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On Bitter Sweet, Ferry celebrates blues, jazz and ragtime, giving the songs a fresh, exciting note of modernity. In the 1920s, jazejart was the soundtrack of pop culture and itself a modern invention, and it's almost as if we were hearing it for the first time. For the album, Ferry had a music professor at Princeton University write a summary of the record and the time period. He also goes into the many profound, lyrical references on the album, as well as the underlying messages: Bitter Sweet accomplishes what the modernists of the past could not do in their youthful enthusiasm. Ferry's music encompasses the artistry of art and the artlessness of emotion, so the sad affairy" described in the song Bitter Sweet at the end leads to the " collapse and crying". This is how the Tacheles Club and Chameleon will travel to Berlin and experience the zeitgeist of this jazz-friendly metropolis of the young 20th century - the hedonistic world of Babylon Berlin.".
Tracklist
1 Alphaville
2 Reason or Rhyme
3 Sign of the Times
4 New Town
5 Limbo
6 Bitter-Sweet
7 Dance Away
8 Zamba
9 Sea Breezes
10 While My Heart Is Still Beating
11 Bitters End
12 Chance Meeting
13 Boys and Girls