Those Deadbeat Cats - Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode Cover)

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From '' This Ain't Rockabilly, This Is... ''
Released: 2023

Tracklist
01. Word Up
02. Tainted Love
03. Sweet Child Of Mine
04. You Spin Me ‘Round
05. Just Can’t Get Enough
06. The Way You Make Me Feel
07. Karma Chameleon
08. Hungry Like The Wolf
09. I Think We’re Alone Now
10. Material Girl
11. Don’t You Want Me Baby
12. Ace Of Spades
13. Creep

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"Just Can't Get Enough" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode.
It was their third single, released on 7 September 1981, a month before the release of their debut studio album, Speak & Spell.
It was recorded during the summer of that year at Blackwing Studios, and was the band's first single to be released in the United States, on 18 February 1982.
A riff-driven synth-pop song, "Just Can't Get Enough" was the final single to be written by founding member Vince Clarke, who left the band in November 1981.

The single version of "Just Can't Get Enough" is the same version that appears on the UK version of Speak & Spell. The 12-inch single featured a "Schizo mix", which is an extended version with additional synth parts adding a sinister feel to the track. This version appears on the US version of Speak & Spell, the UK re-release of Speak & Spell, the re-release 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 is included on the UK re-release of Speak & Spell. A version including vocals (the first Depeche Mode vocals to be handled by Martin Gore) appeared 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 album, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" is crossfaded with the previous track, "Photographic", but on the single, the introduction is clean.

The single reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the US Hot Dance 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 number 4.
A live version became a top ten hit in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1985.

Critical reception

Upon its release, Smash Hits reviewer Tim De Lisle found the song "A less memorable but sound enough follow-up to "New Life"; well executed and good for dancing."

Record World said that "music box synthesizers toy with a catchy melody line and a chorus chants the title over and over again while a tape-recorded rhythm track provides the dance beat."

Music video

The "Just Can't Get Enough" video, directed by Clive Richardson, was the band's first, and is the only video by the band to feature Vince Clarke.

The exterior scenes in the video are filmed at the Southbank Centre that is, the undercroft and a now demolished stairway at the eastern corner of the Royal Festival Hall.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1981–1982) / Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report) / 4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) / 30
Ireland (IRMA) / 16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) / 29
Spain (AFYVE) / 18
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) / 14
UK Singles (OCC) / 8
UK Indie (MRIB) / 1
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard) with "Nodisco" / 26

Usage in association football

In 2009, the song was adapted as a football chant by fans of Celtic F.C., specifically the Green Brigade fans.

The football chant was also sung by Thai children from the Good Child Foundation also known as the Thai Tims, made up of children with Down syndrome.

As it grew in popularity, the song was adapted by fans of other football teams including English Championship side Burnley in January 2011.
Also, in February 2011, Liverpool supporters adopted the song as a tribute and encouragement for the club's new Uruguayan attacker Luis Suárez.
Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher, in spite of being a supporter of rival club Chelsea, praised the creativeness of the Liverpool fans who adopted the song.
Fletcher said that bandmate Dave Gahan also followed Chelsea, while Martin Gore is a fan of Arsenal.

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[markpike]

Listen to the best English rock s billy band. Restless

[drcover]

These guys are accomplished jazzmen, making a living(?) out of having fun, and this is not even their best cover; I suggest listening to their Tainted Love or 20th Century Boy.

[RRussell]

That was interesting. I have no idea what genre that is. You may have invented a new one (or, is it just new to me?).

Punk-ish. But, maybe too polished for punk. What do consider yourselves?