Amoung the top 5 DM songs

I can never resist listening to the whole song after hearing that intro. The infamous sound of Martin "moaning" in a painful exausted sort of way. I read somewhere that this is one of Martin Gore's favourite songs, you can understand why after listening to it.

I love this song, everything from the hard 80's sound, to the deep emotional lyrics.

What makes the musical part of the song so good is all the light ambient sampled sounds combined with the piercing sound of a drum snare. Usually with DM songs, you can listen to over and over and find new or deeper meanings with the lyrics. The best part about this song is the fact that you can listen to it and hear new melodies and sounds in the background that are *perfectly* in tune with the rest of the song.

Its quite hard to descirbe actually, you have to really listen to the song. You can tell this a song they must have worked on hard (sample/music wise at least) there are so many backing sounds and melodies, it is a masterpiece.

Do be flexible and add this to your DM collection

There's nothing better than a great Depeche Mode single, except maybe a great RARE depeche mode song--and I'm not even talking about the B-sides and remixes.

Unless you own either version of "The Singles 81<85" you probably aren't too familiar with "Shake the Disease" if at all, since it was only available on those compialations and never on an actual album. Shake the disease is another one of DM's catchier pop songs that will be loved by fans of anything from Some Great Reward all the way onto Violator. Shake the disease is a song that's easy to sing along to and easy to love. I'm so glad it was re-released as a single.

The other tracks are also well worth the money. "Flexible" is a very unique song to the DM catalog. At first I was a bit disappointed at the fact that this song fits more with what DM was doing in 1982 rather than it's more progressive gothic pop revolution in 1986 but do be warned, once you listen to it a couple of times, you'll be hooked. Then there's the metal mix of "Something to do", which in my opinion is a very underrated song. All mixes of this song are welcomed by me but this one is definitely one of the best ever DM remixes of all time. You'll love the little tinny sounds and noises put together to remake this classic song as though it was being played on an old music box. It's so well done that the band could have gotten away with keeping this song as an instrumental but I'm very glad that they did add the vocals because Dave's voice always adds that signature DM feel.

Another great DM single, just like the other obscure DM song; "It's called a heart".

Honestly, A Excellent Depeche Mode Song!

I first heard this song while listening to the "Catching Up with Depeche Mode" Album. Shake the Disease is Awesome! Just as good as Everything Counts in my book :) Catchy little tune along the lines of Everything Counts, Just can't get Enough and a few others I wont mention now. None the less, it is a great song. I do have the single but I think you money would be better spent on either the "Cathcing up with Depeche Mode" album or "Singles 81-85" I think I would be more likely to say the Singles 81-85 as it has a lot of variety from DM's early years!