27-03-2011, 06:00
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ULTRAVOX "vienna" 1981, cassette. #3 UK, #4 Aust, #164 US.
ok, i get it....there are instruments on this album but Ultravox were known as an electronic band!!
to me, Midge Ure had two claims to fame, firstly, the classic 80's pop song "vienna"(on this album), and being the co-organiser of Live-Aid and the Band-Aid single with Bob Geldof...Bob was the same with "i dont like mondays" and the Live-Aid thingy.
oh man, i hate this album, i cringed when i pulled it out today to play, but gave it the benefit of time to adjust my thinking, a difficult thing to do when you think you dislike it upon picking it up....oh well, here goes.
for the most part the music sounds flat,contrived and forced, like a lot of the synthesised music from the 1980's, the above human league album "dare" seems to be the exception to that rule IMO.
here, there's nine tracks, five i dislike, three i like a lot and one which is a masterpiece of 1980's pop, this is apparently, according to reviews, the best Ultravox album, i wouldnt know as i didnt buy anymore after this one, just the double album of singles they released in the late 1980's, if this album was anything to go by, Midge and Co. were a singles band rather than an albums band as the only decent songs here were issued as singles.
sorry if you are an Ultravox fan but this album sucks, big time!
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: about five of them!
best track: vienna
tracks:
1. astradyne*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5-YeyOZmXo audio
2. new europeans*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRTRf-oQ...re=related audio
3. private lives*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvLKwJPfhM audio
4. passing strangers** #57 UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEaGfAk0Ubw live
5. sleepwalk** #29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kA932_lLPw video
6. mr.x*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BmKol5h44g audio
7. western promise*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlPrBTxDbvA audio
8. vienna*** #2 UK, #11 Aust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WdUgn0XkU video
9. all stood still**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW9ImnTL2jk video
3s=1
2s=3
1s=5
rating 1.6
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.