Midge Ure

A Man of Two Worlds (World One : Music)

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One of the key members of the new wave band <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a>, guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure began his professional music career with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band <a href="spotify:artist:3Wk2pHRBKxVbESEXebWxsj">Slik</a> in 1974. Upset in the change of direction, Ure left the band to join <a href="spotify:artist:69d3gmnnSi2WPQ9ISplpia">the Rich Kids</a>, a punk-pop group led by former <a href="spotify:artist:1u7kkVrr14iBvrpYnZILJR">Sex Pistol</a> bassist <a href="spotify:artist:6hLKAj2U3e4vfR6FUNB7Yh">Glen Matlock</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:69d3gmnnSi2WPQ9ISplpia">The Rich Kids</a> only released one album, 1978's Ghosts of Princes in Towers, before breaking up later that year. Ure spent a brief time with <a href="spotify:artist:1cXi8ALPQCBHZbf0EgP4Ey">the Misfits</a> (not the American band) before forming <a href="spotify:artist:0EPf9vAXPdFV5Ezp1sMX8B">Visage</a> with drummer <a href="spotify:artist:6wGFnx19YLhiBtB3Eb67gx">Rusty Egan</a> and vocalist Steve Strange; he left the group to replace <a href="spotify:artist:23wr9RJZg0PmYvVFyNkQ4j">Gary Moore</a> in <a href="spotify:artist:6biWAmrHyiMkX49LkycGqQ">Thin Lizzy</a>, who had left in the middle of an American tour. After the tour was over, Ure fulfilled an agreement to join <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> as the replacement for <a href="spotify:artist:36pk438TUUMdX59j1zbvTu">John Foxx</a>.

Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with <a href="spotify:artist:3dS8rLINyM7EYuMXryXJym">Steve Harley</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2prwOs4VSoN3nNvNAhpRI4">Modern Man</a>. In 1982, Ure released a solo single, a cover of <a href="spotify:artist:49WlsIvcUYj7Awo93hDKgf">the Walker Brothers</a>' hit "No Regrets"; it climbed into the U.K. Top Ten. Ure and <a href="spotify:artist:6bvtY9dkfSa5yKuogd2aLU">Bob Geldof</a> formed <a href="spotify:artist:35S20clEkkSNUo23ViaslZ">Band Aid</a>, a special project to aid famine relief efforts in Ethiopia, in 1984. The two wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and assembled an all-star band of British musicians to record the single; it sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season and prompted <a href="spotify:artist:6bvtY9dkfSa5yKuogd2aLU">Geldof</a> to organize the benefit concert Live Aid in 1985.

In 1985, <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> was put on hiatus and Ure began to pursue a full-time solo career. Recorded entirely by Ure, his 1985 solo debut, The Gift, launched the number one single "If I Was," as well as the minor hits "That Certain Smile" and "Call of the Wild." The following year, he recorded the final <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> album; in 1987, the band broke up and he began recording his second solo album. The resulting record, 1988's Answers to Nothing, was less successful than The Gift in the U.K., yet it charted in the U.S., which is something Ure's previous album failed to do. Three years later, Ure released his third album, Pure; while it didn't do any business in America, the album featured the Top 20 British hit "Cold, Cold Heart." He attempted a comeback in 1996 with Breathe, which went ignored by both the American and British markets. Four years later, his score for the Jon Cryer drama-comedy Went to Coney Island was issued by the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Evenmore%22">Evenmore</a> label. 

