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 […]
Brian Eno is an English art-rock/ambient musician and producer who first emerged as the original keyboardist for Roxy Music. Between 1973 and 1977, he released four solo albums under his surname on Island Records. From 1978 onward, he issued a series of ambient recordings on E.G. Records Ltd., including collaborative efforts with Harold Budd, Jon […]
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 […]
Thought experiment: correlate each class of ’77 UK punk/new wave act to their class of ’64 British beat antecedent (or correlate the ’64 beat act to their ’77 doppelganger). I offered ten comparisons for consideration (A–J). Explore the parallels and similarities that distinguished each pair from their respective kin. Class of ’64 vs. Class of […]
Quartet is the sixth album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in 1982 on Chrysalis Records. Tracklist: A1. “Reap the Wild Wind” (3:47) A2. “Serenade” (5:02) A3. “Mine for Life” (4:44) A4. “Hymn” (5:45) B1. “Visions in Blue” (4:37) B2. “When the Scream Subsides” (4:16) B3. “We Came to Dance” (4:12) B4. “Cut […]
Rage in Eden is the fifth album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in 1981 on Chrysalis Records. Tracklist: A1. “The Voice” (6:00) A2. “We Stand Alone” (5:37) A3. “Rage in Eden” (4:11) A4. “I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)” (4:56) B1. “The Thin Wall” (5:38) B2. “Stranger Within” (7:26) B3. “Accent on […]
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) […]
Vienna is the fourth album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in 1980 on Chrysalis Records. Tracklist: A1. “Astradyne” (7:07) A2. “New Europeans” (4:00) A3. “Private Lives” (4:06) A4. “Passing Strangers” (3:49) A5. “Sleepwalk” (3:10) B1. “Mr. X” (6:33) B2. “Western Promise” (5:44) B3. “Vienna” (4:52) B4. “All Stood Still” (4:23) B-side: “Passionate Reply” […]
Visage is the debut album by the namesake New Wave supergroup comprised of Ultravox and Magazine personnel and fronted by Blitz Club impresario Steve Strange. Forwarded by the singles “Tar” and the Euro smash “Fade to Grey,” the album was released in November 1980 on Polydor. Computer programming is done by ex-Easy Street drummer and Landscape […]
