Just Can't Get Enough
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"Just Can't Get Enough" is the third UK single by Depeche Mode
. It was originally released in the UK in September 1981. It was recorded during the summer of that year, and was the band's first single to be released in the United States, on February 18, 1982.
The song, a riff-driven Synthpop
piece, was the final single to be written by founder member Vince Clarke
, who would leave the band in December 1981. The song was included on the band's first album, Speak and Spell
, which was released a month after the single.
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 a different intro and an ambient tune popping up after the choruses. This version appears on the US version of Speak and Spell, the UK rerelease of Speak and Spell, the rerelease 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 Music/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.
"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.
and its soundtrack album, and in the 1998 film The Wedding Singer
and its Volume 2 soundtrack CD.
The song is also featured in a Gap advertising spot directed by Pedro Romhanyi, titled "Everybody in Leather", which premiered on 12 September 1999. The song was sung by a group of young adults, among which were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald
, Monet Mazur
and Jason Thompson
, as well as the more famous Aaron Lohr
. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers
. On October 7, 1999, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno did a parody of the ad, which featured old men singing the song for a fictional Viagra commercial.
It was also used in a promotion for the now-defunct ITV Day
morning-afternoon service between 2003-5. The cover by Nouvelle Vague
has been widely used as background music on British television, including being used as the theme for BBC One
's Christmas promotions in 2004.
The song was featured in an episode of the 2010 series "An Idiot Abroad
- Mexico". Karl Pilkington
, while visiting Chichen Itza
, dances to the song while exploring the ruins. He erroneously credits it to The Human League
but is quickly corrected.
DJ Duo Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo covered the song as a single.
In 2004, the French band Nouvelle Vague
adapted the song in a jazzy / bossa-nova style on the album, Nouvelle Vague
(as well as on the 2005 compilation album, Acoustic 05). The Japanese musician Anna Tsuchiya
covered this song on her 2007 single Kuroi Namida
, rearranged as a downbeat rock piece. In 2008, Mika
performed a cover of the song for his Live Parc des Princes Paris
concert.
7": Mute/7Mute16 (UK)
12": Mute/12Mute16 (UK)
CD: Mute/CDMute16 (UK)1
7": Sire/SRE50029 (US)
Notes
!align="left"|Chart (1981/2)
!align="center"|Peak
position
|-
|align="left"|Sweden
|align="center"|14
|-
|align="left"|Ireland
|align="center"|16
|-
|align="left"|New Zealand
|align="center"|29
|-
|align="left"|Australia
|align="center"|4
|-
|align="left"|US Dance
|align="center"|26
|-
|align="left"|UK
|align="center"|8
|-
{|class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (2011)
!align="center"|Peak
position
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|align="left"|Scotland
|align="center"|26
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! Country
! Certifications
(sales thresholds)
|-
|United Kingdom
|Silver (BPI
)
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The Saturdays
. It was one of the official Comic Relief
Singles for 2009. On 8 March 2009, the song entered the UK Singles Chart
at number 2, where it peaked, being beaten by Flo Rida
after being at number 1 at 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 ever, outpeaking and outselling the original track, plus marked their fourth consecutive top ten hit in the UK. The success of this single was later matched by "Forever Is Over
".
Frankie Sandford
and Una Healy
take the first verse. While Rochelle Wiseman
takes both bridges and backing vocals in the middle 8. Mollie King
who does back up in all bridges, sings the second verse with Vanessa White
who sings the adlibds and takes lead on the middle 8. She also backs up Rochelle in the second verse.
In 2011, the song was used for promotional commercials for the movie Crazy Stupid Love.
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.
(1799707; Released )
Digital Single
(Released )
! Chart (2009)
! Peak
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!Chart (2009)
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|UK Singles Chart
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|United Kingdom
|Silver (BPI
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In 2009 the song was adapted as a football chant by fans of Celtic F.C.
, specifically the Green Brigade
fans.
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."
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 suffering from 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
. In memory of Reamonn Gormley, Celtic FC and Celtic Charity Fund released it as a charity single on May 8, 2011 with proceeds going to the Good Child Foundation in Thailand and Crime Stoppers in Scotland. It reached #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. One of those teams was English Championship side Burnley
. In February 2011, starting with the 3–2 home win over Aston Villa
, Premier League club Bolton Wanderers
began to use the song when a goal was scored at the Reebok Stadium
. 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 F.C
."
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.
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
. It was originally released in the UK in September 1981. It was recorded during the summer of that year, and was the band's first single to be released in the United States, on February 18, 1982.
