I moved to the US recently at the age of 57, and I was playing an Ultravox mix in the car. My US friend (same age) had never heard of them and after three tracks including Hymn) said "WHat band is this? They are AMAZING". It shows that good music is forever.
Only just heard this 😔. At least we got to see him and his former bandmates reunite around 2010/2012. To this day, I feel that Ultravox are underrated. RIP.
My mum suddenly passed away a few months ago...worst pain I have ever experienced.....this song reminds me of long gone happier days and the wonderful time in the 80s I had....I enjoyed them at the time...but even more so now looking back
Born in 1970 have to say the 80s best times of my life. No school on a sat up in the auld Jim jams tv and brekkie no mobile phones and laptop crap. Anyone a time machine would definitely go back.
We flew to London (we're from Canada) to see what is likely to remain Ultravox's last live performance: November 30, 2013. 'Hymn' brought me to tears (as it's doing now). I waited 33 years for the chance to see them live. It was only nine songs, and I didn't get a single picture, but I'll never forget experiencing Hymn live.
I've seen midge sing this 3 times and I nearly cry out of happiness,,if that makes sense,, rewind concerts over here are brilliant,,you need to come over,,25 great groups all weekend 😊🙂👌🍺🍺🍾
I'm just hearing about the death of Chris Cross. I don't know where I've been, but this is very sad news. RIP Chris, your music will live on in all of us.
This feels like such an underrated song that should be a classic. I'm sure it was pretty successful at the time (same as other Ultravox songs), but you don't hear it mentioned or played these days, despite it being so powerful and anthemic. You only ever hear 'Vienna' or (occasionally) 'Dancing with Tears in my Eyes.' So many bands are treated like one- or two-hit wonders when they had so many good songs.
Perhaps because the words remind the general public of the Lord's prayer. Yours is The Kingdom, power and glory. In this even more secular age there are forces which hate the teachings of Jesus and any song which highlights His Kingdom is to be discarded.
My dad (born 1970) showed me this music video when I was 10 year old. I was so intrigued by the message, the whole “making a deal with the devil” it made me go through a spiral of emotions. I’m 15 now, and still love Ultravox, dad and I still listen together. Now I joke to my friends That my mental age is 50. Thanks dad for getting me into your music !
Born in 71, this was the first Ultravox song I ever heard and I fell in love with their sound almost immediately. Still in love after all these years and a strong metal phase in between.
Not a coincidence, that you hear this song now in this crazy time. I don't know why, but today i heard this melody in my head. And that's crazy too, because the last time i heard this song was many years ago😅
A memorable one for me. This hadn't been released and hadn't been played in public at all. No airplay. Nothing. They tagged a extra charity gig onto the end of their tour and played in the Dominion Tottenham Court Road. When they played this they announced we were the first members of the public to hear the record. What an honour to be one of the first 1500 people on the planet to hear this great track.
Those Synths take me back to the 1980-82 era.Music sounded so much better then, with true meaning.I love the way Ultravox always included a dramatic synth/piano solo in their masterpieces.Epic!
I forget if its true or not but ... I seem to recall BBC TV only showed this ONCE - as religious folk complained it showed Daemonic dealings. Which it does, but it also shows that... you sign the Contract, and you DON'T get away with it. The contracts are drawn up in the place all the lawyers go to, what do you expect ?
Good news, big celebration this birthday Susan! Was real music through the years, played by real folk, with real instruments, and real producers/mixers, relating real stories, so real people could have a little real fun!!! Sounds of reality straight from the soul. Good luck Susan x.
This was (& still is) hypnotizing to me as a young wild & free teenage girl here in New Zealand. Midge Ure's voice is Mesmerizing & took me away to places beyond! Beautiful Escapes! Deep Memories! I Will Love Ultravox Always! ♥️✝️♥️
Right in our faces in the 1980's in this video and words....how many got it then. How many understand it now? The bands that know the truth tried to tell us.
This song is immaculate perfection by a band that brung so many many memories for me growing up in the 1980s. Today as I live my life without my mum it still brings me to tears.
i got this album for Xmas when i was 13 and the memories while listening to it is, im on roller boots coming down a very long hill listening to this on a personal cassette tape and headphones, if only i could go back.
Heard it when I was about 9 or 10 years old on the radio ! didn't know the vocals or the title (it was 35 years ago !) discovered it on youtube !!! (Sorry for my English, I'm French)
Tomorrow, it will be one year since I lost my mother....and the biggest thing she infected into my head music wise that would not get out of my head was the chorus to this song.... Only 52 when she passed away and this song goes through my head a lot because of her..... 😢 She had great taste in music....
sorry for your loss, 6 months also since I lost my Mother, she was 89, she loved music, she loved kids, she ran discos, the 80s where my generation of youth and fun, my brother was our DJ, I have never heard this before. Raised a Catholic, recently losing my faith after all she went through. Your Mum was very young, thinking of you
@@destinycole Thank you, and I am sorry to hear about the loss of your mother too, music can be so powerful and impressionable, I took after my mum quite a bit in that regard... In terms of likes and such.... And she was very young.... But life has ways of helping people destroy themselves....and for the longest time due to how my childhood was (and I wish I hadn't been the way I was) I put too much trust and faith into mum... And was blinded for too long and by the time I knew things it was too late in the long run...and I didn't know how to approach things either due to something else that happened when I was younger so I have to carry my fair share of guilt there too I wish I could say things have gotten easier, but well my mother wasn't the only thing I lost.... The following 9 months I lost pretty much what I classed as the rest of my direct family, but I'm still standing somehow, and I know I probably wouldn't be without the support of others.... I hope you have as much support as possible through friends and family and you take each day one day at a time, put yourself first when you need to.
Im 23 and still dont believe that i was born to the right time i feel more comfortable with all the old music and cant stand this new time music im so happy to say this i love this masterpiece Maybe my soul was there before my life started :)
I will never forget , i was at school in 1979 ( 7 yrs old)come back at home,i open the radio Titograd and i hear this Fantastic song ! Thanks Yugosllavia !
Criminally underrated song. I first heard it in 1998(16 years after its release) and it stuck with me ever since: the deep internal conflict about wanting to believe but not having the evidence to convince oneself that God is real("faithless in faith, we must behold the things we see!"). Ultravox's lyrics are some of the deepest and most profound...and most cryptic of all bands.
Your comment about wanting to believe in the existence of God questioning it's reality. You are not alone, but I just wanted to say that it is all true. It is the devil that is raising that question as it's most successful strategy calling it "a fairytale" and that it itself isn't real. You see the reason it does that is so you drop your defenses against it giving it cart blanche to step in and control your every thought, action. In order to stop it, you have to side with God, asking (pleading with Him to come into your heart a nd take over putting all your faith in Him that He has your best interest in mind a d that you love Him and to forgive you for your past transgressions. You see it's all about where we end up after this life is completed. The are only 2 choices, either in Heaven (Paradise) for Eternity, or The Lake of Fire (what's known as the 2nd death) as the former hell has been ended as all who were there escaped (why everything is so evil now here). There is no fence sitting, it's one or the other. I implore you to select the former. Hope that helps! 😇✝️
so what does Hymn mean, is it a nod to religion, a warning, what, because the fact that he includes some of the Lords prayer must mean its good. Its really soul lifting should it be? @@lambjab9832
Ultravox, Hymn, is absolutely on my top 5 favorite eighties songs. My first Ultravox album purchased was Quartet and I listened to it more times than I can remember. Their sound is mesmerizing as it seems to sing to your soul.
I'm only 20 years old, but thanks to my parents I discovered this masterpiece. Sadly such music does not get as much love as it deserves in my generation.
I'm 22 and kinda feel a similar way about newer music. I listen to a wide variety of music from the 60's to now, and find the only good music from the last decade is mostly non-mainstream stuff, but it still doesn't come close to music like this. I was up late last night watching Rage (an Australian music video show), where they played this, some of their other songs, and an old interview with Chris Cross, likely due to his death last week.
I have been an Ultravox fan from i was 12yrs old and i still am they never made a bad song i got to see my heroes when they reformed in 2009 in Belfast it was well worth the wait they were excellent Midge is a very talented singer and he deserves recognition for his contribution to live aid with Geldolf
I was never really a fan of Ultravox after the John Foxx period, but this track is a beast! Come to think of it, they did some good stuff in the Midge Ure years...I think I'll have to listen again...
Wow, i hadn’t heard this in years and it still gives me the same feelings as when i was oh so young! A genuinely creative work of musical genius, i love it!!!
I sometimes watching ULTRAVOX DVD or Cds, Almost ULTRAVOX videos has story , love that. They're top band in my mind and all songs totally wonderful. I'm a fan about 35 years more. My life has change , thanks ULTRAVOX you're our love . I not remembe how many times went to gigs , Love the Smile of Chris, gigs yes. Anyway great ULTRAVOX
Yes, totally agree with you. They are one of my topbands aswell. Saw Midge Ure last May, it was great as always. For me he and Dave Gahan share the top spot of singers for me.
