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5''Things To Come'' is the second English album by Music/PeterSchilling, which was released in 1985. It is the counterpart of his German album ''120 Grad'', which was released in 1984.
6
7!!Tracklist:
8
9'''''120 Grad'''''
10
11# "Hitze Der Nacht" (5:16)
12# "Hurricane" (4:30)
13# "Region 804" (4:18)
14# "Fünfte Dimension" (5:11)
15# "10,000 Punkte" (3:16)
16# "Einsam Überleben" (4:03)
17# "Party Im Vulkan" (4:46)
18# "Terra Titanic" (5:03)
19# "120 Grad" (4:40)
20
21'''''Things To Come'''''
22
23[[AC:Side One]]
24# "Chill of the Night"
25# "City of Night (Berlin)"
26# "Lone Survivor"
27# "The Hurricane (Hammers on the Shore)"
28# "Where You Are I Am"
29
30[[AC:Side Two]]
31# "Things to Come"
32# "Terra Titanic (Lost to the Sea)"
33# "Zone 804"
34# "10,000 Points"
35
36!!''Tropes of the night.''
37* AlbumTitleDrop: "Things To Come" in the TitleTrack.
38* ApocalypseHow: "Terra Titanic" suggests a global disaster in a metaphorical sense, equating the Earth to the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic''.
39* BreakUpSong: "Chill Of The Night".
40* DistressCall: An SOS signal in Morse code is played repeatedly during the bridge of "Terra Titanic".
41* FaceDeathWithDignity: A line from "Terra Titanic".
42-->"The rats have the sense to abandon the ship,
43-->while the captain adjusts his tuxedo a bit,
44-->with his glass raised up high as the ice water hits."
45* FaceOnTheCover: Peter Schilling's face appears only on the back cover, while his back is turned toward the camera on the front cover. On ''120 Grad'', Peter's face appears fully on the front cover.
46* LocationSong: "City Of Night (Berlin)".
47* RecordProducer: Armin Sabol, Peter Schilling.
48* ScoringPoints: The subject of "10,000 Points", addressing the video game craze of the early 1980s.
49* SoleSurvivor: The protagonist of "Lone Survivor" who isolates himself during a nuclear war in a "fortress made of steel", expecting to be this when the war ends. Near the end of the song, the people around the world post-war understand and begin correcting their mistakes, but "nobody knows about the lone survivor, so there can be no escape"
50* SpokenWordInMusic: "City Of Night (Berlin)" contains part of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
51* TitleTrack: "Things To Come".

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