Shnootz - Reaction Video (Ultravox - Vienna)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- What's up, people! I'm back with another reaction, and this time we begin going through a Greatest Hits compilation of the group Ultravox, who I understand are most famous for their '80s material (though they formed in the mid '70s, I think). And the first tune on the tracklist is "Vienna," and oh wow, is this an incredible start to the Ultravox deep-dive! Honestly, this is a remarkable tune, so let's listen and then remark upon it. Cheers!
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Absolute classic. That vocal. He still sings it pretty well these days too.
How amazing was the early 80s that’s a song that never stops giving me goosebumps 👌👌 your reaction was just how I was as a 12 year old listening to it for the first time back in 81 🫡👍👍
One of the best Synth pop songs made. From Midge Ure’s piercing vocals, the multiple transitions, atmospheric sound and video to accompany it.
Iconic video by iconic director Russell Mulchahy. But it was also an incredible song.
For anyone watching this at the time it was jaw dropping and like nothing we had seen or heard before.
That was at the time of that seldom post punk 'Blitz' era that kind of matched/progressed to New romantics that progressed to mainstream Synth pop and story goes on.Quite nostalgic.I remember Simon refering to it, in a documentary explaining the story on the couple they used featured in their 'Planet earth' video doing some specific dance moves of 'Blitz dancing' and their dressing code, while revisiting early DD years.
@@christianoazzuro6711 I didn’t know Simon mentioned this! I always thought that it was similar, if not ripped off!
@@NoCanDu I was glad hearing him quoting that the 'Blitz' age was of a very small period because it confirmed my memory.Cause i did remember it was very seldom of a year or so(1981) until it faded.Groups in the likes of Visage and (early) Spandau Ballet were part of it.Fortunately many of those progressed and got into the following music 'waves' and survived , avoiding to get the stigma of just being part of a passed by trend.
It’s interesting that the when first pitched to Russell Mulcahy the Australian director of ‘Vienna’, he got all caught up on the Italianate romanticism of the Adriatic Venice; when he’s mistake was pointed out the video morphed into a stylistic ‘homage’ to the film “The Third Man”! Also approximately half of the promo was shot on locations in Central and North London, mainly at Covent Garden and in the old Kilburn Gaumont theatre, while the ‘embassy’ party scene which was filmed in a house the band had rented in town; as for the actual Vienna locations, these we’re done on the cheap, shot in a day utilising a single cameraman! When ‘stitched’ together the video is tour-dé-force and (in my opinion) stands a piece of art in it’s own right
This is a classic. It reached no 1 in my country (Belgium) and was in constant rotation on MTV Europe.
Bless you Belgium.... and fcuk you Joe Dolce! 😉
Video is beautiful
i had goosebumps watching you react to that, it was like my whole experience of hearing it for the first time in 1980 as a 14 yr old, Vienna was and still is my favourite album of theirs that this track is taken from, only made it to no.2 in the Uk..... scandalous i know!!
Cheers, it remains in my regular playlist months after dong this reaction. Masterpiece!
A true 80s classic! Your reactions to this are priceless! 💯
LOL, love the look on your face as you listened to this masterpiece. Ultravox is another favorite of mine. I'm sorry I can't tell you about their albums, I used to buy their 12" mixes. Songs to check out (on extended mixes if available): The Thin Wall, We Came to Dance, Reap the Wild Wind, One Small Day, Dancing With Tears in My Eyes and Midge Ure's solo If I Was. Great pickup. Other deep dive suggestion? Thomas Dolby; his collaboration with George Clinton, May the Cube Be With You is p-funk perfection!
Finally a Scottish singer that you can understand! It's a miracle!!!!!!!!
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One of my favourite reactions ever. Totally got what he was going through whilst watching that. Nice one!
Another favourite from the 80s…
Hey Matt. One of the first albums I ever bought was Vienna by Ultravox. Your reaction to this track was priceless and hysterical at the same time. Just as well you were sitting down otherwise you might have fallen over. You can imagine how I felt as a 16 year old spotty teenager listening to this for the first time. It totally blew my mind! Lead singer Midge Ure can still pull off that vocal performance more than 40 years after that recording. Incredible! Billy Currie on keyboards & violin is classically trained. He performs the violin part near the end of the title track. I mentioned before on another track Matt that if you have time have a look at the gig Ultravox did at The Roundhouse in London. You can watch it on TH-cam. It’s phenomenal! Your reaction man! Loved it! Keep up the good work. 🏴🇺🇸
Thank you, William! And you're right, I can only imagine what it was like for kids a bit older than me when all this stuff was coming out in the early/mid '80s.
This was a huge hit across all of Europe in its day and a classy video as well. Lament is my personal fave though…
Ultravox is classic. This song is sooo haunting and just beautiful...This song also has the reputation of starting the whole making-a-video craze that became crucial in the 80s. It was the first video that had some storytelling.
