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Alphaville - Forever Young.mp3

By now, everybody has heard Youth Group's competent interpretation of 'Forever Young' by Alphaville originally an obscure 80's track musing about the threat of nuclear annihilation arriving all too soon. Much of the original versions charm and irony is lost in the 2005 track, as it takes its self far too seriously and its from the O.C. so anything more than superficial has been lost on the listening public . Anyone who has seen the cult film Napoleon Dynamite would be familiar with the original. Its haunting and beautiful in equal measures, with murky synth strings, dorky drum reverb and that artificial trumpet solo creating an uncertain bliss that wades through the pile of rapture-themed music that has preceded it and followed it and comes out on top.