Ha!-Ha!-Ha!

Ha!-Ha!-Ha! was released 14 October, 1977 by Ultravox!. It's more confident than the band's first self-titled release and is more extreme in all directions. By their next release, their last one with John Foxx, the exclamation mark was dropped from the end of their name.

ROckwrok explodes with joy. The Beeb played it, the word fuck notwithstanding. Fear In The Western World is punk rock and references hot spots, specifically Soweto and Ireland. While I'm Still Alive is as close as things ever get to the actual Sex Pistols, the vocal phrasing slightly like John Lydon's. The ARP Odessey makes loud noises and haunting melodies. The Frozen Ones is from the point of view of humans, in pods (Cryogenics) beginning with Currie/Foxx atmospherics until the band kicks in and explodes. Artificial Life, begins like Roxy Music's Every Dream Home A Heartache. The lyrics examine suburban teenage life and tribes, which become epitomized by various characters, including a girl named Mary who'd ran through Warhol, Divine Light, Scientology and "her own sex" prior to giving it all up. Distant Smile has a long introduction featuring abstract piano chords extended with pedals, some synth treatments and explodes into joy. Hiroshima Mon Amour includes the Roland TR-77 drum machine working a modified bossa-nova preset by drummer Warren Cann, foreshadows music John Foxx was to make later.

Indeed, Foxx's first solo record was really born amid the songs and sounds found here.