First Time Hearing Sounds Like A Melody Alphaville (HOW IN THE WORLD!?) | Dereck Reacts

[@RicP351]

This was always my favorite Alphaville song.

[@joskokrstulovic1258]

Mine too!

[@hermaneduarte265]

Mine too, my ring tone 😀

[@nihiabstracto]

This song is a masterpiece ! So underrated ! Short version here, but good too.

[@vessto]

The other version of the song, with the faster part, is even crazier. The lyrics are re-recorded because Marian definitely sings some phrases differently than in this version. For the best of this song you could hear Sounds Like A Melody Special Long Version. The instrumental part after the 4th minute is insane.

[@MrsHyde92]

Thank you so much for listening to this masterpiece! It's one of my very favorite songs of them! 😍😍😍 Love the 80's!!!!

[@vessto]

I didn't find a reaction to Alphaville's Big in Japan. I so wish to see it. Love your reactions.

[@bukitkatilmp]

Alphaville, Modern Talking, The Scorpions, Kraftwerk, and Nena. German acts that took the world by storm in the 80s.

[@daggerisle3111]

LOVE this. To be fair the whole album is a masterpiece- it's held up so well and even the non single songs are great. Also the album version of this song is better than the video's.

[@Pilutta100]

I was 13, and THIS was my thing. Forget about super hits like ForeverYoung, this! was the song. I had my cassette tape in my Walkman running through the halls of my school and this playing on highest volume, lmao. Those were the days. 🤘🤗

[@MP-kv3fo]

Yes yes yesss me too

[@stellarobinson3789]

This Alphaville Song is Mind Blowing . Its Certainly my top favourite. Its like Fireworks going of , Flamboyant , Electric, powerful , and Marians beautiful voice.i love the way out video. I was Teen around 13 at time of this Song. It was so big in uk . 🙂❤️🌠🎵

[@Celion27200]

the full album "Forever young" is really a masterpiece. all musics are hits. nothing bad. here is " elevator", the B-side of "sounds like a melody". absolutely wondeful : kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYbVdqSta7CCe6s

[@Barbu_Deluxe]

You should try the extended version It’s insane !

[@alandoust551]

Defo

[@tixien]

Insane is the word. Key changes are mental.

[@vincentmb238]

Yes he should :)

[@vessto]

Yes, the Special Long Version is genial.

[@AndorFazekas]

💯❤‍🔥 It always proves that European retro music is worth listening to, It's very different, and more people can get to know it!

[@M4RC05V1N1C1U5]

“Dance with me” is a good one too!!!

[@dennisfechner7]

the extended version :D

[@roskoced6598]

The instrumental bridge is just insanely good! Like in so many Alphaville songs.

[@1963Victory]

Great reaction as usual❤😊

[@lgugue]

Alphaville most famous hits are gold, but "Dance with me" is diamond, it's powerful!

[@nurset4986]

Love Alphaville 😍

[@stellarobinson3789]

Im so Happy Dereck , you love are 1980s Music so much . Especially Alphaville. ❤😀

[@martinhamburg2301]

I can remember hearing this for the first time on German radio.

[@nautika1]

Pure Gold old school

[@fabriciofaria726]

You simply cant go wrong with Alphaville. . 80's disco scene in europe where a force to reckon with😉

[@dorojessy6932]

You should react to "Big in Japan"

[@alexioverdo5225]

'the ringing of your laughter...,it sounds like a melody,to once forbidden places we'll go for a while'...That was big and made such an impact in Europe when released.

[@FilmBritt]

Alphaville - Dance with me, that is a hidden GEM! You will not regret reacting to it!

[@DaiBei]

Try from Alphaville: "Jersualem", "Afternoons in Utopia", "Victory of love", "Lassie come home" and my favorite "Inside out".

[@Bocalt]

Remember dreaming as a teen that this got a metal cover from a popular band like the early 2000s did

[@dariussawkulycz4320]

Nice reaction like usually. Alphaville hits from first album "Forever Young " you have done BiJ ,FY and SLAM and the last two from this album is "A Victory of Love" and "Jet Set" but however all album is a masterpiece.

[@nathalietregouet5677]

I didn't know this song but it sent me right back in the eighties. Somehow strange and haunting... And it's a pleasure to see you dance in your armchair, Dereck and getting possessed😄

[@nono60josselin39]

Trop bon Alphaville, toute ma jeunesse, Thank you Dereck 😄

[@lucio6389]

Beautiful reacction 💪

[@mityakirillov89]

