Falco 3

Falco 3
Falco studio album
Publication (s)	September 11, 1985
Label (s)	GIG Records , Sony Music
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Pop , rock , new wave
Title (number)	10
running time	43:00
production	Rob & Ferdi Bolland
Studio (s)	Sound Push Studios, Holland
chronology Young Romans (1984) Falco 3 Emotional (1986)

Falco 3 is the third studio album by the Austrian musician Falco . After the moderate success of its predecessor Junge Roemer , the album consisted almost exclusively of titles influenced by pop music . Falco 3 was Falco's only album that hit the UK charts. The album also made it to # 3 on the Billboard 200 in the US and # 18 on the R&B album chart .

background

After his first two albums were produced by Robert Ponger , Falco 3 was produced by Dutch producers Rob and Ferdi Bolland . It took two months for the album to be completed in the summer of 1985. Without You , Falco had to sort out one of his self-composed songs from the album. However, Falco sang Without You at several concerts on his promo tour and announced: "This song is for you, it comes on the 3 LP". However, because of the views of his record company, he was unable to keep this promise.

The first promo single, Rock Me Amadeus , was viewed in the media as a song with international format even before it entered the chart and immediately rose to number 1 in the Austrian charts. In the summer of 1985, Falco performed songs from the new album for the first time on a promo tour. One of the highlights was the performance at the Wiener Festwochen between the town hall and the Burgtheater .

Playlists from Falco 3 and the 25th Anniversary Editions

#	Falco 3	#	Falco 3 [25th Anniversary Edition]	#	Falco 3 [25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
1	rock Me Amadeus	11	Jeanny	11	Jeanny
	The gold mix		Hurts & Falco		Hurts & Falco
2	America	12	Without you	12	Without you
	The City of Grinzing Version Mix		Demo version		Demo version
3	Tango the Night	13	rock Me Amadeus	13	rock Me Amadeus
	The Heart Mix		Extended version		Extended version
4th	Munich Girls (Lookin 'for Love)	14th	Vienna Calling	14th	Vienna Calling
	Just Another Paid One		Tourist version		Tourist version
5	Jeanny	15th	Men of the west	15th	Men of the west
	Sus-Mix-Spect Crime Version		Extended version		Extended version
6th	Vienna Calling	16	Urban Tropical	16	Urban Tropical
	Wait for the extended mix		Extended version		Extended version
7th	Men of the West - Any Kind of Land	17th	rock Me Amadeus	17th	rock Me Amadeus
	Wild Jack version		The Falco Biography Mix		The Falco Biography Mix
8th	Nothing Sweeter Than Arabia			18th	The Making of Legendary Falco 3 Videos
	The Relevant Madhouse Danceteria Jour-fix-mix				DVD
9	Macho macho
	Sensible boy's song
10	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
	No mix

Remarks

Tracks 1 to 5 are on page 1 of the LP , tracks 6 to 10 on page 2. Except for tracks 8 and 10, which Falco produced, the tracks were arranged and produced by Rob and Ferdi Bolland. All tracks are listed as special remixes on the album cover of the European version, but are the usual European versions of the singles. The American, British and Japanese versions of Falco 3 contain the Salieri version of Rock Me Amadeus and the Vienna Calling - Metternich Arrival Version instead of the European versions of Rock Me Amadeus and Vienna Calling .

rock Me Amadeus

The first single from Falco 3 was Rock Me Amadeus . It was successfully placed in the charts in May 1985. After the great success in the German-speaking market, the album was released worldwide and was very well received. In March 1986, Rock Me Amadeus reached number 1 on the US and UK charts. It is the only German-language song to date that reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . This was a burden for Falco as he believed that from now on he would be measured by the success of Rock Me Amadeus . In the summer of 1985, the second single Vienna Calling was released , with which Falco was able to record success in the USA as well as throughout Europe.

Jeanny

The title Jeanny was published in late 1985 and rose to number 1 in the German, Austrian and Swiss charts in early 1986. Heated discussions were held about the plot of the song. In many cases, the text and the music video were described as glorifying violence, as both elements indicated Jeanny's killing. The killing of Jeanny is not shown in the music video. At the end of the video, Jeanny Falco teases - but this is proof that the imaginary character Jeanny is alive. Due to the protests, all music channels boycotted the video and it was no longer broadcast. Falco asserted that the song was a ballad and not a call to kill young girls. Nevertheless, the single sold 2.5 million times in Germany alone and the song stayed at number 1 for two months.

Technical error when mastering the CD

The CD version of this album contains (apart from the German Teldec first edition and the American, English and Japanese versions) an error in the song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue . While the original running time of this title should be 4:41 minutes, the song lasts more than 5 minutes on the CD edition (the running time is only correct for the 1st pressing from 1985 and the 2nd pressing from 1987). The reason lies in a loop that was overlooked in an incorrect mastering. So after exactly 2:09 minutes the last 25 seconds are repeated. The best-of-compilation High as never avoids this mistake by offering this song in a new "Rough Mix", which was not released until 2007. The Falco 3 - 25th Anniversary Edition contains the correctly mastered song recorded in 1985 instead of the faulty song.

Charts

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1985	Falco 3	DE2 platinum (34 weeks)DE	AT1 (53 weeks) AT	CH1 (24 weeks) CH	UK32 (15 weeks) UK	US3 gold (27 weeks)US	First published: September 1985 In the USA also at number 18 on the R&B charts.

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1985	rock Me Amadeus	DE1 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT1 (24 weeks) AT	CH2 (20 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (15 weeks)UK	US1 (17 weeks) US	First published: May 1985 Also number 4 on the US dance and number 6 on the US R&B charts.
	Vienna Calling	DE4 (19 weeks) DE	AT3 (16 weeks) AT	CH7 (11 weeks) CH	UK10 (9 weeks) UK	US18 (14 weeks) US	First published: September 1985
	Jeanny, Part I.	DE1 gold (21 weeks)DE	AT1 (19 weeks) AT	CH1 (16 weeks) CH	UK68 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1985

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Falco 3 at laut.de
2. ↑ Falco 3 at Discogs
3. ↑ All tours from Falco at falco-de-groove.npage.de
4. ↑ "Falco 3" turns 25: Most successful Falco album in anniversary edition with bonus tracks. (No longer available online.) Home.arcor.de/nipe, archived from the original on October 9, 2010 ; Retrieved May 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Falco concerts at the Wiener Festwochen
6. ↑ Title list at falco.at
7. ↑ List of titles at jpc.de
8. ↑ Matthias Kugler: Falco in portrait at swr3.de. January 22, 2011, accessed May 24, 2012.
9. ^ Official music video for Jeanny Part I on MyVideo
10. ↑ Information on the technical error in It's All Over Now, Baby Blue at musik-sammler.de
11. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE / AT / CH UK US