Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode song)

"Just Can't Get Enough"
Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Speak & Spell
B-side "Any Second Now"
Released 7 September 1981
Format 7" single, 12" single, CD single
Recorded July 1981 Blackwing Studios, London
Genre Synthpop,[1] new wave[2]
Length 3:41
Label Mute
Writer(s) Vince Clarke
Producer(s) Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller
Certification Silver (BPI)[3]
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"New Life"
(1981)		 "Just Can't Get Enough"
(1981)		 "See You"
(1982)

"Just Can't Get Enough" is a song by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released in September 1981 as the third single from their debut album, Speak and Spell (1981). 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 synthpop 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 and Spell. The 12" 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 and Spell, the UK re-release of Speak and 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 shows up on the UK rerelease of Speak and 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, the song 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.

Content

Due to Vince Clarke's songwriting, the song has a bubbly, upbeat feel that stands in contrast to the darker, brooding feel of most later Depeche Mode songs.

Music video

"Just Can't Get Enough" was the first Depeche Mode song to get a music video. It is the only Depeche Mode video with Vince Clarke. The director was Clive Richardson.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Just Can't Get Enough":

7": Mute/7Mute16 (UK)
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough"– 3:45
  2. "Any Second Now"– 3:08
12": Mute/12Mute16 (UK)
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)"– 6:46
  2. "Any Second Now (Altered)"– 5:43
CD: Mute/CDMute16 (D)1
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)"– 6:46
  2. "Any Second Now (Altered)"– 5:43
  3. "Just Can't Get Enough (7" Version)"– 3:45
CD: Mute/CDMute16 (UK)2
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough"– 3:45
  2. "Any Second Now"– 3:08
  3. "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)"– 6:46
  4. "Any Second Now (Altered)"– 5:43
7": Sire/SRE50029 (US)
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough"– 3:45
  2. "Tora! Tora! Tora!"– 4:17

Notes

Chart performance

Chart (1981–1982) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 4
Belgium (VRT Top 30 Flanders)[5] 11
France (SNEP)[6] 31
Ireland (IRMA)[7] 16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[8] 29
Spain (AFYVE)[9] 15
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[10] 14
UK (Official Charts Company)[11] 8
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[12] 26
Chart (1985) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13] 8
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[14] 5
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[15] 10
Chart (2011) Peak
position
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[16] 26
UK (Official Charts Company)[11] 74
Chart (2013) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[17] 146
Country Certifications
(sales thresholds)
United Kingdom Silver (BPI)[18]

Cover versions

The Saturdays version

"Just Can't Get Enough"
Single by The Saturdays
from the album Chasing Lights re-issue
B-side "Golden Rules"
Released 1 March 2009
Format CD single, digital download
Recorded 2009
Genre Dance-pop, electropop
Length 3:08 (radio mix)
Label Polydor
Writer(s) Vince Clarke
Producer(s) David Eriksen,[20] Max Herman [21]
The Saturdays singles chronology
"Issues"
(2009)		 "Just Can't Get Enough"
(2009)		 "Work"
(2009)
Music video
"Just Can't Get Enough" on YouTube

"Just Can't Get Enough" was covered by British-Irish girl group The Saturdays. It was one of the official Comic Relief singles for 2009.

Chart performance

On 8 March 2009, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 2, where it peaked, being beaten by Flo Rida's "Right Round" after being at number 1 in the midweek count, thus being the first Comic Relief single not to chart at number 1 in 14 years. However, it gave The Saturdays their highest chart placing at the time, outpeaking and outselling the original track, plus it marked their fourth consecutive top ten hit in the UK. The success of this single was later matched by "Forever Is Over" and beaten by "What About Us".

Music video

The music video premiered on MSN on 9 February 2009. The video shows each girl singing in a mock-'50s pin-up calendar and uses a different edit of the song than the single version. It was directed by Harvey B-Brown. U2 Drummer appears Larry Mullen

Track listing

CD single

(Released 2 March 2009)

  1. "Just Can't Get Enough" (Radio Mix) — 3:08
  2. "Golden Rules" — 3:50
Digital single

(Released 1 March 2009)

  1. "Just Can't Get Enough" (Radio Mix) — 3:08
  2. "Just Can't Get Enough" (Video Mix) — 3:19
  3. "Just Can't Get Enough" (Wideboys Club Mix) — 5:08
  4. "Just Can't Get Enough" video — 3:32 iTunes Edition Only

Usage in media

In 2011, the song was used for promotional commercials for the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Weekly charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)[22] 6
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[23] 11
Ireland (IRMA)[24] 6
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[25] 1
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[26] 94
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[27] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2009) Position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[28] 68

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom Silver (BPI)[18] 284,472[29]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

In popular culture

Charity single "Just Can't Get Enough" by the Good Child Foundation
Football chant for Celtic F.C.

