Customer Reviews

Forever Young & Other Hits

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If you only buy one Alphaville CD, it should be this budget Rhino Flashback edition of their hits. All ten of the songs found on this CD are also found on the 15 song version of First Harvest: The Best of Alphaville 1984-1992 and the sound quality is above average. This is precisely what greatest hits CDs are for, collecting a group's top tracks into one collection, and then one still has the option of buying that group's individual albums if they choose. These songs are plenty dance-oriented without being remixed. If you are a fan of 80's synth-pop music, give this CD a listen.

Alphaville was a German synthpop band popular during the 1980's. They were the band all cool teenagers loved to hate and laugh at, at least in "my" high school. They weren't very pretty either, and actually looked somewhat gay.

And, of course, their hits became iconic. Is anybody surprised?

Frankly, what would the 80's have been *without* Alphaville? These guys *are* the 80's. Especially "Forever young" and "Sounds like a melody". Every time I want to remind myself and others of the synthpop era, I play "Sounds like a melody" aloud somewhere. The song still works, after all this time, in a weird kind of way.

Besides, the cool people who hated this band were running after...Erasure and Ultravox. Nothing wrong with that, but Vince Clark and Midge Ure were hardly Bach or Mozart either, so I really don't see why they should be considered more slick than German guys with a bad haircut...

Still, there was *one* problem with Alphaville. During their entire career, they only made six good songs: "Forever young", "Sounds like a melody", "Jet Set", "Big in Japan", "Dance with me" and "Romeos". (That song only works with the entertaining video clip, however.)

Thus, I don't understand what some of the other customer reviewers are complaining about?! All these songs are included on this collection, which sells for only 6 dollars.

What more could a synthpop fan want, really? The collection would have been even better if the other 4 songs were quietly expunged...

So stop whining and place your order today! :-D

Cool cover, that's all I can really say. One of the greatest bands of the 80's, one of the greatest bands ever. If this was all 12" versions, then this would be a different story. Why would you get this when you can get all of Alphaville's individual albums like I did?!? All of their albums are great so instead of wasting your money, save your money to get the albums instead. Why won't the record company release the best of Alphaville "The Extended Versions & B-sides"?

this cd has only the best songs so its enough the price vs the cd

Not being a huge fan of Alphaville, I expected more of this compilation. Definitely go for other titles.