At Is That Legal? Eric's having kittens over Ultravox being pompous...

Ya, but Mr-X was sooooo cool!

My complaint about Vienna was the bridge sounded too much like these guys:





(who I might add are beginning to look more and more like the systems engineers they always were - and still are so cool!)

Anyway, if you want 80s pompous, what about these guys:




(Nevermind that I loved, and still love The Blue Nile)

A lot of people thought these guys were pretensious, but I just thought they were FAB-U-LAS!



Mick Karn on the fretless bass... good lord. Check him out here years later riffing on Sons of Pioneers: