Prostitute (Alphaville album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Prostitute
| type = Album
| artist = Alphaville
| cover = Alphaville prostitute1994.jpg
| alt =
| released = 26 August 1994
| recorded =
| studio = Lunapark Studios, Berlin
| genre = Synth-pop
| length = 70:46
| label = Warner Music
| producer = Alphaville
| prev_title = History
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Salvation
| next_year = 1997
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Prostitute
| type = studio
| single1 = Fools
| single1date = July 1994
| single2 = The Impossible Dream
| single2date = December 1994
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|publisher= |website=AllMusic|title=Prostitute|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/prostitute-mw0000532660}}
}}
Prostitute is the fourth studio album by German synth-pop band Alphaville, released in 1994.{{cite web|title=Alphaville - Prostitute|url=http://www.discogs.com/Alphaville-Prostitute/master/212888|website=Discogs|accessdate=24 November 2015}} The album was reissued in a remastered and expanded edition in November 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.alphaville.earth/upcoming-release-deluxe-editions-of-prostitute-and-salvation/ |title=Alphaville News – Upcoming Release: Deluxe Editions of Prostitute and Salvation|date=7 September 2023 |access-date=20 December 2023}}
Overview
Following the "science-fiction-themed" Afternoons in Utopia and the "lushly orchestrated" The Breathtaking Blue albums,{{cite web|title=Alphaville: Strange Attractor (album review)|url=https://crypticrock.com/alphaville-strange-attractor-album-review/|website=crypticrock.com|date=3 May 2017|accessdate=20 December 2020}} this was Alphaville's first release in five years. Having "a great variety of styles",{{cite web|title=Godfathers of Pop: Marian Gold|url=https://www.classicpopmag.com/2019/09/godfathers-of-pop-marian-gold/|website=classicpopmag.com|year=2019|accessdate=19 December 2020}} this "jazzy and EDM-influenced", "dark, theatrical album" proved "too abstract to achieve" much success.{{cite web|title=Alphaville: Salvation|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/alphaville-salvation|website=exclaim.ca|date=1 May 2000|accessdate=20 December 2020|author=Bolton, Rob}} The lack of commercial appeal led the band to return to its synth/dance roots with the following album, Salvation.{{cite web|title=Alphaville: Prostitute|url=https://www.theaudiodb.com/album/2127835|website=theaudiodb.com|accessdate=20 December 2020}}
In 2019 Marian Gold recommended Prostitute, along with the 2017 Strange Attractor, to anyone who only knew Alphaville from Big In Japan.
It is the last Alphaville album with Ricky Echolette.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline =
| title1 = The Paradigm Shift
| music1 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics1 = Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Ricky Echolette
| length1 = 3:47
| title2 = Fools
| music2 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics2 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length2 = 3:53
| title3 = Beethoven
| music3 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics3 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length3 = 5:35
| title4 = Ascension Day
| music4 = Gold, Lloyd, Rainer Bloss
| lyrics4 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length4 = 5:45
| title5 = The Impossible Dream
| music5 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics5 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Eric Sooter
| length5 = 4:49
| title6 = Parade
| music6 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics6 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length6 = 3:40
| title7 = Ain't It Strange
| music7 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics7 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length7 = 5:23
| title8 = All in the Golden Afternoon
| music8 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics8 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length8 = 3:35
| title9 = Oh Patti
| music9 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics9 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length9 = 1:46
| title10 = Ivory Tower
| music10 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics10 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length10 = 3:16
| title11 = Faith
| music11 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics11 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length11 = 3:56
| title12 = Iron John
| music12 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics12 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Rudy Nielson
| length12 = 3:44
| title13 = The One Thing
| music13 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics13 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length13 = 3:55
| title14 = Some People
| music14 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics14 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Julie Ocean
| length14 = 4:37
| title15 = Euphoria
| music15 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| lyrics15 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length15 = 7:05
| title16 = Apollo
| music16 = Gold, Lloyd, Bloss
| lyrics16 = Gold, Lloyd, Echolette
| length16 = 6:10
}}
Charts
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ 2023 chart performance for Prostitute ! scope="col"| Chart (2023) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{album chart|Germany4|78|id=20445|artist=Alphaville|album=Prostitute|rowheader=true|access-date=24 November 2023}} |
| {{album chart|Hungary|34|year=2023|week=47|rowheader=true|access-date=30 November 2023}} |
References
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