Ultravox was an English new wave band, first fronted by John Foxx on the 1977–78 Island releases Ultravox!, Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, and Systems of Romance. Their early music encompasses ambient vocal numbers (“My Sex”), post-psych chamber rock (“I Want to Be a Machine”), punk (“Young Savage”), and pioneering examples of electro-pop (“Quiet Men”). Midge Ure headed the […]
John Foxx is an English keyboardist, songwriter, and producer who first emerged as the frontman of Ultravox, a pioneering electro-rock band that released three 1977–78 albums on Island Records. In 1980, Foxx debuted as a solo artist with Metamatic, a collection of minimal wave and ambient-vocal cuts on his own Virgin-imprint Metal Beat. Foxx embraced […]
Systems of Romance is the third album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in 1978 on Island Records. Tracklist: A1. “Slow Motion” (3:21) A2. “I Can’t Stay Long” (4:13) A3. “Someone Else’s Clothes” (4:19) A4. “Blue Light” (3:04) A5. “Some of Them” (2:26) B1. “Quiet Men” (4:03) B2. “Dislocation” (2:47) B3. “Maximum Acceleration” […]
Ultravox! is the debut album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in February 1977 on Island Records. Tracklist: A1. “Saturday Night in the City of the Dead” (2:34) A2. “Life at Rainbow’s End (For All the Tax Exiles on Main Street)” (3:42) A3. “Slip Away” (4:12) A4. “I Want to Be a […]
Ha!-Ha!-Ha! is the second album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in October 1977 on Island Records. Tracklist: A1. “Rockwrok” (3:35) A2. “Frozen Ones” (4:06) A3. “Fear in the Western World” (4:00) A4. “Distant Smile” (5:21) B1. “Man Who Dies Every Day” (4:12) B2. “Artificial Life” (5:00) B3. “While I’m Still Alive” (3:16) […]
Metamatic is the debut solo album by former Ultravox frontman John Foxx, released in 1980 on his trademark Virgin-subsidiary Metal Beat. Musically, the album expands on the electro-luminosity that he pioneered with the band on “My Sex” — a style popularized in the interim by protege Gary Numan on the albums The Pleasure Principle and […]
