kazav
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Posted: Nov. 14 2011, 13:23 |
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| Quote (Ugo @ Nov. 05 2008, 15:26) | | Quote (nightspore @ Nov. 05 2008, 03:30) | | I wonder if Alphaville are worth investigating further, or whether "Forever Young" was just a flash in the pan [...] |
@ nightspore: Alphaville in general are a flash-in-the-pan, or a meteor (as they say here in Italy), because they've just had two hits - "Forever Young" and "Big in Japan". "Forever Young" is quite a good song, but, in my view of it, is spoiled by being entirely electronic like most of that time's stuff. It would sound much better with a 'heavy' guitar solo playing what that silly (IMO) trumpet sound does... or still better, with heavy guitars through the whole song.  To me (and I agree with Caveman here) something sounds 'dated' when it's got too much of what was peculiar of a certain era. TB (1973) sounds dated to me because it sounds 'prog', and unfortunately TB 2003 still does; "Forever Young" sounds dated to me because it's electronic. But there's nothing in TBII (always IMO) that makes it sound dated, so, at least to me, it doesn't. |
Sorry to drag up an old post but have to set the record straight.
Actually, Alphaville have had more than two hits throughout Europe. They are still going strong too - just had two hit singles and a hit album in the past year in Germany. They are not actually a synthpop band and the styles of music they have employed over the years have varied greatly and still do.
There are other Alphaville songs that are as emotional, if not moreso, than Forever Young (which these days, especially live, is not so synthy). Like this one, for instance which, when I first heard it, automatically made me think of MO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5Fqcuz_Eg
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