The song, a riff-driven Synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
piece, was the final single to be written by founder member Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure....
, who would leave the band in December 1981. The song was included on the band's first album, Speak and Spell
Speak & Spell (album)
Speak & Spell is the first album from the British electronic group Depeche Mode, recorded and released in 1981. The album peaked at #10 in the UK Albums Chart.-Overview:This was the only Depeche Mode album with Vince Clarke as a member of the band...
, which was released a month after the single.
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 a different intro and an ambient tune popping up after the choruses. This version appears on the US version of Speak and Spell, the UK rerelease of Speak and Spell, the rerelease of The Singles (81-85)
The Singles (81-85)
The Singles 81→85 is a singles compilation album released in October 1985 by Depeche Mode. The compilation was not originally released in North America, being replaced by its counterpart Catching Up with Depeche Mode. This was their first ever release with a picture of the band on the cover...
and Remixes 81 - 04
Remixes 81 - 04
-remixes 81·04:* LCDMUTEL8 – one CD edition# "Never Let Me Down Again " – 9:32# "Personal Jesus " – 7:47# "Barrel of a Gun " – 9:36# "Route 66 " – 6:18...
.
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
Martin Gore
Martin Lee Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs...
) 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
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
and number 26 on the US Hot Dance Music/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.
"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.
Television and film
"Just Can't Get Enough" appears in the 1982 film Summer LoversSummer Lovers
Summer Lovers is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece. The original music score is composed by Basil Poledouris...
and its soundtrack album, and in the 1998 film The Wedding Singer
The Wedding Singer
The Wedding Singer is a 1998 romantic comedy film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci. It stars Adam Sandler as a wedding singer in the 1980s and Drew Barrymore as a waitress with whom he falls in love....
and its Volume 2 soundtrack CD.
The song is also featured in a Gap advertising spot directed by Pedro Romhanyi, titled "Everybody in Leather", which premiered on 12 September 1999. The song was sung by a group of young adults, among which were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald
Alex Greenwald
Alexander Greenwald is an American musician, actor, and more recently a record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the Californian rock band, Phantom Planet, which is on indefinite hiatus according to a blog posting on the band's official website.-Life and career:Greenwald was born in...
, Monet Mazur
Monet Mazur
Monet Happy Mazur is an American actress, model and musician.-Personal life:Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruby Mazur, an illustrator who has worked in the record industry and at one time was the manager of Billy Joel. Mazur has four siblings: Nicholas, Cézanne, Matisse...
and Jason Thompson
Jason Thompson (actor)
Jason Craig Thompson is a Canadian actor. He joined the cast of the American daytime drama General Hospital in December 2005 as arrogant yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Patrick Drake...
, as well as the more famous Aaron Lohr
Aaron Lohr
Aaron Lohr is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Dean Portman, one of the "Bash Brothers" in The Mighty Ducks movies...
. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers
Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to...
. On October 7, 1999, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno did a parody of the ad, which featured old men singing the song for a fictional Viagra commercial.
It was also used in a promotion for the now-defunct ITV Day
ITV Day
ITV Day was a programming block that broadcast on ITV1 from 9.25am until 6.00pm on weekdays and launched on 11 April 2005. The presentation was created by Bruce Dunlop Associates and said "ITV Day effectively creates a new brand, with along with a change in programming and schedule will alter...
morning-afternoon service between 2003-5. The cover by Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague (band)
Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words, meaning "new wave" in French, and "bossa nova" in Portuguese...
has been widely used as background music on British television, including being used as the theme for BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's Christmas promotions in 2004.
The song was featured in an episode of the 2010 series "An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as a spin-off book published by Canongate Books, created by and featuring Karl Pilkington and his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant....
- Mexico". Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The...
, while visiting Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Municipality of Tinúm, Yucatán state, present-day Mexico....
, dances to the song while exploring the ruins. He erroneously credits it to The Human League
The Human League
The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...
but is quickly corrected.
Covers
In 1997 the happy hardcoreHappy hardcore
Happy hardcore, also known as happycore, is a genre of music typified by a very fast tempo , often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of hardcore techno, which tend to be "darker". It is typically in...
DJ Duo Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo covered the song as a single.
In 2004, the French band Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague (band)
Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words, meaning "new wave" in French, and "bossa nova" in Portuguese...
adapted the song in a jazzy / bossa-nova style on the album, Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague (album)
Nouvelle Vague is the 2004 self-titled debut album by Nouvelle Vague. The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/New Wave era...
