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ULTRAVOX – SYSTEMS OF ROMANCE LP – Nr MINT A2 UK 1978 PUNK ELECTRONICA

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Ultravox – Systems Of Romance
(Island Records  1978  ILPS9555)
Matrix No’s: A2/B2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– one tiny mark on the front
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Ultravox (formerly known as Ultravox!) are a British new wave band, formed in London in 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980–86, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, the most successful of which was their 1981 hit “Vienna”.

The band has been led by two different frontmen who never played together in the band at the same time. From 1974 until 1979, singer John Foxx was frontman and the main driving force behind Ultravox. Foxx left the band to embark on a solo career and, following his departure, Midge Ure took over as lead singer, guitarist and frontman in 1980 after he and keyboardist Billy Currie worked in the studio project Visage. Ure revitalised the band and steered it to commercial chart success lasting until 1987. Ure left the band in 1987 after establishing his own solo career and the group disbanded for a while.

A new line-up, led by Currie, was formed in 1992, but achieved limited success, with two albums failing to chart and one solitary single reaching 90 in the UK Singles Chart.

The band’s best-known line-up of Currie, Ure, bassist Chris Cross and drummer Warren Cann reformed in 2008 and performed a series of reunion shows in 2009 and 2010 before releasing a new studio album, Brill!ant, in May 2012 which reached 21 in the British Album Charts. In November 2013, Ultravox performed as special guests on a four date UK arena tour with Simple Minds.

Systems of Romance, released on 8 September 1978, is the third album by British band Ultravox (an exclamation mark having been dropped from the moniker earlier in the year). It was the final recording for the group with original lead singer, lyricist and co-composer John Foxx, and their first album without guitarist Stevie Shears, who had been sacked from the band (in 1980 he joined Cowboys International). Shears was replaced by Robin Simon, making his first and only appearance on an Ultravox album. Though not a commercial success, Systems of Romance had a significant influence on the electropop music that came after it.

Track listing

  1. “Slow Motion” – 3:29
  2. “I Can’t Stay Long” – 4:16
  3. “Someone Else’s Clothes” – 4:25
  4. “Blue Light” – 3:09
  5. “Some of Them” – 2:29
  6. “Quiet Men” – 4:08
  7. “Dislocation” – 2:55
  8. “Maximum Acceleration” – 3:53
  9. “When You Walk Through Me” – 4:15
  10. “Just for a Moment” – 3:10
  • Tracks 1, 2, and 4 written by Cann/Cross/Currie/Foxx/Simon.
  • Tracks 3, 5, 7, and 10 written by Currie/Foxx.
  • Track 6 written by Cross/Currie/Foxx.
  • Track 8 written by Foxx.
  • Track 9 written by Currie/Foxx/Simon.

Personnel

  • John Foxx – vocals
  • Warren Cann – drums, rhythm machine, vocals
  • Chris Cross – bass, synthesizer, vocals
  • Billy Currie – keyboards, violin
  • Robin Simon – guitar, vocals
Weight 1.00000000 kg

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