Its a shame that Chris Cross [Allen] died yesterday, because the three albums with him and John Foxx were classic and underrated, I still play them on a regularly basis, and love I want to be a machine, but could name nearly all the tracks thou
Couldn’t agree more! By mid 1980 is was pretty much over. John Foxx never got the recognition he deserved, largely because of NME Punk snobs but at least Mark Mothersbaugh made his mark and still continues to do so. 😊👍🏻 Mustn’t forget Classix Nouveau
I knew Sal Solo, the frontman of Classix Nouveaux, when he joined in 1984 a french band called Rockets and when they changed their style to the new wave to keep up with the times. Before they (who showed up in spacesuits and skulls shaved and painted silver like robots) invented the so called "space rock" (a mix of Pink Floyd, Jarre, krautrock and Kraftwerk and discomusic) and they are considered forerunners of Daft Punk. Check them out, if curious.@@andylewis7360
3:49 Hiroshima Somehow we drifted off too far Communicate like distant stars Splintered voices down the phone The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no Someone waits behind the door Hiroshima mon amour Riding inter-city trains Dressed in European grey Riding out to echo beach A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no How can I ever let them go? Hiroshima mon amour Meet beneath the autumn lake Where only echoes penetrate Walk through Polaroids of the past Futures fused like shattered glass, the suns so low Turns our silhouettes to gold Hiroshima mon amour
Amazing quality, brilliant music, I'm so grateful for stuff like this. One little quibble: too many retro videos seem to be posted here with padding to 16:9 aspect ratio (or is it some RUclips setting?), which means I can't view them full-screen on the 5:4 monitor I keep for just such purposes. Is this because too many people complain when they stupidly set their 16:9 monitors to stretch the video to fit instead of maintain the AR, or do today's monitors actually come set to do that by default (the ones I have don't)? Just seems a shame for modern stupidity to spoil the retro experience for those of us who know what we're doing!
I try and post everything in the screen size it was originally broadcast in. The old stuff is all 4.3 so I try and keep it like that, I don't mind the black lines at the side of the screen.
@@mrhbsaucepunkrocknewwavevi7946 There's something weird going on here... If you look at the "stats for nerds" on this video (right click), it's actually a 1920x1080 video, so the black areas at the sides are *part of the video*. Since I don't post YT videos myself, I don't know whether that's just an option YT provides or if the software you use to upload the video did it. Attempting to view it fullscreen on a 4:3 monitor whilst preserving the aspect ratio, the monitor sees it as a widescreen video and thus leaves *additional* black areas at top and bottom, resulting in a smaller image in the middle of the screen, i.e. large black areas top/bottom *and* sides - not optimal... Short of cropping and re-encoding the video (yuk), I have no control over this. Obviously the video looks fine on an HD monitor, but for the "wrong" reason, i.e. the monitor thinks it's correctly displaying a 1080p 16:9 video, and has no idea that it's actually a "disguised" 4:3 video. Contrast this with the following video: ruclips.net/video/VmyxdlRoYY8/видео.html This is a 1440x1080p video, so still likely scaled up, but without side borders added, i.e. a *real* 4:3 video. It displays correctly fullscreen on a 4:3 monitor (e.g. 1024x768), on a 5:4 monitor (e.g. 1280x1024 like mine) with minimal black areas top and bottom (32 pixels high if I have my sums right...), and also on a 16:9 monitor (e.g. 1920x1080) with the *monitor* leaving black areas at the sides, unless you set the monitor to stretch the video to full width and distort the aspect ratio (I know some people who prefer that and are unable to ignore the black side borders *shudder*). In short, you seem to think you posted a 4:3 video, but actually this one is 16:9, so I'd check the sequence of events you used to publish it... Regardless of all that, I really appreciate your efforts to post high quality videos which are otherwise hard to come by, and I'm happy to take whatever you post, even if sometimes I have to make the almighty effort of dragging the video to another monitor to see it at its best! 😼 My only aim here is to let you know of a minor issue you may not have been aware of, and explain it as best I can! Again, many thanks for the great videos!
I try and post everything in how it was originally broadcasted, so for old footage it's 4.3 so I keep it like that. I don't mind the black sides when viewing this om my DVD copy. Hope you enjoyed the video anyway and it didn't spoil your viewing.
@@mrhbsaucepunkrocknewwavevi7946 Unfortunately you technically posted it in 16:9 AR, not 4:3 (i.e. you didn't post it in the same aspect ratio as on your DVD, but some software you used probably messed it up without you being aware); I've explained as best I can above, but I'm fine if you don't have the patience to read all that guff, and I do still very much enjoy your videos - the AR thing is only a very minor spoiler!
What a wonderful recording....and performance. Ultravox in their prime - Such a shame they didn't last to do further LP's with this line-up - for me, they have never been bettered.
These two songs are the epitome of that period, they incapsulate Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, punk, poetry, technology, musicianship, musicality, everything!! I'd risk saying they even surpassed the aforementioned acts.
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Next day I bought Systems of Romance and at Christmas Ultravox! and Ha! Ha! Ha!. These two live versions on Whistle Test were so atmospheric and I'd never seen John Foxx before and thought him entrancing. Gary Numan saw this as well...and the rest is history.
This was the lineup of Ultravox I saw in concert March of 1979 (I was 23) at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in West Hollywood, California. The song that I still remember that John Foxx sang was "Touch and Go" which is on his 1980 debut solo album 'Metamatic'. Also, I was up front of center stage and I held my right hand up as high as I could, and while John Foxx was singing he bent down a bit and gave me a "five" with his left hand. And around that time Island Records dropped them, so they self financed their tour here in America. Very unfortunate that John Foxx left Ultravox which he himself was the founder in late March, 1979 because of creative differences with the other members, except with guitarist Robin Simon and he quit as well. Later that year is when piano, keyboard, synth, violin and viola musician Billy Currie brought in Midge Ure to replace John Foxx and Robin Simon. When I bought the 1980 album 'Vienna' with the new lineup of Ultravox, I was disappointed that John Foxx was not on the album. Still it is a good album, but for me after that I personally felt Ultravox went downhill because they turned into a commercial synth-pop band, even though Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann were excellent musicians.
Its a shame that Chris Cross [Allen] died yesterday, because the three albums with him and John Foxx were classic and underrated, I still play them on a regularly basis, and love I want to be a machine, but could name nearly all the tracks thou
A shame
The real Vox.....class and 1978...ahead of the pack.
First class album - Systems of Romance. This footage is excellent! Still sounds great in 2024 and that says it all…….
Systems of romance is one of the most influential and truly great albums
Ultravox, Magazine, Simple Minds, Gary Numan, Devo...all from the magic period of 78-79...
Couldn’t agree more! By mid 1980 is was pretty much over. John Foxx never got the recognition he deserved, largely because of NME Punk snobs but at least Mark Mothersbaugh made his mark and still continues to do so. 😊👍🏻
Mustn’t forget Classix Nouveau
I knew Sal Solo, the frontman of Classix Nouveaux, when he joined in 1984 a french band called Rockets and when they changed their style to the new wave to keep up with the times. Before they (who showed up in spacesuits and skulls shaved and painted silver like robots) invented the so called "space rock" (a mix of Pink Floyd, Jarre, krautrock and Kraftwerk and discomusic) and they are considered forerunners of Daft Punk. Check them out, if curious.@@andylewis7360
Or Roxy Music, Japan , The Cars,Joy Division
Robin was my boyfriend during this time - we chose his shirt together in Chiswick High Street! Great to see this again, I remember watching it live.
Why did he leave?
Rob simon bless yous❤🎉
Classic tracks in excellent quality. Thanks for upload.
RIP Chris Cross. you legend. Inspiration and forever cool. Missing you.
Great Tracks,sleep easy Annie Nightingale
Chris Cross RIP 🥲
Brilliant band , first 3 albums are fantastic
Superb quality... Ah, what could have been!
Fantastic! Thanks for the upload, I've never seen this footage before.
Heaven:
Cross on Mini-Moog/vocals
Currie on Odyssey
Cann on drums
Simon on guitar/vocals
Foxx on lead vocals 🙏🏼🌹
Don’t forget Currie on the ELKA rhapsody! Those strings are heaven.
@@plasticsurgerydisaster6180 yes, so true!
Brilliant
A superb appearance with the magic Foxx era!
3:49 Hiroshima
Somehow we drifted off too far
Communicate like distant stars
Splintered voices down the phone
The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no
Someone waits behind the door
Hiroshima mon amour
Riding inter-city trains
Dressed in European grey
Riding out to echo beach
A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no
How can I ever let them go?
Hiroshima mon amour
Meet beneath the autumn lake
Where only echoes penetrate
Walk through Polaroids of the past
Futures fused like shattered glass, the suns so low
Turns our silhouettes to gold
Hiroshima mon amour
Amazing quality, brilliant music, I'm so grateful for stuff like this.
One little quibble: too many retro videos seem to be posted here with padding to 16:9 aspect ratio (or is it some RUclips setting?), which means I can't view them full-screen on the 5:4 monitor I keep for just such purposes.
Is this because too many people complain when they stupidly set their 16:9 monitors to stretch the video to fit instead of maintain the AR, or do today's monitors actually come set to do that by default (the ones I have don't)?
Just seems a shame for modern stupidity to spoil the retro experience for those of us who know what we're doing!
I try and post everything in the screen size it was originally broadcast in. The old stuff is all 4.3 so I try and keep it like that, I don't mind the black lines at the side of the screen.
@@mrhbsaucepunkrocknewwavevi7946 There's something weird going on here...
If you look at the "stats for nerds" on this video (right click), it's actually a 1920x1080 video, so the black areas at the sides are *part of the video*.
Since I don't post YT videos myself, I don't know whether that's just an option YT provides or if the software you use to upload the video did it.
Attempting to view it fullscreen on a 4:3 monitor whilst preserving the aspect ratio, the monitor sees it as a widescreen video and thus leaves *additional* black areas at top and bottom, resulting in a smaller image in the middle of the screen, i.e. large black areas top/bottom *and* sides - not optimal...
Short of cropping and re-encoding the video (yuk), I have no control over this.
Obviously the video looks fine on an HD monitor, but for the "wrong" reason, i.e. the monitor thinks it's correctly displaying a 1080p 16:9 video, and has no idea that it's actually a "disguised" 4:3 video.
Contrast this with the following video:
ruclips.net/video/VmyxdlRoYY8/видео.html
This is a 1440x1080p video, so still likely scaled up, but without side borders added, i.e. a *real* 4:3 video.
It displays correctly fullscreen on a 4:3 monitor (e.g. 1024x768), on a 5:4 monitor (e.g. 1280x1024 like mine) with minimal black areas top and bottom (32 pixels high if I have my sums right...), and also on a 16:9 monitor (e.g. 1920x1080) with the *monitor* leaving black areas at the sides, unless you set the monitor to stretch the video to full width and distort the aspect ratio (I know some people who prefer that and are unable to ignore the black side borders *shudder*).
In short, you seem to think you posted a 4:3 video, but actually this one is 16:9, so I'd check the sequence of events you used to publish it...
Regardless of all that, I really appreciate your efforts to post high quality videos which are otherwise hard to come by, and I'm happy to take whatever you post, even if sometimes I have to make the almighty effort of dragging the video to another monitor to see it at its best! 😼
My only aim here is to let you know of a minor issue you may not have been aware of, and explain it as best I can!
Again, many thanks for the great videos!
I try and post everything in how it was originally broadcasted, so for old footage it's 4.3 so I keep it like that. I don't mind the black sides when viewing this om my DVD copy. Hope you enjoyed the video anyway and it didn't spoil your viewing.
@@mrhbsaucepunkrocknewwavevi7946 Unfortunately you technically posted it in 16:9 AR, not 4:3 (i.e. you didn't post it in the same aspect ratio as on your DVD, but some software you used probably messed it up without you being aware); I've explained as best I can above, but I'm fine if you don't have the patience to read all that guff, and I do still very much enjoy your videos - the AR thing is only a very minor spoiler!
What a wonderful recording....and performance. Ultravox in their prime - Such a shame they didn't last to do further LP's with this line-up - for me, they have never been bettered.
These two songs are the epitome of that period, they incapsulate Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, punk, poetry, technology, musicianship, musicality, everything!! I'd risk saying they even surpassed the aforementioned acts.
Next day I bought Systems of Romance and at Christmas Ultravox! and Ha! Ha! Ha!. These two live versions on Whistle Test were so atmospheric and I'd never seen John Foxx before and thought him entrancing. Gary Numan saw this as well...and the rest is history.
John Foxx looked so bloody cool then and love Robin Simon's metallic sounding guitar. Hiroshima Mon Amour sounds better live
When this was shown first I recorded it on a cassette tape , I haven’t heard this version in years it is so much better than the album.
Agreed te Hiroshima Mon Arour here - absolutely stunning ❤️
This was the lineup of Ultravox I saw in concert March of 1979 (I was 23) at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in West Hollywood, California. The song that I still remember that John Foxx sang was "Touch and Go" which is on his 1980 debut solo album 'Metamatic'. Also, I was up front of center stage and I held my right hand up as high as I could, and while John Foxx was singing he bent down a bit and gave me a "five" with his left hand. And around that time Island Records dropped them, so they self financed their tour here in America. Very unfortunate that John Foxx left Ultravox which he himself was the founder in late March, 1979 because of creative differences with the other members, except with guitarist Robin Simon and he quit as well. Later that year is when piano, keyboard, synth, violin and viola musician Billy Currie brought in Midge Ure to replace John Foxx and Robin Simon. When I bought the 1980 album 'Vienna' with the new lineup of Ultravox, I was disappointed that John Foxx was not on the album. Still it is a good album, but for me after that I personally felt Ultravox went downhill because they turned into a commercial synth-pop band, even though Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann were excellent musicians.
One of the greatest relics in yt, imo.
Well moody, intense lyrics - reminds me of the surrealistic poetry!
One, one,....wonderful
synth bass on slow motion !!!
Artificial Life...I Can't Stay Long...
That ARP seems fresh out of the box (boxx)!
OUTSTANDING 😅😮
Is John Foxx Judy Murray or do I need my eyes testing...
whithout robin simon wouldnt be exist Aflock of seagulls what such a unique sound
Superb
Suberb!!
Maybe the best