Not infra, intra, supra, but ULTRA! My son playing them loud in his bedroom. Wld shout up the stairs "What's that, love it". He's now 54 yrs of age. I'm 82. Liverpool UK 🕊️
How many have sold their souls for the oh so brief fleeting comforts and shallow victories in this existence at the expense of the millions, and the innocent around them.
So sad in learning about the passing of Chris Allen. Our idols are getting older, but their legacy will live on and never age. We can say this about Chris and the memories you have filled us with. RIP Chris Allen.
Heard this song a few days ago on the radio. Loved it instantly but I couldn't remember the title or any lyrics. Have spend the last hour looking for it and finally found it!
Same here and thank god or who ever is up there that i had Chance and the possibility to live and crlebrate the best decade in real Harmonie heard made music thanx to the Olymp of Sound an beat rythum and melodies
Although I was born in 2001, I remember hearing this song quite a few times on the radio when I was really little. I never understood any of the lyrics, but the melody always seemed a little magical (for lack of a more fitting description) to me. Then I suddenly didn't hear it anymore for a while, and I forgot it ever even existed. Today I heard it for the first time in around 15 years. It randomly came on the radio that was playing at some burger joint. Almost immediatly, I felt like I was a little kid again, sitting in the backseat of my parents car on a long drive, dreaming of castles and dragons. Weird how I was born long after this song came out, and yet it gives me so much nostalgia.
That's a great story. Song from 1982. I'm not going to insult your intelligence by explaining the story of it. It's self explanatory. Maybe not too far from the truth either. Music stars pay the price the most...dying quite early in life, the vast majority of them.
The meaning of this song is the conflict between the desire of the proverbial heart to believe in a higher power and purpose and a skeptical mind that will not be convinced without tangible evidence. The crux of the song is the last verse "faithless in faith, we must behold the things we see!"
I used to listen to this record when I was child with my parents my dad loved this track and I've just lost him it reminds me so much of him and it makes me cry rip dad I miss you so much 💔
I rediscovered this song lately after I downloaded Ultravox's album "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" to listen to it in the gym... And this song is THE SHIT! It recharges me like I'm on steroids! The force is strong with this one.
I was born a long time after the release, but I remember how popular the song was and how many times it was played in radio channels during the 90s. When I was in my parent's car, I listened to this song a lot and loved it back then as a 90's-kid. I recently heard it again and it warped me back into a long forgotten time where everything was easier and nicer for me.
Its 01.01.2024, im 19 Years old and while i was cleaning our Party Location Last Night, with my playlist on Shuffle, this Song Randomly Played and i guess im in love with it. Never heard a Song, as good as this, Thanks for this Masterpiece.
Just a few days ago, I was drifting from sleeping into beeing awake. Suddenly, I heard this melody - the vocals... and I was wide awake! I sat in bed, arms up and almost dancing... I am an 80's child, but never have I listened to that song. It was surreal and almost magic ^_^ Today, I finally found the song,... what a melody...
Did you just hear it in your head or was it playing somewhere? Bc I woke up two days ago and it had been in my dream… but I did not know what exactly it was, I heard it as I knew it from 40 years ago when my English was at a "the ball is in the basket"-level. Still found it on wonderful youtube. What an epic! Now I get the lyrics, it's even better!
@@Weirdkauz Hello Ann ^_^ I woke up to my alarm, which is radio music. Not from a phone - but an old grey device from the 80ies. It is still working! I heared it a few days in a row - about the same time. It is almost creepy, when you lay in bed and anticipate a certain song to come, and said song is played just moments after that.... And thanks to your answer, I know what I will binge this evening :-) Have a great day! Greetings from germany! ^_^
@@cloudymoon2494 Thanks to your answer I went over to Ultrafox's channel and listened to the official life version and then listened twi more times. It's like hope coming from the past! What is it that you are going to binge this evening? Greetings from Berlin.
@@Weirdkauz Hallo Ann, ich wünsche Dir einen schönen Sommertag! Was ich meinte mit "binging" - ich hatte das Lied schon lange nicht mehr gehört, aber Dein Kommentar hat mir wieder einen musikalischen Abend geschenkt - Hymnen meiner Kindheit! Es war wunderbar nostalgisch! Vielen Dank ^_^ Grüße aus Thüringen!
La mia canzone preferita in assoluto, ho iniziato ad ascoltarla nel 1983 quando mio fratello maggiore tornato dalla missione di pace in Libano mi ha regalato delle music cassette, in 1 oltre ad Hymn degli Ultravox c'erano anche Sultans Of Swing dei Dire Straits, Don't Cry- Asia, The Safety Dance- Men Without Hats, Jammin- Bob Marley, Cocaine- Eric Clapton, Paris-latino- Bandolero, Red Red Wine- UB 40 ecc!!!