(as well as on the 2005 compilation album, Acoustic 05). The Japanese musician Anna Tsuchiya
Anna Tsuchiya
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model.Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent from Buffalo, New York. In her earliest years, she spoke English and Japanese...
covered this song on her 2007 single Kuroi Namida
Kuroi Namida
is the fourth single by Japanese singer Anna Tsuchiya, released on 10 January 2007 under the pseudonym "Anna Tsuchiya inspi' Nana " on the Mad Pray Records Label, a sub-label to Avex...
, rearranged as a downbeat rock piece. In 2008, Mika
Mika (singer)
Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit...
performed a cover of the song for his Live Parc des Princes Paris
Live Parc Des Princes Paris
Live Parc des Princes Paris is Mika's second live DVD. It is a one-off stadium show with a crowd of 55,000 recorded at Paris on 04 July 2008.The DVD also features a documentary following the initial idea of the show through to the production....
concert.
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)
- "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:41
- "Any Second Now" – 3:06
12": Mute/12Mute16 (UK)
- "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" – 6:43
- "Any Second Now (Altered)" – 5:41
CD: Mute/CDMute16 (UK)1
- "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:45
- "Any Second Now" – 3:09
- "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" – 6:48
- "Any Second Now (Altered)" – 5:42
7": Sire/SRE50029 (US)
- "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:41
- "Tora! Tora! Tora!" – 4:23
Notes
- 1:CD released in 1991
- All songs written by Vince ClarkeVince ClarkeVince Clarke is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure....
except for "Tora! Tora! Tora!", written by Martin GoreMartin GoreMartin Lee Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs...
.
Chart performance
{|class="wikitable"!align="left"|Chart (1981/2)
!align="center"|Peak
position
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|align="left"|Sweden
|align="center"|14
|-
|align="left"|Ireland
|align="center"|16
|-
|align="left"|New Zealand
|align="center"|29
|-
|align="left"|Australia
|align="center"|4
|-
|align="left"|US Dance
|align="center"|26
|-
|align="left"|UK
|align="center"|8
|-
{|class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (2011)
!align="center"|Peak
position
|-
|align="left"|Scotland
|align="center"|26
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! Country
! Certifications
(sales thresholds)
|-
|United Kingdom
|Silver (BPI
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...
)
|}
The Saturdays cover
"Just Can't Get Enough" was covered by the girl groupGirl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...
The Saturdays
The Saturdays
The Saturdays are a British and Irish pop girl group based in London, United Kingdom. The group consists of five members Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman. In 2007 the band were formed through Fascination Records which gave them an instant record deal with...
. It was one of the official Comic Relief
Comic Relief
Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with sister project Sport Relief...
Singles for 2009. On 8 March 2009, the song entered the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
at number 2, where it peaked, being beaten by Flo Rida
Flo Rida
Tramar Dillard , better known by his stage name Flo Rida , is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He released his debut album, Mail on Sunday, in March 2008. His debut single "Low", featuring T-Pain, was a #1 hit for ten weeks in United States in early 2008. Two other singles resulted from...
after being at number 1 at the midweek count, thus being the first Comic Relief
Comic Relief
Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with sister project Sport Relief...
single not to chart at number 1 in 14 years. However, it gave The Saturdays
The Saturdays
The Saturdays are a British and Irish pop girl group based in London, United Kingdom. The group consists of five members Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman. In 2007 the band were formed through Fascination Records which gave them an instant record deal with...
their highest chart placing ever, outpeaking and outselling the original track, plus marked their fourth consecutive top ten hit in the UK. The success of this single was later matched by "Forever Is Over
Forever Is Over
"Forever Is Over" is a single by British-Irish girl group The Saturdays. The track was released by digital download on October 3, 2009, and CD single the following day. The song was written by, Louis Biancaniello, Sam Watters, James Bourne and produced by The Runaways...
".
