Black Celebration - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• In 1989, the album was ranked #15 on Spin magazine's list of "The 25 Greatest Albums Of All Time".
• The voice at the beginning of "Black Celebration" is Daniel Miller (impersonating Winston Churchill) saying, "A brief period of rejoicing."
• Black Celebration is the only Depeche Mode album that has a title track. However, there are three other Depeche Mode albums that get their names from lyrics in songs on the albums: Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward and Playing the Angel.
• Black Celebration is the only Depeche Mode album which does not have a track featured on The Best Of: Volume 1, although the DVD edition carries both "Stripped" and "A Question Of Time".
• Black Celebration was the last Depeche Mode album to feature Brian Griffin as cover photographer.
• The B-side "Black Day" is a new composition that reprises lyrics from "Black Celebration", sung by Martin Gore.
• On the back of the cover, a quote reciting Life in the so-called space age can be read. This quote gave inspiration to God Lives Underwater, who released an album with such a title, in 1998.
• The 1986 film Modern Girls used the song "But Not Tonight". The track was released as a single in North America only, and was not included on most other versions of Black Celebration.
• The single "Stripped" is used in the film Say Anything....
• The songs "Stripped" and "A Question of Lust" are both in the film Dangerously Close.
• The song "Black Celebration" is used as the music for the Welder (John DeFoe) chase sequence in 7 Days a Skeptic by Ben Croshaw.
• "Breathing in Fumes" can be seen as a remix of "Stripped", utilizing the lyrics and vocal lines of the song with a more industrial beat.
• The song "Fly on the Windscreen" was used in Miami Vice episode "El Viejo".