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 […]
John Foxx — aka Dennis Leigh (born Sept. 26 1948) — is an English keyboardist, songwriter, and producer from Chorley, Lancashire, who first emerged as the frontman of Ultravox, which he formed in 1974 and recorded three albums with between 1977 and 1978. In 1980, he debuted as a solo artist with the album Metamatic […]
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” […]
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 […]
