View Full Version : Where's the most unusual place you heard/played AV
melloman
12 Jan 2001, 23:55
Being a true fan, any time is a time for Alphaville, but some are more unusual , or just different....
Songs you will remember because you were having a peak experience at the time.
one of mine is looking out over the bay, in Berkeley, California, and listening to "for a million" at sunset, with the sun almost centered on the golden gate bridge on a summer evening.
S.M.I2.L.E! It makes people wonder what you're up to.
wow, that sounds lovely ! i still haven´t seen the west coast - well, next time !
i´m thinking of an unusual place...hmmmm, this is hard....<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>
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http://www.alphaville.org
stardustdawn
13 Jan 2001, 01:06
well I mentioned before that I wanted Stardustbunny to be born to "Fantastic Dream" but things sort of happen their own way in the labor room. But I did play it in the hospital the next day. Don't know if that's considered unusual or not. I'll keep thinking....
The future exists, first in Imagination, then in Will, then in Reality.
Adiville
13 Jan 2001, 14:54
Sometime ago I got on a date with a guy who took me to an Arabic restaurant.
it was a very special place with pillows and carpets, oriental music... (i promise to take you there, Wii:)).
anyway, we were sitting and all of a sudden i heard BIJ.
I jumped and said : "hey ! its my fave song !!!" <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
@ville - forever and ever.
I got a friend who only listens to a modern
techno music ( trance ect... ) , I was suprised to find FY and BIJ in his MP3 list !
It must be because I never stops singing FY
when I'm bored <img src=icon_smile_sleepy.gif border=0 align=middle>
Let's dance in style ! Let's dance for a while !
Adiville
16 Jan 2001, 22:25
Avihai : sounds like you have alot in common with my friend - the Corona girl.
Too bad that she is a lesbien... <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
@ville - forever and ever.
A lasbian ... that's might be interesting ... am I good enough to convert her ?
Adiville
23 Jan 2001, 03:30
what is it with men and lesbiens ?!?
does it make you horny that they dont want you?
that you cant have them?
... <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
@ville - forever and ever.
melloman
30 Jan 2001, 22:19
to alpha-x:
Some of us have managed. Not everything is set in stone. It was an interesting relationship, but there was definitely some tension. And in the course of things, we both grew.
S.M.I2.L.E! It makes people wonder what you're up to.
In 1997 at the toilet of Planet Hollywood London, I was sitting down minding my on business listening to (I think it was U2), then out of the speakers came FY.
So the visit to the lavatory was 3:45 min longer. ( I tippet the toiletattendent a lot )
Adiville
02 Feb 2001, 01:56
I remember hearing FY at a pharmacy...
My mother bought something and i just stood there...singing... <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
@ville - forever and ever.
Adiville
02 Feb 2001, 01:58
Here is another one :
I heard SLAM at a club in Tel-Aviv.
Whats so unusual in that?
We were waiting (with the live band) for Marian Gold to enter the club at the same time... :)
Eventually he didnt (long story...).
@ville - forever and ever.
I once heard "Summer Rain" in the car, coming back from South of France, it was summer and there was rain, and it was played in the radio near Frankfurt, I was feeling like home, not because of the country - because of the music in this night!
MalilaM
13 May 2004, 21:16
In a department store...
A few weeks ago, I passed by the area where stereos and cd players are sold and suddenly I heard Forever Young (special extended mix). I wanted to go and talk to the salesman, but the people that I came with, pulled me away, no matter how I protested and wanted to go back. :(
... on the brim of madness
Once in a while in a country cottage of our friends where we were wasting some time out of the very old and noisy radio came Sound Like A Melody... It was nice...
FallenAngel
14 May 2004, 09:38
Now with my new MP3 player everywhere!
In the garden, in bed, on the train, in my car, .... in my dreams!
quote:Originally posted by melloman
Being a true fan, any time is a time for Alphaville, but some are more unusual , or just different....
Songs you will remember because you were having a peak experience at the time.
one of mine is looking out over the bay, in Berkeley, California, and listening to "for a million" at sunset, with the sun almost centered on the golden gate bridge on a summer evening.
