I came to meet my wife on a discussion about John Foxx and dancing on
"Underpass". Check out his 7" "Europe after the rain". His solostuff after
Ultravox was somehow a bit cheesy but "Underpass" is still in my recordbox.
johan
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Van: Glenn Bach <gbach@csulb.edu>
Aan: Jeffery Cohen <a057876t@bc.seflin.org>
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Datum: maandag 6 december 1999 17:43
Onderwerp: (idm) (IDM) Ultravox
quoted 46 lines Did anyone pick up on the Ultravox question? Ultravox was my favorite
>Did anyone pick up on the Ultravox question? Ultravox was my favorite
>band when I was in my late teens and early twenties, when I was a sucker
>for their over-the-top romantic synth pop (ah, sweet youth . . . ). At
>the time the 80s version of the band was the better one for me, with
>Midge Ure's Eurotrash croon more hip than John Foxx's punkish snarl.
>Now, looking back, it is the John Foxx version of the band that holds up
>better, and the song "I want to be a machine" a staple in my ambient DJ
>sets. The Midge Ure-era Ultravox, except for _Vienna_ and _Rage in
>Eden_, hasn't aged well. I wonder if any of the current ambient/IDM
>artists might admit to being influenced (one way or another) by
>Ultravox . . .
>
>A discography (minus the avalanche of singles and b sides and "best of"
>collections) that I can list off the top of my head:
>
>Ultravox! (produced by Brian Eno) (late 1970s)
>Ha Ha Ha!
>Systems of Romance
>Vienna (exit John Foxx, enter Midge Ure)
>Rage in Eden
>New Europeans (Japanese import)
>Quartet
>Monument (live)
>Lament
>
>I stopped listening to them after _Lament_, but apparently they
>floundered around, put out a couple more albums and singles. A site
>(http://www.ultravox.org.uk) with links to probably more Ultravox sites
>and discographies than anyone will ever need. Yikes. Now, against my
>better judgement, I will have to go and dig out all those albums and
>countless singles (my thankfully brief flirtation with collecting) and
>have a listen.
>
>G.
>
>P.S. Thanks to everyone who pitched in on the minimal pulse Brinkmann
>question a while back.
>
>np: Everything But The Girl _Temperamental_
>
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