CrazyShow is a limited-edition (2500 copies) four-CD album by Alphaville

Alphaville (band)

Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...

, composed of new material as well
as rare and remixed tracks, and three cover versions ("Do the Strand

Do The Strand

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" by Roxy Music

Roxy Music

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, "Something

Something

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" by George Harrison

George Harrison

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", and "Diamonds Are Forever" by Don Black

Don Black (musician)

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 & John Barry

John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast, OBE was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987...

). It's considered to be a sequel to the eight-CD album Dreamscapes

Dreamscapes

Dreamscapes is a limited edition eight-CD set of rare Alphaville recordings, released in 1999. It features 124 tracks with a total playing time of around 9.5 hours...

, and as such the discs are numbered from 9 to 12.

Between October 2000 and October 2001, Alphaville released - free of charge - an average of one track per month on their official website. All of those tracks ended up on CrazyShow, though some were remixed. The internet releases were: "Scum of the Earth", "Moongirl", "Moonboy", "See Me Thru", "Those Wonderful Things", "And as for Love", "Upside Down", "Parallel Girlz (Cloud Nine)",
"Shadows She Said (Omerta)", "First Monday (in the year 3000)", "(Waiting for the) New Light", "Miracle Healing", "Zoo" and "On the Beach".

Track listing

All tracks by Rainer Bloss & Marian Gold except were noted

CD 9 - The Terrible Truth About Paradise

1. "State of Dreams" (Bloss, Stephan Duffy, Gold) – 6:32
2. "Ship of Fools" – 4:35
3. "Zoo" (Bloss, Mark Ferrigno, Gold) – 5:54
4. "See Me Thru" – 3:48
5. "Upside Down" – 5:09
6. "And as for Love" – 4:10
7. "Girl From Pachacamac" (Gold, Martin Lister) – 4:10
8. "Carry Your Flag" – 5:43
9. "Moongirl" – 5:07
10. "Return to Paradise Part 2" – 7:44
11. "Those Wonderful Things" (Blankleder, Bloss, Gold, Montrucchio) – 5:17
12. "On the Beach" – 10:26

CD 10 - Last Summer on Earth

1. "Wonderboy" – 3:37
2. "Hurricane" – 5:57
3. "Do the Strand" (Bryan Ferry
   Bryan Ferry
   Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...
   
   ) – 5:15
4. "Still Falls the Rain" (Janey Diamond, Gold, Lister) – 4:24
5. "Ways" (Gold, Lister) – 5:56
6. "The II Girlz" (Bloss, Gold, Gurkin) – 4:55
7. "Heartbreaker" (Bloss, Gold, Lister) – 2:05
8. "Waiting 4 the Nu Lite" – 6:47
9. "Shadows She Said" – 4:33
10. "CrazyShow" (Gold, Klaus Schulze
    Klaus Schulze
    Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.-1970s:In...
    
    ) – 9:01
11. "Moonboy (Thank You)" – 4:59
12. "Miracle Healing" – 4:59

CD 11 - Stranger Than Dreams

1. "Stranger than Dreams" – 3:48
2. "Giants" (Ricky Echolette, Gold, Bernhard Lloyd) – 4:05
3. "Wish You Were Dead/Wishful Thinking" (Echolette, Gold, Lloyd) – 4:34
4. "About a Heart" (Gold, Lister) – 4:42
5. "For the Sake of Love" – 3:51
6. "Sounds Like a Melody
   Sounds Like a Melody
   "Sounds Like a Melody" is a song by West German rock/synthpop group Alphaville, from the group's debut album Forever Young. The single was released on May 14, 1984.In Sweden, the song topped the very first Tracks ever on September 8, 1984....
   
    (MaXx Mystery's 80's Remix)" (Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens) – 4:20
7. "Something" (George Harrison) – 3:56
8. "Because of U" – 4:30
9. "Inside Out (ThouShaltNot
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    Remix)" (Echolette, Gold, Lloyd) – 4:25
10. "The Opium Den" (Gold, Schulze) – 6:51
11. "Last Summer on Earth" – 4:44
12. "Diamonds are 4 Eva" (John Barry, Don Black) – 3:13

CD 12 - WebSiteStory

1. "Return to Paradise Part 1" – 3:04
2. "State of Dreams" – 4:23
3. "Scum of the Earth" – 3:34
4. "Upside Down" – 5:54
5. "Shadows She Said" – 4:30
6. "First Monday in the Y3K" – 3:04
7. "MoonGirl" – 4:32
8. "Waiting 4 the Nu Lite" – 4:19
9. "Those Wonderful Things" (Blankleder, Bloss, Gold, Montrucchio) – 4:52
10. "C Me Thru" – 3:32
11. "MoonBoy" – 4:19
12. "Miracle Healing" – 21:22

Personnel

• Alphaville – Producer
• Gabi Becker – Vocals
• Rainer Bloss
  Rainer Bloss
  Rainer Bloss is a German electronic musician. He collaborated with electronic composer Klaus Schulze in the 1980s to produce several albums, including Trancefer , Audentity , Aphrica and Drive Inn .- Discography :- External links :* at Discogs.com* at Last.fm...
  
   – Synthesizer, Arranger, Keyboards, Computers, Mixing
• Aaron Fuleki – Producer, Remixing
• Marian Gold – Arranger, Singer, Producer, Mixing
• Dirk Grobelny – Photography, Concept
• Martin Lister – Synthesizer, Arranger, Keyboards, Computers, Mixing, Drawing
• Christian Marsac – Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Producer
• Frank McDonald – Guitar
• Rudy Nielson – Guitar, E-Bow
• Alex Reed – Voices, Multi Instruments, Producer, Remixing
• Klaus Schulze – Arranger, Producer, Mixing, Instrumentation

The Nelson Highrise Sectors

The song "Scum of the Earth" is also referred to as "The Nelson Highrise Sector Four: The Scum of the Earth." This is the fourth of 4 songs that Alphaville have designated a "Nelson Highrise Sector:"

• The Nelson Highrise Sector 1 is "The Elevator," the B-side to 1984's single, "Sounds Like a Melody
  Sounds Like a Melody
  "Sounds Like a Melody" is a song by West German rock/synthpop group Alphaville, from the group's debut album Forever Young. The single was released on May 14, 1984.In Sweden, the song topped the very first Tracks ever on September 8, 1984....
  
  "
• The Nelson Highrise Sector 2 is "The Other Side of U," the B-side to 1986's single "Dance With Me
  Dance with Me (Alphaville song)
  "Dance with Me" is the first of five singles from Alphaville's second album, Afternoons in Utopia. It was released in March 1986, ahead of the album.-Reviews:...
  
  "
• The Nelson Highrise Sector 3 is "The Garage," the B-side to 1986's singles, "Jerusalem
  Jerusalem (Alphaville song)
  Jerusalem is third single from Alphaville's album Afternoons in Utopia. It is their seventh single overall. It was released only in Germany in November 1986.-Song development:...
  
  " and "Sensations"