damn we are still alive

This article covers the music album. For the film, see Falco - Damn, we're still alive!

damn we are still alive
Falco studio album
Publication (s)	1999
Label (s)	Reverso (GIG Records) , EMI Electrola
Genre (s)	Pop, rock
Title (number)	12
running time	52:00
production	Thomas Rabitsch , Bolland & Bolland
Studio (s)	Reverso music production
chronology Out of the Dark (Into the Light) (1998) damn we are still alive Higher than ever (2007)

Damn, we are still alive is the ninth and final Falco - studio album , on which he had worked during his lifetime. It was released in 1999.

background

On the album is a collection of songs that Falco originally produced for other albums but had not yet released, and some new remixes of old songs. Among other things, it also included pieces from the previous album Out of the Dark (Into the Light) (originally planned album title: Egoisten ), which were discarded after the failure of Naked , as well as previously unreleased song productions for the studio album Wiener Blut (originally planned album title: Aya ) .

In 1995 Falco wrote new songs and recorded some of them, including Europa (original title: Dame Europa ), which he dedicated to Austria's accession to the EU . He also took the songs Push! Push! (not included on this album) Damn We Are Still alive and The Queen of Esnapur .

Further songs on the album were created in 1987 on Wiener-Blut sessions ( ¿Qué Pasa, Hombre? And Poison ), and Falco's very last recorded song, Crisis, is also on this album. Since some of the songs were not yet finished, Falco's former band leader Thomas Rabitsch finished them for this album.

The three songs Fascinating Man , We Live for the Night and From the North to the South were produced by the Bolland brothers and are the only ones not actually Falco songs, but posthumously made alternative mixes of the titles Genie and Partisan (A Fascinating Man) and Metamorphic Rocks from 1991. The last song on the album is a Thomas Rabitsch remix of Verdammt wir noch leben and at the end closes the musical Falco circle by ending with the beginnings of Falco.

In the booklet accompanying the CD, the album is described as "accounting for the zeitgeist of the nineties".

After the failure of Naked , with which he anticipated a radical foray into the German pop scene, Falco abandoned his ideas and postponed the production of new songs several times.

Music video

The video for Damn we are still alive is shot from Falco's subjective point of view, he himself is never seen in the picture. The plot depicts his arrival in "pop heaven": Several dead celebrities ( Humphrey Bogart , Albert Einstein , Freddie Mercury , Jimi Hendrix , Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley ) greet Falco in a dark dugout, in which they meet with or with Alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling and music are fun.

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

damn we are still alive   DE 35 11/01/1999 (4 weeks)   AT 3 10/31/1999 (5 weeks)

Singles

damn we are still alive   AT 26th 10/10/1999 (4 weeks)

1. Damn we're still alive - 5:17 ( recorded 1994/95 )
2. The Queen of Esnapur - 4:31 ( recorded 1994/95 )
3. Qué pasa hombre - 4:16 ( recorded 1987 )
4. Europe - 5:09 ( recorded 1994/95 )
5. Fascinating Man - 4:00 ( recorded 1992, remix of the song "Genie und Partisan (A Fascinating Man)" )
6. Poison - 4:24 ( recorded 1987 )
7. Ecce Machina - 5:32 ( recorded 1994/95 )
8. We Live for the Night - 3:52 ( recorded in 1992, remix of the song "Genie und Partisan (A Fascinating Man)" )
9. Crisis - 3:46 ( recorded 1997 )
10. From the North to the South - 3:11 ( recorded 1992, remix of the song "Metamorphic Rocks" )
11. Der Kommissar (Club 69 Remix) - 3:41 ( Remix from 1998 )
12. Damn We're Still Alive (Remix) - 4:28

Note: The titles of the albums for which the songs were originally recorded are shown in brackets.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See booklet on "Damn we are still alive" and "Europe"
2. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT