Quartet

Quartet

by Ultravox
Quartet

Quartet

by Ultravox

CD(Special Edition / Bonus DVD)

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Overview

With the successes of Vienna and its follow-up, Rage in Eden, Ultravox's position in the music scene was unassailable, further fortified by frontman Midge Ure's foray into solo-dom with the summer 1982 hit cover of the Walker Brothers' "No Regrets." The band's "Reap the Wild Wind" followed it up the U.K. chart that fall, a taster for the band's sixth album. And what a portentous taste it was. While "Wind" buffeted and whooshed once again around nostalgia for a past never lived, "Hymn" (its melody lifted from "Mourning Star" by Ure's last band, the Zones) wrestled with faith in a faithless age and prayed its way up the chart later that fall, while the dirge "Visions in Blue" saw the spring caught in its icy grip. But it was the fourth song spun off the album, "We Came to Dance," that best defined the overall themes of the set. Having helped create a movement renowned for its fashion victims and superficiality, Ultravox recoiled from the Frankenstein they'd birthed. "The Song (We Go)" may have been a cry of welcome, but both "Dance" and "Serenade" make clear the music scene's terrifying capacity to unleash both Dionysian abandon and militaristic conformity. "When the Scream Subsides" further fuels the album's existential angst, which reaches its emotional nadir on the suicidal "Cut and Run." With their toe-tapping rhythms, billowing synths, and rousing melodies, one is often tempted to ignore the darkness of Ultravox's themes, but with Quartet, the band deliberately made that nigh on impossible. ~ Dave Thompson

Product Details

Release Date: 08/04/2023
Label: CHRYSALIS
UPC: 0810098501361

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Reap the Wild Wind
  2. Serenade
  3. Mine for Life
  4. Hymn
  5. Visions in Blue
  6. When the Scream Subsides
  7. We Came to Dance
  8. Cut and Run
  9. The Song (We Go)

Disc 2

  1. Reap the Wild Wind
  2. Serenade
  3. Mine for Life
  4. Hymn
  5. Visions in Blue
  6. When the Scream Subsides
  7. We Came to Dance
  8. Cut and Run
  9. The Song (We Go)
  10. Hosanna (In Excelsis Deo)
  11. Monument
  12. Break Your Back
  13. Overlook

Disc 3

  1. Reap the Wild Wind [Extended Version]
  2. Hosanna (In Excelsis Deo)
  3. Hymn [Single Version]
  4. Monument
  5. The Thin Wall [Live at Hammersmith Odeon, Oct 1981]
  6. Visions in Blue [Single Version]
  7. Break Your Back
  8. Reap the Wild Wind [Live At Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 1982]
  9. We Came to Dance [Single Version]
  10. Overlook
  11. We Came to Dance [Extended Version]
  12. Serenade [Single Version]
  13. Serenade [Special Re-Mix]
  14. The Voice [Live at Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 1982]

Disc 4

  1. Reap the Wild Wind
  2. The Serenade
  3. Mine for Life
  4. Hymn
  5. Visions in Blue
  6. When the Scream Subsides
  7. We Came to Dance
  8. Cut and Run
  9. The Song (We Go)
  10. Reap the Wild Wind [Monitor Mix]
  11. The Visions in Blue [Monitor Mix]
  12. Cut and Run [Monitor Mix]
  13. Mine for Life [Monitor Mix]
  14. Hymn [Monitor Mix]
  15. Serenade [Monitor Mix]
  16. We Came to Dance [Monitor Mix]

Disc 5

  1. Reap the Wild Wind
  2. When the Scream Subsides
  3. The Thin Wall
  4. New Europeans
  5. We Stand Alone
  6. The I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
  7. Visions in Blue
  8. Mr. X
  9. Sleepwalk

Disc 6

  1. The Voice
  2. Vienna
  3. Astradyne
  4. The All Stood Still
  5. Passing Strangers
  6. Mine for Life
  7. Hymn
  8. The Song (We Go)

Disc 7

  1. Reap the Wild Wind
  2. Serenade
  3. The Mine for Life
  4. Hymn
  5. Visions in Blue
  6. When the Scream Subsides
  7. We Came to Dance
  8. Cut and Run
  9. The Song (We Go)
  10. Hosanna (In Excelsis Deo)
  11. Monument
  12. The Break Your Back
  13. Overlook
  14. Reap the Wild Wind
  15. Serenade
  16. Mine for Life
  17. Hymn
  18. Visions in Blue
  19. When the Scream Subsides
  20. We Came to Dance
  21. Cut and Run
  22. The Song (We Go)
  23. Reap the Wild Wind [Extended Version]
  24. Hosanna (In Excelsis Deo)
  25. The Hymn [Single Version]
  26. Monument
  27. The Thin Wall [Live at Hammersmith Odeon, Oct 1981]
  28. Visions in Blue [Single Version]
  29. Break Your Back
  30. Reap the Wild Wind [Live At Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 1982]
  31. We Came to Dance [Single Version]
  32. Overlook
  33. We Came to Dance [Extended Version]
  34. Serenade [Single Version]
  35. Serenade [Special Re-Mix]
  36. The Voice [Live at Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 1982]
  37. Cut And Run
  38. The Song (We Go)
  39. Reap the Wild Wind [Extended Version]
  40. Hosanna (In Excelsis Deo)
  41. Hymn [Single Version]
  42. Monument
  43. The Thin Wall [Live at Hammersmith Odeon Oct. 1981]
  44. Visions in Blue [Single Version]
  45. Break Your Back
  46. Reap the Wild Wind [Live at the Hammersmith Odeon Dec. 1982]
  47. Overlook

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ultravox   Primary Artist
Midge Ure   Guitar,Vocals,Synthesizer
Chris Cross   Bass,Vocals,Synthesizer
Daniel Mitchell   Vocals (Background)
Warren Cann   Drums,Percussion
Colin King   Vocals (Background)
Billy Currie   Violin,Keyboards,Synthesizer

Technical Credits

Jon Jacobs   Assistant,Assistant Engineer
John Hudson   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer,Sound Production
Ron Pendragon   Engineer
Mark Freegard   Engineer
Steven Wilson   Mixing
Midge Ure   Composer
Bill Philipot   Coloring
Murray Dvorkin   Engineer
Chris Cross   Composer
Daniel Mitchell   Instrumentation
Paul Lindsay   Engineer
Warren Cann   Composer
Colin King   Instrumentation
Richard Whittaker   Mixing
Ken Kennedy   Drawing,Illustrations
Brian Tench   Engineer
George Martin   Producer
Billy Currie   Composer
Ultravox   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Mixing Engineer
Bob Parr   Engineer
Geoff Emerick   Engineer
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