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This is the songs that keep returning, but I love all songs even the pre-80's.
So, no top ten... more like the Hit-list.

1. When the Scream Subsides
2. Rage in Eden
3. Stranger Within
4. I Remember Death In the Afternoon
5. A Friend I Call Desire
6. Vienna
7. Face to Face
8. Dancing With Tears
9. One Small Day
10. When the Time Comes I'll Cry

1. White China
2. We Came To Dance
3. Lament
4. Love's Great Adventure
5. Serenade
6. Cut and Run
7. All Stood Still
8. The Thin Wall
9. One Small Day
10. The Song (We Go)

Thanks for this post, really had to think it through, too difficult to narrow down though if I'm honest.

Guys, and girls (trying not to sound like Jimmy Savile), this is brilliant. Oooops, I was trying to avoid that one

Only fair that I should add mine.

Quiet Men
Astradyne
Sleepwalk
Waiting
Mr. X
Keep Talking
We Stand Alone
Stranger Within
Monument
Heart of the Country (12" extended)

But it will have changed by tomorrow! Keep 'em coming - and Rodney, that' a cop-out

Okay, Rob, if you insist:

-1. One Small Day (Callanish in winter ... awesome!)
-2. Astradyne (Thanks to Edinburgh, 10th April 2009)
-3. '3' (The most beautiful melody from Billy to date?)
-4. The Voice ("The shape and the power of the voice!")
-5. Paths And Angles (Warren's lead vocal ... cool)
-6. Vienna (It really is the most unique track, eh?)
-7. The Song (We Go) (The drum solo ... yeah, Baby!)
-8. Man Of Two Worlds (Super-moody imagery)
-9. Lament (Take me back to Skye ...)
10. All In One Day (instrumentally, where I thought Ultravox would eventually end up ... wrong!)

1. All Stood Still
2. Vienna
3. Private Lives
4. Mr X
5. Thin Wall
6. I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
7. Mr X
8. Hymn
9. The Voice
10. Man Who Dies Everyday

This is really hard....great post. Here are mine:-

1. Slow Motion
2. The Thin Wall
3. Astradyne
4. The Voice
5. I Can't Stay Long
6. When the time comes I'll cry (most underrated track)
7. Man of two worlds
8. Reap the Wild Wind
9. Young Savage
10. Western Promise

Hymn
The Voice
All Stood Still
I Remember
One Small Day
We Stand Alone
Give It All Back
Ingenuity
The Thin Wall
White China

Sorry to be awkward but amending my choice this way as can't edit it.....

One Small Day
Lament
Hymn
The Voice
I remember death in the afternoon
Rage in Eden
Vienna
Love's Great Adventure
We Stand Alone
Reap the Wild Wind

Final choice despite not being able to fit DWTIME etc in there and still in no particular order.....

Really difficult, however for me more importantly is that they must all be heard live!

In no particular order

Lament
One small day
We stand alone
I remember death in the afternoon
Visions in blue
The thin wall
Astradyne
Your name has slipped my mind again
Rage in Eden
Hymn

My 10:
I Want to be a Machine
Mr. X (live, Return to Eden tour)
Western Promise
Accent on Youth (plus the Ascent)
The Song (We Go)
Monument
Visions in Blue (live, Monument)
Lament (extended 8 minutes mix)
A Friend I Call Desire
All in One Day (album version)

In no particular order....
1. A Friend I call Desire
2. All Stood Still
3. Astradyne
4. I Remember (Death in the afternoon)
5. Hymn
6. Majestic
7. One Small Day
8. I Never Wanted to Begin
9. Vienna
10. Love's Great Adventure

Very, very dificult to choose. But I can try a list according to the impact of the tracks in diferent moments of my ultravox bio.

In no particular order (or chronoligical):

- Astradyne (after de RTE tour: unforgettable first notes!)
- New Europeans (so powerful and dramatic!)
- Vienna (of course!)
- The Voice (first Ultravox track to listen in a humble tape: Monument live recording)
- I Remember (I always thinked it's the best way to explain somebody what means Ultravox sound)
- Hymn (also better in Monument version)
- Building (best example of the quality of Ultravox b-sides)
- Man of two worlds (my prefered Lament song, so misterious and solemn)
- When the time comes (fluctuating, melancholic)
- Brilliant (forever, the emotion of the reborn, euphoric!)

PD: Without Warren (so, not real Ultravox) I will save "All in one day".

After a wet weekend spent listening to Ultravox albums i have been trying to come up with my top ten tracks,which has been really hard because i love the way all the tracks on the albums just "work" together and part of the enjoyment for me has always been how 1 track just flows so well into the next. I could not listen to an Ultravox compilation,it wouldnt be right! Anyway here are my stand out tracks in album order-
1 ASTRADYNE wasnt a favourite all those years ago as a 13 yr old first listening to Vienna but when they opened with this on RTE it was such a spine tingling moment that i now relive every time i hear it.
2 NEW EUROPEANS loved this right from the start,it was unlike anything i had heard before,so 80s!
3 VIENNA its got to be there,the song that started it all for me and Midges vocals are outstanding,something about the way he sings "a cool empty silence" still makes me go weak at the knees my favourite ever song.
4 STRANGER WITHIN hard to choose from the Rage in Eden tracks,my favourite album,but love the lyrics to this.
5 ACCENT ON YOUTH,THE ASCENT,YOUR NAME cheating a bit here but these 3 tracks just feel like 1.Seem to perfectly conjure up the teenage "angst" that i felt at the time!
6 MINE FOR LIFE again great lyrics "i hate it all but there must be more to hate than this"
7 VISIONS IN BLUE atmospheric,amazing vocals and i have to choose this as i have "Ashes of Memories Still Aglow" tattooed on me!
8 WE CAME TO DANCE just a great tune
9 ONE SMALL DAY absolutely amazing live
10 A FRIEND I CALL DESIRE still sounds great,love the words to it and the guitar bit near the end!
Thanks for starting this topic,its been fun trying to work out my favourites

Wow - blown away by this. Never expected this response, even if it is a good way to speed away the time until Brilliant come out I've run an article on my Ultravox choices, with the full reasoning in the new issue of re:VOX being posted out from tomorrow (which has a new Rian Hughes interview), and if everyone's happy then I'd like to collate your comments both on the forum and in a fuller way in print in a future issue too. Fantastic! Thanks everyone!

I've found a bit of time to flesh out my previous post and put in some reasoning for my choices:

1. Slow Motion
I love the way the synths and guitars wrestle with each other on this. A real ground-breaking track. A lovely simple tune and great vocals too.

2. Sleepwalk
Great sci-fi feel to this. It reminds me of an old episode of Dr Who with Jon Pertwee battling the Daleks. There was some kind of building making a pulsing sound like the synths in Sleepwalk.

3. Vienna
The song (and video) that got me into music. They both made me sit up, go "wow!" and realise that something magical was out there. 1981 would turn out to be a great year for music.

4. All Stood Still
Another great battle of the synths and guitars. I love the utter chaos in the instrumental sections of this, all neatly contained by a teutonic drum and bass section.

5. Passionate Reply
Love the synth solo on this. Probably the band's best. Billy only bettered this on Gary Numan's "On Broadway".

6. The Voice
So many layers to this song. There's still something new when I listen to it now. Great drum fills after each chorus and two synth solos!

7. We Stand Alone
8. I Remember
Both have great mystery, drama and atmosphere. The essence of the Rage in Eden album.

9. The Thin Wall
This is utterly bonkers. A mad rhythm section, squealing guitar, layers of synths and some violin too. And great backing vocals. Who else could do anything like this? The video was the epitome of the era. The Return to Eden version is outstanding.

10. Okay I cheated. So I'll plump for ...
Astradyne
Vienna was the first album I ever bought, so Astradyne was the first non-single album track I ever heard. An amazing Krautrock track for the 1980s with brilliant instrumentation. It gives me goose-pimples and takes me back to when I was 14 years old.

Monument
Waiting
I Never Wanted To Begin
Passionate Reply
Hosanna (In Excelsis Deo)
Cut And Run
When The Scream Subsides
Building
Man Of Two Worlds
A Friend I Call Desire

... and Rage In Eden album! All of them...