Another fan told me about the magic of this kind of listening...maybe Marie heard it from here [wink]. I listened to The Breathtaking Blue album on my discman as I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge, but it was the middle of the day, the sky was blue, the sea was blue, it was a beautiful sunny day, 11 August 2002. I love San Francisco...
(it was only later that night on the news that I found out there was a high terror alert on that very bridge and that the whole bridge was kept under high surveillance...my mom, very worried, called later to make sure that I was all right and wasn't anywhere close to that part of the city, you can imagine her reaction when I told her I had been walking across the bridge....[laugh])
Well, in Germany it´s not that unusual to hear FY, BIJ, SLAM, DWM, JS and J. But:
Last November I was sitting at my new hairdresser and his stereo was playing Iron John.
Wow!!! Never heard that one in a public room before. Three months later same place he
played Lies. I approached him and we had a nice conversation about Alphaville and music
generally. I think I´ll keep on getting my hair cut by him for a few times...
quote:Originally posted by Kaz
In the UK.
rofl!!
When Kaz????
Big in Japan, at the disco the night before my cousin's wedding in Bristol. I asked the DJ, and he said, "I think I might have that." He did!
The day when I arrived to Germany on my cousin's birthday party. If you saw the guests that were there, you would be surprised to hear AV too. They all liked some kind of heavy metal or whateveritiscalled. And after listening to this music for a while somebody put on some compilation CD, where AV's "Fools" was. So I was like: "OH! That's my reason to come to Germany!" [laugh]
FallenAngel
06 Oct 2004, 08:50
You remember Willy, the friend of me who came with me to Germany?
Now every time he hears AV on the radio he tells me that and he started to recognised the songs! Even when he wasn't a AV fan before he went to the concert!
I heard a strange version of the song on the student-channel on tv in Lund. They made fun of FY in some way...
I never expected to hear AV on that channel!
Btw: My hairdresser, who I mentioned above, will come to the
concert in Leipzig, 17th Oct 04.
And he´s gonna buy Crazy Show.
And Dreamscapes.
Usually he only digs a lot of music out of the net...
In my boyfriend's place and now I'm almost on the brink of getting him to the Leverkusen gig... [smile2]
Something sentimental: My father (89) got to the hospital
two days ago. When I visited him yesterday I turned a lil
radio on, which was probably disturbed by all the electronic
stuff in the house. So there was only one channel to be
heard; playing FY. [smile]
such a nice moment! [smile]
We went to one of the supermarkets yesterday. And in the department where stereosystems for autos were sold they tested them with different music. And when I came closer to it suddenly they put Alphaville's "Dance With Me" on. That was great! [smile2]
Ooooh, you should have gone talk to them with crossed thumbs, Aljona [thumbup] [thumbup]
Alphaanni
11 Jul 2005, 16:37
oh, few years ago back in germany:
- in a doctors waiting room - SLAM
- in my fav. pizzeria in chemnitz waiting for my take-a-way pizza with Martin (what a strange moment... he just said "pssst") - SLAM
- once in the car with Kerstin (05/2000 from berlin to hamburg) we both had the same thoughts at the same second "AV on radio would be great " and the next second BIJ started... *scream*
Oh! when AV comes on the radio right after you think it is a right time for it to come it's great!
FallenAngel
11 Jul 2005, 18:00
On a x-mass market!
Jonatan
11 Jul 2005, 18:15
At McDonald's.
MalilaM
13 Oct 2008, 03:01
In a traffic jam.
A couple of hours ago I was stuck in a traffic jam generated by a huge puddle in a big avenue, and the guy in the van beside me was listening to BIJ very loud.
At least the fear that I might not be able to drive through the puddle without the car's engine turning off was somehow mitigated. [smile]
Foolship1077
13 Oct 2008, 07:46
I heard FY at a Barnes & Noble bookstore a couple of years ago. That location's PA system plays a bunch of '80s tunes.
My kind of place! [smile2]
Loralai
15 Oct 2008, 04:22
Last week I saw a TV commercial advertising a popular local radio station that played 80's hits and there was a clip from Forever Young lasting only a few seconds. (sigh) It has been so very long since I have seen an AV tune on the tube. (sigh)
Leningrad
15 Oct 2008, 04:34
Never in my life i have seen or heard an av song on tv or radio. Ok.. Napoleon Dynamite on ABC once, but it is one of the dumbest movies ever.
