Ultravox :: Vienna - Yes/No?

[peppery]

Loved it to pieces, infact its playing on iTunes right now.

 

[longdog]

Dire mawkish drivel

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I hated it at the time, and the passage of years has not mellowed my view.

 

[Jo/Joe]

Really well contructed song. Forget the fashion of the time, it's still good.

 

[marksims68]

The B Side of Vienna is wicked.

Herr X, it sounds alot like Drexciya, Dopplereffect style electro

It's produced by Konrad Plank who was Kratwerk's producer in the early days.

The German version of Mr X, a song on the Vienna album.

Conny Plank produced Vienna and Rage in Eden, hence the Kraftwerk stylings, the piano piece in the song Vienna came when Conny Plank said "I see an old pianist playing the same piece for 40 years, and he is tired.........".

apparently the Ultravox lads were in fits of silent laughter!

And the violin solo was played on a ten quid fiddle in the studio toilet.


Me likes Ultravox.......lots!!

Midge, sorry MARK!!!

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I like 'Vienna' and 'Shaddup You Face'. Have had both on 7" for many years.

 

[MysteryGuest]

And the violin solo was played on a ten quid fiddle in the studio toilet.

Hmmm... it's a viola solo actually.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

I prefered him when he has in the sex pistols

I preferred him in Slik

 

[audiotech]

Pompous shite. I liked the John Foxx era Ultravox! though.

Brilliant first album. Managed to get to see them live in 1977.

John Savage - extreme left.

 

[golightly]

80's. What a fucking depressing decade. IMHO.

 

[pilchardman]

I saw Slick live in Perth.

 

[Shirl]

If you can't sing, and I can't, it's great to shout along to

 

[tollbar]

Conny Plank produced Vienna and Rage in Eden, hence the Kraftwerk stylings,

Conny Plank also produced 'Blind Among The Flowers' by the Tourists, forerunners of the Eurythmics.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

The B Side of Vienna is wicked.

Herr X, it sounds alot like Drexciya, Dopplereffect style electro

It's produced by Konrad Plank who was Kratwerk's producer in the early days.

Conny Plank hated the post 1974, fully electronic Kraftwerk sound. He was an enthusiast of their earlier hippy/krautrock sound and firmly believed they should have stuck to that and not bothered with any of this minimoog nonsense. He reluctantly agreed for old times sake to work on the Autobahn LP but he went on record as saying it was 'an ugly type of music'.

Strange then that he then decided to rip it off totally for Vienna.

 

[Jazzz]

Afraid it simply wasn't as good as 'Shaddap you face'

It was fantastic to see midge ure being interviewed, obviously still really pissed that Vienna was the closest he came to having a number one, conceding that 'Shaddap you face' had a 'great hook'

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Afraid it simply wasn't as good as 'Shaddap you face'

It was fantastic to see midge ure being interviewed, obviously still really pissed that Vienna was the closest he came to having a number one, conceding that 'Shaddap you face' had a 'great hook'

Echoes of that in the Coldplay v Frog wars of this Summer.

 

[audiotech]

I prefered him when he was in the sex pistols
Shit song but unfortunately to close to my heart to be written off

Midge Ure was approached about becoming the Sex Pistols singer. Fortunately, he declined.

 

[Jenerys]

It will always hold a special place in my heart cos I had my first ever slow dance to it.

I was a mere first-former and Chris Spencer....a third year ....asked me to dance which made me cool at school for ooh about 3 minutes

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Named after a cat, of course.

 

[thestraightman]

80's. What a fucking depressing decade. IMHO.

Some is an aquired taste, but 10 years is a lot of music, and there's some freaking gold.

 

[IntoStella]

No, no, no and a million times no.

I have to admit, I really liked Ultravox* before that bag of shite Midge Ure joined. I dearly wanted to shoot him then and nothing since has served to do anything other than reinforce my original feeling on the matter.

*They were, admittedly, patchy but at least they were interesting. And I was only 11.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Some is an aquired taste, but 10 years is a lot of music, and there's some freaking gold.

The Smiths existed solely in the '80s. Go figure.

 

[Major Tom]

Hated it at the time - I'd liked Ultravox's previous stuff - especially minor hit "Slow Motion" - John Foxx was the talented one.

I've grown to like it over the years. It is very of its time.

Anyone ever heard Vic Reeve's version of it - hilarious.

I know a place.
I know a place in a foreign land, name of Belgium.
The water stinks,
But the people think,
They think that it doesn't.
They think that it doesn't,
But it does,
I'm telling you, it stinks.
The feelings are gone,
It means nothing to you,
It means nothing to me.
This means nothing to me.
Oh, Vienna!
Hitler dwelt in this land,
And Van Morrisson was born here.
The Belgian police are very, very kind,
And invented the waltzers.
And the Belgian people spend all day drinking port.
So the feelings are gone,
It means nothing to me,
It means nothing to I.
Well, this means nothing to I.
Oh, Vienna!
Hello, hello, my Belgian friends.
Let us now make amends.
We English do not blame you,
For the destruction of the rest of Europe.
A difference, yes, In tongue and dress.
But a smile of the face of the Belgian police,
As they injure me and me family,
Injure me and me family.
My cup overflows with Viennese gin,
And I signal for more and the waiter arrives,
With a fox, with a fox,
In a cardboard box.
'What is this?', I cry.
Well, they weep, they weep,
But they never sleep.
The Belgian police, the Belgian police.
They weep, they weep,
But they never sleep,
Cos of the noise of the trains.
And hello, Sue, have you talked to

 

[Oxpecker]

All you naysayers are simply wrong. It's a marvellous song

 

[IntoStella]

I am very shocked at some of the people who have voted yes.

*Reviews Christmas card list*

 

[Orang Utan]

80's. What a fucking depressing decade. IMHO.

The 80s was the best decade ever for music!

 

[MarkMark]

 

[IntoStella]

The 80s was the best decade ever for music!

For gay men.

 

[Orang Utan]

For gay men.

Just what are you insinuating?

 

[Bonfirelight]

da da. da, da da. ch ch ch ch. da da. da, da da. ch ch ch ch

superb stuff. makes me think of the superior 'take on me' by A-Ha though.