Victory - Modern Talking

Advantages: Very good music, great success
Disadvantages: mostly suitable for fast dance music lovers

...a) Common Infos/Prices: ------------------------------- Alone is the 8th album of Modern Talking and were released in February 1999 in Germany, one year after their reunification. I bought the CD at a price of app. 14,99 Euro at that time. Nowadays the CD is available in a price class about 7 Euro. On the album you find familiar Modern Talking music best described as good and modern Discofox. There are even new experiments as ballads and even Thomas Anders composed four titles for the first time. a.a) Who is Modern Talking: -------------------------------------- Well, Dieter Bohlen is one of the most famous German producers and Thomas Anders is the singer. Together they are one of the best German Pop Duos that ever existed. After 13 successful albums Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders ultimately decided to go separate ways... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting upgrades and 4 new songs
Disadvantages: Some like them, some hate them

...a) Facts/Prices/Information: ------------------------------------- Back for good was released in Germany in 1998 and contains 18 tracks. At this time I purchased the CD for 20 Euro, nowadays you can get it much cheaper. Between 1987 and 1998 were 13 years of silence. In 1998 Modern Talking revived like the mysterious Phoenix bird from the ashes. The 7th album was a real sensation, no better: it was an adorable bomb for the fans!! Complete new upgrades of their former songs from the Eighties combined with four new songs made the album an unforgettable hearing pleasure. The Modern Talking fever immediately returned after their revival and the album was rewarded with oodles of noble metal awards. b) Who is Modern Talking? ---------------------------------- Dieter Bohlen is one of the biggest German music producers... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastically inventive 80s art-pop
Disadvantages: A couple of weak tracks

...for as Gibson wrote in his basement he surrounded himself with Eno’s music. And so I suspect that Eno is the mastermind behind The Overload. This is another remarkable change in tone from the Talking Heads and like The Listening Wind another absolute victory, showing that when they want to that they can be remarkably varied. The Overload is slightly ambient; there are swirling guitar-loops ala Robert Fripp in ambient mood. A pulsing synthesizer that sounds like the buzz of electricity; Byrne’s vocals are slow, measured, mechanical. There is a sense of futurity. There is a definite correlation here between Eno/Talking Heads and King Crimson’s industrial instrumentals. The music mirrors technological, electrical, cyberpunkish themes and sounds. I find this difficult to describe as the music hums and throbs behind the words, almost like early... Read review

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