Wow! You did that one at last! One of the best songs ever written. It's the band that changed my world more than twenty years ago, and the happiest day of my life was when I had a chance to interview them when they played here in Russia in 2013 and they invited me and my friend/colleague/band member for a drink in hotel where me and her spent hours chatting with Marian Gold (an amazing guy not acting like a star at all) and he played us songs from the then upcoming album (eventually released only four years later) and among other stuff told us a very rock'n'roll story about filming this video. The director treated them with to bottles of vodka and whatever else was on the set, and when the make-up girl turned she was shocked how wasted Marian looked and she tried so hard to hide it that he ended up "looking like Alice Cooper" as he said:) Sounds like a Melody is a real mind-blowing kick-ass live, especially with the current line up, and I hope you'll check out the video for a new version with a symphonic orchestra released this summer. Has a nice easter egg in it, showing support to Ukraine, so now just post a video for one of my favorite songs on as an anti-war statement. Thank you for your reaction, you just made me remember myself hearing this on a radio when I was 15. Already loved the song then, knowing by a reggae-ish eurodance cover by Randy Bush from mid-90s (guess she was a one-hit wonder with it) so I was really surprised when it turned out to be an Alphaville song. And yeah, there's a reggae-influenced live version of it from 1998 too:) Hope too see you doing more Alphaville reactions, 'cause their catalogue is a real universe of masterpieces, a journey across almost every possible genre.

[@biglee9730]

These guys did a song called Jerusalem. Its a great song, worth a listen 🎧!

[@asterioncoen7221]

That song recall me an another one "U got to let the music" from Cappella group very popular in the 90s in nightclubs and radios.

[@alvarolozano711]

Awesome song of the BEST band of synthpop ALPHAVILLE

[@ricardorossi8207]

ALPHAVILLE - DANCE WITH ME

[@mariflame1821]

Alphaville's "Forever Young" is one of my all time favorite songs. This one is good too...love their sound! Have you reacted to "The Promise" by When in Rome?

[@mgparis]

Yes please! Excellent suggestion Mari :)

[@ralfgraebel4257]

What a phat Sound....so ahead of the time

[@riaanbehr7976]

This was huge!!! Classic! Other awesome songs by them are Dance with me and Jerusalem 👌

[@almirarbee9405]

New subscriber here. I enjoyed to your reaction and a very good reactor, This is a nerve-racking video try to watch and react to ‘BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER’ (So Hyang Version) | 4TH IMPACT Cover.

[@almirarbee9405]

In case you need a link : kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2GxfHaIn6ibr8k

[@oscaroscar258]

Alphaville - Victory of love, big in Japan, dance with me.

[@davidmcmanus7179]

You need to react to “Big in Japan” by Alphaville …….. for me personally it’s their best song.

[@connexionnature4583]

no i can't believe it happened!🥰

[@Yasmin_silvall]

I love you Alphaville ❤

[@ladida1031]

Another Burner from the 80ties (what else?) 😄👏🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶⚡️

[@walterw9829]

The ending reminds me of Ultravox's Vienna. I like how you have your spund settings. I heard a lot of the middle of the arrangement, like the counter melody and when the "instruments" were being used as percussion. Did anyone else have an Arp Solus and wanted to be in a synth band?

[@TheFerdinandbardamu]

Perfect song. One of my all time best as a death metal fan. These guys are musicians. Very nice melody.

[@arkasonus7678]

The trinity of Alphaville : Sounds like a melody Forever young Big in Japan All coming from the same album. 💯 approved

[@neferkare100]

One of the greatest Alphaville hits...

[@joshuapinkston7617]

To Germany with love is amazing as well

[@siriusforever]

Songs of Alphaville are immortal, you know... And 80s never ends! Big In Japan is my favotite.

[@cat73walk]

You should react to an Euro dance act called Cappella, and their 90s single, U Got 2 Let the Music, which uses the intro of this Alphaville song.

[@stellarobinson3789]

When i skng this Song, Sounds like a Melody, the Adrenaline is Pumping so much. WOW 🙂❤️🌠

[@IsabelleRSG]

80s gem you would love: ´One Night In Bangkok’ by Murray Head

[@aiartbyhein]

Timeless and amazing!

[@maritast.537]

You should listen to the 12“ version. It‘s fantastic.

[@EmpressTouch]

Germany had some brilliant bands in the 1980s. Alphaville were one. Hubert Kah another.

[@mityakirillov89]

Yeah, Hubert Kah are among my favourites too. So Many People is among my personal anthems. And Engel 07 is among my karaoke trademark songs:)

[@Hyper_V]

Oh interesting - the version you are hearing with the original video is from their 'First Harvest' greatest hits album, this version has be remixed with a more prominent bassline and enhanced rhythm section. the music video is well, Alphaville can do a lot better with music videos back in the 80's :) I hope you get to the second album 'Afternoons in Utopia' soon, overall, they are my favourite 80's group along with A-ha, and Tears for Fears etc. Unique powerful vocals, killer synthpop arrangements... just all around good song writing!

[@Melodic_Alchemy]

Agree, afternoon in utopia is Alphaville's greatest album. Every song in that album is a masterpiece....

[@dariussawkulycz4320]

Crazy synth try Alphaville "A Victory of Love " and "Big in Japan " from the same album.

[@luxeford547]

The album version is *so* much better! It features a live string section courtesy of the Düsseldorf Philharmonics. Goosebumps to Jupiter or something.

