Talk:Falco (musician)

message: There's not much biographical information here.  This could be fleshed out, e.g., his struggles with substance abuse, his sexuality, etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.231.6.65 (talk) 17:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bio

message: I'd like to point out that Falco was not a German musician. He was, however, if "German" refers to the German language, but this usage would be absolutely misleading. Can we do something about that categorization? <KF> 01:18, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: He's been added to the German-language singers, clarifying that he's not necessarily German--DerRichter (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: German?

message: I think they were actually more sincere than most people thing.
After Falco died, some people tried to organize a festival to raise money for a star on the Walk of Fame, with shows in Hollywood and Vienna. Bloodhound Gang heard about this and contacted the organizers to volunteer for both shows.
:"the song 'Mope' is a tribute to Falco, and he is referred to as a 'money making player that ain't with us no more' and a 'gang banging thug that never seen it coming' ".  This sentence was added on 30 April 2010 by an unregistered editor from an IP address only ever used once in Wikipedia.  It seems a strange way for the Bloodhound Gang to talk about someone whose tribute festival they volunteered for.  Has someone misunderstood the lyrics?  I suggest this should be "the song 'Mope' mentions Falco and samples 'Rock me Amadeus' ".  But I don't have the song.  (Chorleypie (talk) 13:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bloodhound Gang's "less than 100% sincere" tribute 

message: I removed some of the covers of "Rock Me Amadeus" from the Tributes section. They're not really tributes to Falco, at least no more so than any other cover songs, and they're already listed on the page for the song. Plus, there are literally dozens of covers and parodies of this song, and this page shouldn't become a list of them. 
Instead, I just added "There have also been numerous covers and parodies of 'Rock Me Amadeus'" with a link to that page.
I'm still not sure everything in the Tributes section belongs here (does the Wedding Singer reference to the ATF cover really count?), but at least this trims it down a bit.
I also reorganized the tributes in chronological order (except that I'm not sure where to put Stahlhammer). They needed to be in some order....
If the Tributes section is going to be this long, it might be worth beefing up the other sections. I can do this if anyone's interested. The Disco Museum (linked) is a good starting place, if anyone else wants to take it up.
Also, the Discography section is a bit odd. Why include The Remix Hit Collection and not include all of the dozens of other best of, remix, and greatest hits collections (or at least the US ones).
:Sorry for not signing this section and the preceding "My Changes" section. No, I'm not just taking credit now because of the flattery by Snowbound below (especially since there appear to be dozens of people who've worked on it, not just me), but that is how I noticed that I hadn't signed. So thanks. (I tried to find all the anonymous edits I made in February, but I somehow missed this one: Falco wasn't on my watchlist, but Talk:Falco was for some reason. P.S., Opera for PocketPC is pretty spiffy, but it's still too hard to edit Wikipedia on a PDA.) 
:Oh, and I lied; I did want to expand this into a ten-page dissertation, but I restrained myself (read: my Graffiti finger got tired). --Falcotron 06:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it looks like someone put everything back up, mostly the duplicated Rock Me Amadeus trivia. But I think this whole section is trivia anyway. -79.182.199.230 (talk) 08:42, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: While the content may strike some as trivial, the section is not trivia per se, it is a combination of tributes to the man (the plane) and media usage of his compositions and interpolations thereof.  Having said that, there is probably too much detail of certain media usage here that is better included at that level of descriptiveness in articles about the songs themselves, not really being biographically relevant to Falco.  I speak particularly about the interpolations.  I'm going to weed that section down.  For the record, I do think the details I am about to edit out of this bio are relevant (if appropriately weighted) for the song articles.  Abrazame (talk) 11:17, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tributes 

message: A very informative, respectful and well written article. Thank you to the person who worked on it. Snowbound 20:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excellent 

message: Was Falco a child prodigy? The word "prodigy" in the article is linked to "Child prodigy", but there is nothing in the article which suggests that he showed any precocious musical talent. Cheers, Jacklee 00:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Falco a "child prodigy"? 

