Which track should be the 3rd single from Catching Rays On Giant ? [Archive] - Alphaville Forum

wii

12 Jan 2011, 17:25

Now that we know what the two first singles are, which should be the 3rd single, if they decide to offer another single from the album ?

Krapplund

12 Jan 2011, 17:42

I think Call Me [wink]

Gravitation

12 Jan 2011, 17:55

Definitely Call Me.
It is clear from the quotations from moonbase.
And I think that just these 3 tracks are suitable for single embodiment. Other tracks I can not imagine a single.
(We still have to live to Call Me - suddenly no longer be two singles)

*ariAna*

12 Jan 2011, 18:33

This is a tough one ...

I chose The Things I didn't do. I agree that the chances of Call me getting the third single are bigger but I'd prefer The Things...

Heaven on Earth might be suitable as well. As I said: difficult choice.

colette

12 Jan 2011, 18:38

It should be CYF - for the benefit of non AV fans who have not heard it before

manu

12 Jan 2011, 19:10

For it will be call but in an other form that in the album version more like the demo version.
And if a four single can be relesaed i would choosen Heaven on Earth

wii

12 Jan 2011, 19:17

I also hope for Call Me, would actually be my first choice for a single, imagine a good 12" version of this ?

Gravitation

12 Jan 2011, 19:37

It would be good 12 "version and I Die For You Today and Song For No One ... [smile2]

(...including the singles"I die for you today" "Song for no one" and "Call me when I make it" - from moonbase)

TheBlue

12 Jan 2011, 20:08

I voted for Call Me, since it's most propable and suitable. I would like to say phantoms, but that's not going to happen.

jetset

12 Jan 2011, 20:24

Song For No One as second promo single surprised us all, because never an Alphaville album opener song had been selected (yes yes : does Summer Rain count ?).
No doubts Call Me has the biggest remixing potential, but I have eventually voted Heaven On Earth. Just my intuition.

Kaz

12 Jan 2011, 20:56

I'm sure it will be Call Me...

Foolship1077

13 Jan 2011, 01:04

I also went with "Call Me," figuring it would be a single anyway, since there was the demo version of it on the deluxe CD, along with IDFYT.

poul e

13 Jan 2011, 06:35

I think it will be "Call me" but I hope it will be "Heaven on earth"....

russharvey

13 Jan 2011, 08:40

same here....... just can't stand the lame chorus in call me and find that I like the demo version MUCH better.....

I think it will be "Call me" but I hope it will be "Heaven on earth"....

JaJaJa

13 Jan 2011, 14:53

Carry Your Flag would be cool.

*ariAna*

13 Jan 2011, 15:09

But not this Uuuh-uuuh-uuuhh background version. [bigmouth]

Christian Garreau

13 Jan 2011, 21:28

I voted for Heaven on earth because there's always a slow song that becomes a single for an Alphaville album and it should be as usual.
Call me must also be a single so I hope for four singles at the least.

Avalon

14 Jan 2011, 11:45

I must say that I voted for "The Deep" as the 3rd single, really beautiful song, and as Christian Garreau said: there's always a slow song that becomes a single for an Alphaville album and it should be as usual. And I agree, there should be an ballad single as the 3rd single, though in the past the ballad single was always released as the 2nd single exept on "Forever Young" were it was the 3rd single, and "Afternoons In Utopia" which did'nt get any ballad single release :(

JaJaJa

14 Jan 2011, 13:56

@*a: Correct indeed. But the relaxed CS-spirit could be kept even in this version. And that would be better for an release than the CROG-spirit...

*ariAna*

14 Jan 2011, 14:12

@ Jax3: You made a point ...

Most AV-spirit would be in Heaven on Earth but I doubt it'll be a single release.