Ure's recording activity during the 2000s began with Move Me (2001), which featured some surprisingly hard-rocking material. A few years later, he published an autobiography, If I Was, and then, with <a href="spotify:artist:6bvtY9dkfSa5yKuogd2aLU">Geldof</a>, arranged the Live 8 concerts, after which he was recognized as an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire). Following the release of the covers-oriented 10 (2008), Ure participated in an <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> reunion and continued to record as a solo artist. Fragile was issued in 2014, and featured the <a href="spotify:artist:3OsRAKCvk37zwYcnzRf5XF">Moby</a> collaboration "Dark, Dark Night." In 2017, he collaborated with composer <a href="spotify:artist:2MqDvRrsqt37FTajdNsyXl">Ty Unwin</a> on the album Orchestrated, which featured orchestral reworkings of <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> songs, as well as songs from his solo career. In the following years Ure continued to perform live, playing dates across Europe, the U.K. and the U.S. and in 2019 the collection, Soundtrack 1978-2019, which celebrated four decades of his work, was issued. In 2023 Ure celebrated his 70th birthday with a one-off show at London's Royal Albert Hall. The event, which featured a full live rendition of the seminal <a href="spotify:artist:3iUjRVvYCsMfz7tuAQtBDI">Ultravox</a> album Vienna, was recorded and issued as Live at the Royal Albert Hall in late 2024. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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The best of Midge Ure featuring 'The Man Who Sold the World', 'If I Was', 'Breathe' &amp; much more.

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The complete collection of Midge Ure, from 'The Man Who Sold the World', 'If I Was', 'The Gift' &amp; beyond.

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This song has come full circle for me... I first listened to it while battling depression in 2016, last listened to it while standing on a chair ready to kick it, not knowing I was pregnant at the time. I came here to comment this because my daughter, whom I was pregnant with at that time, is quietly singing this in her room right now

She brought him to the motel so her last memory of her son wasn&#39;t in a hospital room but sleeping peacefully.

She brought him to the motel so her last memory of her son wasn't in a hospital room but sleeping peacefully.

The last part when the smiling faces gets erased,,, Its just emotionally wrecking 

I used to have an older brother.He was real sick a lot and I was never old enough to actually remember him,but my dad sometimes mentions him.Sometimes I think about what my life could have been like,what his life could have been like but I’ll never know the answer.This song just reminds me of him,and what could have been.I was cheated out of a brother,my parents were cheated out of their first son.And Ryan was cheated out of everything. Love You Bro

I used to have an older brother.He was real sick a lot and I was never old enough to actually remember him,but my dad sometimes mentions him.Sometimes I think about what my life could have been like,what his life could have been like but I’ll never know the answer.This song just reminds me of him,and what could have been.I was cheated out of a brother,my parents were cheated out of their first son.And Ryan was cheated out of everything.

Love You Bro

I noticed a lot of you thought she ripped out the heart monitor while the boy was still alive, and that she had brought him to the motel to die; as it turns out, if you look at the heart monitor going by in reverse, he has already died. She took him on a seemingly pointless odyssey to &quot;detach&quot; herself from what has happened, thinking if she normalized the situation by getting gas, stopping for pancakes, tucking him into bed...that maybe this NEW reality would cancel out the former one (the one where he is DEAD). This was a very sad, and desperate response to her denial and grief; she is trying to trick herself into believing everything is back to normal. Why didn&#39;t she just take her son back home? We don&#39;t know the back story, this is where creative license comes in. Maybe he had an ongoing sickness, and the house was full of reminders of his sick days? Maybe she knew the medical staff would see the body having been stolen, and have the police dispatched to her residence; and she knew this was a place she could get away, and be with him &quot;undisturbed&quot; one final time. Once they take his body away, she could not hold him and climb into bed with her baby again. So, there are a LOT of themes and reasons to consider. This might be the saddest (if not, one of) videos I have ever seen. The scene director had quite a vision!

I noticed a lot of you thought she ripped out the heart monitor while the boy was still alive, and that she had brought him to the motel to die; as it turns out, if you look at the heart monitor going by in reverse, he has already died. She took him on a seemingly pointless odyssey to "detach" herself from what has happened, thinking if she normalized the situation by getting gas, stopping for pancakes, tucking him into bed...that maybe this NEW reality would cancel out the former one (the one where he is DEAD). This was a very sad, and desperate response to her denial and grief; she is trying to trick herself into believing everything is back to normal. Why didn't she just take her son back home? We don't know the back story, this is where creative license comes in. Maybe he had an ongoing sickness, and the house was full of reminders of his sick days? Maybe she knew the medical staff would see the body having been stolen, and have the police dispatched to her residence; and she knew this was a place she could get away, and be with him "undisturbed" one final time. Once they take his body away, she could not hold him and climb into bed with her baby again. So, there are a LOT of themes and reasons to consider. This might be the saddest (if not, one of) videos I have ever seen. The scene director had quite a vision!

