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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 05-24-12 08:20
I passed over an Ultravox CD in a bin of $1.50 used discs yesterday and thought of this forum.
However, I did pick up copies of The Lion And The Cobra, Maxinquaye, Dead Letter Office, Love and Rockets' Lift, and that second Fiona Apple album with the impossibly long title.
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"Ingenuity, the sole studio album by this version of Ultravox, is surprising in its non-wretchedness. New vocalist Sam Blue is competent-to-good, often achieving a decent approximation of Ure, and the music is at least listenable and sometimes great. It's not Ultravox as we know it, but fans of the band coming across Ingenuity in a cut-out bin could throw their money away on worse things."
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I'll be damned! They were right. Lift is a steaming pile of techno twaddle. I also passed on copies of Reveal and An Evening With Mel Torme.
I was *this* close on the Torme thing, however.
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Author: zoo
Date: 05-24-12 15:09
I thought about doing this when I saw it yesterday, but I decided I would wait to hear the album in its entirety. I am VERY eager to hear it.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-24-12 15:54
What I heard yesterday sounded, well, like they always sound. Ure's voice isn't quite as grandiose, but it's faithful to what I've heard (which is basically just Vienna).
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