Foolship1077
15 Oct 2008, 06:08
There was an ad for Saturn Ion cars some time ago that used FY as well. It was for a graduation-themed ad.
The one big gripe I had with this was about how poorly edited the song was.
Krapplund
15 Oct 2008, 07:23
Members can download the ad under the "download" members corner [wink]
There was an ad for Saturn Ion cars some time ago that used FY as well. It was for a graduation-themed ad.
Last week on the german TV RTL..it was a chartshow and AV was with BiJ cover from Guano Aples(or so) of place 25 :)
Members can download the ad under the "download" members corner [wink]
Dear Peter,
Thank you so much for pointing that out! (and thank you to Poul E for posting it.)
That ad still sends shivers through me...it was done not long before I moved to Germany. My best friend's husband saw it first and said to my friend, "Mags needs to know about this!" They told me what channel they saw it on and so that evening I sat with video cassette ready and after an hour or so of waiting patiently the ad came on and I recorded it. But that cassette wouldn't work in Germany of course so it has been ages since I saw that ad now. Leaving high school ... leaving the USA... the timing was perfect.
MalilaM
15 Feb 2010, 15:15
The food court of a big mall. [boggled]
On Saturday, I was buying some fast food with my mother, and I was complaining about the terrible music one always listens there --going from the dullest cover of John Lennon's Imagine, to the cheapest Mexican pop--, when I started to hear the first chords of Fallen Angel. (!!!!) [bigeyes]
Feelings were strange: I was glad of course, to hear not only an AV song, but one that wasn't FY or BIJ... but it was also scary that they played such a song in the middle of the usual bad music they have there. [shake]
Regard it as a special bright diamond...
Or a magpie in a flock of crows...[smile2]
Aubanio
16 Feb 2010, 14:11
in the gym, where I was last week, I had a "The Hooters" shirt on and the trainer asked me "Is this your fav. Band?" In that moment we heard the first chords of BIJ and I said "no that Band.." "aah Alphaville, in the other gym studio where I work there is someone who knows the singer personally" said the trainer...
MalilaM
16 Feb 2010, 16:57
@J: Of course. [smile]
@Aubanio: Perfect timing! [thumbup]
Foolship1077
16 Feb 2010, 17:58
in the gym, where I was last week, I had a "The Hooters" shirt on and the trainer asked me "Is this your fav. Band?" In that moment we heard the first chords of BIJ and I said "no that Band.." "aah Alphaville, in the other gym studio where I work there is someone who knows the singer personally" said the trainer...
I always say there's nothing like perfect timing, and that was a great example!
"aah Alphaville, in the other gym studio where I work there is someone who knows the singer personally" said the trainer...
...or rather used to know, I'd assume...[smile][smile][wink]
Foolship1077
19 Feb 2010, 17:49
I don't remember what show or TV movie they were advertising on NBC last night, but they used a rendition of FY for the ad! May have been Youth Group, I'm not sure...Caught it during the Olympics.
Richani
19 Feb 2010, 17:57
Reminds me of a game show called 'Hole in the wall".
They used Big in japan in a dutch commercial for this show last year. It took me more than 10 seconds to realize "hey... alphaville !"
Foolship1077
23 Feb 2010, 02:29
I don't remember what show or TV movie they were advertising on NBC last night, but they used a rendition of FY for the ad! May have been Youth Group, I'm not sure...Caught it during the Olympics.
Okay, found the ad. It's not Youth Group, and I'm not sure who this is doing the singing.
The trailer is for a show called "Parenthood."
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Warning: Rather loud scream at the end!
colette
28 Feb 2010, 18:52
I asked the DJ in my favourite pub last night if he had any AV - I never usually ask because they never have it but the vodka made me a bit more ambitious than usual so I asked and he apologised and said he only had BIJ....I was stunned and then he played it and it completely rocked the dancefloor!!!!
