`` Enjoy the Silence '' is a very popular song by the British band , Depeche Mode . `` Enjoy the Silence '' is Depeche Mode 's twenty-fourth UK single , released on 5 February 1990 , and the second single from the then upcoming album Violator . `` Enjoy the Silence '' was re-released as a single in 2004 for the Depeche Mode remix project Remixes 81 - 04 , and was titled `` Enjoy the Silence ( Reinterpreted ) '' or , more simply , `` Enjoy the Silence 04 '' .