History Music / Lament

''Lament'' was also one of the first albums to take advantage of the technological advancements of the then-nascent UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format, interspersing several remixes with the album's songs to prolong its length and offer consumers with an incentive to try out those shiny plastic discs. This expanded tracklist was also included on the cassette release (minus the Special Mix of "White China"), as the Compact Cassette format at the time had already started to become known as an outlet for extended versions of albums.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The video for "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" has a nuclear power plant meltdown causing a nuclear explosion, [[https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/why-a-nuclear-reactor-will-never-become-a-bomb/ which is impossible in real nuclear reactors]] because they use low-enriched uranium and nuclear reactors employ safeguards so that the chain reaction for a nuclear explosion doesn't occur.

''Lament'', released in 1984, is the seventh album by British NewWaveMusic band Music/{{Ultravox}}. Their last with drummer Warren Cann, who would be replaced with Music/BigCountry member Mark Brzezicki two years later, it continues the shift away from the more complex brand of new wave that ''Music/{{Vienna}}'' and ''Music/RageInEden'' championed. Rather than upping the SynthPop elements of ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', however, the album instead added in elements of ArenaRock such as heavier use of guitar and stadium-esque reverb. This shift would end up foretelling the overtly pop rock direction of both ''[[Music/UVox U-Vox]]'' and the band's 90's output.

* DeathBySex: Implied in the video for "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes". The video's protagonist is a worker at a nuclear power plant who, when the reactor goes into meltdown with no hope of stopping the explosion, hurries home to spend one last romantic evening with his wife. The video ends with the couple in bed; the last thing we see is a shot of their television (bearing an onscreen message warning of the impending disaster) which then goes blank as a blinding light floods the room.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The video for "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", during the line "we love to the sound of our favorite song", depicts a boombox that plays vinyl records. Several models of vertical turntables were in fact made by Sharp at the time.

''Lament'' was also one of the first albums to take advantage of the technological advancements of the then-nascent UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format, interspersing several remixes with the album's songs to prolong its length and offer consumers with an incentive to try out those shiny plastic discs. This expanded tracklist was also included on the cassette release, as the Compact Cassette format at the time had already started to become known as an outlet for extended versions of albums.

[[AC:Side One]]

# "White China (Special Mix)" (8:23)*

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[-* = omitted from LP releases-]

* EpicRocking: The remixes of "White China", "One Small Day", and "Lament" included on the CD and cassette release.

* WorldWarIII: "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" describes the narrator coping with the onset of it.

* MindScrew: As per usual with Ure-era Ultravox.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The video for "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", during the line "We love to the sound of our favorite song", depicts a boombox that plays vinyl records. Several models of vertical turntables were in fact made by Sharp at the time.

''Lament'' was also one of the first albums to take advantage of the then-nascent UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format, interspersing several remixes with the album's songs to prolong its length and offer consumers with an incentive to try out those shiny plastic discs. This expanded tracklist was also included on the cassette release, as the Compact Cassette format at the time had already started to become known as an outlet for extended versions of albums.

-->* = omitted from LP releases

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Lament'' features greater dabblings in pop rock than previous efforts, foreshadowing the full-on pop rock direction of the band's next three albums.

''Lament'', released in 1984, is the seventh album by British NewWaveMusic band Music/{{Ultravox}}. Their last with drummer Warren Cann, who would be replaced with Music/BigCountry member Mark Brzezicki two years later, it continues the shift away from the more complex brand of new wave that ''Music/{{Vienna}}'' and ''Music/RageInEden'' championed. Rather than upping the SynthPop elements of ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', however, the album instead added in elements of ArenaRock such as heavier use of guitar and stadium-esque reverb. This shift would end up foretelling the overtly pop rock direction of both ''Music/UVox'' and the band's '90s output.

''Lament'' was also one of the first albums to feature an extended tracklist for the then-nascent UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format, interspersing several remixes with the album's songs to prolong its length and offer consumers with an incentive to try out those shiny plastic discs. This expanded tracklist was also included on the cassette release, as the Compact Cassette format at the time had already started to become known as an outlet for extended versions of albums.

''Lament'', released in 1984, is the seventh album by British NewWaveMusic band Music/{{Ultravox}}. Their last with drummer Warren Cann, who would be replaced with Music/BigCountry member Mark Brzezicki two years later, it continues the shift away from the more complex brand of new wave that ''Music/{{Vienna}}'' and ''Music/RageInEden'' championed. Rather than upping the SynthPop elements of ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', however, the album instead added in elements of ArenaRock such as heavier use of guitar and stadium-esque reverb. This shift would end up foretelling the overtly pop rock direction of both ''Music/{{U-Vox}}'' and the band's 90's output.

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: "Man of Two Worlds" features Gaelic vocals in the chorus, sung by Mae McKenna.

* MinimalistAlbumCover: A title and tracklist surrounded by a grid of small squares, all over a dark gray backdrop. Later releases mitigate this somewhat by moving the tracklist to the back and replacing it on the front with a photograph of the Callanish Stones in Scotland, previously featured on the LP release's inner sleeve.