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3.0 out of 5 stars Ultravox swansong fails to recapture old glory, 17 Mar 2001

By	mikeandhelen.brown@thefreeinternet.co.uk (Blackpool, England) - See all my reviews

After Live Aid and Midge Ure's solo success with If I Was, you sense that there wasn't much of a combined will in the construction of this album. Down from a quartet to a trio following the departure of Warren Cann, the last Ultravox album proper is an eneven mix of styles and quality. At its best it recalls former glories. All in One Day is a fine string assisted pean to Live Aid in the mould of Visions in Blue, and Dream On is as near as this album gets to the old, moody, synth driven Ultravox of the Rage in Eden period. There's the poetic and thought provoking All Fall Down, which, along with Same Old Story was one of two top 40 singles from the album. It's a collaboration with the Chieftans which is as far from trad Ultravox as it's possible to get but is the album's one real piece of inspiration. U-Vox is dragged down, though, by too many irrelevancies; too many tracks that the band would have been unlikely to use as B-sides in earlier days. Time to Kill and Moon Madness have their moments but are, ultimately, naff. The Prize is a touch dull and, even worse, the album cover is the most garish, migraine inducing piece of artwork you have ever seen. Midge Ure and Chris Cross left the band after this. Billy Currie formed a new version later, but this album marked the official end of a Ultravox.

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1.0 out of 5 stars U know it's awful, 7 Mar 2005

By	sonik57 "sonik57" (London, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

An all-time low and justly decried by hardcore fans everywhere.
Both Ure and Currie distanced themselves from it, Currie describing it diplomatically as 'unfocused'.

The things that made Ultravox exceptional to that point - the chances taken with technology, a genuine creativity and a feeling of going against the grain slightly - were jettisoned here as the ideas ran out along with the goodwill.

Drummer and founder member Warren Cann was booted out of the band, his place being taken in the studio by Big Country's Mark Bryzicki (often ridiculed in Smash Hits at the time as 'Mark Unpronounceablename'). He also played on The Cult's acclaimed hit 'She Sells Sanctuary'. Lead single, 'Same Old Story' was truly poor and a herald of what was to come. Brass sections? Naff backing vocals? The Chieftains? Please!!

No matter how cheaply you are able to buy this for, it can't be any cheaper and more naff than the stuff on it! The real Ultravox finished with Lament. Buy that instead. Currie is still a genius, by the way...

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1.0 out of 5 stars lament over a fallen monument, 22 Dec 2003

By	Paul T Horgan (UK) - See all my reviews

In the mid 1980s, Ultravox had a problem. They were far and away the best bank of the synth boom of the early 1980s, but tastes had moved on. Their sound was 'borrowed' by A-Ha while they were between albums. There was a reaction against synths by the mainstram, who viewed the culture and style as being too-right-wing in an era of anti-Thatcherism. So where to go from here to get and keep a following? Of the routes they could have chosed they chose the worst. This album is full of highly produced tosh as they sought to move away from their roots as electronic stylemeisters to become- what? The musical style is not coherent and this seems like little more than a vanity project or a contractual obligation exercise. There are no distinctive songs and no inventiveness here. Instead there is a muddling though with songs in various styles and tempos using horns(!). Genesis this is not and they do not get away with it. Close your eyes and ears and believe that the last album (the last when they were a quartet) was Lament in 1984. Go no further. Nothing good will come of it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars End of The Adventure
From Sleepwalk to Love's Great Adventure, Ultravox were on a great adventure. Then sadly when Warren Cann departed from the band, Ultravox were diminshed. Read more

Published 24 days ago by Mr. Gary Bushe

1.0 out of 5 stars The first album I ever took back to the shop
I was a big Ultravox fan in the 80's. they were the first gig I ever went to see and were really excellent live. Read more

Published on 17 Jul 2004 by Coucho

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultravox grow up
Now a lot of people don't like this album but for me it is the most listenable of their albums. My only complaint is that Love's Great Adventure was not added to the rereleased... Read more

Published on 27 May 2004 by Mr. I. S. Lister

4.0 out of 5 stars Some good tunes
Ok, it might not be their best album, and it might not sound like a typical Ultravox album. However, I find there are some very interesting tunes on this album. Read more

Published on 17 Sep 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Should never have been released
Midge Ure has since said that this album should never have been released, and he is quite right. It's not really Ultravox at all with Warren Cann and most of the synth-based songs... Read more

Published on 6 Jun 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars If there's a wrong way to do it...
..then this is it.

Ultravox, in both their early Foxx days and the later Ure days provided pretty much the soundtrack of my teenage years - my first parties, drinking for the... Read more

Published on 13 Dec 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Commercial pap or actually quite good?
"U-Vox" is something of a disappointment at first. Ultravox seemed to have toned down their synth-tastic ways and introduced a more commercial sound (brass sections... Read more

Published on 15 Oct 2000

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