History Music / RageInEden

''Rage in Eden'', released in 1981, is the fifth album by British band Music/{{Ultravox}}. The album is a continuation of the artsy NewWaveMusic style developed on ''Music/SystemsOfRomance'' and especially ''Music/{{Vienna}}'', though with a more focused direction compared to the GenreRoulette of the latter. Production of the album was much more drawn out than ''Vienna'' as well, taking over three months to record compared to the mere three weeks of its predecessor, owed to the band deciding to craft the material as they went along rather than using live performances to test out prospective songs.

''Rage in Eden'', released in 1981, is the fifth album by British band Music/{{Ultravox}}. The album is a continuation of the artsy NewWaveMusic style developed on ''Music/SystemsOfRomance'' and especially ''Music/{{Vienna}}'', though with a more focused direction compared to the GenreRoulette of the latter. Production of the album was a much rockier affair than ''Vienna'' as well, taking over three months to record compared to the mere three weeks of its predecessor, owed largely to the lack of sufficient live performances to test out the material that would be included on the record. Consequently, the band would move away from working with Plank during the production of ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', which would instead be produced by former [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] producer George Martin.

* AlternateAlbumCover: The original album cover, designed by Creator/FactoryRecords collaborator Peter Saville, depicts a stylized face with a gold pane. According to Music/MidgeUre, the artwork was based on an unspecified film poster. Due to rights issues, the European CD release replaces it with a surrealist painting of a wooden landscape, and the 1997 remaster replaces it with the "UV" horse logo associated with the album against a burgundy and navy blue backdrop. A further variant of this, used for most 21st century reissues, features the same logo against a gray and white backdrop.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: All four variations of the album cover; it helps when you get Music/JoyDivision[=/=]Music/NewOrder designer Peter Saville to do your artwork.
** The original cover, depicted above, is a minimalist stylized rendition of a face with a gold pane apparently nodding to former frontman John Foxx's solo album ''Metamatic''.
** [[https://img.discogs.com/iVbIp7jr-0PgBCqRNbJCSDc_Rfk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-545696-1459937698-4379.jpeg.jpg The first alternate cover]] depicts a surrealist painting of a wooden landscape.
** [[https://img.discogs.com/Hiu8nL9xgxSu6fzIHshvNHNrQrs=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1565913-1228920448.jpeg.jpg The second alternate cover]], used for the 1997 remaster, depicts the "UV" horse logo against a burgundy and navy blue backdrop.
** [[https://img.discogs.com/NPE1axJkYQ4o9olFtcw1eZ0xmRc=/fit-in/600x589/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7833376-1451742910-6655.jpeg.jpg The third alternate cover]], used for most current-day reissues, feature the same logo against a gray and white backdrop.

''Rage in Eden'', released in 1981, is the fifth album by British band Music/{{Ultravox}}. The album is a continuation of the artsy NewWaveMusic style developed on ''Systems of Romance'' and especially ''Music/{{Vienna}}'', though with a more focused direction compared to the GenreRoulette of the latter. Production of the album was a much rockier affair than ''Vienna'' as well, taking over three months to record compared to the mere three weeks of its predecessor, owed largely to the lack of sufficient live performances to test out the material that would be included on the record. Consequently, the band would move away from working with Plank during the production of ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', which would instead be produced by former [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] producer George Martin.

* SiameseTwinSongs: "Accent on Youth", "The Ascent", and "Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)" are all interconnected to the point where they could be a single piece.

* ConceptVideo: The video for "The Thin Wall", which features Midge Ure in a labyrinth of horrors as his bandmates conspire to kill him.

Despite the band's reservations about its potential sales, being worried that ''Vienna'' would be too much of a ToughActToFollow, ''Rage in Eden'' was another commercial success; while not as strong-selling as ''Vienna'', it peaked at No. 4 on the UK Albums chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. The album would also be certified gold in New Zealand. In the United States meanwhile, the album peaked at a far quieter No. 144 on the Billboard 200; still, it was a major improvement from ''Vienna'' missing the US charts entirely.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"And those who sneer will fade and die/And those who laugh will surely fall/And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall!"'']]

''Rage in Eden'', released in 1981, is the fifth album by British band Music/{{Ultravox}}. The album is a continuation of the artsy NewWaveMusic style developed on ''Systems of Romance'' and especially ''Music/{{Vienna}}'', though with a more focused direction compared to the GenreRoulette of the latter.

Despite the band's reservations about its potential sales, being worried that ''Vienna'' would be too much of a ToughActToFollow, ''Rage in Eden'' was another commercial success; while not as strong-selling as ''Vienna'', it peaked at No. 4 on the UK Albums chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry.

Despite the band's reservations about its potential sales, the album was another commercial success; while not as strong-selling as ''Vienna'', it peaked at No. 4 on the UK Albums chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry.