ULTRAVOX – RAGE IN EDEN LP – Nr MINT UK 1981 INDIE ELECTRONICA

Ultravox – Rage In Eden
(Chrysalis Records  1981  CDL1338)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some slight wear to edges and some rubbing near the top
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
No Poster

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light 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.

Rage in Eden is the fifth album by the British new wave band Ultravox. It was released in 1981 on Chrysalis. The album reached #4 in the UK album charts and was certified Gold by the BPI for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.

Track listing

All songs written by Midge Ure, Chris Cross, Warren Cann, Billy Currie.

Side A:

1. “The Voice” – 6:01
2. “We Stand Alone” – 5:39
3. “Rage in Eden” – 4:12
4. “I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)” – 4:57

Side B:

1. “The Thin Wall” – 5:39
2. “Stranger Within” – 7:26
3. “Accent on Youth” – 5:57
4. “The Ascent” – 1:10
5. “Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)” – 4:29

Personnel

Ultravox

• Warren Cann – drums, electronic percussion, vocals, (lead vocals on “Paths and Angles”)
• Chris Cross – bass, synthesizers, vocals, (guitar on “Paths and Angles”)
• Billy Currie – synthesizers, piano, violin, viola
• Midge Ure – lead vocals (except “Paths and Angles”), guitars, synthesizers

Additional personnel

• Conny Plank – co-production, engineering
• Peter Saville Associates – original sleeve design