Ha Ha Ha [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Ultravox | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 29, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Ume Imports
• ASIN: B000EU1PWI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,747 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered reissue of their debut John Foxx-era album from 1977 featuring six bonus tracks: 'Young Savage' (Single Version), 'Man Who Dies Everyday '(Remix), 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (Alternate Version), 'Quirks' and Live versions of 'Man Who Dies Everyday' and 'Young Savage'. Universal. 2006.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An under-appreciated classic of punk-glam new wave, July 24, 2004

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Paul J. Escamilla "sentient being" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HA! HA! HA! (Audio CD)

I used to listen to a friend's copy of this album back around when it came out, but I had forgotten how excellent most of it is.

This is Ultravox when they were just starting out, and although the Roxy Music & Eno influences are heavily apparent, the snotty energy of the punk movement is what makes this album blast out of the speakers. It's in a similar vein to the first Gary Numan album, a sort of computerized glam-punk.

I would highly recommend Ha-Ha-Ha to fans of Roxy Music, Eno, Gary Numan, the Buzzcocks, David Bowie and classic new wave. It should also appeal to fans of newer bands like Interpol, stellastarr*, the Stokes, Elefant, the Rapture, TV on the Radio, etc etc....

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fear in the Western World, September 24, 2006

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Brandon C. Grover "everyman" (washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ha Ha Ha (Audio CD)

180 degrees from the mascara wearing, Midge Ure fronted Ultravox, this album is an absolute paranoid masterpiece. Sounds like having a nasty glam hangover in a world gone to sh**. 100% relevant to this day.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An underrated classic..., January 3, 2006

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Lord Summerisle (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HA! HA! HA! (Audio CD)

"Ha Ha Ha" was unheralded upon its release in 1977; nearly thirty years later, it sounds like the great lost punk album - noisy, feedback-drenched, pissed off, John Foxx's every line a snarl. Song structures are often rudimentary - start slow and portentious, get loud and fast, freak out at the end - but hey, if the formula works, don't mess with it. They do provide some chill finally, in the form of closer "Hiroshima Mon Amour," a zombied-out beatbox ballad. A beautiful, chaotic, messy album, and light-years away from the mannered, mannequin eleganza of later Ultravox.