Stripped (song)

"Stripped"
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Black Celebration
B-side	"But Not Tonight" "Breathing in Fumes" "Black Day"
Released	10 February 1986
Recorded	Late 1985
Genre	Industrial synth-pop
Length	4:14 (album version) 3:52 (7" version) 6:42 (12" version)
Label	Mute
Songwriter(s)	Martin Gore
Producer(s)	Depeche Mode Gareth Jones Daniel Miller
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"It's Called a Heart" (1985) "Stripped" (1986) "A Question of Lust" (1986)

"Stripped" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released as the lead single from their fifth studio album Black Celebration (1986) on 10 February 1986, through Mute Records. Written by the band's lead songwriter Martin Gore, "Stripped" introduces the more dark and sample oriented composition that featured on the Black Celebration album. It incorporates various samples into its instrumental; most notably, the sound of an idling motorcycle engine was recorded, altered slightly, and inserted as a percussive element.

It was the band's sixth consecutive single to enter the UK Top 20, peaking at number 15. Elsewhere, it peaked at number 4 in Germany and reached the top 10 in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. German metal band Rammstein later covered the song for the 1998 Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses.