This bit of the song is so technical for 1981 I don't know if there were any commercial sequencers or MIDI were available, if they were it would have cost a fortune. I was only 10 when I heard this.... Sunday night top 20 , it was something special right off the bat, Passing Strangers has a section like this but more of an Arpeggio effect. Ultravox were way ahead of anyone else in the Uk for synths for 1981.
I'm just so freaking blessed to have had all the fun of the 80s you can never repeat the brilliant music atmosphere and amazing life we lived people don't have a clue unless you have lived it ❤️❤️❤️❤️ xxx
Yes music took a bad turn years ago , we will never experience the 80s ever again those days and the music have sadly passed us by , I wish everyone from back in those days all to be well , we are no longer young anymore 😢
Depeche Mode Pet Shop Boys Yazoo OMD Eurythmics Visage Bronski Beat China Crisis Heaven 17 Frankie Goes To Hollywood Kajagoogoo A Flock Of Seagulls Tears For Fears Level 42
This song truly heralded the arrival of the 1980's with it's futurism, new romantiscism, completely unique neon aesthetic and pioneering yet unforgettable music. This timeless classic, was for me the absolute apex of Ultravox and one of the most memorable tracks of a decade that I will remember as my most favourite period of time in my life. If I could wind back my Casio calculator watch, I would choose to live in the 1980's till the end of time. Vienna and Ultravox forever. Amen.
I am just about to turn 71yrs old next Saturday and Vienna still sounds fantastic musks today can learn a lot by listening to Vienna,it is absolutely brilliant song writing. Rengards, Doug Hughes Williamstown Nth Australia❤
40 years.....only seems like yesterday! Loved it when I was 11 years old and love it even more at 51. Midge Ure you are an absolute legend and thank you for bringing us this classic,I’m so glad I was able to fully experience the 80s music scene!
Imagine seeing this in your early teens on Top of the pops the deep bass thumping out from the wooden television cabinet That was our life in the 80s on a Thursday night
Oooooh yes. I had the hots for him at the time. But there were so many gorgeous men in pop music in the 80s. I was a teenage girl in England during the 80s so I was damn lucky.
I learnt the violin when I was a youngest, married a pianist and have always liked violins and piano together. Really outstanding for the New Wave period, incorporating a classical theme too. The Beatles and ELO did the same.
The cost of making the video clip of this masterpiece was considered one of the most expensive ones of the world. And it was worthy. God, how i miss the 80s.
One of those songs where I wish I had a massive sound system, a lonely house in the middle of nowhere, volume high and let that voice just poke holes in my soul.
Everything is perfect in this song: instruments, synthesizers, the lyrics...this song brings to me a cold and emotional atmosphere at the same time. Fantastic! One of the best songs of all the times!
I’m here in November 2024 and going to see Midge Ure in concert at Sheffield .. this awesome classic always gives me goosebumps and makes me want to cry .. I loved Ultravox the 80s was my era .. see you Saturday Midge mwah x
It "still stands up"? Because in your mind new stuff "kicks ass" and anythng older than ten years "sucks"? Why do I get the sense you've never read a book?
@@kentjensen4504 Uh...I haven't regularly listened to Pop Radio since the 90's dude. I grew up IN the 80's you know. I prefer 80's Pop over any of this dreck they dare call music today. P.S. My favorite book series is The Lord of the Rings Trilogy FYI. I also love The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. What do you think I am? A Millennial? I'm 50 years old Boo.
@@kentjensen4504 Why would you assume he has never read a book? To say a song from 1980's still holds up given the innovations and growth in electronic music is not an insult in any way and its also true.
Over 30 years ahead of its time. This song is pure excellence Should have been best song at the Grammys. Midge Ure his vocal range incredible I. Still have this album
I was just in Vienna for a tech conference and all the way from the airport and back again, I could only sing and hum this song to myself and in video clips that I sent to friends and family. Absolute classic!
George Martin, the producer of the Beatles, worked with only one band again and that was Ultravox. Very proud that I followed this magnificent four by my 15, and that means all of my life.
Took out the traces leading the horse though, at 18 seconds in. There on the DVD release I have, and coincidentally was thinking of this track today as well, pulled out the DVD to play it as well.
It's very good... but nowhere near that good. I do not know what the 'best band of all time' or the ''greatest song of all time' is, but I do know that this is not it.
@@Uncommon_Senze To me 'the best song ever by the best band ever' would be if the Stranglers with Hugh Cornwell singing did a cover of 'Imitation of Life'. Maybe as it's now impossible, an AI might be able to create that in the future 🤔
Epic masterpiece, and that video still chills me as much as it did in 1981 . Very lucky I was a teen in the 80s and experienced that decade of wonderful music
This will FOREVER be an absolute MASTERPIECE. This song, imho - is everything a song should be, or as friend once said to me in the studio where I was working on an album with my old band "You know you've got something when you get goosebumps just listening to it!" Ahhh, to have a time machine to go back to 1980 and relive EVERYTHING again...
What wasn't a masterpiece is that stupid song Shaddap You Face, yet it would seem lots of idiotic people thought it was worthy of No.1 in the UK, relegating this song to No.2. Sh!t, even John Lennon got bumped by that stupid song by Joe Dolce.
There are excellent songs then there are classics that live the test of time like a Roman built road. Thanks all in Ultravox for what you have given us. We thank you.
Saw Midge about 15 years ago in Philly at some 80s tour. When he sang this we all held our breath, then he hit the "Vienna!" bit and nailed it. We roared with applause and he looked very moved by it. ❤
We walked in the cold air Freezing breath on a window pane Lying and waiting A man in the dark in a picture frame So mystic and soulful A voice reaching out in a piercing cry It stays with you until The feeling has gone, only you and I It means nothing to me This means nothing to me Oh, Vienna The music is weaving Haunting notes, pizzicato strings The rhythm is calling Alone in the night as the daylight brings A cool, empty silence The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky It fades to the distance The image has gone, only you and I It means nothing to me This means nothing to me Oh, Vienna This means nothing to me This means nothing to me Oh, Vienna
Greetings from Vienna😁 This song captures my city perfectly...Vienna is a bit 'dark' and mysterious. Midge Ure's voice and the arrangement of the song is just perfect ❤️
Ich bin wiener und ultravox Vienna ist für uns Wiener eine große Liebeshymne an unsere Stadt❤️. Danke Midge, dass du uns so viel gibst. Danke auch für deine Liebe zu Wien, zu Österreich. ❤️ Wir geben es dir zurück und wenn wir alle singen:, This means nothing to me ooohh Vienna!!! Er singt nicht nur von WIEN, Midge lebt Wien, er lebt die Dekadenz, er ist ist bei uns in Wien❤️❤️❤️
EPIC TRACK!!! THE ANTHEM OF THE 80s!! Its travelling back to the days before shit hit the fan!! A masterpiece that is impossible to cover!! Thanks ULTRAVOX!!!!!!
Without doubt a true classic. Why can't this be re-released now and then it would go to number one this time around-if only?! Thank you so much anyway!!
I adore this song. I came upon it by accident in the 90s on a compilation 80s cd that I bought. It’s one of those songs that is hauntingly beautiful and stays with you. I’ll forget about it for a while and then someone plays it and it just comes flooding back. This was their best song hands down and video was actually pretty cool for 1981.
I just finished Season 2 of *Vienna Blood* and it's nice to see this video again... *Sublimely dramatic!* And Midge's voice soaring on that note is thrilling!
I always think they should play the Vienna song by ultravox when aeroplanes land in this incredible city. In my view this is quite simply one of the best pop songs of the 1980's. I especially like the instrumental bit with all the strings.
The harmony makes my brain melt. This song feels like a huge question mark - oh, why does this sound that way? and why this emotional shift so suddenly? and why...? And I cannot stop, I have to listen again and again.
Shocked to hear of Chris’s loss. This seems like a most appropriate place to celebrate his life and a legacy of incredible music. A fitting line in Vienna for today: “the daylight brings a cool, empty silence” 😞
Sooooo beautiful! Was a young teenage girl when this came out. The 50s through the 80s set the highest impossible bar for the best of the best natural, real phenomenal - blues, soul, rock and roll, soft rock ballads, rock opera, rockabilly, and so many other gorgeous talents that take our breathe away 💖💖💖💖💖
Watch midge ure last night at hall for Cornwall Truro, still one of the best live performing artists going. Fantastic concert & hopefully will carry on making brilliant music just like Vienna 👍👍👍
i will never forget watching and listening to this song played live at Sweetwaters in NZ as a 15yr old....160k people on the side of a shaking farm hill , taking this in...
I absolutely love this. Gives goose bumps every time I hear this. After my divorce and dating a younger man we sat and played music. This was one, and means a lot to me Roger. If you remember me? Xx 🙏🌹
When I turn the Young up’n comers onto this song I Always get the same reaction-“Play it again” and “Turn it up”. Then I play Hiroshima Mon Amour and They’re forever hooked. Thanks Ultravox for lifetimes of enjoyment
I'd never heard of this band or any of their songs until I caught Midge Ure's fascinating interview on Professor of Rock, now I'm hooked! This is one of those songs that you can FEEL, even if you don't necessarily relate or even understand
Welcome to the greatest music ever! Professor of Rock is really spreading the gospel. Love it! This song was played in my country back in the early 80s and the entire country sent in requests that it be played again! Brilliant music, brilliant singer, altogether just brilliant!
Such a spectacular intro of Vienna album. Monumental sound of epic proportion, soundtrack for new Europe, which was already created by Kraftwerk & Bowie.
Classic masterpiece, and I think the best part starts with a build up at 3:04 and ends after the violins 3:34 and final chorus. Amazing. To be honest, most times I open this video and just click to it. Thank you Ultravox!
This song always reminds me of being at NUMBERS in Houston! This would be one of the songs they played at the end of the night before the lights came on, and I would be doing my best impromptu ballet dancing.
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That part where the beat picks up & the violins come in, my God, bloody magical.
I couldn't have said it any better 👏
@@teztickles6257 good, very good
This bit of the song is so technical for 1981 I don't know if there were any commercial sequencers or MIDI were available,
if they were it would have cost a fortune. I was only 10 when I heard this.... Sunday night top 20 , it was something
special right off the bat, Passing Strangers has a section like this but more of an Arpeggio effect.
Ultravox were way ahead of anyone else in the Uk for synths for 1981.
The MIDI wasn’t around so they had to rehearsal endlessly to get the timing right
Hairs !!!!!!
Named our daughter Vienna after this very song, she turned 20 yesterday. Fantastic song, still moves me…
You've both got great taste, my sister is also named Vienna, or 'Vi' for short she was 20 last month ^^
Well done!! 😊
@ClownWorldPrisoner Oopsie daisies. That's not good. Here have a free hug ☺ ^^
good job you're not a black lace fan - she'd be called Agadoo
That's beautiful. What a great name. I love it when inspiration comes from the things we love and cherish. God bless your daughter.
One of the best pop songs EVER! It's 2023 & it still sounds great.
There's a guy at my work called Harvey Henna. We call him Ultravox.
RIGHT ON - AGREE 1000 %
Totally agree. Great all round.
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Nothing more to say. :) A masterpiece.
Vienna! I remember when this album came out in 1981! So brilliant & still sounds awesome after all that time. RIP Chris Cross
1980
I am now 62 and this takes me back to being 20 in a flash. Adored it then, and adore it now. So ahead of its time. Still gives me goosebumps.
Me too. It’s our generation.
It takes me back to being 11 loved it then love it now
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Me, too. I am so back in the UK listening to this over and over again.
me to
Im57 and it haunts me every time I hear it wish I could could go back to 80s xxxxxx
52 here and all of sudden i am transported back to high school in Scotland thanks to the magic of RUclips
Veiena? The Assassin❤xx
Same age.this s just fantastic music from when it was good.❤
59 here. Now in 2024 like back then 😍😍😍
I'm just so freaking blessed to have had all the fun of the 80s you can never repeat the brilliant music atmosphere and amazing life we lived people don't have a clue unless you have lived it ❤️❤️❤️❤️ xxx
Ultravox...Erasure...Spandau Ballet...The Human League...Duran Duran...New Order...Great Synthpop Bands 80's From UK ! Greets From Poland ;-)
And what do we have today its embarrassing.
Yes music took a bad turn years ago , we will never experience the 80s ever again those days and the music have sadly passed us by , I wish everyone from back in those days all to be well , we are no longer young anymore 😢
New romantics
class❤
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Pet Shop Boys
Yazoo
OMD
Eurythmics
Visage
Bronski Beat
China Crisis
Heaven 17
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Kajagoogoo
A Flock Of Seagulls
Tears For Fears
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Agree with your words👍😉
To Chris, always admired your tasteful bass playing. RIP. UK 🇬🇧
One of the best pieces of music ever written.
Completely agree
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One of the most atmospheric songs of its time.. .
😢FUCK!! The shear audacity of this song makes me CRY… UGLY CRY 😭
You mean of ALL time!
Piano and violin amazing through this track
Totally haunting, both of them. Classic Ultravox!
I'm 47 this year and still love this song beautiful music
This song truly heralded the arrival of the 1980's with it's futurism, new romantiscism, completely unique neon aesthetic and pioneering yet unforgettable music. This timeless classic, was for me the absolute apex of Ultravox and one of the most memorable tracks of a decade that I will remember as my most favourite period of time in my life. If I could wind back my Casio calculator watch, I would choose to live in the 1980's till the end of time. Vienna and Ultravox forever. Amen.
I am just about to turn 71yrs old next Saturday and Vienna still sounds fantastic musks today can learn a lot by listening to Vienna,it is absolutely brilliant song writing.
Rengards,
Doug Hughes
Williamstown Nth Australia❤
Happy birthday 🎉😊
61 and still kicking.
Love the 60s, 70 and 80s music.
Best to you Doug. Cheers and enjoy. Nick
16 years old when this came out,I was just starting clubbing in Australia OMG what a time to be a young guy partying to music like this.
40 years.....only seems like yesterday! Loved it when I was 11 years old and love it even more at 51. Midge Ure you are an absolute legend and thank you for bringing us this classic,I’m so glad I was able to fully experience the 80s music scene!
true words, Mark!!!!!!
I remember it like it was yesterday. How have so many years slipped by and I never noticed. Great song, great voice, great group.
I was 13 when it was released and my cousins played it to me, I was moved intensely and do think it's the sound of the 80's.
Amen. Makes me so glad I was a teenager in the 80's
Yep this tune is king a beast of a tune you may say oh yea my son loves it to James bye haha oh viena
R.I.P Chris Cross bass player and co writer of this majestic masterpiece
Many memories of great times, loving this now classic in my teens.
Farewell Chris Cross and deep gratitude for co-writing one of the best songs ever.
Great times well wow the Falklands war
Imagine seeing this in your early teens on Top of the pops the deep bass thumping out from the wooden television cabinet
That was our life in the 80s on a Thursday night
I’d go to Vienna just because of this song, The Third Man, and Sachertorte.
Sachertorte. Also known as the original "Death by Chocolate"
@@smhorse my sachertorte tastes great but looks like a cowflop 🥺
Still a fantastic song to this day! Midge Ure was a gorgeous looking man back then 😊👏
Oooooh yes. I had the hots for him at the time. But there were so many gorgeous men in pop music in the 80s. I was a teenage girl in England during the 80s so I was damn lucky.
New Wave & New Romantic era ... seen Ultravox live and they are brilliant. Miss the 80s.
New Wawer& new romantic
I learnt the violin when I was a youngest, married a pianist and have always liked violins and piano together. Really outstanding for the New Wave period, incorporating a classical theme too. The Beatles and ELO did the same.
The cost of making the video clip of this masterpiece was considered one of the most expensive ones of the world. And it was worthy. God, how i miss the 80s.
For a first single too if I remember. Mind you that whole album was bloody fabulous. Not a bad song on it.
@@tkps Right!!!
One of those songs where I wish I had a massive sound system, a lonely house in the middle of nowhere, volume high and let that voice just poke holes in my soul.
Yep. have the sound system, but not the house in the middle of nowhere, so my neighbor gets to enjoy 80's Brit music he's never heard.
good headphones will work very well
Yeah..🙃
@@jond5842I’ve got bestest headphones on for this.
