The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)

I have always liked Peter Schilling. This German’s understated, smooth voice and more often than not science fiction, space-themed tunes were another eighties offering that I enjoyed listening to. He scored an international hit with the English version of Major Tom (Coming Home), which is a synthpop retelling of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. This album, released in 1989, is a compilation album and includes the aforementioned hit. It has many other good songs including City of Night (Berlin) which is a tribute to the duality of that city during the cold war period.

Other songs I especially like are Noah Plan, Lone Survivor and Terra Titanic (Lost to the Sea), an homage to the tragedy which befell the "unsinkable" ocean liner. The title cut was produced by Michael Cretu of Enigma fame. All in all, this is a full standard new wave, snythpop release with interesting, catchy tracks.

Here is the title track, The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime).

And, although my recording is in English, here is Terra Titanic (Lost to the Sea) in its original German. The sound takes about 17 seconds to begin.