In 2009 the song was adapted as a football chant by fans of Celtic F.C., specifically the Green Brigade fans.[30]

In an interview with football website Goal.com, Depeche Mode keyboardist Andrew Fletcher commented on the use of the song by Celtic fans: "We feel honoured that the Celtic faithful are chanting our songs and are touched by it. The best thing is that they know the entire lyrics."[30]

The football chant was also sung by Thai children from the The Good Child Foundation also known as the Thai Tims, made up of children with Down Syndrome. The song had been taught to them by Reamonn Gormley, a young Celtic youth team player and avid Celtic fan from Blantyre who had gone to Thailand as a volunteer English language teacher for Good Child Foundation and would use English songs to teach English to them, including, amongst others, Celtic chants. Gormley was stabbed to death upon his return to Blantyre on 1 February 2011. He was just 19. The Thai Tims' videotaped tribute version of "Just Can't Get Enough" citing "Reamonn [Gormley], Jinky Johnstone and Tommy Burns will be smiling down from heaven on all of us" went viral.[31] In memory of Reamonn Gormley, Celtic FC and Celtic Charity Fund released it as a charity single on 8 May 2011[32] with proceeds going to the Good Child Foundation in Thailand and Crime Stoppers in Scotland.[33] It reached number 30 on the UK Singles Chart.

Adaptations for other football clubs

As it grew in popularity, the song was adapted by fans of other football teams. The first team to adapt it was English Championship side Burnley in January 2011.[34] In February 2011, starting with the 3–2 home win over Aston Villa, then Premier League club Bolton Wanderers used the song when they scored a goal at the Reebok Stadium.[35] Also in February 2011, Liverpool supporters adopted the song as a tribute and encouragement for the club's new Uruguayan attacker Luis Suárez. Asked about the Liverpool supporters' adoption of the song, Depeche Mode's Andrew Fletcher, in spite of being a supporter of rival club Chelsea, acknowledged their creativeness: "It's breathtaking to see the enthusiasm in the stands when they're chanting the song." Finally, he explained that bandmate David Gahan also followed Chelsea, while Martin L. Gore is a fan of Arsenal.[30][36]

It became a chant even in "de Kuip" sung by the Feyenoord audiences.

Following Craig Mackail-Smith's transfer from Peterborough, Brighton & Hove Albion fans started singing the chant.[37] AFC Wimbledon fans have also adapted the song with references to FA betrayal, the controversial formation of Milton Keynes Dons and a desire to return to their home town, along with their love of the club.

It has become a regular chant in most A-League supporters groups, after the Sydney FC supporters group The Cove began singing around 2009. It also become a regular chant for the Auckland City FC supporters club the '248 service crew' when they began singing it 2011. It has also become a regular chat for the Major League Soccer sides Chicago Fire Soccer Club and Philadelphia Union and North American Soccer League sides New York Cosmos and Tampa Bay Rowdies.

In rugby league

Many fans of Super League clubs sing the song on matchdays. Most notably, the Wigan Warriors Brigantes.[38]

In darts

In 2012 it became the walk-on music for Kevin Painter.

References

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  2. ↑ "Top 10 Depeche Mode Songs". Top40.about.com. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  3. ↑ Archived 24 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Danyel Smith, ed. (1982). "Billboard 1 may 1982". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Just Can't Get Enough - DEPECHE MODE". VRT (in Dutch). Top30-2.radio2.be. Retrieved 25 July 2013. Hoogste notering in de top 30 : 11
  6. ↑ "InfoDisc : Tous les Titres par Artiste". Dominic DURAND / InfoDisc (in French). InfoDisc.fr. 20 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013. You have to use the index at the top of the page and search "Depeche Mode"
  7. ↑ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". IRMA. Retrieved 21 June 2013. 4th result when searching "Just can't get enough"
  8. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  9. ↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  10. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  11. 1 2 "Depeche Mode". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  12. ↑ "Speak and Spell awards on Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough (Live)" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough - Live [Mini Album search results"] (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  15. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough (Live)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  16. ↑ Scottish Singles Top 40 - 6 July 2013 | Official Charts
  17. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  18. 1 2 "BPI - searchable database". British Phonographic Industry. BPI.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
  19. ↑ SkyNews
  20. ↑ "Saturdays, The – Chasing Lights (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  21. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Saturdays-Just-Cant-Get-Enough/release/1682509
  22. ↑ "The Saturdays – Chart history" European Hot 100 for The Saturdays. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  23. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
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  26. ↑ "SNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 200919 into search. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
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  28. ↑ "Charts Plus Year end 2009" (PDF). UKChartsPlus. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  29. ↑ Jones, Alan (25 March 2013). "Official Charts Analysis: Timberlake album tops 100k sales in one week". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  30. 1 2 3 Francois Duchateau. "Depeche Mode keyboard player Andy Fletcher delighted with 'Just Can't Get Enough' chants at Celtic and Liverpool - Goal.com". Goal.com. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  31. ↑ Videotaped version by the Thai Tims of "Just Can't Get Enough" on YouTube
  32. ↑ "Just Can't Get Enough" single's official website
  33. ↑ "Just Can't Get Enough - Single by Various Artists". iTunes. Apple Inc. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  34. ↑ Tony Scholes. "Clarets' fans Just Can't Get Enough - Burnley FC - Clarets Mad". Clarets-mad.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  35. ↑ "Whites on song". The Bolton News. Theboltonnews.co.uk. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  36. ↑ CrimeStoppers: Just Can’t Get Enough - Charity single launched
  37. ↑ Craig Mackail-Smith Brighton Chant Cardiff Away. YouTube.
  38. ↑ Wigan Ultras Brigantes singing Just Can't Get Enough. YouTube. Retrieved 20 July 2013.

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