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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An under-appreciated classic of punk-glam new wave, July 24, 2004
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....
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An underrated classic..., January 3, 2006
"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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pre-techno and pre-Midge Ure, May 4, 2002
By A Customer
This album, recorded with the band's original lead singer John Foxx, falls somewhere between punk and new wave. If you liked "Vienna," you may like it. If you like "Quartet," forget this one. But if you liked "Hiroshima Mon Amour," this is the album for you. It's got a lot harder edge to it than Ultravox's later work, and John Foxx's rougher vocals are more remiscent of Ian Curtis than of Midge Ure. But the album is one of the early ones that put Ultravox on the map, and it's a good one.
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