Falco’s strength was his self-confidence in the most undignified situations: the low point of his career could be the confidently mastered TV appearances in 1987 with Brigitte Nielsen, in which both, actually a Baccarat tradition, back to back and snuggled up and down the Moroder lard “Body Next To Body” smashed. It looked like they were helping each other out with an itch where you can’t scratch yourself. Nielsen planned the superstar career. Falcon just laughed.
The “The Sound of Music” edition corrects this music-biographical slip. “Body Next To Body” is included as a promo version, Nielsen’s “Stöhnen” was cut out, as was Falco’s rap at the end. The best-of also includes a remix of “Rock me Amadeus” for the North American market and a longer version of “Data de Groove”. The reason for the product offensive, which also includes a “Jeanny” picture vinyl and “Falco – The Box”, a vinyl collection of his first three albums plus a remix LP, is the 65th birthday of the exceptional Viennese singer, who died in 1998 would have celebrated in February.
17 years between 1981 and 1998, in which the young Bowie admirer almost became an international star, but then fell out of favor, not only because of bad music, and that with “Out of the Dark”, released three weeks after his accidental death , possibly a comeback would have succeeded. His debut “einzelhaft” remains the benchmark, a paranoid, breathless synth rap album that was incorporated by Neue Deutsche Welle and with “Der Kommissar” contains one of the most amazing compositions ever: Would you play each instrument in isolation, guitar, bass , drums, keyboards, the song would still be instantly recognizable. From 1985 onwards, the Bolland & Bolland brothers paved the way for that Vienna sound that fulfilled all the clichés that everyone outside of Austria had of Austrian music in the 1980s: ostentatious nonsense, wigs and powder, hard rock. After that, Falco fell deeply. He was back just before he died.
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