Falco 3


Falco 3 is the third studio album by Austrian singer and rapper Falco, released on 15 October 1985 by GiG Records in Austria, by Teldec in Germany and by A&M Records elsewhere. In the United States, it peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and at number 18 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Following two albums produced and co-written by Robert Ponger, this is Falco's first album to be produced by Bolland & Bolland.

Background

Following an Academy Award-winning film about Mozart, the Americanised mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" capitalised on and continued a resurgence of interest in the Viennese composer, and was an instant success in the US, spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at number four on the dance chart and number six on the R&B singles chart. The album was released in the US, the UK and Japan with a different track listing: the singles "Rock Me Amadeus" and "Vienna Calling" are presented in extended mixes, the 'Salieri Version' and the 'Metternich Arrival Mix', whereas in the rest of the world, the album uses the normal European singles mixes.

Other songs

"Vienna Calling" continued the geographic and stylistic theme, and followed its predecessor as far as the US top 20. A third single, a power ballad called "Jeanny" sung from the point of view of a stalker, proved a controversial hit in Europe; banned by some radio programmers there, it nevertheless improved on the chart peak of its predecessor, though it was virtually ignored in the US. The album also included a reworked German-language version of the Cars' song "Looking for Love", titled "Munich Girls", as well as a lounge lizard cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".

Track listing

  1. "Rock Me Amadeus" ' – 3:22/8:20
  2. "America" – 3:56
  3. "Tango the Night" – 2:28
  4. "Munich Girls " – 4:17
  5. "Jeanny" – 5:50
  6. "Vienna Calling" ' – 4:02/7:38
  7. "Männer des Westens – Any Kind of Land" – 4:00
  8. "Nothing Sweeter Than Arabia" – 4:46
  9. "Macho Macho" – 4:56
  10. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – 4:41
Despite all the songs boasting special mixes on the cover, these are all the normal album versions. The only re-mixes are to be found on the US, UK and Japanese version of this album, which contain the "Salieri Version" of "Rock Me Amadeus" and the "Metternich Arrival Mix" of "Vienna Calling" instead of the normal European versions. The European CD versions of this album have a wrongly mastered version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", which contains a repeated loop and therefore runs just over 5 minutes – the anniversary edition of this album finally corrected this mistake.
Originally Falco wanted to include an 11th song on the album but due to contract reasons and the fact that the melody-based song did not fit in with the Bolland & Bolland-written songs, the song was omitted.
The 25th anniversary edition, released on 22 October 2010, adds the following bonus tracks to the original album tracks:
  1. "Jeanny" – 3:38
  2. "Without You" – 5:45
  3. "Rock Me Amadeus" – 7:07
  4. "Vienna Calling" – 7:07
  5. "Männer des Westens – Any Kind of Land" – 5:23
  6. "Urban Tropical" – 7:26
The two-CD deluxe version has additional video material:
  1. "The Making of the Legendary Falco 3"
The deluxe edition, released on 24 October 2025, includes new liner notes, all the lyrics, notes to the songs and adds the following bonus tracks to the original album tracks:
  1. Rock Me Amadeus
  2. Rock Me Amadeus
  3. Rock Me Amadeus
  4. Rock Me Amadeus
  5. Rock Me Amadeus
  6. Rock Me Amadeus
  7. Rock Me Amadeus
  8. Rock Me Amadeus
  9. Rock Me Amadeus
  10. Urban Tropical
  11. Urban Tropical
  12. Vienna Calling
  13. Vienna Calling
  14. Vienna Calling
  15. Vienna Calling
  16. Vienna Calling
  17. Jeanny
  18. Jeanny
  19. Jeanny
  20. Jeanny
  21. Jeanny
  22. Männer Des Westens – Any Kind Of Land
  23. Männer Des Westens – Any Kind Of Land
  24. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
  25. Without You
  26. Without You
  27. Flyin' High

    Charts

Weekly charts

Chart Peak
position
German Pop Albums 4

Chart Peak
position

Year-end charts

Chart Position
Austrian Albums 58

Certifications