| The band was at first named Forever Young before changing to Alphaville.They are best known for their two biggest hits, "Big in Japan" and "Forever Young".Alphaville released their debut single "Big in Japan", quickly followed by the album Forever Young."Big In Japan" was Alphaville's biggest hit, topping the charts in Switzerland, Sweden and the U.Billboard Dance Chart (the group's only success on any American chart), and reached the Top Five in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Ireland and South Africa.US, but still proved unpopular.Branigan's version, though promoted on stickers adorning the album, subsequently remained an album cut in the US.Alphaville's "Forever Young" followed in 1989, 1996 and 2001.Several covers have been recorded and remixed, featuring male or female vocalists often erroneously attributed to be Alphaville's Marian Gold."Forever Young" was performed by Kiki and Herb as part of their show Alive From Broadway.As an alternative to individual music videos, the band enlisted nine producers, among them Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi), to create a film entitled Songlines based on the album's tracks.The next album, Prostitute, was not released until 1994.In 1996, Ricky Echolette left the band.The current core stage members of Alphaville are Marian Gold (vocals), Martin Lister (keyboards), David Goodes (guitars) and Pierson Grange (drums).Gold has released two solo albums (So Long Celeste, 1992 and United, 1996), alongside his work in the band, both mixing personal creations and covers.This project seems now to have been abandoned, though, as Mertens has not been visibly active with it.Trivia
Alphaville's song Forever Young was featured on the popular hit movie Napoleon Dynamite, 2004, as well as the episode Underage Drinking: A National Concern of the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Website: Alphaville in Toronto.Former New Horizons fanclub leader David Witkowski who created Big in Japan exclusively for New Horizons is back with a brand new song called: And Then Another Day.We have a topic at The Dreamroom dedicated to Antilles.We have the pictures ready from the event: Concert in Langesund (Norway), Jul 2007.Review of the event: Concert in Langesund (Norway), Jul 2007.We have the pictures ready from the event: Picture Gallery from Esbjerg Rock Festival 2007.Review of the event: Concert in Esbjerg (Denmark), Jun 2007.New Horizons fanclub members will of course attend both events.Quotes
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First and foremost a spoof.No change since last week
why?As he does so, the reflection of the cameraman can be seen clearly in the door.Sorry, there was a problem collecting your vote.First and foremost a spoof.Luc Godard's *Alphaville* is to realize
that
it is first and foremost a spoof.Just listen
to
the score by Paul Misraki if you're looking for the tongue in the cheek.She's a child, as easily
manipulated
by Lemmy Caution as she is by the technocrats of Alphaville.Eddie Constantine
reprises
the role of Caution, a popular TV character in France during the Fifties,
for Godard here: Lord knows what Constantine thought when he first read
the
script.This 'Alphaville' ought to be
called 'Zeroville!Altogether, this is Godard's most satisfying film.Despite all its
detractors, *Alphaville* still survives (in a Criterion edition, no
less).Was the above comment useful to you?Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.For other uses, see Alphaville.Lemmy Caution (Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution).The film stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon and Akim Tamiroff.The film won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival in 1965.Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir.Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings represent the city's interiors.In addition, the characters refer to twentieth century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran.Constantine had already played this role in dozens of previous films; the character was originally created by British pulp novelist Peter Cheyney.Plot summary
Lemmy Caution is an agent from "Outland".He carries a camera with him and photographs everything he sees, particularly the things that would ordinarily be unimportant to a journalist.Despite the futuristic setting, references made in the film still set the action in the Twentieth Century.First, he must search for missing agent Henry Dickson; second, he must capture or kill the creator of Alphaville, Professor Von Braun; lastly, he must destroy Alphaville and its dictatorial computer, Alpha 60.Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by Von Braun which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.One of Alpha 60's dictates is that "people should not ask 'why', but only say 'because'."People who show signs of emotion (weeping at the death of a wife, or a smile on the face) are presumed to be acting illogically, and are gathered up, interrogated, and executed.Caution is told that men are killed at a ratio of fifty to every one woman executed.At one point, Caution passes through a place called the Grand Omega Minus, from where brainwashed people are sent out to the other "galaxies" to start strikes, revolutions, family rows and student revolts.Caution enlists the assistance of Natacha Von Braun (Anna Karina), a programmer of Alpha 60 who is also the daughter of Prof.Von Braun (although she says "I have never met him").Natacha is a citizen of Alphaville, and when questioned says she does not know the meaning of "love" or "conscience".Caution falls in love with her, and his love introduces emotion and unpredictability into the city that the computer has crafted in its own image.Natacha discovers, with the help of Lemmy Caution, that she was actually born outside of Alphaville.Spanish for New York instead of either the original English name or the French literal rendering "Nouvelle York").The Professor himself talks infrequently, referring only vaguely to his hatred for journalists, and offering Caution the chance to join Alphaville, even going so far as to offer him his own galaxy.Caution eventually destroys or incapacitates it by telling it a riddle that involves something Alpha 60 can not comprehend: poetry (although many of its lines are actually quotes from the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges; the opening line of the film, along with others, is an extract of Borges's essay "Forms of a Legend" and other references throughout the movie are made by Alpha 60 to Borges's "A New Refutation of Time").The concept of the individual self has been lost to the collectivized citizens of Alphaville, and this is the key to Caution's riddle.Alphaville and Cocteau's 1950 film Orpheus are evident.Moreover, Godard openly acknowledges his debt to Cocteau on several occasions.References
Darke, Chris (2005), Alphaville (French Film Guides), University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252073290.Luc Godard, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306802597.This page was last modified 15:57, 1 December 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.To use it, follow the enclosed guidelines.If you wish to book Alphaville for a show or a tour, please do not hesitate to contact us.Alphaville's central, authorized means of communication to our fans.You will find all the latest news coming directly from Alphaville right here.All elements of this web site are copyright protected.Any kind of publication of the files, illustrations or photos of this web site requires explicit written permission, for more info please refer to the contact section of our web site.Charts
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a9AdsViewNamespace.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?The easiest way to shoot video reviews.The Special Extended Mix of Forever Young takes a good 80's synth ballad and turns into a 6 minute dance song that is even better.Alphaville fan I have no qualms in purchasing this CD.First Harvest as the definitive Alphaville singles collection so far released 4 years after this in 1992.This CD would have been better being classified as an EP and was a wasted opportunity in promoting Alphaville to a wider audience.Was this review helpful to you?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."But if you are here that probably won't stop you, will it?Alphaville is now a 'classic.Both versions of 'Forever Young' are tracks that we can relate to on both sides of the Atlantic, and we probably all have slightly dimmer memories of the very cool song 'Big in Japan.It's a worthy addition to any collection of 80s music.By the way, the 'Singles Collection' only gets Four Stars because I hated 'Red Rose' the first time around.Age hasn't made it any better.Was this review helpful to you?See all 17 customer reviews...CD used for the Big in Japan track because I was having a difficult time finding it on an online music service.Published 9 months ago by Kenneth J.It's a good CD which brings up a lot of nostalgia from the 80's.The Best Collection of Alphaville
Although it's only 4 songs in this album (plus 4 remix versions), for fans of Alphaville (and fans of pop rock music), this album is wonderful !Songs familiar, but the band?I'd honestly never heard of its performer.This cd takes me back to the 80s.Published on November 5, 1999 by CARLOS A.These songs tug on my heart like no others!!!As a child of the 80's, I can't believe how Alphaville escaped me.See all 17 customer reviews...Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Greats from the Greatest
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