Ultravox ‎– Systems Of Romance

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Island Records – ILPS 9555
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Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Coloured bubble labels
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Tracklist

A1 Slow Motion
A2 I Can't Stay Long
A3 Someone Elses Clothes
A4 Blue Light
A5 Some Of Them
A1 Quiet Men
B2 Dislocation
B3 Maximum Acceleration
B4 When You Walk Through Me
B5 Just For A Moment

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Notes

With printed inner sleeve (credits & lyrics)

Other Versions (Showing 5 of 23) View All

Title, Format Label Cat# Country Year
Systems Of Romance (LP, Blu) Island Records ILPS 9555 UK 1978
Systems Of Romance (One Plus One Edition) (Cass, Album, S/Sided) Island Records ICT 9555 UK 1980
Systems Of Romance (LP, Album) Island Records, Antilles AN 7069 Canada 1978
Systems Of Romance (LP, Album, Blu) Island Records ILPS 9555 UK 1978
Systems Of Romance (LP, Album) Island Records ILPS 9555 Sweden 1978

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Rated 4/5
Review by matucana Sep 02, 2004 (edited over 7 years ago)
An album with a glimpse on what could have been, had not John Foxx left the band. So there are the gems of "Slow motion" with its majesty and deep bass, "Quiet men" with a sparsely and perfectly supported melody, the dark but still very original "Dislocation" with its synthesizers, and the eerily disrupted ballad "Just for a moment".

The rest are songs like from the first, much more punky album ("Some of them", "Maximum acceleration", "When you walk through me") and those who lie between punk and dark electronica.

I still wish they had followed the path they opened with this album and not the path that started with "Vienna" to more commercial success.

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