Get the Balance Right!

"Get the Balance Right!"
Single by Depeche Mode
B-side"The Great Outdoors!"
Released31 January 1983 (1983-01-31)[1]
RecordedDecember 1982
StudioBlackwing (London)
GenreSynth-pop[2]
Length
  • 3:12 (7″/single version)
  • 7:56 (12″ version)
LabelMute
Songwriter(s)Martin L. Gore
Producer(s)
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Leave in Silence"
(1982) 		"Get the Balance Right!"
(1983) 		"Everything Counts"
(1983)
Music video
"Get the Balance Right!" on YouTube

"Get the Balance Right!" is the seventh single by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 31 January 1983.[3] Recorded at Blackwing Studios in December 1982, it is the first Depeche Mode single with Alan Wilder as an official band member; Wilder also co-wrote the B-side track "The Great Outdoors!" with Martin Gore. It is also one of the first Depeche Mode songs to feature guitar; according to Andy Fletcher, the guitar was processed through a synth and phased out of time to make it sound more interesting.[4]

"Get the Balance Right!" was not included on the following album Construction Time Again (although it appears on the deluxe edition of the album), but does appear on the American compilation People Are People and the compilation The Singles 81→85.

  1. ^ "Official Depeche Mode web site single information". Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  2. ^ Evans, Richard (6 August 2024). "1983.2". Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983. Omnibus Press. p. 424. ISBN 978-1-915841-45-2.
  3. ^ Christopher, Michael (28 December 2020). Depeche Mode FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the World's Finest Synth-Pop Band. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-4930-5400-8. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  4. ^ Miller, Jonathan (2004). Stripped: The True Story of Depeche Mode. Omnibus Press. p. 245. ISBN 1-84449-415-2.