I'm not too familiar with Ultravox but one of my favorite songs from the 80s is by them... "Reap the Wild Wind". Amazing song, amazing band!
Yep, an absolute favourite of mine too.
The jewel in their crown. Beautiful.
Loving your recation because so much of it mirrors mine from 40 years ago when I heard it first. It still gives me goosebumps.
This incarnation of Ultravox were the first group that I really followed as a young teenager and their music has stayed with me since then. There's just so much in this track and the way it weaves through so many tonal shifts. For me the sequence where the instrumental reaches it top point and then descends down through the piano notes before slowing to blend back trimuphantly into the final vocal line is nothing short of stupendous writing. It also goes without saying that Midge Ure was one of the best vocalists around at the time (and still has an amazing voice - you should check out some of his solo stuff if you have time).
I know you're probably snowed under with music to review but I notice you really haven't progressed too far with Ultravox. Provided you are contuning then I'm a little glad of that because it gives me a chance to react to some of the later stuff in real time with you. Their next few albums are just incredible work from one of the best of the New Romantic bands.
An absolute masterpiece
Ultravox being the off the wall band they were when Midge joined in 1979 were going to call the album Torque Point and there are some rare early pressings of the album with that name but their management and record company after seeing the reaction to Vienna played live forced the band to see sense and call the album Vienna quite rightly in my opinion. Great rection video to a song that never made it to number one here in the UK.
This song is famous for being kept off the #1 spot in the charts by a comedy song called "Shaddap your face".
Hahaha, oh my god, I think I know that tune?! I can hear that refrain: "ahhh, shaddap your face!"
@@mattsnider2667 "What's the matter you, gotta no respect....."
Crazy
@@ninawildr4207 If only the song went "The feeling has gone only you and I, come on people you're letting me down" it would have got to #1....
@@handsolo1209 🤣🤣🤣
Oooo legend band and the vocalist still singing solo and with Ultravox.
Perfection!
this song gives me chills every time.
John Foxx (who was in this band, but quit before they had their major breakthrough, (so not on this track)) is also someone you should react to in tandem.
I’d love to hear Matt react to Metamatic.
@@julianblake3140 He has access to Metamatic and The Garden.
@@handsolo1209 great 👍
I love Ultravox, especially the Midge Ute era (so the 80's stuff)! Vienna is such a cool and different track, very powerful.
Looking forward to your Ultravox journey, keep up the good and hard reaction work!
As has been commented on Midge Ure was in both Ultravox and working with Steve Strange in Visage. If you wanted to do a deep dive into the Visage back catalogue let me know, the first two albums are both excellent
one of the best songs ever!!! period! the video was so powerful it over took the interpretation of the lyrics. but in the lyrics we have no vienna the city, a murder on the stairs....none of that. it is about looking back at a toxic relationship (probably looking at pictures) and saying "i am over you!!!!"
the move from "The feeling has gone" to "The image has gone"....and the shout "it means nothing to me"....tell the whole story.
everyone knows this classic was kept from the top spot in the UK chart by a stupid song!!! i am glad to say in Israel this was number 1 for a long time!!!!
To be honest they deserve a deeper dive than the Greatest Hits but it's a good starting place. I saw Midge Ure perform the Vienna album and tracks from the Visage album a couple of years back, as he was in both groups and making both album around the same time.
'Hymn' was my most fave one from their earlier recordings.Should have been a bigger hit imo.
"What is happening ...what is real " lol😍
When I started going to early 80s synthpop/wave parties in the late 90s Ultravox were played regularly. I love(d) "We Came To Dance", "Hymn", "Reap The Wild Wind" and of course this one. Such a classic, as others have mentioned as well.
I'm not a big fan of greatest hits compilations. They're enough for anyone who wants to hear the hits that were played on the radio, but, as you know, there's so much more to discover.
It was a case of what I could find. I had so many LPs that I lost when i moved house and I unfortunately cannot afford to replace everything that i used to have. Sometimes it is a choice of Greatest Hits or nothing.
@@handsolo1209 It's a good place to start, and without your input Matt would have not reacted to Ultravox yet, so I didn't mean to criticize you or your collection. But now that Philip has offered the albums I thought they would be more suitable for a deep dive. In the end I don't really care if Matt does a Best Of album or the studio albums from start to finish. I go and choose whatevr I like to hear from everything he keeps offering.
@@sebzematik No worries. I didn't take it as a criticism at all. I just thought I was better explaining why I sometimes only have Greatest Hits albums to share with Matthew.
One of my favourite songs of all time (and a great video to match it). One of those songs that never made it to number 1 in the UK but went to influence an entire generation.
