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The Island Years (Ultravox album)

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Released
  
1999

Artist
  
Ultravox

Label
  
Spectrum Music

Recorded
  
1976 - 1978

Release date
  
1999

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The Island Years (1999)
  
The Best of Ultravox (2003)

Genres
  
New wave, Rock music, Electropop, Pop music, Glam rock, Proto-punk

Producers
  
Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite, Conny Plank

Similar
  
Ultravox albums, New wave albums

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The Island Years is a compilation by Ultravox, released in 1999 by PolyGram and Spectrum labels. It contains songs from their three first albums (Ultravox!, Ha! Ha! Ha! and Systems of Romance), when John Foxx was the group's vocalist and frontman, and another two guitarists, Stevie Shears and Robin Simon were with them (although not at the same time). The album is a compilation of the band's early years, before Midge Ure became a member, and the band scored a number of hits in the 1980s.

Contents

This is a more modern version of the Slow Motion compilation, released in 1993 by the same labels.

The band are credited as Ultravox!, although the band decided to drop the exclamation mark (!) before recording their Systems Of Romance album.

Track list

  1. "Dangerous Rhythm"
  2. "My Sex"
  3. "I Want to Be a Machine"
  4. "The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned"
  5. "Life at Rainbow's End"
  6. "Young Savage"
  7. "Slip Away"
  8. "ROckWrok"
  9. "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
  10. "Distant Smile"
  11. "Man Who Dies Every Day"
  12. "While I'm Still Alive"
  13. "Slow Motion"
  14. "Quiet Men"
  15. "Cross Fade"
  16. "Just for a Moment"

Personnel

  • John Foxx: vocals
  • Chris Cross: bass, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Warren Cann: drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Billy Currie: violin, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Stevie Shears: guitar 1, 3 - 8, 10 - 12
  • Robin Simon: guitar 13 and 14
  • Songs

    1Dangerous Rhythm4:16
    2My Sex3:04
    3I Want to Be a Machine7:24

    References

    The Island Years (Ultravox album) Wikipedia