JaJaJa

14 Jan 2011, 14:18

*shrugs*

I aim to please...

wii

14 Jan 2011, 14:32

Oh no, please no more Marian Gold solo stuff like CS...[bigmouth]

@*a: Correct indeed. But the relaxed CS-spirit could be kept even in this version. And that would be better for an release than the CROG-spirit...

JaJaJa

14 Jan 2011, 14:59

I don't think CROG is less MG solo than CS.
And I was actually talking about the spirit of Carry Your Flag: MG and the whole song sounds pretty relaxed and laid back. The most CROG songs sound rather like pressure to me: As if they were done
quickly to achieve success at any cost.
(A couple of years ago there was one of the Still-no-release-notes on moonbase with the consolating
words "We don't want to make it quick and dirty." Quite ironic, isn't it?)
I am not defending CS or too many guitars instead of synths etc.. I could have been talking on Salvation
the same, cos that is also a very elaborated and relaxedly sung album: You simply hear that the singer
knows exactly what he does at every 1/1000 second. On CROG there are not such subtleties.

wii

14 Jan 2011, 15:36

Well, CROG is much more synth-based which I asked Marian for years after Salvation, CS sounds much like Marians experiments online, with various productions and music styles without a coherent sound, CROG is coherent, it's pop yes, and that's what I love about it, for me Alphaville has always been about pop music, if I want to be depressed sitting in corner of the room listening to deep songs about suicide, I listen to Pink Floyd The Wall or something similar....not AV

TheMoonBoy

14 Jan 2011, 16:29

I think it will be "Call me" but I hope it will be "Heaven on earth"....

I second that as well.

hajak

15 Jan 2011, 17:41

Call me is a fantastic track,should definately be a single[wink]

Gravitation

15 Jan 2011, 18:01

I would not mind more of the singles on "Gravitation Breakdown" because it is one of the favorite songs on the album, but as I said - I do not see more than singles "Call Me" [smile]

JaJaJa

15 Jan 2011, 18:26

@wii: AV is pop to me as well. And CS offered much pop too (Ways, Still Falls The Rain, Moongirl etc.).
But CROG is bad pop to me. Too simple, too bubblegum, too chatting-up, too cheap. That's it.

Clare

15 Jan 2011, 20:42

I agree with JaJaJa and haven't voted (because I can't bring myself to care which song Alphaville use to make a disinterested mass market notice them). I do care about Alphaville though which is why I would say the best songs are The Deep and CYF but not the CROG version. As for the synths v guitar question, I don't care. I care what works for the song.

MalilaM

17 Jan 2011, 23:53

I also think it will be "Call Me"... IDFYT, SFNO and CM are the only ones that have a distinctive "personality" (not counting MH or CYF).

emilzone

19 Jan 2011, 17:11

Song For No One as second promo single surprised us all, because never an Alphaville album opener song had been selected (yes yes : does Summer Rain count ?).

Well, if we equate with the single release order of The Breathtaking Blue album, the 3rd single would be "The Things I Didn't Do" [track #4 as for the mysteries of love; while #2 IDFYT->romeos & #1 SFNO->summer rain] and then no more release.. :)

even though it's my favorite track, this time i voted "Heaven on Earth" for the 3rd single.

missionaryofgod

20 Jan 2011, 18:49

I was a little disappointed when Song for noone was chosen as second single. Should have been Call me instead (in a version more like the demo version.) But for third single I think they need a slower piece so I voted "Heaven on earth"

colette

20 Jan 2011, 19:46

Why isn't CYF on the vote list? I want to vote for it! (I guess it's because no one else may vote for it but you never know.......)
: )

alphaandre

20 Jan 2011, 21:46

look at http://www.alphaville.info/#band -> Martin Lister...
the 3rd single is "Call Me"

Kaz

20 Jan 2011, 21:49

As I have been saying for the past 3 months...

Gravitation

06 Feb 2011, 06:34

Recently talked with a friend on the phone and he heard Song For No One (I have it has played since the beginning, where the whistle) and he liked it so much that he bought a CD album [smile2]