best john foxx-era ultravox song

"young savage" is pretty undeniable, but "quiet men," "slip away," "rockwrock,," "slow motion," "blue light," "wild beautiful and the damned" are all a-one in my book

"A twisted, alienating vision of a world shortly to come, tensely helmed by pop futurist and "naively perfected entity" John Foxx, this evokes for me nothing so much as the late 1970s it was birthed in - charged with the energies of prog, punk and glam, fearful of the nascent information age, chock full of sci-fi buzzes and gothic drama. It still believes in the power of the twist ending, the musical sock to the chops. It couldn't have been made at any other time. It is one of my favourite songs."

- some bozo describing Artifical Life on some competitive music-rating app at some point in the recent past, whose appearance in such may or may not have inspired this thread ;)

anyway yeah these three albums are everything to me, there's basically no wrong answer even if that's mine

"I Can't Stay Long."

the energies of prog, punk and glam

Did anyone else jump as quickly from glam to (art-)punk to New Romantic?

I don't think Foxx has the skills as a songwriter to consistently bring his conceits to life, but I've heard all these songs and will listen to my favourites.

ha i was actually in a bit of a foxx vox kick before someone submitted that, but yeah, it definitely did help cement my feelings about these albums

my sex seems so way ahead of it’s time. ‘77!

and book ending the other end of his career with them “just for a moment” makes me cry

this thread is very coincidental since I just listened to systems of romance two days ago

just for a moment is very beautiful, yeah