We lost a treasure on the 31st of December, and I played this song with my nephew on the 1st of January and cried like a baby. So surreal that Jeremiah is gone. A giant who kept the rhythm to my life the last twenty years. Rest peacefully Jer. You will live forever through your music.

We lost a treasure on the 31st of December, and I played this song with my nephew on the 1st of January and cried like a baby. So surreal that Jeremiah is gone. A giant who kept the rhythm to my life the last twenty years.

Rest peacefully Jer. You will live forever through your music.

My father died all alone in a tiny motel January 5th 2022. I&#39;ve always loved modest mouse, but this song now has a new meaning to me.

My father died all alone in a tiny motel January 5th 2022. I've always loved modest mouse, but this song now has a new meaning to me.

There&#39;s songs that make you happy,songs that make you relaxed,songs that are just to get turnt,chill and have fun. Then there&#39;s beautiful songs like this that disarm you and break you. (Both with the lyrics and the music video). I&#39;ll forever treasure this song because of that.

There's songs that make you happy,songs that make you relaxed,songs that are just to get turnt,chill and have fun. Then there's beautiful songs like this that disarm you and break you. (Both with the lyrics and the music video). I'll forever treasure this song because of that.

Each time I watch I&#39;m like &quot;ok, i&#39;m getting through it with dry eyes&quot;...then that damn smiley faced pancake shows up!!! Edit: I made this comment 7 years ago when I had a 2 year old boy…he is now 9 and his sister is 6. Crazy how time flies yet the video STILL kills me after all these years.

Each time I watch I'm like "ok, i'm getting through it with dry eyes"...then that damn smiley faced pancake shows up!!!
Edit: I made this comment 7 years ago when I had a 2 year old boy…he is now 9 and his sister is 6. Crazy how time flies yet the video STILL kills me after all these years.

i have a 6 y/o son... i can&#39;t watch this video without tearing up... and i&#39;m a 33 y/o man. when you have a kid this video is almost unwatchable. love the song though.

i have a 6 y/o son... i can't watch this video without tearing up... and i'm a 33 y/o man. when you have a kid this video is almost unwatchable. love the song though.

There will never be another lyricist like Isaac Brock.

Thank you for always being there for me Modest Mouse.

New modest mouse album? Finally something to live for.

Brings the old modest mouse vibes I really fucking dig this song.

Was not expecting to have life put back into my body by new Modest Mouse lyrics.  Ironically, I am their passenger now.

Draped in modesty, the mouse hath returned

yo wtf this just came on as a suggested song, love modest mouse, thought it was an old song i haven&#39;t heard yet. NEW  MODEST MOUSE?!?!

yo wtf this just came on as a suggested song, love modest mouse, thought it was an old song i haven't heard yet. NEW  MODEST MOUSE?!?!

I’m not crazy about what they’re so crazy about now. Thank you, Issac Brock.

I&#39;m not crazy about what they&#39;re so crazy about now.

I'm not crazy about what they're so crazy about now.

This is the most modest mouse thing I have heard in 25 years

Holy fuck we’re back to their classic sound

Not many bands still make amazing music this far into their careers. Modest mouse is still the best

This is a fucking monster track. You get the chills.

This one hits and leaves a void when it’s over.

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Official visualizer for "Picking Dragons' Pockets" by Modest Mouse
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Lyrics:
I ain't your passenger now. I ain’t your passenger now, nor your equipment.
An auditory trick. They’re a boot that begs to be licked. I am the tarmac, I’m the pilot, I’m the flight path. Can’t get past that.

Well they’ll go crazy if you don’t go crazy somehow.
And I’m not crazy ‘bout what they’re so crazy ‘bout now

We’ve been eating our own. 
We’ve our young.
We’ve been eating our own young.

Idle hands around the Devils throat.
A suicide not that another hand wrote, and we’re used to this.

