i love that song though carnelian

*Sighs*

I think that song may be the only one I've posted that I have in my record collection.

I tend to prefer their earlier stuff.  I liked that song at the time, but they definately got worse after that and got a bit preachy and pompous when they were trying to be U2.

I used to love that band till they decided they were 'soul' complete with a token female backing vocalist. Ugh, how the mighty fall.

I'm with you on that one.  Ultravox when they decided that they needed to get female backing, probably circa 1986 - when such things were obligatory, along with sax solos - was even more painfully tragic and unlistenable.

Not as big a mistake as taking on a moustachioed twat as lead vocalist who then proceeded to bore the world to death. Vienna anyone? 

Most of these songs don't make me want to clench my fists. They do make my stomach clench, though, as in they make me want to throw up.

I liked that record!

not all ultraxox songs are boring

Ultravox were always pretentious (I've no problem with musicians working their art school education into their lyrics) and IMO they got progressively duller with it as the 80s wore on, like quite a few bands of that era.  By the mid eighties they'd run out of ideas in earnest plodding, meandering synthesizer music which audiences had grown tired of.  Midge Ure had saved Africa and wanted to tell everyone about that rather than the usual pretentious twadle. Ultravox thought it would be a good idea to follow the mid 80s post-Live Aid trend of real instruments, cod soul backing singers, horn sections and sax solos.  IMO, the U-Vox album was dire in every conceivable way.

Carnelian, shut up! The 80's rocked and you know it!

Shut up Rawky, the 80s didn't rock! , It was mostly rubbish, especially the middle bit with the big hair MTV soft rock.  I don't know if you're old enough (or too old) to remember that BBC2 show "No Limits", with Jenny Powell and some bloke going around the UK while playing really bad hair metal (as if there's a good type of hair metal)?  God, the music on that was awful!

That was the best it! 

And no, i don't remember that show, i'm far too young for that. Mind you I was living in Portugal during the mid to late 80's so i wouldn't have known of it anyway.

Ah, you're just nostalgic for an era you never lived through!  If you'd lived through that period, you'd see those records in a different light.  All those records were overplayed on radio and TV and kept decent good old indie music off the playlists.  In an era where dross like Lady Gaga is held up as outrageous and dangerous and Simon Cowell acts dominate music sales, it's natural to hark back to the era of your parents and give it far more critical aclaim than it deserves.  In my opinion, of course! 

I can't link videos so if someone could do Heart - Alone for me that would be great 

 <----for whoever posts it

So did I Carnelian. It saved my sanity during a bad period - "it means nothing to me" -

10 minutes of pure hell!!!

Slimfern - have another one 

I've only read back and realised that Heart was already played.....great minds 

Why can't I post videos anymore?

You on I.E Cagney?

Oh shurrup..........and I haven't clicked on the vid

hya  i can't post video's either lol   but i was thinking of her that used a guy to get preggers and oooooooooooooohh sometimes  by erasure 

Google Chrome. I could post them until a few days ago. Dunno what happened but I'll have to beg others to post for me until I get it fixed 

For me, the 80s was much more about stuff like this:

and this:

and this:

Oh right, I got a Keylogger virus and ditched Chrome a couple of nights ago and as you prolly know this forum doesn't work with IE so basically I'm f.....

id love to help you cagney but im usless with things like that, hope someone can help

The 80s were my teenage years - loved all music from the fist clenchers to Stock Aitken and Waterman - yes

Pete, your vids aren't showing up for me......anyone else having the same trouble?

Awwww, you were just a bairn    

same here

yes sproot i wasnt sure whether Pete meant to do that or not i darent ask

Arghh!!!

Well they're 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald and New Order.

Awww, mibbee there's something happening re fixes and maybe we just have to live with it for tonight and see what it's like in the morning

Yes, it was a clever postmodern comment. *nods*

this song reminds me  when i said to my co-worker  turn the radio down . am getting auld lol