Auto Erotica: "Behind the Wheel" is sort of about cars, but it's more about having a dominant partner.Author Tract: "The Landscape Is Changing" is Alan Wilder being an environmentalist.Author Appeal: There sure are a lot of dominant women and BDSM overtones in the lyrics and videos.Audience Participation Song: "Everything Counts" is their longest-standing.Also Playing the Angel is a line from "The Darkest Star". Album Title Drop: Construction Time Again is from the second line in "Pipeline", and Some Great Reward comes from the end of "Lie To Me".Especially bad because the single would later come out on both the next album AND the singles collection released immediately after that, screwing over all the American fans who had dropped the cash to buy the "album". Album Filler: People Are People is really just the titular hit single packaged with some B-sides and recycled stuff from the previous two albums.A Day in the Limelight: Martin usually sings lead on one song per album (occasionally that song even becomes the single - see "A Question of Lust" and "Home"), but on Black Celebration he sings about half the album.Depeche Mode provides examples of the following tropes:
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