Why not go to Let's Rock Scotland or Rewind Scotland/England and hear Midge in the flesh on a massive sound system? He's still got it...
Some songs are not just "songs"... they are essential part of a life and will never be forgotten. Thanks for this one!
Everything is perfect in this song: instruments, synthesizers, the lyrics...this song brings to me a cold and emotional atmosphere at the same time. Fantastic! One of the best songs of all the times!
For me also the video probally the best ever- and the song not too far behind
The video is also good
When music was made with ppl who can sing 🎤 😊…80s rule ❤️🏴
Absolutely! 💯% agree 👍
I’m here in November 2024 and going to see Midge Ure in concert at Sheffield .. this awesome classic always gives me goosebumps and makes me want to cry .. I loved Ultravox the 80s was my era .. see you Saturday Midge mwah x
Isn't it amazing that this song is from the early 80's yet it's sound was so ahead of its time. It still stands up today.
Yes indeed!
It "still stands up"? Because in your mind new stuff "kicks ass" and anythng older than ten years "sucks"?
Why do I get the sense you've never read a book?
@@kentjensen4504 Uh...I haven't regularly listened to Pop Radio since the 90's dude. I grew up IN the 80's you know. I prefer 80's Pop over any of this dreck they dare call music today.
P.S. My favorite book series is The Lord of the Rings Trilogy FYI. I also love The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. What do you think I am? A Millennial? I'm 50 years old Boo.
Almost a 70s song because it first appeared on the Vienna album, released in July 1980, so it must have been recorded early in 1980 or earlier.
@@kentjensen4504 Why would you assume he has never read a book? To say a song from 1980's still holds up given the innovations and growth in electronic music is not an insult in any way and its also true.
Over 30 years ahead of its time. This song is pure excellence Should have been best song at the Grammys.
Midge Ure his vocal range incredible
I. Still have this album
I was just in Vienna for a tech conference and all the way from the airport and back again, I could only sing and hum this song to myself and in video clips that I sent to friends and family. Absolute classic!
Still gives me tingles after all these years. Will always be a number one to me
Ah, shaddap you face
Look no further you've just found THE best song that ever graced the charts.
George Martin, the producer of the Beatles, worked with only one band again and that was Ultravox. Very proud that I followed this magnificent four by my 15, and that means all of my life.
Hmmm... what about America? There are others too. Read wikipedia.
Yes, but I only follow European music.
@@antonioskoutsoyiannis5319 America was an England based American band.
he also worked with UFO in 1980
Paul McCartney, Cheap Trick, UFO.
The video was originally filmed on 16 mm film. This masterpiece deserves a remaster directly from film!
The greatest song of all time, by the best band of all time, with the video spruced up. What's not to like?! :)
Perfect. Happy days.
Took out the traces leading the horse though, at 18 seconds in. There on the DVD release I have, and coincidentally was thinking of this track today as well, pulled out the DVD to play it as well.
It's very good... but nowhere near that good. I do not know what the 'best band of all time' or the ''greatest song of all time' is, but I do know that this is not it.
@@Uncommon_Senze To me 'the best song ever by the best band ever' would be if the Stranglers with Hugh Cornwell singing did a cover of 'Imitation of Life'. Maybe as it's now impossible, an AI might be able to create that in the future 🤔
That’s a big call but I do appreciate it more now than before …
Maybe best song of all time ... greatest band....not so sure , but you have good taste , be happy
Stevie
40 years old & this still gives me goosebumps when that that beat picks up & the violins start...
43 years almost
Epic masterpiece, and that video still chills me as much as it did in 1981 . Very lucky I was a teen in the 80s and experienced that decade of wonderful music
We were the lucky ones. I was 13 and not a care in the world.
This will FOREVER be an absolute MASTERPIECE. This song, imho - is everything a song should be, or as friend once said to me in the studio where I was working on an album with my old band "You know you've got something when you get goosebumps just listening to it!" Ahhh, to have a time machine to go back to 1980 and relive EVERYTHING again...
This invokes a strong memory I see.
