About the band: Ultravox (earlier stylized as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in 1974. Between 1980 and 1986, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK. In total they released eleven studio albums. Ultravox currently have one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: Vienna is a track from the 1980 album of the same name (their fourth). In the early eighties, a new kind of pop music burst on the scene as reaction on the seemingly unstoppable rise of punk in the late seventies: the New Romantics. Helped by synthesizer sounds and often very mysterious video clips, bands like Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, China Crisis, Visage and Human League were quite successful for a few years. One of the best and most successful efforts from this period is this haunting song with its distorted violins and a highly romantic video. Run time 4:57.
