Afternoons in Utopia is the second album by German synth-pop band Alphaville, released in 1986 via Warner Music.

"[7] The album's lyrics make several references to cosmic entities ("sci-fi" as one reviewer called it),[6] including comets, the planet Mars and its landscape, and a starship.

When the word "smile" is used in the songs "Afternoons in Utopia," "Lassie Come Home," and "Red Rose," it's printed in the liner notes as the acronym S.M.I².L.E., a reference to Timothy Leary, which stands for "Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, [and] Life Extension.

"[1] Marian Gold, singer and songwriter for the band, acknowledged that the message of their music was different from their previous album with this comment which accompanied the song "Sensations" in the liner notes for the 1992 release First Harvest 1984-92: "Sometimes people used to say, 'Have they gone crazy now?

[8] All tracks are written by Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd and Ricky Echolette, except as notedThe first disc of the 2021 remaster is the same as the original 1986 release.