Alphaville-Forever Young Full Album Zip
Amice Golden
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The thing about certain songs is that they give you nostalgia for times, places and hairstyles you don't even remember because you weren't there yet - or else, you were just too small and insignificant to realise how good the music actually was back in the day. Forever Young by the 1980s German synth-pop band Alphaville is one of these melodies.
It was released in 1984 and achieved worldwide success, and its famous refrain Let us die young or let us live forever, We don't have the power, but we never say never became a sad but truthful generational manifesto for all generations to come, including mine.
Millennials have been obsessed with nostalgia ever since we had nothing to be nostalgic about. As teenagers in the mid-1990s and early 00s, we would look up to people who were born in the late 1970s as if they were heroes. The ones born in 1980 and 1981 counted nothing, but those of 1979 and 1978 were celebrities. In return, they would look down on us as if we were just spoiled little brats too involved with The Transformers to understand who Kurt Cobain was and why punk never dies.
Now, the lack of respect individuals my age inspire is further proven by the fact that we have let the following generation and their useless rap music, idiotic attitudes, uncovered ankles and ridiculous foods take over everything and make fun of us without fighting back, and that makes me think that we were right to believe we were dumb from the beginning.
Our tastes have been influenced by timeless blockbusters we pretend we have first-hand memories of, while in reality, we were just toddlers when The Neverending Story, Back to the Future and Top Gun were out in theatres in 1984, 1985 and 1986. And when it comes to rock 'n' roll, as a matter of fact, we were decades late for the best music ever, a few years late for the very good music and just in time for some decent 1990s songs that didn't last enough to make our time relevant.
Alphaville's lead singer Marian Gold is in today to talk about a timeless ballad, his other 1984 signature piece Big in Japan and the more recent philharmonic versions re-releases recorded with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg for the band's 8th album Eternally Yours. Kids of the 1980s, please don't cry.
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