oh shit i had forgotten this guy was dead
― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
please can a mod add RIP to the thread title?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE576lQb6w
― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
i enjoyed that, thank you!
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
He goes into the streetwon't say where he's headedHis brain is full of heavy metaland his liver is fucked upHis veins are openand he stinks of formaldehydebut that doesn't bother himbecause he's in Vienna
All of Viennais on heroin todayAll of Viennais dreaming on QuaaludesAll of Viennareaches for the Cocaine(especially in the Ball season)You can tell all of Viennais so beautifully fucked up.
Cocaine and CodeineHeroin and Quaaludesfuck us upup up upup up up up up.
There will come a daywhen the Danube will rise over its banksThe goldfish fiddle in U4 [the Viennese Club 54]Bruno [Kreisky, the Austrian Chancellor] will have long since made it to dry landSo we'll all learn to swimWe're floating alreadyAll the devils in white robespure as the driven snow.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
Studio 54, translating makes me stupid, sorry.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I now think that his follow-up single to Der Kommissar, Junge Römer, is really fantastic, although it is a ridiculously slavish Bowie pastiche, is pretty fantastic too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ciGOnGy8I
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
fantastic pretty fantasticc beep beep boop syntax error TWU BOT SHUTDOWN.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
"Data de Groove" - now there was a single
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I had no idea that this guy had such a huge and varied career until last year, while visiting Vienna, my German friend took me through his whole catalogue. Falco seems like kind of a religion in Wien, we visited his grave and everything - I had no idea he was held in such esteem in the Deutsch-speaking world, given he was known for novelty hits in the Anglosphere.
― Branwell with an N, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
only discovered this one recently - chorus is a bit shit tbh, but the verses are flipping boss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcsuHDkK9E
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Aw, I quite liked the chorus, too.
My favourite ones always seem to be the very self-referential ones where he tells us how terrible and corrupt and awful things are in Wien, while making it clear at the same time, that Wien is the most excellent, badass and elegant place in the world?
― Branwell with an N, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
the Symphonic album (a reconstructed version of a concert he did with a full orchestra) is really great
I have the first album on vinyl, it's quite good though very Bowie-esque
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
The only song that sounds anything like Bowie is Helden von Heute, which is a very conscious, knowing joke.
― Branwell with an N, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
maybe I ought to relisten to it then, I remember liking it a lot
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
okay I forgot how goofy most of this album is. wish I spoke better German cuz I feel like a lot of these lyrics might be pretty funny
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
like Falco's delivery on half these tracks is making me crack up without even knowing what he's saying
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the lyrics are often quite witty and urbane. That was definitely kind something that opened up Falco to me, was listening to it with a native German speaker - I have basic tourist German - but she explained a lot of the jokes and references (there’s a bit of Austrian and German politics in places).
Also, apparently Germans find Viennese accents adorable, which was not a thing I’d really considered before!
― Branwell with an N, Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
ok if "Einzelhaft" means solitary confinement why does the song sound like the Village People
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
listening to "Emotional" right now god the title track is so fucking funny
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link