You should check out Robert Palmer's cover of Gary Numan's "I Dream Of Wires". It is from Robert Palmer's album "Clues"(1980). Robert called his friend Gary to get his permission to cover the track- and ask him to do all the synth work. The result is a mind blowing example of early electronic funk. I always think of this track when I hear "Vienna" by Ultravox. Not because they are similar in tone, but because they came out around the same time and completely changed my musical vocabulary. Robert Palmer is not a name generally associated with electronic/synth music, but it should be. His early 80's (especially Clues) is rife with it.
Fantastic song and a great reaction
Still cant believe this was kept off the UK No 1 spot by Joe Dolce,s " Shaddap ya Face " lol .......... cool reaction .
Their song " the Voice " is another cracker .
you made my Day Dude thank you for your honest opinion on Midge Ure"s/ Ultravox Vienna...???? You should try Midge Ure"s nr.1 Hit 1985 If I was......
Yikes, this is taking me back! 😀 As many have said this is an absolute classic and the music video is brilliant as well.
Love this song
One of my favorites to do my ballet workout...it just lends itself to that ...also many DM songs do so as well...
Yes, i often do plies while listening to Exciter. It turns in to Kung Fu when I kick the cd player in to 1000 pieces though.
@@handsolo1209 lmao
@@handsolo1209 I reserve the twerking for Spirit...🤮
This song was played a lot on MTV back in the day. However, I always preferred their second single "Hymn" to this one. Probably, "Hymn" has more tempo.
Great song. Didn't know the band that well before Midge Ure joined so only know their later stuff. Liked Warren Cann's drumming style. A particular fav is Reap The Wild Wind.
Oh, man… Chills! I’ll never forget Midge belting this out at Live Aid! ❤
Hymn, The Voice, The Thin Wall, One Small Day and Dancing With Tears in My Eyes are all worth checking out. I remember the video to the last song vividly, about a guy trying to get home to his wife and family to spend his final moments with them amidst a nuclear disaster. The ending has a home-movie playing of the family during care-free times, which slowly burns up as the music warps and finally cuts out. Pretty chilling for 1984.
Great reaction Matt , no pausing . Top marks for sound quality too, so many TH-camrs dont understand the quality of Audio equipment needed to put audio into a room and make it sound great 👂
Hard to believe that songs like these were played on the radio regularly.
Neither did i at the time,lol.But it was the turning point where music was drastically changing and everyone had 'decided' to say'goodbeye '70s/hallo '80s'. New trends,'Strange' sounds that became freshly mainstream.
Top toon👍 '
A suggestion Matt...'Seconds' by The Human League..or indeed, the whole album 'Dare'?
Oh for sure! Once I get through Travelouge, I'm going to start going through Dare and the Heaven-17 material simultaneously. Figure that will be a cool both-sides-of-the-split series.
Found this song just a few
weeks ago and had same reaction
Midge Ure could sing the phone book and I’m in.
Haha, I've only heard a couple songs, but that already makes sense to me!
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Not a surprise, but Kate Bush and Midge Ure the singer were great friends in the 80s. As far as I know there were no collabs, but imagine how epic that would be. You're doing great work. peace to you from a fellow Historian
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Kate duetted on Sister and Brother on Midge's album Answers to Nothing....quite like that one
Midge Ure ... say no more ...
Billy Currie.. Viola
One of the best if the 80's. Spandeau Ballet Gold is fabulous too.
Pop is a largely empty disposable commodity. Occasionally there is a song that you know is special on the first hearing, Vienna is one of those songs. I feel it owes more to Vienna from the film The Third Man, especially if you watch the video. It’s a film noir song.
This is from the 1980 album of the same name. I'll add the Ultravox discography to your folder Matt.
YES! 🤩
Thanks. There was stuff missing of the Greatest Hits like All Stood Still. so giving Matt the individual albums would be a huge help.
@@handsolo1209 No worries. Given his reaction to just 1 song I couldn't deny him the rest of their catalogue.
Thank you as ever, Philip! I need to invent a new term beyond "champion" for folks like you.
Also I meant to get the next couple "Lucky Dip" reactions in last night, but ran out of time. Will get them in this weekend for sure.
Amazing to say but this absolute masterpiece was stopped from reaching No.1 by the completely dreadful one hit wonder 'Shaddap Your Face' by Joe Dolce, one of the greatest crimes in UK Pop history
It's probably one of the greatest synth songs ever but in my opinion this was the zenith nothing after this matched up and they became more and more poppy and sort of lost thier mystique. But hey that's just my opinion.
Check out CARDIACS they will blow your mind!!!
This song didn´t make it to no.1 in Austria. The rest of Austria was like "A song about 'Wien?' Nope"
Hahaha, yeah, makes sense. Like folks from Northern England when they hear about another show/song/movie based in London.
Did you ever react to 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes'?
No, apparently I didn't. Is it a bonus tune from this album?
@@mattsnider2667 it's on the their later album Lament so you'll get there eventually. I'm sure I'll enjoy your reaction to it.
Watch the Live Aid performance of this song. It’s vocally superior.
Understood! And indeed, a couple others mentioned that performance as special.