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Alphaville: The Singles Collection

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Released
  
October 18, 1988

Length
  
45:38

Release date
  
18 October 1988

Genres
  
Synthpop, Rock music

Recorded
  
1984 - 1986

Artist
  
Alphaville

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Producer
  
Colin Pearson, Wolfgang Loos, Peter Walsh, Andreas Budde, Steve Thompson, Michael Barbiero

Alphaville The Singles Collection (1988)
  
The Breathtaking Blue (1989)

Similar
  
Alphaville albums, Synthpop albums

Alphaville: The Singles Collection is Alphaville's first "best of" compilation, consisting of remixes of singles from their first two albums, Forever Young and Afternoons in Utopia. It was released in 1988.

Contents

Reviews

The compilation consists of 2 remixes each of 4 songs, essentially a 7" and 12" remix of each1. Only the remixes of "Big in Japan" were new mixes; all the other remixes had been made previously available (although for some, this was the first time on CD).

Reviewers were underwhelmed by this release, as one said: "Saying that the band could have been served better with this compilation is putting it mildly."1

However, despite the flaws with the track listing, the reviews of the songs and remixes themselves are positive, with the same reviewer calling some of the choices "quite successful," "soaring," and "not-bad-at-all."1

Songs

Forever Young6:12
Red Rose4:23
Big in Japan3:49

References

Alphaville: The Singles Collection Wikipedia