"Enjoy the Silence" | ||||
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Single by Depeche Mode | ||||
from the album Violator | ||||
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Released | 5 February 1990[1] | |||
Recorded | 1989 | |||
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Label | Mute | |||
Songwriter(s) | Martin Gore | |||
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"Enjoy the Silence" on YouTube |
"Enjoy the Silence" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode. Recorded in 1989, it was released as the second single from their seventh studio album, Violator (1990), on 5 February 1990. The song is certified Gold in the US and Germany.[8] The song won Best British Single at the Brit Awards 1991.[9]
"Enjoy the Silence" was re-released as a single in 2004 for the Depeche Mode remix project Remixes 81–04, and was titled "Enjoy the Silence (Reinterpreted)" or, more simply, "Enjoy the Silence 04".
80s veterans Depeche Mode capping a decade's commercial growth with a truly singular synth-rock song that absolutely nobody could deny.