YMMV / Vienna

• Awesome Music: The whole LP is great from start to finish, but "Vienna", "All Stood Still", "Mr. X", and "Sleepwalk" are stone-cold classics.
• Broken Base: Vienna ended up being to Ultravox what Duke was to Genesis earlier that same year. Depending on who you talk to, you'll meet fans who either enjoyed the change in tone Ultravox took on and the album's continuation of the styles John Foxx introduced on Systems of Romance, or fans who feel that Ultravox lost their way on Vienna by removing the edge of the John Foxx-penned records.
• First Installment Wins: Vienna is generally agreed upon by fans and critics as being the best album of the Midge Ure era of Ultravox, though some consider Rage in Eden as the Ure era's finest work.
• Signature Song: The Title Track remain Ultravox's best-known work, being frequently featured in media as a key representative of the 80's.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Mr. X" shares the same synth and bass melodies as "Touch & Go" by their former frontman John Foxx. "Touch & Go", as well as as "He's A Liquid" (both from Foxx's solo debut Metamatic), would actually originate from Ultravox, being preformed with Foxx during his final tour with the band in 1979. Neither Ultravox nor Foxx credited each other on their respective releases; Vienna being released after Metamatic makes it possible Ultravox didn't credit Foxx as a Take That! for not crediting them for Touch & Go.

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