What wasn't a masterpiece is that stupid song Shaddap You Face, yet it would seem lots of idiotic people thought it was worthy of No.1 in the UK, relegating this song to No.2. Sh!t, even John Lennon got bumped by that stupid song by Joe Dolce.
One of the most famous songs of Ultravox.
There are excellent songs then there are classics that live the test of time like a Roman built road. Thanks all in Ultravox for what you have given us. We thank you.
"A beautiful song that ends like a tragic waltz in Vienna." 😢
Very beautiful voice of Midge Ure.❤
Saw Midge about 15 years ago in Philly at some 80s tour. When he sang this we all held our breath, then he hit the "Vienna!" bit and nailed it. We roared with applause and he looked very moved by it. ❤
We walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on a window pane
Lying and waiting
A man in the dark in a picture frame
So mystic and soulful
A voice reaching out in a piercing cry
It stays with you until
The feeling has gone, only you and I
It means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna
The music is weaving
Haunting notes, pizzicato strings
The rhythm is calling
Alone in the night as the daylight brings
A cool, empty silence
The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky
It fades to the distance
The image has gone, only you and I
It means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna
This means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna
It’s magic video... It’s magic voice... It’s excellent!No more words...
Greetings from Vienna😁 This song captures my city perfectly...Vienna is a bit 'dark' and mysterious. Midge Ure's voice and the arrangement of the song is just perfect ❤️
I'm Puerto Rican and I love this song as well. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Hallo to Wienn Austria, from my country México. 👍🏼
@@hectorcardenas2171 Hello to you🤗
In What country is the vienna?
@@syafiqasyraf_yt Austria
These were the days of great music and great bands, I still have the vinyl...!!!
this song is a masterpiece
Pure 80s class. Priceless !
Ultravox are still in the future, what a sound!
I'm 18 all over again..my favourite song of all time...absolute classic and that video.Midge still knocks it out superbly 42 years later .
Definitely one of the most epic music videos of all time.
Ich bin wiener und ultravox Vienna ist für uns Wiener eine große Liebeshymne an unsere Stadt❤️. Danke Midge, dass du uns so viel gibst. Danke auch für deine Liebe zu Wien, zu Österreich. ❤️ Wir geben es dir zurück und wenn wir alle singen:, This means nothing to me ooohh Vienna!!! Er singt nicht nur von WIEN, Midge lebt Wien, er lebt die Dekadenz, er ist ist bei uns in Wien❤️❤️❤️
EPIC TRACK!!! THE ANTHEM OF THE 80s!! Its travelling back to the days before shit hit the fan!! A masterpiece that is impossible to cover!! Thanks ULTRAVOX!!!!!!
@Proud Patriot Lady ❤️
Ultravox is up there...With the greatest musicians of their time
one of the best 80s song. From 3:05 to 4:35 one of the best music moments in music.
What a voice! What a song! Magnificent ❤
Elegant, majestic iconic synth classic always and 4ever
Bloody classic who's still rocking this in 2023?
Me
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When the 70s was well and truly gone in my head ..80, 81, 82...there is always ovelap in the decades but this is firmly in the 80s
It's a hauntingly beautiful song. Midge Ure' vocal range is so underrated. A true 80s classic. Oh, to relive the greatest decade in music.
Without doubt a true classic. Why can't this be re-released now and then it would go to number one this time around-if only?! Thank you so much anyway!!
This needs to be 4K’d! Song and video are both masterpieces!
What a fabulous restoration
I adore this song. I came upon it by accident in the 90s on a compilation 80s cd that I bought. It’s one of those songs that is hauntingly beautiful and stays with you. I’ll forget about it for a while and then someone plays it and it just comes flooding back. This was their best song hands down and video was actually pretty cool for 1981.
The best band of all time
I just finished Season 2 of *Vienna Blood* and it's
nice to see this video again... *Sublimely dramatic!*
And Midge's voice soaring on that note is thrilling!
I always think they should play the Vienna song by ultravox when aeroplanes land in this incredible city. In my view this is quite simply one of the best pop songs of the 1980's. I especially like the instrumental bit with all the strings.
Such a great album, went to bed many nights with headphones on listening to it. Roxy Music, Avalon, another one.
