I had heard of Ultravox before, but just out off in the periphery of my musical knowledge. I knew nothing about them and I had never heard of them at all. Once I got involved in music online via blogs, forums, torrents, etc, I learned more about them and collected as many albums and tracks as I could find. They weren't bad, pretty good. No D2, but they really captured that New Romantic sound that was obviously popular at the time.
Out of all of their albums, I liked Rage In Eden the best, followed quickly by Vienna. I'll be posting that one later... It's a shame that I hadn't heard more of them before when I was younger, as learning and listening to them while they existed would've been great. Who knows, I may have liked them more than D2.... Nah, I don't think so.
Anyway, I recently found these "Deno Edits" of their tracks from this album, almost all of them. More fan edits that have taken the originals and simply s t r e c h e d them out. They're fun to listen to, and gives US a reason to have a deluxe version of their best album.
As you can see, Blogger still hasn't fixed what I've come to learn is a glitch in their system, or something like that. So, from here on out, I will make sure to zip the covers up in the files along with the albums. I know that I've been hit or miss on that, but now I will do it for sure...
Enjoy.
Duran better than Ultravox?!?!?!?!
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Absolutely love both this album and "Vienna." As someone who was into them back in the 80s when these albums came out, I can say that I actually DID like them better than D2 (don't hate me!), but that's just my personal opinion. D2 were obviously a much more popular band, so maybe I just have odd tastes in music, I don't know! But Ultravox has always been one of my favorites. (Though if I'm honest, even as much as I love Ultravox, I like John Foxx's solo work a lot better, particularly "The Golden Section."
ReplyDeleteOk now this is what I love to see. Ultravox has always been my second favorite band and I have collected everything I could ever get my grubby little hands on. You name it I had it albums, cd's, 12'' singles, 7'' singles, posters, buttons, t-shirts, videos, autographed items... you get the idea, so I am glad to welcome your version to my Ultravox collection. Thank you. Never heard the Deno Edits, so those will be fun to listen to I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note I know a guy who lives in New York who has had the honor of having Midge Ure perform not once, but twice at his house for a private/invitation only performance. Now how freakin' cool is that!!
thank you for this, btw.: Deno also edited Gary Numan's Telekon-great!
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