Album · Midge Ure
Pure by Midge Ure
Pure is an album by Midge Ure, released in 1991. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Cold, Cold, Heart”, on 3 lists with a best position of #1952.
Pure, Midge Ure's third solo album, arrived on 16 September 1991, his first for BMG-Arista, and the former Ultravox frontman produced it himself. He spent two years pulling the songs together, partly in his home studio in London and partly in the basement of his house on Montserrat, once he'd cleared out the mess Hurricane Hugo left behind.
Love, both the lift and the crash of it, is the thread running through the record. It opens big with "I See Hope in the Morning Light", African rhythms and a gospel choir lifted by Paddy Moloney's uilleann pipes, Ure chasing uplift without any sermon. "Let It Go?" takes aim at apathy, at everybody waiting for someone else to sort things out, and "Cold, Cold Heart" joined those two as a single. It made No. 36 in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pure on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold, Cold, Heart | 3 | #1952 | – | 1999–2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.