This song causes more chills in one verse than most other whole songs.
The harmony makes my brain melt. This song feels like a huge question mark - oh, why does this sound that way? and why this emotional shift so suddenly? and why...? And I cannot stop, I have to listen again and again.
This song as an instrumental would have been a tour de force. Add the astonishing chorus and we have a masterwork that has stood the test of time.
All of a sudden - I want to visit Vienna.
During the 80's' of course.
Shocked to hear of Chris’s loss. This seems like a most appropriate place to celebrate his life and a legacy of incredible music. A fitting line in Vienna for today: “the daylight brings a cool, empty silence” 😞
I only discovered this song thanks to Bret Easton Ellis' "The Shards", now it's my personal soundtrack to that novel. Thank you!
Absolute masterpiece. Video, song, sound, production...all.
Total classic song . I loved the 80's era . Very good music . They don't make them like this anymore .
Vienna is a great city. Greetings from Bratislava
Greetings from vienna to Bratislava
TIMELESS CL🎉😊 what a great year for music 1981 awesome.
Sooooo beautiful! Was a young teenage girl when this came out. The 50s through the 80s set the highest impossible bar for the best of the best natural, real phenomenal - blues, soul, rock and roll, soft rock ballads, rock opera, rockabilly, and so many other gorgeous talents that take our breathe away 💖💖💖💖💖
The music they have today dosnt compare
It's difficult - for me - to find a song more beautiful than this one. It's marvellous
Watch midge ure last night at hall for Cornwall Truro, still one of the best live performing artists going. Fantastic concert & hopefully will carry on making brilliant music just like Vienna 👍👍👍
i will never forget watching and listening to this song played live at Sweetwaters in NZ as a 15yr old....160k people on the side of a shaking farm hill , taking this in...
There’s a few songs that INSTANTLY bring you back to the 80’s…HERES 1. It got a heap of airplay if I recall. Man….I LOVED LIVING in the 80’s
I absolutely love this. Gives goose bumps every time I hear this. After my divorce and dating a younger man we sat and played music. This was one, and means a lot to me Roger. If you remember me? Xx 🙏🌹
What a song!!! What a video!!! SUPERB!!!
When I turn the Young up’n comers onto this song I Always get the same reaction-“Play it again” and “Turn it up”. Then I play Hiroshima Mon Amour and They’re forever hooked. Thanks Ultravox for lifetimes of enjoyment
seriously, what a climax this song has ( no pun intended), this song has everything that current charts songs have long since lost, heart and soul.
I'd never heard of this band or any of their songs until I caught Midge Ure's fascinating interview on Professor of Rock, now I'm hooked! This is one of those songs that you can FEEL, even if you don't necessarily relate or even understand
Same thing brought me.
Isn't the Professor a top guy?
Really knowledgeable and friendly. I always watch his vids. 👍👍
Same , i too saw his video on Ultravox
Welcome to the greatest music ever! Professor of Rock is really spreading the gospel. Love it! This song was played in my country back in the early 80s and the entire country sent in requests that it be played again! Brilliant music, brilliant singer, altogether just brilliant!
One of the finest music videos made!! Hands down!!
RIP Chris Cross. 😪
Thank you for the wonderfull music.
Still should be a number one!! So So good!!
Such a spectacular intro of Vienna album. Monumental sound of epic proportion, soundtrack for new Europe, which was already created by Kraftwerk & Bowie.
Im one minute in and already have goose bumps!!! Incredible song
Classic masterpiece, and I think the best part starts with a build up at 3:04 and ends after the violins 3:34 and final chorus. Amazing. To be honest, most times I open this video and just click to it. Thank you Ultravox!
This song always reminds me of being at NUMBERS in Houston! This would be one of the songs they played at the end of the night before the lights came on, and I would be doing my best impromptu ballet dancing.
Back in the 80's the horse was very symbolic.
Now, if you run into a horse strolling free on your way home: 'Yeah whatever, not my problem.'
Ultravox sparkled with new colours ✨
This classic is a little piece of my childhood.
Thank you for the wonderful music, Chris Allen a.k.a Cross. May God rest your soul 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Pure perfection.