Covers of Alphaville songs:
Forever Young
- Appears on Laura Brannigan's 1985 album Hold Me.
Alphaville are not mentioned on the album, but the song is credited to
"M. Gold - F. Mertens - B. Lloyd".
- The History album features a Reggae cover of
"Forever Young" by an unknown Jamaican band. They have slightly changed some
of the lyrics. For example, "are you going to drop the bomb or not?" becomes
"are you going to drop the bomb on us?" Click here for
the cover version lyrics. *
- "Forever Punk" was recorded by Die Goldenen Zitronen in March 1987.
Marian Gold agreed to sing with the group on what is essentially a parody of
"Forever Young".
- Covered by Taiwanese singer Tracy Huang on Chariots of
Fire, an album of cover versions of many famous English songs. (Released
by UFO Group, Taiwan, in 1991). *
- A dance remake was released by German dance group Interactive:
Cat no.: CSR CD5 0063, Intercord Germany
- Forever Young (Radio Mix)
- Forever Young (Extended Version)
- Mobile
- Forever Young (Perplexer Remix)
- Forever Young (Cream & Candy Second Impression Remix)
- Forever Young (Chill 'n' Force Remix)
- The Only Way
5" CD (RRCDM42, Remixed Records)
- Forever Young (Radio Edit, 3:40)
- Forever Young (Perplexer Remix, 5:05)
- Forever Young (Extended Version, 5:59)
- Mobile (5:04)
- Waves of Balah (5:44)
Track 4 written by Ramon Zenker & Jens Lissat, track 5 written by Ramon
Zenker & Andreas Schneder
- Covered by Italian group DJ Space C. Some of the lyrics have been
seriously altered, with lines such as "The sun is down it's dance for a while." *
- Covered by Temperance:
- Forever Young (Radio Edit, 3:48)
- Forever Young (Tempered Club Mix, 5:12)
- Forever Young (Alphergenic Remix, 6:17)
- Forever Young (U.K. Trip Mix, 7:51)
- Forever Young (D.J.'s Rule Remedy Dub, 7:27)
- Covered (with quite a few lyric changes) by Axel Rudi Pell:
5" CD (SPV 055-76663)
- Forever Young (4:09)
- Your Life (Not Close Enough to Paradise) (5:05)
- "Forever Young" is covered on the album Forever and Ever by the
German band Dune, recorded with the London Session Orchestra.
- Covered by Karel Gott in 1999, released as a CD Single (Polydor 561 465-2 1)
- Für immer jung (Forever Young)
- Die Welt war schon (The World We Knew)
- Mara Mara (Balkan Melody)
- Covered by Taiwanese singer Emil Chau in 1996.
- Covered by B-Charme on her CD This is my world. The song was also released as a single.
- Covered by Paul Michiels (lead singer of the Flemish band Soulsister) in 2000.
- Covered by Wayne Wonder. Original release info unknown at present, but
appears on his July 2005 compilation Inna Bashment Style (subtitled "The Roots
of an Urban Warrior"). *
- Covered by DJ Panda; an instrumental version about which not much is known, at present! *
- Covered by Youth Group in 2006. After being featured on the TV show The OC, the song debuted at #2 on the Australian charts, then moved up to the top position.
- Note: There are many other songs called "Forever Young" that have nothing
to do with Alphaville, notably by Bob Dylan,
Ella Fitzgerald, Tyketto and Rod Stewart.
Big in Japan
- "Big in Japan" was covered in 1995 by Kim Ono:
5" CD (WEA017CD 0630-12199-2)
- Big in Japan (4:05)
- Big in Japan (Mark 'Oh Remix, 4:48)
- Big in Japan (Electroset's Manga Dub, 7:02)
- Big in Japan (Electroset's Manga Mix, 7:10)
- Big in Japan (Extended Mix, 4:51)
- Covered by Sandra.
- Also covered in 1985 by Hungarian Miklos Varga. *
- Covered by Demimonde on Equalterms. An MP3 version of the song can be downloaded from Demimonde's
official site.
- Covered by Guano Apes, released as a single (which did very well) and appears on their album Don't Give me Names.
- Note: Tom Waits' album Mule Variations features a song called "Big in
Japan", but unfortunately it's not Alphaville's song. Also, Mariah Carey
released a double CD entitled Big in Japan, but again it's nothing to do
with AV.
Sounds Like a Melody
- Covered by Randy Bush:
5" CD (ZYX 7505-8, ZXY Music)
- Sounds Like a Melody (Radio Edit, 3:54)
- Sounds Like a Melody (Album Version, 4:39)
- Leaving (5:38)*
- Sounds Like a Melody (Clubmix, 4:30)
- Foreign Affair (3:56)**
Track 3 written by Wilko, track 5 written by M. Oldfield
The Impossible Dream
Covered by a band called Marshall and Alexander.
Songs covered by Alphaville:
- Marian Gold's first solo album, So Long Celeste,
features four songs originally recorded by other artists:
"The Shape of Things to Come" (by Headboys, from the album of the same name),
"One Step Behind You" (by Furniture),
"Peace on Earth" (by The BoomOperators) and
"Roll Away the Stone" (by Mott the Hoople).
- Marian's second solo album, United, features two
cover versions:
"Say it Ain't So, Joe" (by Murray Head) and
"Five Years" (by David Bowie).
- The History album features Alphaville performing
"Islands", a live cover version of "On Islands" by
the group New Musik.
- Dreamscapes features cover versions of
"Highschool Confidential" (by Rough Trade, from the album Avoid Freud) and
"Mercury Girl" (by Cleaners from Venus, from the album Goin to England).
- CrazyShow features cover versions of
"Do the Strand" (by Roxy Music, from the album For Your Pleasure),
"Something" (by George Harrison) and
"Diamonds are Forever" (by Don Black and John Barry).
* Any further information on these songs would be greatly appreciated, as would
cover images and, well, anything else...