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1. Voice	Listen
2. We Stand Alone	Listen
3. I Remember Death In The Afternoon	Listen
4. Thin Wall	Listen
5. Stranger Within
6. Accent On Youth
7. Ascent
8. Rage In Eden	Listen
9. Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again

Description
VIENNA introduced ex-Rich Kids vocalist/guitarist Midge Ure, who stepped in to fill guitarist Robin Simon and singer John Foxx's shoes, and heralded a shift to a more lush, synth-driven melodic approach. Its successor RAGE IN EDEN follows the path, exploiting Ure's almost Freddie Mercury-like operatic tendencies and further promoting the move toward more accessible melodies. The biggest difference is a darker mood that makes RAGE IN EDEN Ultravox's most ominous-sounding effort.
As before, Billy Currie's signature ARP synthesizer leads wail and squeal over the predominantly electronic rhythm tracks, and Ure's theatrical vocals up the drama quotient.But with the apocalyptic/paranoid lyrics of "The Thin Wall"and "Stranger Within", and the quiet doominess of "I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)", the group appears like the herald of some dread new order of European society. Fortunatelyfor the listener, memorable melodies and syncopated rhythmsaccompany these dark themes. On "Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)", the 'Voxers prove they don't need synthesizersto sound creepy, as Ure delivers a chilling plaint over little more than piano and bass drum. Successive albums would move Ultravox ever closer to pure pop, but RAGE is surely itsmost unnerving moment.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   7 of 7 people found the following review helpful: This is THE Definative Ultravox Album, hits the spot on ever, 23 Nov 2001 By A Customer If you only listen to one Ultravox album in your life, this is the one for you. Every track a classic, starting with the majestic 'The Voice' and finishing with the splendidly haunting 'Your Name Has Slipped my Mind Again' Every track on this album has been 'created' as well as produced, they each bring their own atmosphere to the party. My own favouriete has to be track 4 'I remember death in the afternoon' this is a magnificent piece of music that rises and rises into a crecendo of emotion and then just drifts away.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Grand, if slightly flawed, 23 Aug 2006 By  A. Huebner "Andrew Hyde" (Düsseldorf) - See all my reviews    "Rage In Eden" is the second of the four Ultravox albums featuring the Midge Ure/Warren Cann/Billie Currie/Chris Cross line-up. They would never again reach the perfection of its predecessor, "Vienna", but "Rage" is still a worthy effort. It might have been more successful, had the band (or record company) not been so ill-advised when it came to the singles released to promote the album. "The Thin Wall" is a stark song over a harsh electro beat, very nice, but it surely frightened people off who had loved the much more easily accessible "Passing Strangers", "Sleepwalk" or, indeed, "Vienna" singles. I still remember the derisive review in one of the weeklies when the album's opening track, "The Voice", was released as a single. "Look at the sound of the voice" (a mis-quote from the song) was begging to be ridiculed. The song itself is as pompous and grand as you'd love an Ultravox song to be, but the catchiest and most radio-friendly track on the album (albeit not the best), "I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)" sadly never was a single. In the same vein as "Dancing With Tears ..." it could have given the band an international hit, accompanied maybe by a video featuring Marilyn Monroe footage (as the song is about hearing about Norma Jean's death on afternon radio). There are some quirkily strange tracks here (the low-fi title track and "Stranger Within", the latter nice enough, but at 7:27 over-long), and the album literally climaxes with the tryptich of "Accent On Youth" (a dramatic rock song), "The Ascent" (an instrumental bridge) and finally "Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)" (a sparse, haunting song to please the "Vienna" fans). Compared especially to the polished follow-up album "Quartet", "Rage" may be a little flawed, but at least the band still sound very passionate and very much alive.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Holds alot of good memories, 24 Sep 2005 By  Mr M Fenton (Untied Kingdom) - See all my reviews Each song on this album holds alot of memories for me...i was a teen at this time...the lyrics of this album were very true in what i felt at the time...one of the best ultravox albums they produced..ohh to go back in time and listen to it for the first time again  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 11 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews We raised our glass and drank to times we'd had, but'd see no more Vienna and Quartet are great albums, without question, but Rage in Eden, for me, is the pinnacle of post-Foxx Ultravox. Read more Published 1 month ago by Clorson Pannet Not quite Vienna 2 I guess it was always going to be difficult to follow up the mega album Vienna with something just as good and Midge and the boys probably had more than a nudge from the record... Read more Published 4 months ago by S. C. Trump As close to perfect as possible This album stirs up so many memories. To me music is about emotion, if a song stirs the emotions then it's doing something right.... Read more Published 13 months ago by Paprika Quintessential New Romantic Rock Found this CD the other day and it took me back light-years... this was the soundtrack of my youth ... Read more Published on 26 April 2005 by Ms. A. M. Phillips Just Brilliant Played this to DEATH when it first came out - In 28 years of buying records/CD's I can't remember getting an album and playing it more than this one, I am not saying its the best... Read more Published on 2 Dec 2004 by Stewart Easby Utterly preposterous, utterly brilliant It would be easy to put my liking for Ultravox's music down to the dual follies of youth and the 1980s. Sadly, that's not the case. I still love this stuff. Read more Published on 31 Jul 2004 by Frank T Best thing they ever did When most people think Ultravox they think "Oh, Vienna!" But Ultravox did far more than Vienna, and if that song were on thi