Richani
28 Feb 2010, 18:57
Wow thats great Letty !!! [smile2] Spread the love for AV !! The brand new pub where I was yesterday sadly didnt had AV (yet [smoke]) but I was happy to hear some other good 80's songs there !
lorenzo
28 Feb 2010, 20:58
in one pub of my city in christmas of 2007.[smile2]
Pitesina
12 Apr 2010, 18:51
In the subway!! Yes!!! Maybe one month ago....
Richani
12 Apr 2010, 18:55
On a toilet...
Pitesina
12 Apr 2010, 19:09
[smile2] Well, AV is becoming an international band [smile2]
russharvey
12 Apr 2010, 19:48
There was a tv ad on recently that played a version of FY - it sounded like the candlelight version by Ella which is just Ella and a piano - its a very pretty piece and made the commercial seem very emotional and dramatic, but I was so shocked to hear FY on tv that I forgot what television show it was for!!
I haven’t had this album up to that moment, and heard it only for 3 times long ago. If someone asked me to sing it along, i wouldn't remember it.
This song sounded in my sleep, which is even more strange. It wasn’t images or dreams, only the song. I heard the sound of the saxophone and the artist's deep voice as distinctly, as if the song really sounded in my room. I used to wake up with the pounding heart, because the song sounded so clearly and realisticly, as if the singer was sitting at my bed and singing. I opened my eyes and it was still playing inside of me, in my ears. That was so impressive, that I could not forget my strange "Impossible Dream".
I don't know what it means.
sophienoelle
20 Apr 2010, 13:59
The most unusual place by far, for me was last week, when I went on trip to Egypt and hiked for 5 days in the Sea of Sand (near Lybia). Anyway, FY (unplugged) on my Ipod was simply magical under the night sky,,,I'll never forget it.
sophienoelle: "...FY (unplugged) on my Ipod was simply magical under the night sky"
Yeah. I can imagine how it was wonderful!!!
sophienoelle
21 Apr 2010, 17:59
It was awesome. So was "Inside Out" and so appropriate because we also visited some old temples!
Been to one of my local pubs yesterday and they played AVOL. Very loud (all people were sitting outside)!
And the bearer doesn't like AV. [smile2]
Last week, I visit the capital of Sanurini/Greece and I was looking for a new dress in a closely lane there. In a local near the place play BiJ.
It was a fantastic situation in this wonderful city!!!
Today in C&A, while in a changing room, stripped down to me undies, trying on new shirts, FY came on over the store radio! Now that's weird! And, yes, I bought the shirt I was trying on at the time!
That happened to me with a dress I bought in Austria once. Big in Japan came on the radio. To be honest I'd have bought it anyway but BiJ was definitely a factor in its favour!
Foolship1077
21 Jul 2010, 06:00
Where I work, we had an employee party a couple of years ago, and they had BiJ and FY for karaoke choices.
I went with BiJ. The next day back, people were asking about it and who they were!
Waiting in the cabin at the physio today when BIJ came on the radio. Weird or what?
MalilaM
23 Sep 2010, 22:08
Weird, I agree. I hope it was therapeutical. [smile2]
Richani
23 Sep 2010, 22:15
They knew you were there so they played it just for you [smoke]
colette
23 Sep 2010, 22:43
That must be a good omen in relation to your physio Kaz! C x
Don't know about that cos my neck's bloody killing me right now!
Foolship1077
24 Sep 2010, 07:15
A few months ago, an XM station played the '88 extended version of FY!
We now only listen to XM/Sirius/Sonic Tap/whatever the heck they wanna call themselves...on our DirecTV now. For some ungodly reason, the XM people sent a bill for their services.
Nearly $800, and this was for service in a car, and a home system! What a bunch of basura!!
Richani
24 Sep 2010, 16:02
@ the only small place at my work where the radio didnt work !! [banghead]
fishbones
24 Sep 2010, 21:54
My friend heard BIJ being played in a charity shop the other day. [laugh] My friend seem to hear BIJ where ever she goes, i wish i could. [banghead]
Pitesina
25 Sep 2010, 15:47
I would love if Universal promote AV in my country. I would like to hear them everywhere I go. I hear them rarely in the radio and time ago in the subway [bigmouth]
My friend heard BIJ being played in a charity shop the other day. [laugh] My friend seem to hear BIJ where ever she goes, i wish i could. [banghead]
I've got friends like that Sharon, I often get texts telling me where they heard it.
fishbones
26 Sep 2010, 01:27
My friend usually phones me up and puts her phone next to the speaker so i can hear it too. [laugh][laugh] Sadly it's not as good as being there to hear for myself.
