Just been browsing through all the old groups I remember from the 80's on YouTube, great fun and very nostalgic.
Anyway .... Modern Talking ...... is it really one of them singing ? Supposedly it's Thomas Anders (the long dark haired one) but I still think over 20 years later that it really sounds like a woman singing.
I know there was a bit of a funny situation with many 70's and 80's German groups not doing their own stuff (Boney M, Milli Vanilli etc ...) were Modern Talking the same ?
I am not sure whether the 50 mil + number is accurate, but they have sold a lot of records, that's for sure. The Germans used to buy MT by the truckload.
"Unprofessional? Us? Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought the Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth century Tuscany. We are utterly professional." - Mr Croup
BlueSwan wrote:No. Thomas Anders WAS the singer. Anyway, it doesn't even sound remotely like a woman. Just because it's high-pitched doesn't make it female sounding.
Cheers for clearing that up.
It's not the high pitched choruses I was referring to (which perversely sound like a mans falsetto to me), his voice is very ethereal sounding and sounds rather like an earthy womans voice, akin to Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop of Desireless fame.
Lush wrote:I am not sure whether the 50 mil + number is accurate, but they have sold a lot of records, that's for sure. The Germans used to buy MT by the truckload.
i'm afraid you are right. i'm the only one who managed to buy nothing of them. the partner of thomas anders, (the extraterrestrial smiling blonde one, dieter bohlen) now earns truckloads of money with casting shows in germany (kind of german idol).
I've always thought that the voice in You're My heart, You're My Soul was female... But it's not so. In Italy I've found on web a very cheap best of, I wanna know something more about them...
My Other Half is a big fan, but with me they're a guilty pleasure (like ELO!) I like 'You Are Not Alone' (not the Jacko song) and 'For Always And Ever' at the minute.
Radiophonic wrote:Bad Boys Blue. Was that one of Dieter Bohlen's post-MT projects? 'Love Is Such A Lonely Sword' or something?
Bohlen never did anything with Bad Boys Blue, but Bad Boys Blue did to a certain extent imitate the Modern Talking style of high-pitched post-choruses. BTW, I MUCH prefer Bad Boys Blue to Modern Talking. BBB have recorded at least 25 outstanding pop songs.
Radiophonic wrote:Bad Boys Blue. Was that one of Dieter Bohlen's post-MT projects? 'Love Is Such A Lonely Sword' or something?
Bohlen never did anything with Bad Boys Blue, but Bad Boys Blue did to a certain extent imitate the Modern Talking style of high-pitched post-choruses. BTW, I MUCH prefer Bad Boys Blue to Modern Talking. BBB have recorded at least 25 outstanding pop songs.
Aplogies - not Bad Boys Blue (who I also liked) I was thinking of Blue System. Ah, memories.... Fancy, Lian Ross....
BlueSwan wrote:I quite like Modern Talking, but I prefer the stuff that Dieter Bohlen did with C.C.Catch.
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"House of Mystic Lights" was pure genious.
"Unprofessional? Us? Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought the Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth century Tuscany. We are utterly professional." - Mr Croup
In the middle of this week it's arrived to me the Very Best Of Modern Talking, and I like it very much, I've discovered a good duo after all. I even like the new versions with the rapper Eric Singleton -even if they aren't in this album- and Last Exit For Brooklyn and New York City Girl (the ideal b-side of NYC Boy )
