Falco 3
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| Falco 3 | |||||
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| Studio album by Falco | |||||
| Released | September 11, 1985 | ||||
| Genre | Pop-rock, Pop rap, Hip-hop | ||||
| Length | 51:04 | ||||
| Label | A&M Records (US/UK) Teldec (Europe) GiG Records (Austria) |
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| Producer | Bolland & Bolland | ||||
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Falco 3 is the third album by Falco, released in 1985. In the U.S. it peaked at number 3 in the Billboard 200 albums charts and at #18 in their Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Following two albums produced and co-written by Robert Ponger, this is Falco's first album to be produced by Bolland & Bolland from Holland.
Originally Falco wanted to record 12 songs for this album, but it wasn't possible any more to put "Without You" and "Farce to Farce" on the album.
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Following a popular movie about Mozart, the Americanised version of "Rock Me Amadeus" capitalised on and continued a resurgence of interest in the Viennese composer, and was an instant hit in the U.S., spending three weeks at number one on the Hot 100 and peaking at number four on the dance charts and number six on the R&B singles charts. Written in English, it is a brief chronology of Mozart's life in a rap-meets-classical style. The non-US version of the Falco 3 album and the video feature lyrics written in German which portray Mozart as both popular and radical.
[edit] Other songs
"Vienna Calling" continued the geographic and stylistic theme, and followed its predecessor as far as the U.S. Top 20. A third single, a power ballad called "Jeanny" sung from the point of view of a rapist and possible murderer, proved a controversial hit in Europe; banned by some radio programmers there, it nevertheless improved on the chart peak of its predecessor, though it was virtually ignored in the U.S. The album also included a reworked German-language version of The Cars song "Lookin' for Love", entitled "Munich Girls", as well as a lounge lizard cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".
[edit] Charts
[edit] Album
| Year | Albums | A | CH | UK | GER | USA | CDN |
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| 1985 | Falco 3 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Singles | A | CDN | CH | GER | ES | F | UK | I | J | N | NL | RUS | S | USA | SA | NZ |
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| 1985 | "Rock Me Amadeus" | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 79 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1985 | "Vienna Calling" | 3 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 5 | - | 10 | - | - | - | 40 | - | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| 1985 | "Jeanny" | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | not released | 24 | 68 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
[edit] Track listing
- "Rock Me Amadeus" (The Gold Mix) (The Salieri Mix in the US)
- "America" (The City Of Grinzing Version)
- "Tango the Night" (The Heart Mix)
- "Munich Girls" (Lookin' for Love) (Just Another Paid One)
- "Jeanny" (Sus-Mix-Spect Crime Version)
- "Vienna Calling" (Waiting For the Extended Mix) (The Metternich Arrival Mix in the US)
- "Männer des Westens-Any Kind of Land" (Wilde Bube Version)
- "Nothing Sweeter Than Arabia" (The Relevant Madhouse Danceteria Jour-Fix-Mix)
- "Macho Macho" (Sensible Boy's Song)
- "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
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