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Prostitute (Alphaville album)

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]

Overview

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.

Track listing

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Prostitute". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Alphaville - Prostitute". Discogs. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Alphaville News – Upcoming Release: Deluxe Editions of Prostitute and Salvation". 7 September 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Alphaville: Strange Attractor (album review)". crypticrock.com. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Godfathers of Pop: Marian Gold". classicpopmag.com. 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. ^ Bolton, Rob (1 May 2000). "Alphaville: Salvation". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Alphaville: Prostitute". theaudiodb.com. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Alphaville – Prostitute" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2023. 47. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved 30 November 2023.