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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:26:38 GMT
A band with two distinct phases, firstly the early albums with John Foxx on vocals, very good, critically acclaimed, but not commercial enough for hits. Then Midge Ure took over, the band became more poppy , and were quite big. Personally I prefer the early stuff, but I have all the albums, I don't mind Ure. FIRSTLY JOHN FOXX
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:28:08 GMT
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:30:19 GMT
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:32:12 GMT
NOW MIGDE URE.
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:34:07 GMT
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:36:21 GMT
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:40:35 GMT
Midge Ure left to pursue a solo career, but at present the band with Ure is together again. However they did release two albums after Ure left with other singers, both MASSIVE flops, though reasonably listenable. Singer Tony Fenelle
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Post by michaellevenson on Feb 26, 2020 9:43:28 GMT
Singer Sam Blue- I really like this track, the rest of the album sucks though.
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Post by DrKrippen on Feb 26, 2020 9:51:33 GMT
Here is John Foxx doing a song from his 2002 release The Pleasures of Electricity.
Seems the album stuff has all been taken down, here is a live version.
John Foxx and Louis Gordon - Camera
And...
One from Foxx's 2006 release Tiny Colour Movies
John Foxx - Smokescreen
He came across an artist's collection of tiny color movies the artist had collected over a lifetime and Foxx put soundtracks to a selection of them.
This one features a short film with Foxx himself.
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Post by Zos on Feb 26, 2020 14:25:55 GMT
Always John Foxx, still doing great solo albums and colaborations.
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 26, 2020 16:19:31 GMT
Like both iterations, but Vienna is their masterpiece.
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Post by DrKrippen on Feb 26, 2020 20:56:02 GMT
Like both iterations, but Vienna is their masterpiece. I saw Ultravox at The Roxy on the Sunset Strip back in the day. Unlike me I prepared early, got tickets before I went down, wanted to make sure I was in. Was really, really looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I wasn't up on the latest news. To do that you had to spend money on imported magazines that were expensive back in the day. I spent my money on live shows instead. Finally, it was happening. The band members came out and I recognized them all immediately. The last out...was Midge Ure. And I was expecting John Foxx. That was the reason I was there. The band put on an excellent show, impeccable even. They performed the entire Vienna album and it sounded great. Despite all of this I left the show disappointed, deflated that there was no John Foxx.
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 26, 2020 21:04:43 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Feb 26, 2020 23:30:45 GMT
Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind
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Post by DrKrippen on Feb 26, 2020 23:43:50 GMT
Ultravox! - Just For A Moment
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 4, 2020 1:48:27 GMT
Like some of you I'm pretty much about the Foxx era. I just couldn't warm to the Ure years, not that they were crap or anything, I just drifted away from them. I actually prefer Ure when he sang with Rich Kids alongside Matlock, New and Egan - Ghosts of Princes in Towers is a great album.
Foxx's Ultravox produced 3 quality albums, I had actually missed the self titled debut and first came to them when I heard ROckWrok on the John Peel show. So I bought Ha!-Ha!-Ha! and instantly loved it and so got the debut the next week. Systems Of Romance, seriously, not a bad track on it. Slow Motion, When You Walk Through Me, I Can't Stay Long, Quiet Men, Dislocation, Maximum Acceleration, Dislocation and on it goes, one of the best albums of 1978 and yet it flopped...
Who can forget the ferocious punk surge of Young Savage or the haunting majesty of Hiroshima Mon Amour? Great great band for the two years under Foxx's fronting.
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Post by darknessfish on Mar 4, 2020 9:13:39 GMT
This is probably my favourite slice of Ultravox, this Peel Session version has so much energy:
But yeah, I love the John Foxx era, not so keen on Foxx solo at all, or any Midge Ure-era stuff. Other than Vienna, obviouslym which is a monster of a pop song. Incidentally, I saw a black ferrari driving towards Standish traffic lights on Saturday with the registration M19 URE. Surely only Midge is going to own that car? He has no connection to the area as far as I'm aware, though John Foxx was from Chorley, just a stones throw away.
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Post by selfworth10 on Apr 21, 2020 15:06:08 GMT
I prefer the hits stage. From Vienna in 1981 to 1985
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 6, 2020 15:07:22 GMT
A band with two distinct phases, firstly the early albums with John Foxx on vocals, very good, critically acclaimed, but not commercial enough for hits. Then Midge Ure took over, the band became more poppy , and were quite big. Personally I prefer the early stuff, but I have all the albums, I don't mind Ure. Glad to see a thread for Ultravox on here, and I guess I am one of many, who probably first encountered the Midge Ure Ultravox, specially Vienna (1980) but just could not get into the early Ultravox! era, right away, but over the years I have come to realize that I prefer the first three albums, over any of the Midge 80s stuff, not because I do not like them, but the is something more "rewarding" about hearing how John Foxx and Ultravox during the period of 1976-1978 kind of stood out, maybe not alone but took their David Bowie/Roxy Music/Kraut-rock idols and managed to create something completely different than what went on in their own country, but of course it is no secret they also packed a love for the far more raw and intense punk-rock music at the time. Out of all their records, I think of Ha!-Ha!-Ha! (1977) as Ultravox finest hour, maybe not as "polished" or elegant as some of the later ones, but the chaotic and sheer force of frustation and anger that went into that album is what really makes it stand apart. But another imporant reason is that they ended up saving maybe their finest moment with the stunning Hiroshima Mon Amour, and one song which not only would go on to reflect, follow or inspire the later Ultravox albums, but so many other young artists who were growing tired of punk and disco and looking for something else. However, I do love all the versions I have heard of Hiroshima Mon Amour, which is something I rarely do, okey, the album version is probably the best, but the much heavier and punkier version, which I think goes by the name of "Alternative version" is truly something special, that one also.
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