The Island Years

Tracklist

• CD 1: Ultravox!
• 1
  Sat’day Night in the City of the Dead
  2:34
• 2
  Life at Rainbow’s End (For All the Tax Exiles on Main Street)
  3:43
• 3
  Slip Away
  4:16
• 4
  I Want to Be a Machine
  7:23
• 5
  Wide Boys
  3:15
• 6
  Dangerous Rhythm
  4:16
• 7
  The Lonely Hunter
  3:43
• 8
  The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
  5:50
• 9
  My Sex
  3:02
• CD 2: Ha! Ha Ha!
• 1
  ROckWrok
  3:35
• 2
  The Frozen Ones
  4:06
• 3
  Fear in the Western World
  4:00
• 4
  Distant Smile
  5:21
• 5
  The Man Who Dies Everyday
  4:12
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Artificial Life
  5:00
• 7
  While I’m Still Alive
  3:16
• 8
  Hiroshima Mon Amour
  5:13
• CD 3: Systems of Romance
• 1
  Slow Motion
  3:32
• 2
  I Can’t Stay Long
  4:19
• 3
  Someone Else’s Clothes
  4:28
• 4
  Blue Light
  3:11
• 5
  Some of Them
  2:32
• 6
  Quiet Men
  4:11
• 7
  Dislocation
  2:58
• 8
  Maximum Acceleration
  3:56
• 9
  When You Walk Through Me
  4:18
• 10
  Just for a Moment
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• CD 4: Rare Retro
• 1
  Young Savage
  3:00
• 2
  Slip Away (live)
  4:05
• 3
  The Man Who Dies Everyday (live at Huddersfield Polytechnic)
  3:54
• 4
  Young Savage (live at the Marquee, London)
  3:18
• 5
  The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned (live at the Rainbow, London)
  5:18
• 6
  My Sex (live at Huddersfield Polytechnic)
  3:05
• 7
  Young Savage (John Peel session 28/11/77)
  2:55
• 8
  The Man Who Dies Everyday (John Peel session 28/11/77)
  4:16
• 9
  My Sex (John Peel session 28/11/77)
  2:49
• 10
  Artificial Life (John Peel session 28/11/77)
  4:54
• 11
  ROckWrok (7″ version)
  3:20
• 12
  Hiroshima Mon Amour (alternate version)
  4:59
• 13
  Quirks
  1:40
• 14
  Modern Love (live)
  2:32
• 15
  The Man Who Dies Everyday (remix)
  4:19
• 16
  Slow Motion (Old Grey Whistle Test 5/12/78)
  3:23
• 17
  Hiroshima Mon Amour (Old Grey Whistle Test 5/12/78)
  3:36
• 18
  Quiet Men (7″ version)
  3:18
• 19
  Cross Fade
  2:58
• 20
  Quiet Men (12″ version)
  3:55

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The Best of Ultravox

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Quartet

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Vienna

Vienna 1980

Release credits

• Billy Currie
  keyboard [3.1-10, 1.1-9], violin [1-10]
• Brian Eno
  producer [1-9]
• Chris Cross
  bass guitar [1-10], electric bass guitar [1-9], synthesizer [1-10], vocal [1.1-9, 3.1-10]
• Conny Plank
  engineer [1-10], producer [1-10]
• Dave Hutchins
  engineer [1-10], producer [1-10]
• John Foxx
  lead vocals [3.1-10, 1.1-9]
• Robin Simon
  guitar [1-10], vocal [1-10]
• Steve Lillywhite
  producer [1-9]
• Stevie Shears
  electric guitar [1-9]
• Terry Barham
  assistant [1-9]
• Ultravox
  producer [1.1-9, 3.1-10]
• Warren Cann
  drum machine [1-10], drums (drum set) [1.1-9, 3.1-10], vocal [1.1-9, 3.1-10]

Issues

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  The Island Years

  4x CD (boxset)
  10 June 2016