I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
We Stand Alone
The Voice
Astradyne
All Stood Still
Visions in Blue
Serenade
Alles Klar
Private Lives
New Europeans

My turn:

Vienna
The Voice
Hymn
We Stand Alone
Passionate Reply
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Love's Great Adventure
Passing Strangers
Reap The Wild Wind
Sleepwalk

Paths & Angels
Face To Face
Overlook
Accent On Youth + The Ascent
Private Lives
Passionate Reply
Mine For Life
When The Scream Subsides
Man Of Two Worlds
When The Time Comes

In random order. This list keeps changing, by the way.

I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
Rage in Eden
Vienna
Mr X
The Thin Wall
The Voice
Astradyne
Private Lives
I Never Wanted to Begin
Accent on Youth/The Ascent

In order
Lament
Vienna
A friend I call desire
DWTIME
Passionate reply
Hymn
The voice
Loves great adventure
New Europeans
The ascent

Wonderful - keep it going, I can see I'm going to have to take a weekend of evenings at some point to analyse all of this

Ok, I've come up with mine after some head-scratching and reasons why:

1. The Voice - the one that started everything off.
2. Hymn - just because of the way it sounds - the sheer drama of it.
3. Vienna - because of everything about it
4. The Thin Wall - because of how it sounds played live.
5. Brilliant (late entry) - the utter joy of hearing this made me cry.
6. Astradyne - opened the show when I saw them for the first time on the RTE tour and it was something truly special.
7. Man Of Two Worlds - the whole atmospheric quality of the song is just superb.
8. One Small Day - because of the soaring chorus and the lyrics
9. We Stand Alone - I just love Midge's vocals on this.
10. Reap The Wild Wind - again, for its live performance(s).

That took some doing and of course it could all change come May 28

Hi all here's my ten.
1.The Voice
2.Vienna
3.Cut and Run
4.New Europeans
5.Passionate Reply
6.Visons in Blue.
7.Private lives
8.HiroshimaMon Amour
9.Astradyne
10.Man of two worlds.

Ok at this moment in time and in no particular order

The Thin Wall
Brilliant
All Stood Still
Man Of Two Worlds
Astradyne
New Europeans
I Remember
The Voice
Accent On Youth/The Ascent
Visions In Blue

As it stands today

Okay, here's a quick analysis of how it's all shaping up without tipping the vote and revealing which songs are trailing and which song is leading

77 different songs have been voted for in total, with specifically marked versions of songs counted separately;

5 songs have polled more than 20 votes each;

26 songs have only been voted for once;

Brilliant has received five votes so far, although I had to discount every other track off the Brilliant LP at the moment (you know who you are - tsk!), as the public has only heard the song Brilliant to date

1 studio album and 2 live albums have had no songs selected from them at all;

4 studio albums have had all their tracks voted for;

The 2 lowest scoring albums are Return to Eden and Ultravox!;

The 2 highest scoring two albums are Vienna and Rage in Eden;

Of those songs selected from singles and 12”s – 4 share just 1 vote each, with only 2 songs polling more than 5 votes each;

Someone tried to sneak in Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again) after after the two-in-one song Accent on Youth/The Ascent, so as that made 11 songs we had to discount Your Name in that instance - sorry

Right, well unless you really want to carry on with this after the end of May, I suggest we call it quits once Brilliant arrives in the stores, as I think we’ll all be busy absorbing all that lovely new music instead of what went before...

And that will be more than enough stat's to process without my head exploding

I'll probaly run some selection from the reasons for your choices in the next issue of re:VOX, along with the analysis posted here, and then I'll run the final results in the issue following that after Brilliant has been released.

Brilliant!

Yeah, sorry about that - it was me being hopeful/optimistic about the album.

If I had to list ten tracks right now - and all we can say is our favourite songs at one moment - they would probably be.

All Stood Still
Astradyne
Hiroshima Mon Amour
We Stand Alone
Man of two Worlds
One Small Day
Passionate Reply
Quiet Men
The Wild, The Beautiful and the Damned
Young Savage

No worries Boxnudger, it is difficult to cram such brilliance into a mere ten tracks :0)

I'm compiling the final data now, and have just noticed that Adam on the 20th April actually voted for Mr. X twice Obviously an extra-special favourite song of his. Do you want to choose another song?

Results imminent!

OK, HERE WE GO AND THIS IS IN NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER:

Astradyne
Private Lives
Vienna
I Remember
New Europeans
We Stand Alone
Hymn
Mine For Life
One Small Day
A Friend I Call Desire