#84
April 6 1984
Ultravox
Lament
4 out of 5
Highlights:
One Small Day
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
It’s been a while since the brilliant 1-2 of Systems of Romance and Vienna. And Midge & Currie’s output since then has been…well…boring.
Lament is a bit more upbeat at first than the title would suggest and one could look at songs like “One Small Day” and “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” as sell outs or as forerunners of the movement claiming what was theirs from Simple Minds and U2 who obviously owe them a debt.
The second side is more hypnotic and moody and only really clunks toward the end with “When the Time Comes (I’ll Cry)”.
A solid closing chapter in the Ultravox book.
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