message: Having previously left the response to the "Der Kommissar" charting (where I hope my tone is understood to be critical of supposedly complete sites and Wiki's dependence on citing web material, not the person who queried the data), I totally missed what I think is a completely erroneous claim that "Auf der flucht" charted in the U.S. at all, much less as high as #30 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Then an asterisk notes the song went to #9 on a chart called U.S. Hot Play?  I've never heard of this chart.  I personally recall hearing "DK" many times on the radio then; I don't believe I've never heard of "Auf der flucht," and I think I would have, had it gone as high as 30, while "DK" was only 78.  And "Hot Play"?  Anybody know where this chart is from?  I know that a U.S. 12" single featuring "DK" on the A-side included "Helden Von Heute" AND "Auf Der Flucht" on the B-side.  Is it possible that this three-track single peaked at #30 on the Billboard Dance/Disco chart at the time, and this is what is being confused here?  If so, we should have some citable evidence that "Auf Der Flucht" was actually receiving as much as or more club play than "DK" in order to credit such a charting to "Auf".  Can anybody help track down this info?  Abrazame 17:58, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Auf Der Flucht" charting in the U.S.?! 

message: Under U.S. Charts, a greatest hits album is listed as having peaked at #6, with an asterisk: *Number 6 in European Top Albums European Top 100 Albums: Feb 24 2007.  After what I've already written about chartings here, I don't mean for it to come out like I'm harshing on Falco, but this is silly.  U.S. albums charts would be Billboard or Cash Box albums charts, which indicate how a record is selling in the U.S. in comparison to other albums of all genres.  (Unless it is a genre-specific chart, such as Rap or Latin or Country albums, in which case that needs to be noted, in a separate column, as it should not be compared to the overall albums chart performance Falco legitimately had in the U.S. with earlier releases.)  The chart listed here, while printed in a U.S. magazine, is an amalgam of various European countries' charts.  That Falco did so well on this chart certainly deserves mention; however, it should not be listed under "U.S. Charts".  I love Falco, and hundreds of '80s artists.  Sadly, no '80s artist's hits collection ever makes #6 in the U.S./Billboard.  The U.S. doesn't respect and appreciate pop for what it is - they devour it like manna from heaven at the time, and distance themselves from it like excrement a couple years later. Abrazame 08:00, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "European Top Albums" chart is not a U.S. chart 

message: I think the last genre of Pop-rock, Hip hop/Rap, Funk, and New Wave is better than the new change, New Wave and Pop by RattleandHum.  If anyone wants to discuss, that would be great otherwise Ill change it back, because there was no reasoning given for the new change.--DerRichter (talk) 08:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre 

message: Would it be of value to add the fact that in 1998 the British satirical email newsletter NTK adopted the term "FALCO" as shorthand for something disappearing or going bust? The term gained some currency from that period until the present day in some circles: http://www.ntk.net/1998/02/13/#OPERATION_FALCO_ --Gilgongo (talk) 20:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it has anything to do with this musical artist, as he had quite a long and successful career--DerRichter (talk) 20:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  The name was chosen as he had recently died, although by the end of NTK even the editors admitted they couldn't remember why they picked on him.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.142.75 (talk) 16:38, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  NTK 

message: der kommissar(1982).......u cant touch this(mc hammer)or is it just me?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.41.145 (talk) 23:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. der kommissar was produced by Robert Ponger, and I wondered why he had not sued them for it. --andreasegde (talk) 17:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  hmmm! 

message: I found out that Falco's "The Sound of Musik" is very similar to the Song "Rapper's Delight" from Gang Sugarhill.
See the comparision, in fact Falco used some other word or changed the word order.
E.g. instead "say upchuck the boogy"  he sings "say up jump the boogie".
Gang Sugarhill - Rapper's Delight lyrics:
i said a hip hop a hippie to the hippie
to the hip hip hop, you dont stop
a rockin to the bang bang boogy say upchuck the boogy,
to the rhythm of the boogity beat
Falco- The Sound of Musik:
The Sound of Musik
Do the bang-bang-boogie, say up jump the boogie
Do the rhythm on the boogie the beat
Do the bang-bang-boogie, say up jump the boogie
Do the rhythm on the boogie the beat
Do the hip do the hop do the oh-oh-bebop do the freestyle
Rock'n and we never gonna stop
N00bh4ck3r (talk) 18:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences  by Gang Sugarhill? 

