Wir lieben Falco!

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Finally actually sat down and listened to the flaco albums I grabbed cheap on vinyl, as well as his newer stuff...

This is really GOOD.
I mean, I knew he was talented, but this is entertaining, versatile, and relatively sophisticated.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Totally.

Einzelhaft is probably the best, and fits in nicely with that whole NDW scene.

― Grell (Grell), Saturday, 4 November 2006 18:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Do you mean Flaco, who used to be a Spanish footballer spending part of his career playing Norwegian club football for Molde FK, or Falco? :)

In the case of Falco, I would say some of the singles were great, but he was hardly an album act of note.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 4 November 2006 18:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I like several of his albums.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Sunday, 5 November 2006 16:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Hadn't seen this before, some mean Wien shit:

― jim, Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Einzelhaft is such a great album. Fits in nicely with the whole Depeche Mode/Yaz/Duran Duran spectrum of New Wave

― frogbs, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not to mention the Nena/Trio/Alphaville/Peter Schilling spectrum of New Wave

http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/spotlight/new-wave-uber-alles-nena-falco-trio-and-the-80s-german-invasion/

― xhuxk, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

when i started out as a college radio DJ, at age 17, the older guys at the station forced me to play the extended remix of 'rock me amadeus' to 'test the speakers,' as a sort of hazing ritual

― geeta, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Damn, had no idea that Nena stuck it out so long. IIRC Falco was in the scene for about 20 years but yeah I didn't even think that he was part of that scene with Trio and Schilling. I still remember George Kranz well.

― frogbs, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Jeanny is absolutely chilling.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

so is the song sung from the view of the murderer/rapist? my rudimentary German only can translate so much but I know there's a lot of "you and me, we need each other, they will find us"

― frogbs, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Indeed it is.

― Siegbran, Saturday, 8 October 2011 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes, it's often thought to have been inspired by Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, although i think Falco always denied it.

I have a bangin' Eurodance cover by Polish glamour model Mandaryna somewhere. Doesn't really convey the same sense of menace.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 8 October 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Just picked up the "Falco Symphonic" release and it's really, really good! essentially it's a live album with a medium-sized orchestra playing all the keyboard/synth parts, though apparently there was a bunch of reconstruction involved. Outside of a few orchestral bits to kick off the tunes, the arrangements are pretty faithful to the original bits, they're still pop songs, just with a bigger sound. IMO Falco's never really worked with a great producer or arranger, all his stuff sounds very much of its time. So hearing these songs done with more inscrutable instrumentation highlights the fact that hey, these tunes were actually quite good!

― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

oh shit i had forgotten this guy was dead

― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

please can a mod add RIP to the thread title?

― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

i enjoyed that, thank you!

― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

It's a pretty amazing song, and the only thing in his solo career that makes it at all plausible that he came out of the art rock scene. The lyrics are amazing.

― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

He goes into the street
won't say where he's headed
His brain is full of heavy metal
and his liver is fucked up
His veins are open
and he stinks of formaldehyde
but that doesn't bother him
because he's in Vienna

All of Vienna
is on heroin today
All of Vienna
is dreaming on Quaaludes
All of Vienna
reaches for the Cocaine
(especially in the Ball season)
You can tell all of Vienna
is so beautifully fucked up.

Cocaine and Codeine
Heroin and Quaaludes
fuck us up
up up up
up up up up up.

There will come a day
when the Danube will rise over its banks
The goldfish fiddle in U4 [the Viennese Club 54]
Bruno [Kreisky, the Austrian Chancellor] will have long since made it to dry land
So we'll all learn to swim
We're floating already
All the devils in white robes
pure as the driven snow.

― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

Studio 54, translating makes me stupid, sorry.

― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

had never thought much about this song until I noticed the "Cocaine and Codine" line. givin Einzelhaft another listen now, what an incredible album this is

― frogbs, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

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