https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 06 May 2026 11:41:47 +0000 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:35:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=8174 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52980&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52980 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 8174
Posted: 17 November 2019 at 11:35am

That is what I thought. Thanks!]]> Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:35:14 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52980&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52980 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52977&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52977 Author: Bellenger1981
Subject: 8174
Posted: 16 November 2019 at 7:42pm

Santi Paradoa wrote: Does the Napolean Dynamite soundtrack have the LP version on it? The consensus is the LP version is/was the "hit" version correct?

Pretty certain that the "hit" version is the original
album version.   ]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:42:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52977&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52977 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52974&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52974 Author: aaronk
Subject: 8174
Posted: 16 November 2019 at 12:27pm

I can dig out my Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack to find out for sure, but I'm nearly 100% certain it's the LP version.]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:27:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52974&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52974 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52971&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52971 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 8174
Posted: 15 November 2019 at 5:42pm

Does the Napolean Dynamite soundtrack have the LP version on it? The consensus is the LP version is/was the "hit" version correct?]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:42:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52971&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52971 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52925&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52925 Author: Bellenger1981
Subject: 8174
Posted: 01 November 2019 at 7:08pm

The "New Single Mix" is identical to the "Version
Rapide", originally released in 1985 on the 7" B-side of
the "Forever Young" single in France. So, this "New
Single Mix" was not a new edit re-created in 1988 in
order to promote the album/single. By the way, this "New
Single Mix" (AKA "Version Rapide") appears on the 2019
2-CD (and deluxe box set) reissue of the album.

Edited by Bellenger1981]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:08:20 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=52925&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#52925 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42723&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42723 Author: 80smusicfreak
Subject: 8174
Posted: 09 December 2014 at 10:55am

Currently slated to drop on January 20, 2015, as shown on Amazon: ALPHAVILLE - "SO80S Presents Alphaville (Curated by Blank & Jones)" It's a 2-CD set meant to celebrate the group's 30th anniversary, and is a European import. It will feature the (6:10) "Special Dance Version" of "Forever Young" as originally issued in 1984-85, as well as FOUR versions of the group's other U.S. hit, "Big in Japan": the (7:26) "Extended Re-Mix" (1984), the (6:00) "Extended Instrumental Mix" (1984), the (6:58) "Remix '88" (1988), and the (7:51) "Torsten Fenslau Remix" (appears to be a new mix for 2015)...]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:55:53 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42723&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42723 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42077&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42077 Author: NightAire
Subject: 8174
Posted: 26 August 2014 at 10:38pm

80smusicfreak, I think you may be on to something about
the chart run / MTV airplay. It peaked its second week
on the charts... so either MTV could read the writing on
the wall by the end of the second week, or MTV pulling
its airplay killed the song's chances at pop radio.

I knew MTV was powerful at the time; it's pretty amazing
to see what appears to be cause and effect like this.

FYI, the radio single re-release from '88 has the LP
version listed as 3:45, but after trimming the silence
(not much) and taking it to the absolute end of program
audio into the hiss, it runs 3:43.955.

It's almost a full second more audio than Jim quoted for
the 45, but you REALLY have to strain to hear it (I
cheated in the digital domain by boosting the volume to
check) and I suspect it was below the surface noise at
this point on the vinyl.

My impression is that they are identical length and
speed.]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:38:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42077&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42077 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42047&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42047 Author: NightAire
Subject: 8174
Posted: 19 August 2014 at 9:25pm

Absolutely amazing info; I can't thank you all enough!!!
I just lap this kind of history up... absolutely
fascinating.

I have to agree with the consensus: this song would have
entered the American consciousness in about March of
1985. (MTV ruled.)

P.S. - while I currently am focusing on the U.S. audience
(it is my biggest audience, and quite frankly I have my
hands full just tracking down everything that hit the
U.S. Billboard pop charts!), my hope is to one day expand
not only into "songs that hit on Cashbox but missed
Billboard" and British, Irish, and Australian 80s pop
charts, and possibly others.

