Back for Good (Album)

Back for Good
Modern Talking studio album
Publication (s)	1998
Label (s)	BMG
Format (s)	CD , MC
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	18th
running time	69:20
production	Dieter Bohlen
chronology In the Garden of Venus (1987) Back for Good Alone (1999)

Back for Good , title addition The 7th Album , is a music album by the group Modern Talking released by BMG in 1998 . With over 1.25 million copies, the album is one of the best-selling music albums in Germany .

Creation and publication

Back for Good was Modern Talking's first album since In the Garden of Venus (1987) and marked the comeback of Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders as a group. On March 16, 1998, You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98, the album's first single was pre-coupled. Modern Talking got support from rapper Eric Singleton for the song . You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98 was sold 100,000 times in the first week after it was released, reached number 2 in the German single charts and was awarded a platinum record.

Shortly before the publication of Back for Good , Modern Talking was a guest on Wetten, dass ..? On March 28, 1998 . , where they made their first joint appearance since their comeback. The album had been presented to the press the day before. Back for Good was released March 30, 1998; at the time there were over 200,000 pre-orders for albums. Back for Good immediately reached number 1 on the German album charts; after a week 500,000 units of the album had been sold, after three weeks the million mark was exceeded.

The album mainly contains remixes of hits by the duo, so eleven songs on the album were new versions of songs that had already been released. Dieter Bohlen said that the "Modern Talking Sound has now been further developed". The four new tracks on the album were I Will Follow You , Don't Play With My Heart , Anything is Possible and We Take The Chance . All titles were written and composed by Dieter Bohlen. The Tages-Anzeiger and the Upper Austrian News noted that We Take the Chance had similarities with the song The Final Countdown .

Manfred Esser created the photos for the album. The cover design with Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders, each in black and white, comes from Ronald Reinsberg .

From May 7, 1998, Modern Talking went on an album tour for three months.

Track list

1. You're My Heart, You're My Soul (New Version) - 3:47
2. Brother Louie (New Version) - 3:36
3. I Will Follow You (New Hit '98) - 3:56
4. Cheri Cheri Lady (New Version) - 3:00
5. You Can Win If You Want (New Version) - 3:25
6. Don't Play With My Heart (New Hit '98) - 3:23
7. Atlantis Is Calling (New Version) - 3:20
8. Geronimo's Cadillac (New Version) - 3:02
9. Give Me Peace On Earth (New Version) - 4:08
10. We Take the Chance (New Hit '98) - 3:59
11. Jet Airliner (New Version) - 3:51
12. Lady Lai (New Version) - 4:56
13. Anything Is Possible (New Hit '98) - 3:36
14. In 100 Years (New Version) - 3:53
15. Angie's Heart (New Version) - 3:28
16. You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking Mix '98) - 3:17
17. You Can Win If You Want (Original No. 1 Mix '84) - 3:40
18. No. 1 hit medley - 7:03

Track 16 is the rap version of the track, which was recorded with Eric Singleton. On some editions it was replaced by the original No. 1 Mix '84 replaced. Angie's Heart was replaced on some issues by the rap version of Brother Louie .

The designation Original No. 1 Mix '84 is wrong, because both tracks were not released as single in these versions. When You can win if you want it is actually the version on the album the 1st album was released. When You're my Heart, You're my Soul is a previously unknown mix.

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Back for Good   DE 1 04/06/1998 (52 weeks)   AT 1 04/12/1998 (25 weeks)   CH 1 04/12/1998 (32 weeks)

Singles

You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98   DE 2 03/30/1998 (20 weeks)   AT 2 04/26/1998 (13 weeks)   CH 4th 04/12/1998 (25 weeks) Brother Louie '98   DE 16 08/03/1998 (11 weeks)   AT 17th 08/23/1998 (10 weeks)   CH 21st 08/16/1998 (9 weeks)

Back for Good topped the charts in 40 countries, including Sweden, Norway and Finland.

The Tagesanzeiger stated that there are "eleven well-known songs on the album that have been technically slightly outdated", which is surprising since Bohlen spoke of a "further development of the modern talking sound" in an interview. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung headlined the new album “meager return”, so the group “placed only four new songs in addition to contemporary remixes of their hits and original versions.” The Tagesspiegel wrote that Modern Talking “is [carefully] announcing its disco sound, which sticks to the merciless march rhythm [has] coupled the present drum and bass. The old synth pathos of the bombastic reverb effects and majestically wobbling keyboard carpets is out, but the beat has now become harder. "The remixes are" fully digital soft techno hits. And the smoothly sanded falsetto vocals by Anders now sound deeper than before. "

The group's comeback and the new album were sometimes rated as mocking or bitingly ironic, as the Rhein-Zeitung described it as an "endurance test for the auricles". With the comeback of Modern Talkings "the revival fever of the nineties reached a dubious climax," said the Sunday newspaper . “Bohlen, who as a composer is responsible for the plastic songs in which synthesizers play the first violin, dressed his old catchy tunes in new clay clothes made from the machine that were hardly differently tailored. And Anders wears his hair differently now, but vocally the Sun King is still at home at eunuch heights ”, summarized the Upper Austrian News . The Nürnberger Nachrichten wrote similarly: “'Your're my Heart, your're my Soul', 'You can win if you want', 'Cheri, Cheri Lady' or 'Brother Louie' - horror has many names and speaks one universal language. Allegedly everything was even remixed to make recycling perfect. Current songs are in short supply. If available, they don't sound any different. "

Awards

Back for Good received numerous gold and platinum records, the album was awarded five gold medals in Germany and double platinum in Sweden and Switzerland. The record achieved platinum status in France, Finland and Spain, among others.

For Back for Good , Modern Talking won an echo in 1999 in the “National Group of the Year” category.

Web links

• Back for Good at Discogs
• Back for Good at Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 14, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} KRO: Dieter Bohlen has to cram texts . In: Rhein-Zeitung , March 28, 1998.
2. ↑ chs: SOS. In: Tagesspiegel , March 20, 1998, p. 25.
3. ↑ People today: Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 28, 1998, p. 28.
4. ↑ Reports in: Trierischer Volksfreund , April 9, 1998.
5. ↑ million dollar sale . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , April 23, 1998.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} One heart and one soul . In: Tagesanzeiger , March 28, 1998, p. 75.
7. ^ ^{A b} Bernhard Lichtenberger: Comeback: Modern Talking sell old things and new things borrowed . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , April 14, 1998.
8. ↑ Modern Talking - Back For Good - The 7th Album. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Modern Talking - Back For Good - The 7th Album. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
11. ↑ Susanne Stampf-Sedlitzky : "We all cut away" (interview). In: Focus , March 8, 1999, pp. 240-244.
12. ↑ Meager return . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 2, 1998, p. 46.
13. ^ Christian Schröder: The reunification . In: Tagesspiegel , May 11, 1998, p. 27.
14. ↑ Lukas Rüttimann: You flirt like two freshly in love . In: Sunday newspaper , March 29, 1998, p. 67.
15. ↑ Stefan Mößler: The old pulp of fun . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , May 11, 1998.