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===Charts===
===Charts===
The song entered the [[UK Singles Chart]] at #2 on 8 March 2009. It was beaten to the #1 spot by [[Flo Rida]]'s '[[Right Round]]'. This is the first Comic Relief single since 1995 to miss the #1 spot on this chart (although the second Comic Relief single to not hit the top spot). It is the 15th biggest selling single of 2009 so far in the UK.
The song entered the [[UK Singles Chart]] at #1 on 8 March 2009. It beat Flo Rida's "Right Round". This was the Saturdays 2nd No.1 single after "Up"

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Revision as of 16:14, 6 March 2010

"Just Can't Get Enough"
Song
B-side"Any Second Now"

"Just Can't Get Enough" is the third UK single by Depeche Mode. It was originally released in the UK in September 1981, and was also 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) would appear 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 #8 on the UK Singles Chart and #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 #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 Lovers and its soundtrack album, and in the 1998 film The Wedding Singer and its Volume 2 soundtrack CD.

The song is 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.[1]. 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.[2]

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.

There's an instrumental cover version played over a Fallabella ad featuring the former Miss Universe Cecilia Bolocco.

Covers

In 1997 the happy hardcore 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.

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" – 3:41
  2. "Any Second Now" – 3:06
12": Mute/12Mute16 (UK)
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" – 6:43
  2. "Any Second Now (Altered)" – 5:41
CD: Mute/CDMute16 (UK)1
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:45
  2. "Any Second Now" – 3:09
  3. "Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix)" – 6:48
  4. "Any Second Now (Altered)" – 5:42
7": Sire/SRE50029 (US)
  1. "Just Can't Get Enough" – 3:41
  2. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" – 4:23

Notes

Chart performance

Chart (1981/2) Peak
position
Sweden 14
Australia 4
UK 8

The Saturdays cover

"Just Can't Get Enough"
Song
B-side"Golden Rules"

"Just Can't Get Enough" was covered by the girl band 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 #2, where it peaked, being beaten by Flo Rida, thus being the first Comic Relief single not to chart at #1 in 14 years. However, it gave The Saturdays their highest chart placing ever and marked their fourth consecutive top ten hit in the UK. The success of this single was later matched by "Forever is Over".

Vanessa White opens this song with a backing vocal, sings the forth verse, sings backing vocals in the second bridge, sings the third bridge along with Una, and backing vocals before every "I just can't get enough" sequence and during the second one. Frankie Sandford sings the first verse. Una Healy sings the second verse, backing vocals during the first bridge, and the third bridge along with Vanessa. Rochelle Wiseman sings the first and second bridges and backing vocals in the third bridge. Mollie King sings backing vocals in the first bridge and the third verse.

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.

Track listing

CD Single (1799707; Released 2 March 2009 (2009-03-02))

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

Digital Single (Released 1 March 2009 (2009-03-01))

  1. "Just Can't Get Enough" (Radio Mix) — 3:09
  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

Charts

The song entered the UK Singles Chart at #1 on 8 March 2009. It beat Flo Rida's "Right Round". This was the Saturdays 2nd No.1 single after "Up"

Top 30 Worldwide 1
Chart (2009) Peak
position
Irish Singles Chart 2
UK Singles Chart 1
Hungarian Airplay Chart 11[4]

References

  1. ^ Mind the Gap in: Entertainment Weekly #502 (Sep 10, 1999)
  2. ^ The Gap ad and its spoof can be viewed at the official Depeche Mode website
  3. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Saturdays-Chasing-Lights-Re-Issue/release/1752360
  4. ^ "The Saturdays Hungarian chart position". Mahasz. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
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