"All Stood Still" is Ultravox's fourth and final single from Vienna, the band's first album with Midge Ure, released on Chrysalis Records on May 26, 1981.
The single, on the back of "Vienna"'s success, hit #8 on the UK charts, giving Ultravox their second top-ten hit. There is currently no known music video available for the song, although the song was used to infectious effect in the first skateboarding video, Powell Peralta's promotional "Skateboarding in the '80's", featuring future legends Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen.
"All Stood Still" is the first Ultravox single to have an extended 12" version of the a-side. The b-sides comprise of two original instrumentals. "Keep Torque-ing" is listed on the Rare, Vol. 1 compilation as "Keep Talking"; it is generally accepted that the latter is the correct name for the track.
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“There stood the purple spires with no breath of air
Nor headlong bee
To disturb their perfect poise the livelong day
‘Neath the alder tree.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)