Album
Ultravox!
1977 · Electronic, Rock
9 collectors on Gatefold own this
Ultravox! is an Electronic album by Ultravox!, originally released in 1977. On Gatefold: 57 pressings tracked, owned by 9 collectors.
About
If the languid “I Want to Be a Machine” and the androgynously confused “My Sex” didn’t foreshadow early-’80s electronic music and the techno that would later motor out of Detroit, then the world is flat. In fact, this 1977 debut takes us on an early pop-art cross-cultural drive worthy of David Bowie, from the low roads of William Burroughs and The New York Dolls (“Wide Boys”) to rocksteady ganja by way of Carson McCullers (“The Lonely Hunter”) to the high road of <i>Metropolis</i> (“Saturday Night in the City of the Dead”) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (“The Wild, the Beautiful & the Damned”). And it’s fitting that Brian Eno produced this, because Ultravox was all about the low-life/high-art glam and Roxy Music. Singer/lyricist John Foxx fronted Ultravox with his pleasing and tempered croon (with some Bryan Ferry–style diction) until 1980, when Midge Ure came aboard and the band went headlong into Europlatinum status. Many prefer the Foxx-era Ultravox, with its youthful art-school sneers and raw synths and big punk guitars and punk-hated violin.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Satday Night In The City Of The Dead
- A2Life At Rainbow's End (For All The Tax Exiles On Main Street)
- A3Slip Away
- A4I Want To Be A Machine
Side B
- B1Wide Boys
- B2Dangerous Rhythm
- B3The Lonely Hunter
- B4The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
- B5My Sex
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Synth-Pop / New Wave
- synthetic
- anxious
- art school
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Original UK release in semi glossy gatefold cover, pressed by IRM Ltd.
• All subsequent UK Island releases are pressed by EMI Records.
Blue rim/orange labels with 'Ultravox!' logo, without rimtext.
Black die-cut paper inner sleeve.
'EMI Records' is not mentioned anywhere yet.
No track durations on this release.
On rear cover:
Recorded Island Studios Hammersmith: Autumn 1976
Runouts are etched, except the standalone '1' in the 3 o'clock position is stamped.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Billy CurrieKEYBOARDS VIOLIN VIOLIN, KEYBOARDS
- Chris CrossBASS BASS, VOCALS VOCALS
- John FoxxVOCALS GUITAR HARMONICA
- Stevie ShearsGUITAR
- Warren CannDRUMS DRUMS, VOCALS VOCALS
9 collectors on Gatefold own this · 57 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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