History Music / ABrokenFrame

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The ending of "Shouldn't Have Done That" segues into the start of "The Sun & the Rainfall".

* DarkerAndEdgier: Thanks to Martin Gore taking over songwriting duties in the wake of Vine Clarke's departure, the songs on ''A Broken Frame'' have a decidedly moodier and more experimental tone compared to the primarily Clarke-penned ''Music/SpeakAndSpell''.

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Leave in Silence", consisting of the band hitting everyday objects on a conveyor belt table, Dave Gahan turning deep blue after being hit with a hammer, and him playing a ball game with a red Martin Gore and a green Andy Fletcher, occasionally {{rage quit}}ting.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The protagonist in "Satellite" The song is about how a bunch of bad events have let him to become a "satellite of hate."

* IAmTheBand: The entire album is penned by Martin Gore. Could be slightly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] though in that Dave Gahan is the lead vocalist and FaceOfTheBand, rather than Gore.

''A Broken Frame'', released in 1982, is the second album by English SynthPop band Music/DepecheMode. Their first album without primary songwriter Vince Clarke, who left the band shortly after the release of ''Music/SpeakAndSpell'' in favor of working with Alison Moyet in Music/{{Yazoo}}, the album sees Martin Gore stepping into the role of lead songwriter. Gore had previously contributed two songs to ''Speak & Spell'', "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff", the former of which was oddly gloomy in comparison to the bouncy SillyLoveSongs Clarke was known for. Indeed, the songs on ''A Broken Frame'' would be noticeably moodier than what previous material indicated, and the band would only continue to get moodier under Gore's penmanship. This would be the only album that Depeche Mode made as a trio until ''Music/{{Ultra}}'' in 1997, following the departure of later member Alan Wilder in the wake of 1993's ''Music/SongsOfFaithAndDevotion'' and its TroubledProduction.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The US release on Creator/SireRecords replaces the original version of "Leave in Silence" with the 12" mix and adds "Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden" between "The Meaning of Love" and "A Photograph of You".

In comparison to the rave reviews of ''Speak & Spell'', critical reception of ''A Broken Frame'' was decidedly more mixed upon release, with many journalists viewing the album as directionless in the wake of Clarke's departure. Gore would also go on to disown the album, describing it as an OldShame in a 1990 interview and lambasting it as "sickly" and "a mish-mash." Fans however are kinder to the album, viewing it as a good middle ground between the straightforwardness of Clarke's work and the moody experimentality of Gore's later work; the album also fared well commercially, outselling its predecessor and peaking at No. 8 on the UK Albums chart.

''A Broken Frame'', released in 1982, is the second album by English SynthPop band Music/DepecheMode. Their first album without primary songwriter Vince Clarke, who left the band shortly after the release of ''Music/SpeakAndSpell'' in favor of working with Alison Moyet in Music/{{Yazoo}}, the album sees Martin Gore stepping into the role of lead songwriter. Gore had previously contributed two songs to ''Speak & Spell'', "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff", the former of which was oddly gloomy in comparison to the bouncy SillyLoveSongs Clarke was known for. Indeed, the songs on ''A Broken Frame'' would be noticeably moodier than what previous material indicated, and the band would only continue to get moodier under Gore's penmanship. This would be the only album that Depeche Mode made as a trio until ''Ultra'' in 1997, following the departure of later member Alan Wilder in the wake of 1993's ''Music/SongsOfFaithAndDevotion'' and its TroubledProduction.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The ending of "Shouldn't Have Done That" seques into the start of "The Sun & the Rainfall".

''A Broken Frame'', released in 1982, is the second album by English SynthPop band Music/DepecheMode. Their first album without primary songwriter Vince Clarke, who left the band shortly after the release of ''Music/SpeakAndSpell'' in favor of working with Alison Moyet in Music/{{Yazoo}}, the album sees Martin Gore stepping into the role of lead songwriter. Gore had previously contributed two songs to ''Speak & Spell'', "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff", the former of which was oddly gloomy in comparison to the bouncy SillyLoveSongs Clarke was known for. Indeed, the songs on ''A Broken Frame'' would be noticeably moodier than what previous material indicated, and the band would only continue to get moodier under Gore's penmanship.

In comparison to the rave reviews of ''Speak & Spell'', critical reception of ''A Broken Frame'' was decidedly more mixed upon release, with many journalists viewing the album as directionless in the wake of Clarke's departure. Gore would also go on to disown the album, describing it as an OldShame in a 1990 interview and lambasting it as "sickly" and "a mish-mash." Fans however are kinder to the album, viewing it as a good middle ground between the straightforwardness of Clarke's work and the moody experimentality of Gore's later work; the album also fared well critically, outselling its predecessor and peaking at No. 8 on the UK Albums chart.

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!!!UK Mute Records tracklist:

!!!US Sire Records tracklist:

* DarkWave: This is the first Depeche Mode album that can be considered such; it and its successors would collectively help [[TropeCodifier codify]] the genre.

* HappyEndingSequelOverride: If one interprets "A Photograph of You" as a SequelSong to "Dreaming of Me", it could count as this, given how the lyrics discuss the narrator being so broken-hearted about a past lover that he can't even look at a photograph of them.