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As the title suggests, Ultravox were in a gray mood as they launched into their seventh studio LP, their previous existential angst now pooling around personal anguish. The album's title track was a study in languorous melancholy, where the emotional pain lingered on and on. And why would it ever dissipate, when romance is forever doomed, as "When the Time Comes" exquisitely illustrated? Even "One Small Day," the most musically celebratory song on the set, battles depression but dismally loses the war. No wonder Ultravox were so keen to escape far into the past, with "Man of Two Worlds" taking them back to the gloriously romanticized days of the Celts. The modern world, in contrast, was filled with terrors, both emotional ("A Friend I Call Desire") and global. There was the omnipresent yellow peril to fear; but if "White China" warned of the dangers of creeping communism, the nation sworn to protect its citizens from a Stalinistic embrace proves just as nefarious on "Heart of the Country." Each side is as bad as the other, together threatening the globe with annihilation, with the mini-epic "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" poignantly pointing out the richness of life the world's leaders hold so carelessly in their hands. This was to be Ultravox's final album, at least in this form, and in many ways, the set was the band's perfect epitaph, as lavish musically as it was desolate thematically.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - W Cann, Arranger
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Mae McKenna, Producer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - William Lee Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
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Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - Warren Reginald Cann, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - William Lee Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - William Lee Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - Billy Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - William Lee Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - William Lee Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer - C.C, Composer - M Ure, Composer - W Cann, Composer - B Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - William Lee Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - Billy Currie, ComposerLyricist - W Cann, Arranger
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Christopher Allen, ComposerLyricist - Ultravox, Producer, MainArtist - Midge Ure, ComposerLyricist - Warren Cann, ComposerLyricist - Billy Currie, ComposerLyricist
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Ultravox, MainArtist - Chris Cross, Composer - Midge Ure, Composer - Warren Cann, Composer - Billy Currie, Composer
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
Album review
As the title suggests, Ultravox were in a gray mood as they launched into their seventh studio LP, their previous existential angst now pooling around personal anguish. The album's title track was a study in languorous melancholy, where the emotional pain lingered on and on. And why would it ever dissipate, when romance is forever doomed, as "When the Time Comes" exquisitely illustrated? Even "One Small Day," the most musically celebratory song on the set, battles depression but dismally loses the war. No wonder Ultravox were so keen to escape far into the past, with "Man of Two Worlds" taking them back to the gloriously romanticized days of the Celts. The modern world, in contrast, was filled with terrors, both emotional ("A Friend I Call Desire") and global. There was the omnipresent yellow peril to fear; but if "White China" warned of the dangers of creeping communism, the nation sworn to protect its citizens from a Stalinistic embrace proves just as nefarious on "Heart of the Country." Each side is as bad as the other, together threatening the globe with annihilation, with the mini-epic "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" poignantly pointing out the richness of life the world's leaders hold so carelessly in their hands. This was to be Ultravox's final album, at least in this form, and in many ways, the set was the band's perfect epitaph, as lavish musically as it was desolate thematically.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 02:15:00
- Main artists: Ultravox
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Chrysalis Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
2016 Chrysalis Records Limited 2009 Chrysalis Records Limited
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