Ultravox – “Vienna”, “Slow Motion”, “Maximum Acceleration” and “I Can’t Stay Long”

British New Wave band Ultravox had a hit in 1980 with “Vienna”, but except for the singing of the title, to quote the song itself, “this means nothing to me”.

What I do recognise, however, is “Slow Motion”, from their 1978 album “Systems Of Romance”, which I have.

I haven’t played it for ages, but I remember “Slow Motion” because the band Snatch at the Majestic Hotel in Palmerston North, New Zealand, used to play it when I went there regularly around that time as a student.

I just listened to several of the other tracks from that album, most of them didn’t really resonate, but there were a couple that brought back memories.

Apparently the album didn’t sell that well at the time, but I bought it, on the strength of hearing the tracks that Snatch played.

Here’s “Vienna”, their first mainstream commercial success it would seem, just out of the Seventies in 1980:

This one’s more like it, “Slow Motion”, from 1978 album “Systems Of Romance”:

From the same album, “Maximum Acceleration”:

And another one from “Systems Of Romance”, called “I Can’t Stay Long”:

Gotta go now.

Paul

Tags: I Can't Stay Long, Majestic Hotel, Maximum Acceleration, Music of the Seventies, New Wave, Palmerston North, Seventies Rock Bands, Slow Motion, Snatch, Systems Of Romance, Ultravox, Vienna

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