Ultravox [Extra tracks, Import]

Ultravox | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Ume Imports
• ASIN: B000EU1PX2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,511 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered reissue of their second John Foxx-era album, originally released in 1977, now featuring four bonus live tracks: Slip Away, Modern Love, The Wild The Beautiful & The Damned and My Sex. Universal. 2006.

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't think twice...absolutely essential, May 13, 2006

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Old Turveydrop (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultravox (Audio CD)

This could only be preaching to the converted. If you don't know John Foxx Ultravox, you'll never find this album anyway. Make no mistake, this and all the John Foxx albums are brilliant from start to finish. Essential. Pawn the Midge Ure Ultravox. Even though Brian Eno produced, this album is begging for remastering. That and the bonus tracks make this a must have. Please buy. In a logical world, John Foxx Ultravox would be revered.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Lonely Hunter, November 11, 2011

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D. Woncisz "LADIDAH" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultravox (Audio CD)

I bought this cd for one song. My homie, David Pagan prowled the streets of NYC in his bad-a Audi blasting "The Lonely Hunter". One day, that pretty car got clipped by a 'mean ole solid steel" Ford station wagon (straight outta the brady bunch). Retribution ended in friendship and I discovered that this song was done by a band that I already loved. I also discovered my love for German automotive engineering;)

That said:
This CD makes me grateful and proud "that I "was young, when I was young." Youth was not wasted, it was rocked!;) This whole cd rocks! Kind've like a cross between the clash/the doors/the cure. Or should I say these groups immulate Ultravox to a degree?

"I want to be a machine" is my favorite, like Bowie's Space Oddity with rabies. I know without doubt that the bands from the era of Grunge Rock was profoundly influenced by this song.
"The wild, the beautiful and the damned" Home-clan violin, and guitar with wah-wah pedal make natural and 'respectful' transition to synthesizer. By this I mean that actual musicians transcended to a plug in that takes no formal training. (Like my geezer NASA retired physics teacher always used to say: "those who know how it works will always work for those who know 'why' it works).

"My sex" is a song that takes on new meaning every 10 years, for me:)

This early ultravox makes me think of London, the violin makes me think of Irish countrysides. Later Ultravox (baby grand, synthesizers) make me think only of my beloved Berlin.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's wild and it's beautiful..., November 13, 2006

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J. griesinger "existence is absurd" (still on planet earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultravox (Audio CD)

It great to finally have a remastered disc of one of the best pieces of vinyl from the 70's. Ultravox could really rock, just like early Roxy Music (before Brian Ferry went Sinatra.) And those great lyrics - "Break my legs politely, I'll spit my gold teeth out at you." How can you resist?