[@andimusicjunkie3990]

I know exactly what you mean. I was a big fan of Katrina and the Waves but I always skip Walking on sunshine. Btw: Alphaville started their career in the region where I live. Usually I'm not a proud person, but this makes me very proud...

[@stoffenl]

Up there as one of my all time favorite hit fixes, along with Maria Magdalena 🌟 Even the metal heads in my surroundings favoured it and they usually hated synth music.

[@cinthiak8276]

omg i loveee this song! 😍

[@pascalbourbier7215]

"Forever young " is my favorite song of Alphaville

[@Camou71]

Please the extended Version. It will throw you out of your Window. 😉

[@kylewoolsey6635]

Dance with Me is another good Alphaville track.

[@base_de]

You should hear "Big in Japan" from Alphaville..... better than all other songs from Alphaville ;) Greets from germany :)

[@mgparis]

Dereck, you would love Alphaville's The Jet Set Society, I promise! Ultimate 80s experience :)

[@rsmith7912]

This single version is great but you really must play the 12" mix to go totally under it's spell. Halfway through it rockets off on a whole higher temper & you'll feel like you've gone totally insane but it's like the best rollercoaster ride experience that you've ever been on. One day it will be used on a soundtrack or in a hit Netflix series & will become a monster of a hit globally. It really is that good, just remember who told you so when it happens.!!

[@detto1573]

Best 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏Danke

[@pascalmarfaing1690]

Gold and great !

[@Zibix73]

Super 😃👍

[@Bocalt]

Love this track for years without seeing the music video which airs only on kitsch channels programs

[@ThanosZachs]

We once experienced these songs when they were hits, we were young. It's very different to listen to them now and be blown away and very different to experience them as new then.

[@quendras7953]

It's just so catchy, and the guy (Marian Gold) can _really_ sing and does it still today. Alphaville are still touring the world, and maybe you just get yourself some tickets if they're near you...

[@CavHDeu]

It's also my favorite song by them. Perfect synth pop song but the 12" version is even better. But i often like the longer versions like the 12" version of 'Talk Talk - Such a shame' or the 17 minute version of 'Donna Summer - Love to love you baby'. Please react to Ätna - Try.

[@stellarobinson3789]

Hi Dereck , This Song is Epic , it's my very best of Alphaville. It's Euphoria. Like u say the. Different Powerful. Synths and just amazing and flamboyant . There is no band as great as Alphaville. Love ur review , very Entertaining and fun . I'm glad you liked it as much as me . 😊

[@alexandraadam8388]

Amezing song

[@tixien]

80’s Europop is a bottomless pot of wonders indeed. As many as you may have already reacted to, there’s still a fair lot coming your way, don’t worry;-)

[@FranckDejos]

Très bonne souvenir des années 80❤

[@MichaelCarroll]

There was never an "official" video made this classic -- the one we see here was apparently made on short notice for a TV appearance!

[@nellyweini8188]

Alpha Ville was definitely one of my favorite bands back than

[@stu_pidkant]

One of those 80s tracks that belongs in the "God Tier" section of synth bangers!!

[@alexitalymodeldogtrainerbr6828]

Top ,top top top and top💯☝️💯☝️💯☝️💯☝️💯☝️💯

[@Kuroo21]

I absolutely love this song. Most people loves Forever young, but I never really liked that one. This one is their best song imo. Very underrated

[@hammersmikey1739]

3rd best Alphaville song behind Forever Young and their best song Big In Japan!

[@rh9967]

Grew up in the US in the 80s and this never got played unfortunately. I think it was overshadowed by ‘Forever Young’ and ‘Big in Japan’ which is too bad because this song is really their biggest hit.

[@MonsieurBrioche]

Un des groupes que j'adore le plus ,excellent choix ,ils ont produit tellement de belles chansons!

[@exos282]

BIG IN JAPAAAAN!!!

[@limagedoree1984]

Forever young

[@nellyweini8188]

Check out “The Mission” with “Butterfly on a wheel” I think you will love it

[@eidetecker]

I don't mean this lightly, their first album is *the BEST synth-pop album ever done* - I don't think it will ever be topped. It was a sleeper in the US, only big in the dance clubs.

[@balazspandi9782]

Good stuff!

[@haralddutertre2094]

Mega clásico

[@MCH-23.Quintus]

You should react to A Victory Of Love and Summer In Berlin next

[@RenevolutionAccount]

sooo 80s 😁😁😁

[@abderrahmanekhaif9558]

Love sound. Laïc ofmelody

[@somebuddy.]

Loved this song! This version should've never exist tho, it cuts the best part of the song. Btw you have to check out their other hits such as 'Big in Japan', 'Dance with me', or 'Universal daddy'

[@madeleinehalvarsson7485]

❤️

[@RitchieF1]

The 12' version is unbelievable.

[@Tarinankertoja]

where the hell is the tempo change at the end?? Did it not occur at single version? The main "hook", if you ask me