. My favorite track, out of several awesome ones, is Carlile's reinterpretation of "Forever Young."Now, my fellow GenXers may remember the original version of this song, sung by Alphaville, the German synth-pop group. I owned Alphaville's Forever Young album as a teen and played the grooves off of the title track, but I never really "got" the lyrics until hearing Carlile's version. I suspect it takes turning 40 to understand the song's poignancy. Also, folk is a lot more suited to delivering melancholy than German synth-pop. At any rate, here is Alphaville performing the song in 1984.
Alphaville's other sorta hit was "Big in Japan" from the same album. This video is so 80s...so German synth-pop that it hurts. Also, lead singer Marian Gold is one of the oddest, most menacing-looking people I've ever seen.
