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Year released: 2005Playing the Angel

Critical acclaim:

Key singles:
  1. "Precious" (3 October 2005)
  2. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (9 December 2005)
  3. "Suffer Well" (20 March 2006)
  4. "John the Revelator / Lilian" (4 June 2006)

Track list:
  1. "A Pain That I'm Used To" – 4:11
  2. "John the Revelator" – 3:42
  3. "Suffer Well" – 3:49
  4. "The Sinner in Me" – 4:56
  5. "Precious" – 4:10
  6. "Macro" – 4:03
  7. "I Want It All" – 6:09
  8. "Nothing's Impossible" – 4:21
  9. "Introspectre" – 1:42
  10. "Damaged People" – 3:29
  11. "Lilian" – 4:49
  12. "The Darkest Star" – 6:55

Bonus Tracks:
  1. "Free" - 5:11 [Japanese version, also a B-side of "Precious"]
  2. "Waiting For the Night (Bare)" - 4:20 [iTunes bonus track, also on the digital box set "The Complete Depeche Mode"]


Important 'notes':

  • This is the first studio album to contain songs written by Dave Gahan. He wrote the lyrics to "Suffer Well", "I Want It All" and "Nothing's Impossible", along with tour drummer Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpot, who had helped with his 2003 solo effort "Paper Monsters".
  • Playing the Angel was welcomed by some fans as a return to the form for Depeche Mode. Many felt that the band had finally found itself after losing Alan Wilder in 1995.