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| | The Lexicon of Love | | | Music Artist : | | ABC | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Island / Mercury | | Release Date : | | 2002-02-05 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Show Me
2. Poison Arrow
3. Many Happy Returns
4. Tears Are Not Enough
5. Valentine's Day
6. Look of Love, Pt. 1
7. Date Stamp
8. All of My Heart
9. 4 Ever 2 Gether
10. Look of Love, Pt. 4
11. Theme from "Mantrap"
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 excellent
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 |
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Can I tell you a high school story? A 1980s story? A music story?
Forty year olds like me, who like 60s music and got trashed in high school, have a real bias aginst 1980s bands. I have Cerebal Palsy.
I remember hearing Loverboy, Debbie Gibson and the Thriller circus freak himself, Then I remember all the football boys and cheerleaders who used to terrorize me. Can you blame me for getting hives when i hear the phrase "80s music?"
I only later found out the 1980s were also host to the Cucteau Twins, Prefab Sprout, Husker Du--all kinds of interesting sounds that never made it to MTV, or more to the point, boom boxes in school lunch rooms. Communications were so localized and small in those days, it was much harder to find out about these types of bands.
Now that we have all grown up Duran Duran, Wham and Culture Club are- like boom boxes, Ronald Reagan and The Cosby show-part of another lifetime; was that ME?
But the music we bypassed is still here, and I can't think of better band than ABC.
Lexicon of Love is 100% 1980s. Those drums and shining keybords and synthsized bass are frozen in time. But this music is funky, with operatic chord changes, and lyrics that deal with amore with an adult sophisitcation. This is not the music of jocks but that of spiky haired painters. Listening, you hear shades of Scott Walker, Bacharach, Roxy Music, and all the 1960s romatics, just updated with what was then current irony.
All this passed through the ears of angry Beatle boys like me, but now, with lifetimes passed and lifetimes of musical educations I have been privlaged enough to obtain, I hear all the richness and brillance of this music, and realize, this stuff was progressive and royal all along. It was retro idiots like me who did not get it.
Hey, it was a long, long time ago.
Plus, it helps that when I go into Starbucks, I am the older quirky guy. The 2009 cheerleaders think I am cute little dude, kind of a harmless funny uncle, and are REALLY nice to me. |
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 "Poison Arrow" recalls a distinctive 80s sound
Submitted on: 2008-09-24 |
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| ABC's "Poison Arrow" brings to mind a distinctive sound heard in the work of eighties artists like the Alarm, Psychedelic Furs, Duran Duran, Human League, Talk Talk, and Howard Jones, to name just a few. I didn't always like British new wave and techno-pop; their sounds too often left me feeling moody and melancholy. I recently gained new respect and appreciation for the genres, however, when I purchased nearly 40 UK singles from 1983 at a flea market--everything from the Jam, Style Council, and Madness to Haircut One Hundred, Heaven 17, and Ultravox--that left me thoroughly impressed. Kagagoogoo's "Big Apple," The Other Ones' "Holiday," and Level 42's "The Sun Goes Down (Livin' It Up)" are simply outstanding records (and I'm filled with regret knowing that I virtually ignored London's early-eighties rock scene). |
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 80's Classic
Submitted on: 2008-04-28 |
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| I'vd had this album for years in vinyl and I just bought it in CD format to play it in my car. It's an album you'll never get tired of listening to. The throbbing beat, the lavish orchestration, and the corny lyrics are a winning combinaion. |
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One of the Best of 1982
Submitted on: 2007-09-04 |
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If you are a fan of the early 80's New Wave sound, ABC The Lexicon of Love is one you should have. Amazing production and wonderfully written songs.
Get it! |
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Pure Pop Brilliance
Submitted on: 2007-07-01 |
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| I'll never forget the first time I heard 4 ever 2 gether over the headphones of my walkman while i sat on the bus on my way to work all those years ago. I ran out right away and bought the Cassette, and at the time, I had no idea how many times I would listen to this Cd and what it would do to me. I still listen to it often, it is simply pure pop brilliance! Oh, and the lyrics are catchy too. |
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