Ultravox Artificial Life

[menswear2112]

From Bowie, The Cure and to Blur...weird, disturbing and quite ahead of it's time

[nosirrom14]

A very powerful great song that i played over and over again in my early teenage years .... Its got bits of punk , reggae , new wave etc .. They were pioneers of music and provided the link between punk and what later became electronic/ new romantic music

[cazzfoxx]

I could never imagine Midge Ure writing anything this good !

[chrisnoaro1]

@cazzfoxx Awesome track and I'm a huge fan of the Foxx era but I can't imagine him writing something as great as Passing Strangers or Accent On Youth either.

[cazzfoxx]

My God! I love this song! Hard to believe its 34 years old. . .I remember writing to Tommy Vance on the Friday Rock Show for this song - and he played it, , ,

[AntonEtc1]

I really don't like it!!! I think i love it!!!!!!

[blaqsparrow]

I've listened to a couple Ultravox songs, now. I like them They were doing electronic punk that's quite a bit like what people are only now getting into. They remind me a little of Past Lives, a project with former members of The Blood Brothers. In other songs they sound almost just like The Arctic Monkeys, though. It's nice to stumble across these kinds of influences for modern sounds.

[GandalfsBeard1]

Rap Punk a decade before the Beastie Boys rediscovered it.

[Happysundaze]

Wonder if Foxx ever turned to writing fiction. His imagination and abliity to create an imagined world is really brilliant. I could see him being a good science fiction writer. Bought this album on the strength of the single wrock rock which my mate was constantly playing at the time.

[UGLYPAPA]

I had this on tape (and in my head) since 25 years but didn't knew the artist...

till tonight!!!! AT LAST, this is one of the best PUNK songs in history with a VANDERGRAAF GENERATOR final!! Yihaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! AT LAST...

[blackmax2323]

Foxx's vocals give an idea of what Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople) would have sounded like had they played more modern music and less bar-band blues rock.

[blakeyonthebuses]

this track got me into them, listening to john peel show late at night. then i went to see them at lincoln drill hall, sadly without john. magical

[fuckamericanidiot]

last ten seconds are the best i reckon

[jabrown45100]

Consider, this was released (in record form-not CDs) in the mid 1970s--before a lot of you were even born-HA HA HA,!!!), and now due to the music industry's misjudgement --has been dropped from the market. Well, you can still find Vox's music, odds of owning Crown Jewels. It is hard to imagine us partying in our prime during the 70s to conceive of this style music, listening to milk-toast, elevator music and devouring McDonalds burgers in 1970. Ultravox-in the 5th demension and lightyears ahead

[SonicVolcanoify]

The part starting at 3:43 is amazing. Incredible violin playing by Billy. Love Ultravox (both eras)

[Hollandia777]

and it goes on all night, all night,

and it goes on & on, the artificial life......

[scensiu]

sergejisd, accetti allora di condividere con me l'onore?

[sergejisd]

@scensiu volentieri!

[Hurricane1A]

always loved this track. loved the album too though found it a little harder to get into at first than ultravox! and systems. but its maybe my favourite of the 3 now. same with Magazine and secondhand daylight. for years preferred real life and the correct use of soap but not now. both 2nd albums for UV and Magazine are real sleepers you grow into.

[NineShagnasty]

The definitive Ultravox album.

A real shame they sold out with "The Scottish Git"..........

[Hollandia777]

@NineShagnasty

This1 was their most punky. their following albums were more new wave way

[MrFrankParsons]

I remember this from when I first bought it and I'll probably never forget it. One of the most scathing, harrowing, vitriolic and uncompromising observations on modern life that I've STILL ever heard. Musically magnificent too. Thank you for posting.

[progpunker]

Lou Reed? Bowie? Their influences were immense, but they were the one and only ULTRAVOX.

[scensiu]

I'm the biggest fan in Italy. This is the song that includes all. The violin at the end makes me move like an obsessed, since when I was a little child. John Foxx is my idol and this one is the greatest song of Ultravox.

[erictheviking871]

@scensiu every one iv met from italy seem to have exstremely good musical taste .

[sergejisd]

@scensiu no, io sono il più grande fan degli Ultravox/John Foxx !!!

[MeggieCMeggieDooo]

this is soooo good. so good. and i had it at one time, John Foxx is werrrd

[blackcluck]

You cant deny that they were really onto something, they make a lot of other bands of that era seem a little bland.

Only 31 yaers old as well.

[iggyziggy]

brill

[drcid777]

King Crimson, old Ultravox... very few still sound THIS good

[drcid777]

...she ran through divine light, chemicals, Warhol, scientology her own sex ,before she turned away

Very few discs this old, even from bands I love, stand the test of time so well. King

amazing

Way ahead of their time

[silmalila]

...And it goes on all night all night all night and it goes on and on the artificial life i've learned to be a stranger i've learned to be a stranger (stranger still) i remember every word to every song that John ever wrote... ...and he was QUITE prolific. How many years are we talking about? (shudders) More than I care to count... (smiling)

[JohanElectric]

I love this track. It has this spooky circus tension.

It's no surprise since John Foxx was very Bowie '75-inspired.

[Phavonic]

"The Wide Boys" is so "Joe the Lion".

Great group.

[silmalila]

"this whirlpool's got such seductive furniture

its so pleasant getting drowned"

[silmalila]

"She ran through divine light chemicals warhol scientology her own sex before she turned away..."

[inreanre]

Yes, unforgotten.

[silmalila]

I have been waiting for someone to post this song: thanks a million!

Ultravox was one of those very important bands in my youth and these songs still echo inside of me...

[autham]

What a waste of good tunes, I had this album in my stacks untill I let my friend have it for the weekend. And his whore of a girlfriend sold it for gas money. The bitch!

But it still lives on thxs to youtube.

[silmalila]

Hey, that's a hanging offense in my book.

(Laughing)

She's lucky to be breathing, methinks!

[SELFsufficiently]

at this point, this album really starts !

[sebbe6666]

Sutch a great tune Ultravox realy kicked ass back than.

[holly21590]

Grab your utility bags!!!