Viennese Blood (Album)

Viennese blood
Falco studio album
Publication (s)	1988
Label (s)	TELDEC
Genre (s)	Pop, rock
Title (number)	11
running time	47:00
production	Bolland & Bolland , Gunther Mende & Alexander C. Derouge, Falco & Mal Luker
chronology Emotional (1986) Viennese blood Data de Groove (1990)

Wiener Blut is the fifth studio album by the Austrian singer Falco . It was released in 1988 . The title is borrowed from the operetta of the same name, Wiener Blut .

prehistory

Falco, who came from Vienna and was physically and mentally in bad shape after the exhausting Japan tour in 1987 and made little musical talk, subsequently largely withdrew from the public. Before the end of the year he brought out the single Body Next to Body together with Brigitte Nielsen . It was not very successful. In March 1988 his new album, which was originally called Aya (the last three letters of the track title Himalaya ) was finished. Falco in his perfectionism as well as the record company Teldec were dissatisfied with the result, and so a large part of the songs that had already been produced were discarded.

Production and Background

Falco originally wanted to record the album with a few other producers, but then returned to the Bolland & Bolland brothers , with whom he produced six of the eleven tracks. Four other tracks were produced by Mende and Derouge , one track was produced by Falco with Mal Luker .

The album, which was now called Wiener Blut , came out at the end of summer 1988. It made it to number 2 in the charts in Austria, only number 9 in Germany and number 12 in Switzerland.

The track Wiener Blut was recorded in the Falco 3 sessions, but at that time it was still called Medicine and had a different text. The song Garbo is dedicated to the Swedish film actress Greta Garbo .

The single Wiener Blut was in the charts in all German-speaking countries, whereas the second single, Satellite To Satellite , did not make it into the charts for the most part, but was the last single that was in a country outside Europe (Japan) during Falco's lifetime the charts came up.

This made Wiener Blut Falco's first album that could not reach first place in his home country.

It is also assumed that this album could no longer match the previous albums because, as a conglomerate of different producers, due to the different styles (half the album produced by the Bolland brothers and the rest by three other producers), it was not so uniform and therefore the There was much less connection between the songs.

Falco dedicated the album after Emotional to his supposed daughter Katharina Bianca and Justin Dylan.

Track list

1. Viennese blood - 3:31 ¹
2. Falco Rides Again - 4:44 ¹
3. Untouchable - 3:17 ¹
4. Tricks - 3:52 ¹
5. Garbo - 3:49 ¹
6. Satellite to Satellite - 5:14 ¹
7. Read a Book - 3:56 ²
8. Walls of Silence - 4:39 ²
9. Solid Booze - 4:31 ^2nd
10. Sand on the Himalayas - 4:01 ²
11. Do it Again - 5:15 am ³

¹ produced by Bolland & Bolland
² produced by Gunther Mende and Alexander C. Derouge
³ produced by Falco and Mal Luker, originally by Steely Dan

Charts

album

year	title	Top position
		AT	DE	CH
1988	Viennese blood	2	9	12

Singles

year	title	Top position
		AT	DE	CH
1988	Viennese blood	4th	9	24
1988	Satellite to Satellite	-	-	nv

Promo singles

The song Garbo was released as a promo single in France and the song Do It Again in the USA.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Falco in an interview shown in the documentary High as Never
2. ↑ Falco meets Brigitte Nielsen - Body Next To Body , austriancharts.at, 1987
3. ↑ See booklet for the CD version of the album
4. ^ Falco - Wiener Blut , austriancharts.at, 1988
5. ↑ See booklet