Frankie Sandford
Frankie Sandford
Francesca "Frankie" Sandford is an English pop and R&B singer-songwriter and currently a member of girl group The Saturdays; under the record label of Fascination Records and Polydor Records. The band have had huge success, releasing eleven singles of which ten have charted inside the top 10 on...
and Una Healy
Una Healy
Una Theresa Imogene Healy is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician, best known for being one fifth of girl group The Saturdays...
take the first verse. While Rochelle Wiseman
Rochelle Wiseman
Rochelle Eulah Eileen Wiseman is an English singer, actress and television presenter. She is best known for her work in pop groups S Club 8 and The Saturdays...
takes both bridges and backing vocals in the middle 8. Mollie King
Mollie King
Mollie Elizabeth King is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for being a member of girl group, The Saturdays. In the band, King has successfully enjoyed ten top-ten and five top-five singles on the UK Singles Chart and three top-ten albums on the UK Albums Chart...
who does back up in all bridges, sings the second verse with Vanessa White
Vanessa White
Vanessa Karen White is an English pop singer and songwriter. White was born to a Nigerian father and Spanish-Filipino mother. She rose to fame in 2008 as a member of English/Irish girl-group The Saturdays. She is the youngest member of the band. White is noted for her extensive vocal range.-Early...
who sings the adlibds and takes lead on the middle 8. She also backs up Rochelle in the second verse.
In 2011, the song was used for promotional commercials for the movie Crazy Stupid Love.
Music video
The music video premiered on MSNMSN
MSN is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.The range of services offered by MSN has changed since its...
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.
Track listing
CD Single(1799707; Released )
- "Just Can't Get Enough" (Radio Mix) — 3:08
- "Golden Rules" — 3:50
Digital Single
(Released )
- "Just Can't Get Enough" (Radio Mix) — 3:08
- "Just Can't Get Enough" (Video Mix) — 3:19
- "Just Can't Get Enough" (WideboysWideboysThe Wideboys are UK house, Bassline and UK garage Record producers and remixers.The Wideboys are managed by Matt Waterhouse from MWR/Hyperactive. In 2008, they signed to Sony ATV Music Publishing. Prior to this, The Wideboys had been signed in various deals with the likes of Warner, Univeral and...
Club Mix) — 5:08 - "Just Can't Get Enough" video — 3:32 iTunes Edition Only
Charts
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UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
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|Silver (BPI
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...
)
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In popular culture
Football chant for the Celtic F.C.In 2009 the song was adapted as a football chant by fans of Celtic F.C.
Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
, specifically the Green Brigade
Green Brigade
The Green Brigade is an ultras group consisting of fans of Celtic Football Club. The group, formed in 2006, describes itself as a "a broad front of anti-fascist, anti-racist and anti-sectarian Celtic supporters".-Background:...
fans.
In an interview with football website Goal.com, Depeche Mode keyboardist Andrew Fletcher
Andrew Fletcher (musician)
Andy Fletcher , known as "Fletch", is a co-founder and member of the English synth band Depeche Mode.-Depeche Mode:...
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."
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 suffering from Down Syndrome
Down syndrome
Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...
. 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
Jimmy Johnstone
James Connolly "Jimmy" Johnstone was a Scottish football player. Johnstone was best known for his time with Celtic, and was voted their best ever player by the club's fans in 2002...
and Tommy Burns will be smiling down from heaven on all of us" went viral
Viral
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. In memory of Reamonn Gormley, Celtic FC and Celtic Charity Fund released it as a charity single on May 8, 2011 with proceeds going to the Good Child Foundation in Thailand and Crime Stoppers in Scotland. It reached #30 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
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Adaptations for other football clubs
As it grew in popularity, the song was adapted by fans of other football teams. One of those teams was English Championship side Burnley
Burnley F.C.
Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...
. In February 2011, starting with the 3–2 home win over Aston Villa
Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Witton, Birmingham. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder...
, Premier League club Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers F.C.
Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....
began to use the song when a goal was scored at the Reebok Stadium
Reebok Stadium
The Reebok Stadium is the home stadium of English Premier League football club Bolton Wanderers, and is located on the Middlebrook Retail Park in Horwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It is commonly known as 'The Reebok'...
. Also in February 2011, Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
supporters adopted the song as a tribute and encouragement for the club's new Uruguayan attacker Luis Suárez
Luis Suárez (Uruguayan footballer)
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz , commonly known as Luis Suárez and nicknamed "El Pistolero" , is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Liverpool and the Uruguayan national team...
. Asked about the Liverpool supporters' adoption of the song, Depeche Mode's Andrew Fletcher, in spite of being a supporter of rival club Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
, 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
David Gahan
Dave Gahan is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British electronic music band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. He is also an accomplished solo artist, releasing albums in 2003 and 2007...
also followed Chelsea, while Martin L. Gore is a fan of Arsenal F.C
Arsenal
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It became a chant even in "de Kuip" sung by the Feyenoord audiences.
Following Craig Mackail-Smith
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's transfer from Peterborough, Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club are an English association football club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. They currently play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system....
fans started singing the chant.