Defend the indefensible: Modern Talking

They sang in Basic Foreignese, I'd venture.

Cheri, cheri lady
Going through a motion
Love is where you find it
Listen to your heart
Cheri, cheri lady
Living in devotion
It's always like the first time
Let me take a part

Cheri, cheri lady
Like there's no tomorrow
Take my heart - don't lose it
Listen to your heart
Cheri, cheri lady
To know you is to love you
If you call me baby I'll be always yours

Of course, by 1985, Glasnost was starting to happen, but I believe even Stalin would have let this nonsense pass as harmless ;)

By the way, if you think that the way Soviet kids were exposed to music had anything to do with radio or other official channels, you are sorely mistaken. The Russia of my early teens was Hometapers' Central.

Deep in my heart - there's a fire - a burning heart.
Deep in my heart - there's a desire - for a start.
I'm dying in emotion.
It's my world in fantasy.
I'm living in my, living in my dreams.

You're my heart, you're my soul.
I'll keep it shining everywhere I go.
You're my heart, you're my soul.
I'll be holding you forever.
Stay with you together.

You're my heart, you're my soul.
Yeah, I'm feeling that our love will grow.
You're my heart, you're my soul.
That's the only thing I really know.

Let's close the door, and believe my burning heart.
Feeling alright come on open up your heart.
Keep the candles burning.
Let your body melt in mine.
I'm living in my, living in my dreams.

You're my heart, you're my soul.
I'll keep it shining everywhere I go.
You're my heart, you're my soul.
I'll be holding you forever.
Stay with you together.

You're my heart, you're my soul.
Yeah, I'm feeling that our love will grow.
You're my heart, you're my soul.
That's the only thing I really know.

You're my heart, you're my soul.
I'll keep it shining everywhere I go.
You're my heart, you're my soul.
I'll be holding you forever.
Stay with you together.

You're my heart, you're my soul.
Yeah, I'm feeling that our love will grow.
You're my heart, you're my soul.
That's the only thing I really know.

Yeah, late 80s. I don't think I owned a single non-pirated tape until I moved to the States in 1992. Around 1987, "cassette kiosks" started appearing on the streets; they were exactly what you'd think they'd be - a guy with a collection of 10th-generation cassettes and a double cassette deck. You'd bring him a blank cassette and he's dub you two LPs' worth (the 11th generation) on it for a flat fee. Sometimes, these guys would feel a moral obligation to finish a side, so one would end up with, say, a U2 album with a bonus three-quarters of a Rod Stewart song.

(inexplicably intercut with bits of Once Upon a Time in America)

Bonus fun fact: Dieter Bohlen later became the Simon Cowell figure on the German version of
Pop Idol. (I think the Idol shows are obligated to have one Cowell type per panel.)

Sorry to let "the writer of this idiot question and thread" down but the guy seem not to be familiar with anything about music genres!

The title is as foolish as a title like " Has anybody got anything to defend a PUNK ROCK music band who sing super romantic music with the sentences like 'oh your eyes take me to paradise' ".

You guys must first know that the same as 'violence' or 'something like that' in PUNK rock, "simplicity in lyrics" is an inseparable part of Modern Talking's genre of music. So if you ask anything about this simplicity and/or try to criticize that; it's the same as trying to separate "light" from "day", so you do not know what "day" really is!

Or do you wanna ignore the huge sales of Modern Talking in the whole world? Mostly in the countries in which there's no strict copyright rule to preserve the artists' rights and increase the number of sold records.... More than 130 million records in such countries!?.... so you mean all the interested people are idiots? HA HA HA? you're wrong baby!

The worst is that some guys made it some political...Stalin etc.... HA HA HA!

Let me give you another simple example to make your SPECIFIC one-dimensional way of thought clearer!

"In most of the states of the US, people even do not know what the hell football was, is and will be, because they only know 'Rugby' but in all the other parts of the world FOOTBALL is one of the most important part of people's lives ". Low interest in Football in the US doesn't mean that "football is nothing"!

'The relationship between 'Modern Talking' and the US., Canada and Australia is the same as Football for the US'. Let it be for its original place (Europe, South America, Asia and Africa) and keep our thoughts for our own viewpoints!

Or maybe you need to start another topic to humiliate "ABBA" because of bad English or OLD STYLE, unaware of the fact that they have sold more than 320 million records, much more than Eagles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carry and the rest.....? HA HA!? Funny! Try to find a more low-level thing to laugh at unless you need to be laughed at yourself....!??!!?

Done! Now to the subject.
Oh god, they were huge in Russia.
I remember debates about whether the singer was male or female.

Anyway, search: The First Album
http://www.discogs.com/release/539879

had some very good [italodisco?] tracks - Diamonds Never Made a Lady, The Night Is Yours - The Night Is Mine, Bells Of Paris,

i love how they used to have some additional quirky sounds on top of pretty much standard eurodisco sound. Early melodies were better too. It all went downhill from there (let me add this to the "On Decline" thread... done). So: destroy everything else.

He was Europop, and bad Europop at that.

- that's why i never really liked Blue System.
First C.C.Catch is worth listening to however.