I'll give the After the Fire version some credit for breaking the song into the U.S. I remember the video getting play on MTV, shortly followed by Falco's version which by comparison seemed kinda dry. But it was the original and actually came first, and the more I listened to Falco's version, the more I appreciated the sparseness of it, which allowed for more subtlety. Also, the way he slips from German into English and back again effortlessly is pretty cool.