{"id":6310,"date":"2024-01-04T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2024-01-04T20:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:47:25","slug":"single-review-vienna-ultravox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/single-review-vienna-ultravox\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Vienna&#8221; &#8211; Ultravox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2LXjhNee4iPRVemx9NSZQ3?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>On 1st January 2013 Ultravox&#8217;s 1981 hit &#8216;Vienna&#8217; was voted the UK&#8217;s favourite number two single. The song topped a poll by BBC Radio 2 and the Official Charts Company to find the greatest track to miss out on the number one spot. Vienna was held off by novelty track &#8216;Shaddup You Face&#8217; by Joe Dolce. <br \/><br \/>This track has all that synth goodness from the late 70s going into the early 80s. The bleak sounds are what make it for me &#8211; it\u2019s interesting because the Roland CR-78 drum machine featured here is the same machine that Phil Collins uses on \u201cIn The Air Tonight\u201d, so it gives it that cold feeling in the track. This is a classic for me.<\/p>\n<p>I also love the fact that the video was shot partly in Covent Garden, I love that part of London! Growing up this song was constantly on the radio so it&#8217;s got memories for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also heard elements of it used on songs by Annie Lennox &#8211; her cover version of &#8220;A Whiter Shade Of Pale&#8221; calls to mind the rhythm of the bass and drums and it&#8217;s so well done too.<\/p>\n<p>Another one is by Take That, &#8220;Eight Letters&#8221; &#8211; the influence after all these years is there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1553.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1553.jpg 846w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1553-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1553-768x753.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1553-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st January 2013 Ultravox&#8217;s 1981 hit &#8216;Vienna&#8217; was voted the UK&#8217;s favourite number two single. The song topped a poll by BBC Radio 2 and the Official Charts Company to find the greatest track to miss out on the number one spot. Vienna was held off by novelty track &#8216;Shaddup You Face&#8217; by Joe &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,42,118,129,174,31,132,30,37,180,149,142,73,150,183,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-electronica","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-piano","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-synthesizers","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}