not his best but his most successful album (with a small flaw!)

"Falco 3" marks a significant turning point in Falco's career: After the successful debut album "Solitary" and the far less successful second album "Junge Roemer" Falco's third album clearly commercial and chart-compatible has failed. One can find clearly less acrimony, cynical or social criticism than to "solitary confinement", the lyrics are not as polished and refined as the "Junge Roemer" and the music itself is far more focused on the taste of the masses (that's mainly due to the due cooperation with the Dutch producer-brothers Bolland). Nevertheless, Falco's third album to be successful: It came up at number 3 of the US charts, a success of a more or less German-language album was sensational and is. only to correct classification of this dimension: that would be as if today such as Xavier Naidoo in America have a top 3 album and at the same time a number 1 single !!

For album itself: There were three singles from "Falco 3", namely "Rock Me Amadeus", "Vienna Calling" and "Jeanny". The success of the album is mainly due to these three singles, the rest of the album consists of two cover versions ("Munich Girls" and "ItŽs All Over Now, Baby Blue"), several weaker numbers ("Tango The Night", " Macho Macho ") and songs that are partially developed before the cooperation with the Bollands (" NothinŽ Sweeter Than Arabia "," America ").

"Falco 3" is certainly not the favorite album of a true Falco fans, but as an introduction and as a collection of his greatest hits certainly it is always good. For this purpose, it is certainly a very time verhaftetes work, the album reflects the time (mid-80s) musically and by the texts was very good again. It's certainly not aged particularly well, but probably because of it among music fans around the world a kind of cult status attained (especially in America -> Look at www.amazon.com or ebay.com ...).

Finally, I must say that this album is still on a re-release much-needed needed Unfortunately not only that the cover of Orignal artwork from 1985 differs and has a really super ugly CD-back, numerous other unkindness are noticing. Ranging from incorrectly printed maturities of each song on the previously mentioned departure from the original design, especially a mastering error on the CD itself falls on offense:

Thus we find that is on the CD edition of this album an error in the song "ItŽs All Over Now, Baby Blue": While the original term of this title should be at 4:41 minutes, the song takes on the CD release over 5 minutes , The reason lies in a loop that has been overlooked in a faulty mastering. So repeat after exactly 2:09 minutes the last 30 seconds. This error happened but so subtle that it is difficult to notice little attentive listeners. Only on the rare American and Japanese CD versions of this album (as well as the German edition) will have the right, shorter version.

Too bad that the competent record company SonyBMG can not bring themselves to bring out a corrected version (perhaps with real artwork?), Because this error has been known for years and was often published on the Internet.

All in all, certainly one of the better albums Falco, deduction of points there because of unloving presentation of this album!