Prostitute (Alphaville album)

Prostitute
Studio album by Alphaville
Released	26 August 1994
Studio	Lunapark Studios, Berlin
Genre	Synth-pop
Length	70:46
Label	Warner Music
Producer	Alphaville
Alphaville chronology
History (1993) Prostitute (1994) Salvation (1997)
Singles from Prostitute
"Fools" Released: July 1994 "The Impossible Dream" Released: December 1994

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Prostitute is the fourth studio album by German synth-pop band Alphaville, released in 1994.[2] The album was reissued in a remastered and expanded edition in November 2023.[3]

Overview

Following the "science-fiction-themed" Afternoons in Utopia and the "lushly orchestrated" The Breathtaking Blue albums,[4] this was Alphaville's first release in five years. Having "a great variety of styles",[5] this "jazzy and EDM-influenced",[4] "dark, theatrical album"[4] proved "too abstract to achieve" much success.[6] The lack of commercial appeal led the band to return to its synth/dance roots with the following album, Salvation.[7]

In 2019 Marian Gold recommended Prostitute, along with the 2017 Strange Attractor, to anyone who only knew Alphaville from Big In Japan.[5]

It is the last Alphaville album with Ricky Echolette.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"The Paradigm Shift"	Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Ricky Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	3:47
2.	"Fools"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	3:53
3.	"Beethoven"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	5:35
4.	"Ascension Day"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Rainer Bloss	5:45
5.	"The Impossible Dream"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Eric Sooter	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	4:49
6.	"Parade"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	3:40
7.	"Ain't It Strange"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	5:23
8.	"All in the Golden Afternoon"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	3:35
9.	"Oh Patti"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	1:46
10.	"Ivory Tower"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	3:16
11.	"Faith"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	3:56
12.	"Iron John"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Rudy Nielson	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	3:44
13.	"The One Thing"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	3:55
14.	"Some People"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette, Julie Ocean	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	4:37
15.	"Euphoria"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	7:05
16.	"Apollo"	Gold, Lloyd, Echolette	Gold, Lloyd, Bloss	6:10

Charts

2023 chart performance for Prostitute

Chart (2023)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8]	78
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[9]	34

References

1. "Prostitute". AllMusic.
2. "Alphaville - Prostitute". Discogs. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
3. "Alphaville News – Upcoming Release: Deluxe Editions of Prostitute and Salvation". 7 September 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
4. "Alphaville: Strange Attractor (album review)". crypticrock.com. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
5. "Godfathers of Pop: Marian Gold". classicpopmag.com. 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
6. Bolton, Rob (1 May 2000). "Alphaville: Salvation". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
7. "Alphaville: Prostitute". theaudiodb.com. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
8. "Offiziellecharts.de – Alphaville – Prostitute" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
9. "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2023. 47. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved 30 November 2023.