Prostitute | ||||
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Released | 26 August 1994 | |||
Studio | Lunapark Studios, Berlin | |||
Genre | Synth-pop | |||
Length | 70:46 | |||
Label | Warner Music | |||
Producer | Alphaville | |||
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Singles from Prostitute | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Prostitute is the fourth studio album by German synth-pop band Alphaville, released in 1994. [2] The album was reissued in a remastered and expanded edition in November 2023. [3]
Following the "science-fiction-themed" Afternoons in Utopia and the "lushly orchestrated" The Breathtaking Blue albums, [4] this was Alphaville's first release in five years. Having "a great variety of styles", [5] this " jazzy and EDM-influenced", [4] "dark, theatrical album" [4] proved "too abstract to achieve" much success. [6] The lack of commercial appeal led the band to return to its synth/dance roots with the following album, Salvation. [7]
In 2019 Marian Gold recommended Prostitute, along with the 2017 Strange Attractor, to anyone who only knew Alphaville from Big In Japan. [5]
It is the last Alphaville album with Ricky Echolette.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "The Paradigm Shift" | Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Ricky Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 3:47 |
2. | " Fools" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 3:53 |
3. | "Beethoven" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 5:35 |
4. | "Ascension Day" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Rainer Bloss | 5:45 |
5. | "The Impossible Dream" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Eric Sooter | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 4:49 |
6. | "Parade" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 3:40 |
7. | "Ain't It Strange" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 5:23 |
8. | "All in the Golden Afternoon" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 3:35 |
9. | "Oh Patti" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 1:46 |
10. | "Ivory Tower" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 3:16 |
11. | "Faith" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 3:56 |
12. | "Iron John" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Rudy Nielson | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 3:44 |
13. | "The One Thing" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 3:55 |
14. | "Some People" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Julie Ocean | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 4:37 |
15. | "Euphoria" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | 7:05 |
16. | "Apollo" | Gold, Lloyd, Echolette | Gold, Lloyd, Bloss | 6:10 |
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [8] | 78 |
Hungarian Albums ( MAHASZ) [9] | 34 |