Ultravox :: Vienna - Yes/No?

[Oxpecker]

Just what are you insinuating?

Yes, Intostella, just what are you insinuating?

 

[cathal marcs]

I like the song it well ace

 

[Treacle Toes]

Yes yes and trice yes!

 

[IntoStella]

That bit where he goes blah de blah, so mystic and soulful... (or something like that)

I thought he was singing ''Lipstick and soulfood".

Midge Ure is about as mystic and soulful as newly poured concrete that has been pissed in by a cow.

 

[editor]

On a related note, Midge Ure is having health problems.

BBC:
Midge Ure has had to cancel his upcoming tour due to a health issue needing "urgent" treatment.
The Ultravox singer will perform in August but take time off from September, with shows dropped in Australia and across Europe.
Ure, 71, wrote on social media: "During a recent routine check-up, doctors discovered a health issue that requires urgent treatment and a period of recovery."

 

[Steel Icarus]

All that walking in the cold air.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Its a fucking amazing record. I was a bit sniffy about it at the time, being a John Foxx fan an all, but with age it only got better and better. There's nothing else like it. Makes my spine tingle.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

All that walking in the cold air.

Scotland.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

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

I saw a YouTube video about shapp you face an turns out there's a serious side to it. firstly i didn't know the guy was a yank, an he was inspired to write the song because of prejudice against irish americans in the US. So I have some respect or it now.

 

[pogofish]

Scotland.

He's lived near Bath for decades!

 

[8ball]

He's lived near Bath for decades!

And has never been arrested by the Belgian police.

Not once.

 

[A380]

This means nothing to me.

 

[existentialist]

Unusual in that it's a chart song that features a prominent viola solo.

 

[The39thStep]

Ultravox's early stuff was good; the later stuff wasn't. It's not often that Vienna and Shaddup You Face are mentioned in the same sentence; however, it makes absolute sense, to me.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

He's lived near Bath for decades!

wooo

(bet he's still got family up there though)

 

[pogofish]

wooo

(bet he's still got family up there though)

I think he does - seems to be in Glasgow regularly enough and one of his Ultravox bandmates has lived in Forres for many years.

Astradyne is the tune off the Vienna Album that has had the longest life with me. I still have it in a few playlists even today.

 

[hash tag]

This means nothing to me.

Has the feeling gone?

 

[Derek S-H]

It's an atmospheric classic, I loved it then and I still love it now.

 

[krtek a houby]

I don't know enough about the band. Liked Vic Reeves cover of Vienna and the Midge Ure solo single that topped the charts.

 

[Dystopiary]

I don't know enough about the band. Liked Vic Reeves cover of Vienna and the Midge Ure solo single that topped the charts.

He played with Thin Lizzy briefly.

 

[krtek a houby]

He played with Thin Lizzy briefly.

Aye, and so did Huey Lewis