Well they’ll go crazy if you don’t go crazy somehow.
And I’m not crazy ‘bout what they’re so crazy ‘bout now

Picking dragons pockets and away we go! Breathe in poison, then you breathe out smoke 
It’s clear I’m looking for an anecdote. Well you pay for garbage and you’ve cast your vote.
I found out just how low I’d go. Came up from the bottom looking like a ghost. I tried to go to Aukland but just did not go, turns out when it rains it snows.

A pile of leaves in the wind. Fresh clothes on dirty skin. The means to meet no ends again.

 Picking Dragons pockets and away we go, my eyes are their eyes watch the show.
Facts aren’t facts on screens that glow but we’re a pretty tricky little animal.

Well I’m not crazy ‘bout what they’re so crazy “bout now
And they’ll go crazy if you don’t go crazy somehow.

The looked at side of a microscope.
Voice to skull try to crush your soul.
But we’re a pretty tricky little animal.
Killers get killed. That’s just the way it goes.
Something that I know for sure is LOVE MAKES LOVE and hate makes more.
For sure a tricky little animal. 
We’re a pretty tricky little animal. 
I ain’t your passenger now. I ain’t your passenger now I’m just equipment.
We’ve been eating our own. We’ve been eating our own young.

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Lyrics:
Am I the shade or a shadow well I can’t really tell
And I still cannot remember if your eyes were blue or green or brown

I wish I paid attention to every word that you ever said
But you always spoke in whisper and I wasn’t good at listening

Well I can’t remember if your eyes were blue or green or red
Well you always spoke in whisper. I ain’t so good at listening 

Harsh words from my mother but it turned out they were nice
She said, “If you continue down this path your not the only one who dies”

A few weeks later I was told that you were gone
Well I still just can’t remember if your eyes were brown or green or blonde

I wish I paid attention to every word that you ever said, 
but you spoke in a whisper and I’m not in your head

Well I can’t remember if your eyes were bleen or glue or red
but you always spoke in whisper and I ain’t so good at listening

A few days later they found you frozen in your car
Well the last time you were seen leaving the YMCA from the showers 

Am I the shade or a shadow well I can’t really tell
And I still just can’t remember if your eyes were even there at all

Yeah things were shaky as I know they often are
But after 7 years together all I remember is the back of the police car

Well things get crazy shaky, sometimes way too fucked up
If I’d been in my right mind I would’ve called the whole thing off
  
My heart pumped faster than could possibly be right
I read in a magazine the day before you only get so many thumps in your whole life

I can’t remember if your eyes were green or brown or red
cause you always spoke in a whisper and I ain’t so good at listening
Yeah you always spoke in whisper, I ain't so good at  listening

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Lyrics:
I used to sleep in the branches. I used to slither in the grass.
I can’t believe how long I’ve wanted to be living in the past.
You say you’re related to ancient kings
Oh! And some czars.
Why don’t you build a time machine
and show them they’ve fallen just so far.

Look how far we haven’t come!
Oh my god we’re so fucking dumb!
Look how far we haven’t come!
Oh my god we’re so stupid dumb!

An object inanimate layered deep in the earth’s crust
They pulled me out then they chiseled me into someone else’s bust.

Look how far we haven’t come!
Oh my god we’re so fucking dumb!
Look how far we haven’t come!
Oh my god we’re so fucking dumb!

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Midge Ure

A Man of Two Worlds (World Two : Songs)

A Man of Two Worlds (World One : Music)

Live at The Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23

The Gift [Deluxe Edition] (2023 Remaster)

Orchestrated

Breathe Again

Fragile

Pure

Answers to Nothing (Deluxe Version)

Ten

The Man Who Stole Your Soul

Just Words

All Stood Still [Live at the Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23]

Glorious [Live at the Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23]

Fade To Grey [Live at the Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23]

If I Was (Live at Wembley Arena, 23/12/1985)

Do They Know It's Christmas

Das Beat (feat. Midge Ure)

Vienna (Orchestrated)

Hymn (Orchestrated)

90s 100 Hits

Live 8 (Live, July 2005)

Zeitreise - Das Beste von Schiller

Symphonia (Live)

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