I've got friends like that Sharon, I often get texts telling me where they heard it.
Going to have to have words with my friends Sharon [laugh] A text just won't do.
Foolship1077
28 Sep 2010, 06:12
I would love if Universal promote AV in my country. I would like to hear them everywhere I go. I hear them rarely in the radio and time ago in the subway [bigmouth]
Some of your neighbors to the north share that same wish, m'dear.
Some time ago I were visiting a fitness centre looking for inspiration for my own spinning classes....the instructor (a girl) were playing this 'rave' version of forever young during the class.
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The girl instructor were young and I asked her afterwoods if she new about the original version with Alphaville......she didn't [bigeyes] .....she had found this above version among her brothers discs and thought is was great.....I must admit that I've used this version several times myself now and it's good when you're spinning 'downhill' [wink]
Pointrox
04 Oct 2010, 01:38
"Forever Young" in the hotel elevator [smile2]
Foolship1077
16 Nov 2010, 00:51
While it wasn't the original version of FY, my gf and I were out to lunch Saturday when the Jay-Z version started playing overhead.
As I told her, it's one of those covers that make you enjoy the original a lot more.
MalilaM
17 Dec 2010, 18:03
Someone from the French fan group found this link, and I think that's the strangest place (and song) to play: http://www.vitrollien.fr/Musee/marbre_rouge.html [smile]
They should have given them credits for the music though.
Christian Garreau
27 Jan 2011, 08:43
I heard "sensation" in a dance school show in 2005.
Brendon
05 Mar 2011, 14:22
It was a Friday night on a music show called "Pick a tune" which catered largely for the mainstream market and a guy phoned in and requested "Big in Japan" The Jungle Mix. That was a real pleasant surprise. www.eightiesmusicfan.co.cc.
I played Heaven on Earth at the Basingstoke Hilton Hotel as part of the backing music for a Christmas party. It had people on the tables swaying, which was brilliant. I've got a short video somewhere - I'll try and find it this week.
russharvey
22 Mar 2011, 10:33
I just heard Forever Young being played in the Gladden Hotel in Shilong, China. I was on the second floor at the restaurant and I could hear the song playing in the moon bar which is on the first floor directly below the restaurant I was eating at...... Mainland China..... wow...... didn't expect that!
The Cologne Wanderers had BIJ played in a pub in Köln on Sunday night twice. We did a little performance for the locals and videoed it too. It might find its way onto YT...who knows...
Richani
22 Mar 2011, 13:54
[laugh][laugh][laugh] Still having a laugh about it [smile2] That was brilliant !!
Karen, you know you want to post it! *blushes*
OK, give me time. But don't blame me when someone you don't want to see it sees it... [laugh]
MikeinBoston
23 Mar 2011, 01:06
I heard FY at the Apple Store in Boston while working.... it was looped for at least a few weeks, if not months... its not China, but its kind of odd as well!
Foolship1077
23 Mar 2011, 06:40
They have some AV on the Pandora Radio website, but they only go as far as TBB.
Foolship1077
23 May 2011, 23:21
You never know until you do a search...
I found a tavern around my gf's workplace that has AV in their jukebox!
You gotta do a Search in order to find some of the other artists.
Anyway, they had the albums for FY and First Harvest, and the lady bartender said she liked what she heard from the '92 remix for BiJ!
Time will tell if I created a fan or not. [laugh]
(Oh, and yes, while I'm not a drinker, my gf has her favorites.)
Listening to some internet radio station from Wellington, New Zealand last night - they played some weird mix of some dance track and ID4YT!
Foolship1077
24 Feb 2012, 07:11
Somebody used a bit of FY in a YouTube Poop video!
For those who don't know what a YTP is, it's when they take any old kind of mixed media and weave soundbites from any which way into them. In this case, it was used in a montage after a scene in a recent video game.
It's after the 18 minute mark. WARNING: If you should watch the whole thing, there is some language mixed into the audio.
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