message: Does anyone have a falco picture they could release into the public domain. I feel the article needs one. Fribbler (talk) 23:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: How is this article written like a fansite? And what can be done to make it not that way? I don't see it as being written any differently than many other artist articles on WP so would like to determine what you feel should be done differently? Padillah (talk) 13:41, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fansite" tagging 

message: Wouldn't he have been driving a Montero, rather than a Pajero given this happened in the Dominican Republic (a spanish speaking country). I also notice that this section is completely unreferenced.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.214.91.12 (talk) 09:31, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  His death 

message: Both German pressings of the album and those sold in the English-speaking world are clearly titled Junge Roemer, NOT Junge Römer.  As this is the English-language Wiki, as the album and single are clearly titled "Junge Roemer" in the English-speaking world, and as the German edition spells them this way as well, I am at a loss to understand why multiple edits appear regularly trying to change to the "Römer" version.  Regardless of how the phrase is correctly written in the general language, these English Wiki articles refer to products available in the English-speaking world.  If an original 1984 Austrian version was released under the title "Römer", that is worth noting, but please upload a photo to the album's article, place it below the international release, and make a note in which territories that version was available.  Otherwise these edits are a pedantic and incorrect exercise tantamount to vandalism.  Abrazame (talk) 04:17, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potatö/Potatoe?  Roemer, not Römer. 

message: what was his voice type? Sounds like Baritone to me, but I don`t find any sources.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.218.229.245 (talk) 17:58, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voice 

message: In refactoring that section, I removed the following sentence, which headed that section:
:One of his first music video production M.O. Music Show - he performed "Maschine brennt" - was directed by Alexander Schukoff; produced 1982 at a basement studio in Vienna, which later became the famous disco "P1".
My guess is that this was written by someone whose first language is not English; I'm not quite sure what data point is relevant to Falco's biography.  Is the assertion that Falco having recorded a video there is what popularized the space as a disco?  I think if such a thing were a fact, it would be appropriate for this biography but the IMDB link provides no clue that this is what is being asserted.  If this is merely trivia (he shot it at a place that later became a famous disco), it may be appropriate background on the song's video for an article about the song or the album on which it was released, but it is not relevant to Falco's biography.  Abrazame (talk) 12:01, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed from former "Tributes", current "Popular culture" section 

message: The song Rock Me, Amadeus has been covered by the German rock group Megaherz. It should be contained in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.61.51.62 (talk) 21:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Megaherz tribute 

message: I dont want to nit-pick but Falco was not the only artist whose principal language was German to score a number-one hit in the United States. The first one was the Austrian Anton Karas with his "Harry Lime Theme" from the movie The Third Man in 1950. He was #1 in USA and UK. The Third Man Theme spent eleven weeks at number one on Billboard's U.S from 23. April to 8. July. See also list of number-one singles of 1950 (U.S.) on wikipedia. I already mentioned this three years ago on talk page of the Rock Me Amadeus article. This reference
does not diminish Falcos achievements in anyway but merely draws attention to the fact that two Austrians achieved that rare feat.--Plerimest (talk) 20:07, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the first and only one 

message: I have modified a small piece of text that says "Falco was Austrian (i.e. German in denial)", as the implication smacks of vandalism.  If the statement was well-intentioned then it needs clarification, with a source cited if possible. leevclarke (talk) 21:45, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: German in denial

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message: so in the german wiki. here it is  something else. 144.41.3.22 (talk) 13:15, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ein Jahr später einen --Plattenspieler--, auf dem er bevorzugt Elvis Presley