The album Vienna is brilliant throughout. There is not a bad track on it. This is haunting with Warren’s spooky voice and constant background rhythm gnawing at your brain.
Mr x, I bought the album it was on in 'Notting Hill record and tape exchange' around 1983 for 50p. They were a wonderful chain of 4 or 5 used music & movies shops in London until the early 2000's i believe. They promised to buy/sell anything in any condition and were extremely popular- especially at weekends a queue often formed way up the street!
I used to travel all the way from Ashford Surrey when I was about 14 years old if my friends weren't about I go on my own on the tube and spend most of the day going from one of the Notting Hill Gate shops to Goldhawk Road to Acton I think they've changed the name slightly but there's definitely still one or two about
Sowas hör ich immer Nachts . Hab mir 1980 im Sommer nächtelang mit der Musik die Nacht um die Ohren gehauen und gezeichnet :) Mr. X oder Herbert der Säger :D „Selbst der Dümmste müßte jetzt gemerkt haben, daß es ernst ist. Es ist völlig sinnlos, nach einem Auto zu suchen, denn Monsieur X fährt mit dem sichersten Verkehrsmittel der Gegenwart - der Eisenbahn. Denn wenn er drin sitzt, entgleist der Zug bestimmt nicht.“ I always hear that at night. I spent nights with music in the summer of 1980 the night knocked out and drawn :) "Even the dumbest should have noticed by now that it is serious. There is absolutely no point in looking for a car, because Monsieur X uses the safest means of transport available today - the train. Because if he's inside, the train will definitely not derail."
This video is fantastic, Vienna album is one of my best, i brought it in a record shop one afternoon during school lunch break got it home and played it on my sisters red and creme record player, again thanks for this you have made my day...... : )
Moscow underground mysteries. All those people they walk in the shadows of a subway, like cattle to the slaughter, so easily forgotten, so lost to time.
people kept interrupting our shoot; they wanted to know who the weirdo in the suit was. they thought he was famous. in the metro carriage shots, you can see a woman showing him how to hang onto the straps while standing but he ignored here. ha ha ha.
"... So easily forgotten, so lost to time." Great Phrasing, - captures-up exactly the emotional sentiments that always run behind my eyes, listening to this track! That said, I thought you may appreciate the touching video for Marc Jordan's "This Independence". I always imagined that Mr X , had Ultra Vox put out one, being shot mostly in Sepia Tone, reminesant 1930's Europe, etc.~😎
I was 3 when this came out but heard it throughout my childhood and love the song (and the album) now, when I was little I always thought it referred to the fact that we're just drones and Mr x was one of the million. Is this angsty 90s conclusion!!?
Ps this is a fantastic video! I wasn't going to watch (coz of memories) but I'm glad I did! Well done! plus having the lyrics on screen, my whole life before the lyrics were ''a blind man with a key' 🤦🏼♀️
Something that's weird and interesting about this song: the song "Touch And Go" by John Foxx has the same music but different lyrics yet Ultravox doesn't credit Foxx as a songwriter on their version and Foxx doesn't credit Ultravox as songwriters on his version.
Steve vil In their final gigs Ultravox were playing Touch and Go and He’s a Liquid, though they sound nothing like on Metematic. I think they both took Touch and Go with them when they parted ways. I love them both but I prefer Mr X
Clearly, the acrimony with which they parted - which lingers to this day - means neither party wants to share a single penny of publishing that they don't have to. Interviews with Foxx and Vox in which the songs' obvious similarities are mentioned lead only to answers of "No, they are completely different songs".
I always thought that John was the original creator of Mr. X and they just included this song with Warren's vocal in Vienna...And if I'm not mistaken, they performed the early version of Touch&Go before he left🤔
Moscow could be a perfect place for New Wave:cold and icy.Try to explore and adapt music from John Foxx in video.He was and he's still the most gifted.
Very Matrix for its time and well beyond electronic brilliance, we always assume that the universe has now shrunk and forgotten human enlightenment - never at all in an ultravox void yet a mega-gallactic explosion of intelligent celebration.
If you're making a music video. It's poloroids in monochrome falling from frame to a table filmed from above. Drifting down the next comes through. The polariods show a different disturbing image. When the violin kicks in the ploriods spurt out like water or blood from a vein. Then it holds on one picture. I like the idea but fit the aesthetic of throwback 30s noire meets 80s
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