The feeling of your first AV-album?

[Avil]

How was the feeling when you boughy/got your first AV-album.
I remember I had forgotten about AV, when my mum bought me FY...This was autumn 98.
Now more than tree years later she really regrets that...
She played the song for me, and I knew which song it was at once. That was a great feeling. I had found my wat home...

-I´m your best friend-the dream-

[davidhorizon]

I bought Forever young in 1990. I only knew Forever young and Big in Japan. And I wasent expecting a great album. Boy was I wrong. I instantly fell in love with tracks like Summer in Berlin, SLAM, Victory of Love, Fallen angel, and soon I loved the complete album, and thougt it was the best album ever produced. Within 2 weeks I bought BB and Utopia.

The rest is history...

[Adiville]

I will never forget the summer of 1999...
I received my 1st AV album (FY of course) in the beginning of July.
I came back from a vacation and found it in my mail box.
I didnt stop listening to it for the whole summer !!!!
IT WAS GREAT !!! very SUMMER IN BERLIN <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

@ville - forever and ever.

[stardustdawn]

I believe it was fall/winter 1985-1986. I'm pretty sure I was 15. I was driving around with a friend of mine one cold yet clear evening, and she had Afternoons in Utopia on. I remember instantly falling in love wtih Jersualem and Dance With Me. I went home and called up my boyfriend at the time who was always making tapes for me and I asked him if he'd ever heard of Alphaville, and he couldn't believe he hadn't made me any AV tapes yet. I went ahead and bought the vinyl albums and made my own- there was no way I could wait. Anyway, I remember feeling a strange sense of recognition, magic, of coming home, when I heard AV. It definitely struck a chord within me. Although for years I thought AIU came before FY, probably because that was the order in which I heard them. A couple of years later I let another friend borrow my AV albums. I don't think he was ever going to give them back! He even hung the sleeves up in his room-you know so he could always read the lyrics. Then his room caught on fire. I'm actually very lucky (and so is he because I would've killed him) that my albums escaped the fire relatively undamaged. The sleeves are slightly discolored due to smoke damage, but still readable! and AV's been there through my good moments, and carrying me through my dark ones, my constant travelling companion.
Well, I guess that's my boring AV story.


The future exists, first in Imagination, then in Will, then in Reality.

Edited by - stardustdawn on 08 Feb 2001 17:28:00

[wonder2000]

I bought my first AV record 1995. I remember I was so disapointed that album "Prostitute" I was looking for that kind of songs like "BIJ", "FY", "SLAM" etc. There wasn`t that kind of songs, but after many time listening I was sold.

"It`s me - Julian"

Edited by - wonder2000 on 01 Jan 2002 06:40:44

[Trent]

1984...Football was me life...I was going to become a football player..HA!! I stole it from me sister...she wasn't happy...but I was happier than shite and lusted over the pic of Mr. Gold for months pinned to me wall

"When I close my eyes, I see my soul...When I open them, I see yours"...
Trent


Edited by - Trent on 01 Jan 2002 08:00:58

[micki]

Well, the first AV-album I heard was FY, and it was my cousins cd...well, I listened to it, and of course I loved FY, SLAM and BIJ then, which I had already heard, but didn't care so much about the other songs because I was so exited about those three...but, a few months later being at my moms place, I rememberd seeing the FY-vinyl in her collection, went to look for it and found it. Then, as I decided to still listen to the other songs, it suddenly struck me while listening, that how on earth could I've missed the beauty of such songs (as for example SIB and FA which at that very moment became my all-time faves)...
...still now while listening to that vinyl (which BTW is the one I ripped off from my moms collection <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>), I think the songs sound much better than on cd...strange huh??...so what might finally have opened up my eyes was the golden sound of classical vinyl <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>...

"Santa's little helper"

[Ariana Dreamer]

I bought FY in the summer of ´94. I fell in love with them immideately. It was so beautiful. Something like I´ve never heard before... It´s an incredible album.

With all my love - I´M BACK!!