Falco 3


Falco 3 is the third album by Austrian singer and rapper 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 The Netherlands.

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Following an Academy Award-winning movie about Mozart, the Americanized mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" capitalized 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 Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at number four on the dance charts and number six on the R&B singles charts. The album was released in the US, the UK and Japan with a differently tracklisting: the singles "Rock Me Amadeus" and "Vienna Calling" are presented in extended mixes, the 'Salieri Version' and the 'Metternich Arrival Mix', whereas in the rest of the world, the album uses the normal european singles mixes.

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 "Looking for Love", entitled "Munich Girls", as well as a lounge lizard cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".

Charts

Album

Singles

Track listing

  1. "Rock Me Amadeus" '
  2. "America"
  3. "Tango the Night"
  4. "Munich Girls"
  5. "Jeanny"
  6. "Vienna Calling" '
  7. "Männer des Westens – Any Kind of Land"
  8. "Nothing Sweeter Than Arabia"
  9. "Macho Macho"
  10. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
Despite all the songs boasting special mixes on the cover, these are all the normal album versions. The only re-mixes are to be found on the U.S., U.K. and Japanese version of this album, which contain the "Salieri Version" of "Rock Me Amadeus" and the "Metternich Arrival Mix" of "Vienna Calling" instead of the normal European versions. The European CD versions of this album have a wrongly mastered version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", which contains a repeated loop and therefore runs short over 5 minutes - the Anniversary Edition of this album finally corrected this mistake.
Originally Falco wanted to include an 11th song on the album but due to contract reasons and the fact that the melody-based song didn't fit in with the other, Bolland & Bolland written songs, the song was omitted.
The 25th Anniversary Edition, released on October 22, 2010, adds the following bonus tracks to the original album tracks:
  1. "Jeanny"
  2. "Without You"
  3. "Rock Me Amadeus"
  4. "Vienna Calling"
  5. "Männer des Westens – Any Kind of Land"
  6. "Urban Tropical"
The two-CD Deluxe Version has additional video material:
  1. "The Making Of The Legendary "Falco 3" which also includes the famous Salieri Version of "Rock Me Amadeus" in an edited form, running short over 7 minutes.

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