoon service between 2003-5. The cover by Nouvelle Vague has been widely used as background music on British television, including being used as the theme for BBC One's Christmas promotions in 2004.

Spanish artist Marta Sánchez sampled this song on her 2007 single "Superstar".

This song is used in trailers for the film Music and Lyrics.

In an episode of Wayside, the background music put while Todd completes Mr. Kidswatter's list sounds identical to the song.

Parts of the song were used in commercials for TV Land's reality show High School Reunion.

Track listings

7": Mute / 7Mute16 (UK)

# "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:41
# "Any Second Now" – 3:06

12": Mute / 12Mute16 (UK)

# "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" – 6:43
# "Any Second Now (Altered)" – 5:41

CD: Mute / CDMute16 (UK)

# "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:45
# "Any Second Now" – 3:09
# "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" – 6:48
# "Any Second Now (Altered)" – 5:42

*CD released in 1991

7": Sire / SRE50029 (US)

# "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:41
# "Tora! Tora! Tora!" – 4:23

*All songs written by Vince Clarke except for "Tora! Tora! Tora!", written by Martin Gore

Chart performance

References

External links

* [http://archives.depechemode.com/discography/singles/03_justcantgetenough.html Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLA3WA9QOh0 Video on YouTube]