Description
DESCRIPTION
"Eternally Yours" is about permanence and transience. The lyrics of the songs from four decades are for the most part written by Marian Gold herself. A central theme for Alphaville and Marian Gold has always been dreaming: 'We get around quite a lot, we've played almost everywhere, in and out of our heads. All this contributes to our music, to the idea of what Alphaville could be. It's like a never-ending dream. Those who listen to our music hear fragments of that dream.' The all- new and titular song reads like a farewell letter. In fact, except for the chorus, all the lines are taken from sonnets by Shakespeare. Marian Gold and his two arrangers Max Knoth and Christian Lohr succeed on this album in providing the musical substance of the songs with the appropriate sound content. At the same time, the songs do not sound unusually bloated or overused - on the contrary: as a listener, one wonders about the natural, warm, even familiar sounds and asks oneself why there have not been more symphonic arrangements of Alphaville songs before.
A1 Dream Machine
A2 Summer In Berlin
A3 Big In Japan
A4 Dance With Me
B1 Summer Rain
B2 Apollo
B3 Elegy
B4 Lassie Come Home
C1 Moongirl
C2 Welcome To the Sun
C3 A Victory Of Love
C4 Sounds Like A Melody
D1 Around The Universe
D2 Eternally Yours
D3 Diamonds Are Forever
D4 Flame
D5 Forever Young
E1 Big In Japan (Bassroque Version)
E2 Sounds Like A Melody (Chamber Version)
E3 Forever Young ("Petite")
E4 Big In Japan (Single Edit)
E5 Sounds Like A Melody (Single Edit)
E6 Forever Young (Single Edit)
F1 Pandora's Lullaby (Lunapark Version MCMXCI)
F2 Elegy (Springtime Version MCMXC)
F3 Dream Machine (Dreamscape Version MCMXCIX)