...That's still a ways off. :-)

P.P.S. - I find it amusing that, even though I'm playing
from strictly the U.S. charts, we're Big In Japan
(*rimshot*), with them being our #3 biggest audience in
both tune-ins and minutes spent listening. (#1 is
U.S.A., U.K. is #2 for tune-ins and Canada is #2 for
minutes spent listening.)]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:25:25 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42047&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42047 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42042&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42042 Author: 80smusicfreak
Subject: 8174
Posted: 19 August 2014 at 12:30pm

Taking a fun trip down memory lane by researching old issues of Billboard magazine dating from late '84/early '85, I can also relay the following tidbits about Alphaville's "Forever Young":

* February 9, 1985, issue: The single (Atlantic 89578) was reviewed (pg. 65). It was listed in the "POP" section under "RECOMMENDED" (defined by the magazine as "records with potential for significant chart action") instead of one of the weekly "PICKS" ("new releases with the greatest chart potential"). No additional comments given...

* February 16, 1985, issue: The following week, the magazine's Brian Chin had this to say about the 12" version in his weekly "Dance Trax" column (pg. 58): "Alphaville's 'Forever Young' (Atlantic 12-inch promo), remixed for the clubs, is a very flexible cut indeed. Good beat, haunting melody, and AOR should even be interested. This is a rare occasion where a second single could outdo the first, especially on the pop side..."

* February 27, 1985: MTV adds the video to "Forever Young" under its "new rotation" category (as reported in the March 9 issue of Billboard - pg. 39)...

* March 6, 1985: MTV holds the video under "new rotation" (its lightest category) during its second week there (Billboard, March 16 - pg. 33)...

* March 9, 1985, issue: Song debuts at #59 on the magazine's "Hot Dance/Disco" chart (pg. 72); it also sneaks onto the "Bubbling Under" chart at #105 (pg. 81)...

* March 13, 1985: MTV continues to hold the video under "new rotation" for its third week (Billboard, March 23 - pg. 31)...

* March 16, 1985, issue: Song moves up to #103 on the "Bubbling Under" chart (pg. 70), while continuing its 6-week run upward on "Hot Dance/Disco" (pg. 58)...

* March 20, 1985: MTV holds the video under "new rotation" for its fourth and final week there (Billboard, March 30 - pg. 31, although magazine states the date as "March 30" at the top of the MTV programming list, which is a typo)...

* March 23, 1985, issue: Song graduates to the "Hot 100" chart at #95 (pg. 68), commencing a 4-week run there, although by its third week on the chart (issue dated April 6), MTV support would be gone! So did MTV pull the plug TOO SOON, thus hurting the song's potential on the pop chart, and maybe even costing the band a gold album here??? Billboard's weekly-published MTV playlists (provided by the network itself, and not actually monitored at that time) clearly seem to suggest that this song's video didn't get quite as many plays on the iconic channel as some of us seem to remember - myself included!

Oh, and I just want to add that Google's search engine for keywords printed in these old issues of magazines SUCKS!!! So don't trust it - it misses a LOT! :-(

And lastly, the band's Wikipedia page states the following regarding "Forever Young", which caught my attention: "Amid reports that pop star Laura Branigan was featuring the song on her next album, Hold Me, Alphaville's "Forever Young" was re-released as a single in the US, but it did not prove to be massively popular...The Alphaville version was released a third time in the US in 1988..." After scouring multiple sources - including the old issues of Billboard, eBay, Discogs, etc. - I found absolutely NO evidence to support the comment that the single was actually released/promoted TWICE here in the U.S. back in late '84/early '85, prior to the re-launch in '88! So needless to say, I strongly question that claim...]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:30:19 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42042&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42042 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42040&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42040 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 8174
Posted: 19 August 2014 at 4:29am

I think most US music fans would place this song in March of 1985.]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:29:15 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8174&PID=42040&title=o-t-alphaville-forever-young#42040