Old Enough to Forget

I remember driving home during rush hour when all of a sudden this song came on the radio, and it just blew my mind. Thankfully the disc jockey had the good manners to identify the band and the song. "That was 'Dancing with Tears in My Eyes' by Ultravox." Thank you, I said to myself, and filed it away as something I needed to remember. Good lord that was a good song. I particularly loved the guitar work with the dive bombs and string growls interwoven with the very prominent keyboards. As enamoured as I was, I never did get the record. In the mid '90s I picked up their best of collection The Voice: The Best of Ultravox and boy howdy that had the bits and pieces I had heard over the years. Of course, as fate would have it I'd start consuming vinyl again, admittedly at a rather shocking rate. I'm still adhering, for the most part, to my don't buy what you already have rule. Rules are meant to be broken and there are exceptions of course, but the reverse...