I wonder when the first orger will post here who is not Austrian . Just sayin' .

Serious said:

Not Austrian here

Is this the famous TV villain Falco Netti?

Now I remember. I had the vinyl that included Jeannie Part 2

I kinda liked that album. It had a feel good vibe all over.
It's a pity I can´t play ma vinyls anymore but static kills me

Damn stupid bus.

Falco was alright...I was never a diehard or anything but I liked his sense of humor.

GottaLetitgo said:

Wee it was not exactly the bus's fault as he was driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He was standing on a parking lot (if I remember correctly) and suddenly drove into a big street. It is still not sure if he comitted suicide, some people close to him think he did .

Serious said:

Yeah...shouldn't buses pay extra special attention for potential rock stars in the area.

Seriously if he endangered others, that's not cool but I still appreciated the man's music.

I didn't realize Der Kommissar was a Falco original. I always thought that song was by After The Fire.

today Feb 19th 2007, Johann Hoelzel a.k.a. Falco would have celebrated his 50th birthday. so as an Austrian it's time for me to show some patriotism with a tribute thread

though I'm probably not his biggest fan in the universe, I do appreciate his musical output and his contribution for the Austrian and international Pop Music. his debut album in 1982 was the first and only one from him that I bought. the follow up Junge Römer had quite some cool tracks, very cool, no denying that... then came Falco 3 and Amadeus... well that was okay, I mean nice and all, but let's say I tried to avoid all the major hoooplllahh around it in the upcoming years his output was a hit and miss for me, some crap and some good shit, still always enough interesting stuff for me to keep an eye on him from the distance. well, until I married a Canadian who is the biggest Falco fan out there and introduced his full discography into our household

so today it's time to give it up for Falco. Happy Birthday Hansi!



here's a few links to my personal faves

Junge Roemer
http://www.youtube.com/wa...FXrobgorbs
http://www.youtube.com/wa...l0bXnWV5Vs

Ganz Wien (1981) his first single, the video to it was compiled later out of old snippets
http://www.youtube.com/wa...P0_DCK-2zA

Der Kommissar (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/wa...h290yFWo9M

The Sound Of Musik a weird patchwork... but still cool with me
http://www.youtube.com/wa...HK1erAT5AQ


Official Website http://www.falco.at/



Johann (Hans) Hölzel (February 19, 1957 – February 6, 1998), better known by his stage name Falco, was a classical music prodigy turned Austrian hip hop-pop and rock star.

Born in Vienna, as the only survivor of a triplets birth, he studied at the Vienna Music Conservatory. In 1977 he lived for a short time in Berlin (Germany). When he returned to Vienna he was playing in the Austrian bands Spinning Wheel and Hallucination Company. Before becoming an international rock star, he was bass player in the Austrian hard rock band Drahdiwaberl (from 1978 until 1983). With Drahdiwaberl he performed the song Ganz Wien, which was later a track on his first own solo album Einzelhaft.

As a solo artist (from 1980 on), Falco had taken an interest in the sounds and rhythms of rap music, and was one of the first Europeans to incorporate rap stylings into pop and rock music. He is best known internationally for the rap-styled "Rock Me Amadeus" (inspired in part by the Oscar-winning film Amadeus) from his album Falco 3, which became a worldwide hit in 1986 and reached #1 on the US charts (arguably the first "rap" song to achieve this feat, notwithstanding Blondie's success with their 1981 hit "Rapture").

Falco's first hit was "Der Kommissar" (a partial rap song about drug consumption) from the 1982 album Einzelhaft. An English cover version of "Der Kommissar" by After the Fire became a Top 5 hit in the United States in 1983. Incidentally, the video for the song would later be dubbed by MTV as "The Worst Video of All Time". That same year, Laura Branigan recorded a version of the song with new English lyrics, under the title "Deep In The Dark," on her album Branigan 2. 16 years later, a new version "Der Kommissar 2000" and two new remixes of the original put the song back on the charts.

Other well-known international hits were "Vienna Calling" and "Jeanny" from the album Falco 3. "Jeanny" was somewhat controversial when it was released in Germany and the Netherlands, because it was told from the point of view of a rapist and possible murderer. Several DJs and radio stations refused to play the song, although it became a huge hit in many European countries, and inspired two sequels on later albums.

In 1986, the album Emotional was released, produced by Rob and Ferdi Bolland (Bolland & Bolland). On the Album were "Jeanny Part 2- Coming Home", "The Sound of Music" and a song about Kathleen Turner and Robert Capa.

In 1987, he sang a duet with Brigitte Nielsen "Body next to Body". The Album Wiener Blut was released in 1988 but it did not get much publicity outside Germany and Austria.

In 1990, he made a song for Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz. The song was titled "Tanja P. not Cindy C.", and appeared on the Album Data de Groove.

After "Jeanny", there were a number of European hits, but Falco was rarely heard in the US and the UK. His 1992 US comeback attempt, with the song "Titanic," won a number of awards, but failed to chart in America.

Falco died of severe injuries received following his collision with a bus in his Mitsubishi Pajero near the resort of Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic on February 6, 1998 at age 39. At the time of his death, he was working on a comeback into the music world. He was buried in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) in Vienna, Austria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...(musician)
[Edited 2/19/07 4:01am]

Mr D. Wie gehts? Gut, ich hoffe. Und die Familie?

He invented Austro-rap.

I wonder when the first orger will post here who is not Austrian . Just sayin' .
BTW, good to see you again here, Dancelot .
Falco is not bad, but I never cared too much about him .

Shapeshifter said:

alles OK, danke der Nachfrage

oh shit, when did you learn German??




so he can also be held responsible for those gems of this genre?

Ich habe fur 18 Monaten in West Berlin gelebt (und geliebt!) , zwischen 1985 -86. Da habe ich etwas Deutsch gelernt. Bitte enthschuldigung fur meine beschissennes Grammatik!


Bring me Edelweiss http://www.youtube.com/wa...LVIICWRbjM

How to dance http://www.youtube.com/wa...wiJsIXOfVQ

Shapeshifter, you are from a deutsche speaking country? I though you were american!

MikeMatronik said:

No, senor. I'm English. Though I spent a very happy 18 months in West Berlin in the mid-eighties. But my wife's American, so maybe some of her Brooklynese has rubbed off on me.

I like Portugal. Wonderful country, great people.

Shapeshifter said:

It's not "no, señor" but "Não, Senhor"...

Thanks for the compliment!

MikeMatronik said:

And it's deutsch speaking country not deutsche speaking country . But still quite good for a portuguese .

Serious said:

Danke Schön!

Du bist eine shones mädchen!

MikeMatronik said:

Schönes, like in danke schön .
Thank you , you still look good even with that broken nose .

Serious said:

thanks!

I learned a bit of Deutsch on High School, but I did not practise. If you don't practise it, you ended up forgetting everything...like it happened to me

MikeMatronik said:

Yeah, I know, that's what happened to my French .
But I am surprised that you learned German at school in Portugal. When I was in Lisbon very few people spoke German.