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Track List: Lexicon of Love [Bonus Track]

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  1. Show MeDownload & Buy
  2. Poison ArrowDownload & Buy
  3. Many Happy ReturnsDownload & Buy
  4. Tears Are Not EnoughDownload & Buy
  5. Valentine's DayDownload & Buy
  6. The Look Of Love (Part One)Download & Buy
  7. Date StampDownload & Buy
  8. All Of My HeartDownload & Buy
  9. 4 Ever 2 GetherDownload & Buy
  10. The Look Of Love (Part Four)Download & Buy
  11. Theme From 'Mantrap'Download & Buy

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Album Details: Lexicon of Love [Bonus Track]

Release Date:
02/05/2002
Label:
Island / Mercury
UPC:
731453825024

User Reviews: Lexicon of Love [Bonus Track]

  1. Textbook Pop Music at its very best!

    , February 6, 2002
    Reviewer: Steve - See all Steve's reviews
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  2. radiant thing

    , October 14, 2001
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From AMG Reviews

ABC's debut album combined the talents of the Sheffield, U.K.-based band, particularly lead singer Martin Fry, a fashion plate of a frontman with a Bryan Ferry fixation, and the inventive production style of former Buggles member Trevor Horn and his team of musicians, several of whom would go on to form the Art of Noise. Horn created dense tracks that merged synthesizer sounds, prominent beats, and swaths of strings and horns, their orchestrations courtesy of Anne Dudley, who would follow her work with the Art of Noise by becoming a prominent film composer, and who here underscored Fry's stylized romantic lyrics and dramatic, if affected singing. The production style was dense and noisy, but frequently beautiful, and the group's emotional songs gave it a depth and coherence later Horn works, such as those of Yes ("Owner of a Lonely Heart") and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, would lack. (You can hear Horn trying out the latter band's style in "Date Stamp.") Fry and company used the sound to create moving dancefloor epics like "Many Happy Returns," which, like most of the album's tracks, deserved to be a hit single. (In the U.K., four were: "Tears Are Not Enough," "Poison Arrow," "The Look of Love," and "All of My Heart," the last three making the Top Ten; in the U.S., "The Look of Love" and "Poison Arrow" charted Top 40.) ABC, who began fragmenting almost immediately, never equaled their gold-selling first LP commercially or artistically, despite some worthy later songs. Mercury's 2002 reissue is digitally remastered, emphasizing the album's still striking sound, and has been given a midline price. Added as a bonus track is "Theme From 'Mantrap,'" deriving from the band's documentary film chronicling their 1982 U.K. tour. The song is actually a slowed-down and rearranged version of "Poison Arrow."

- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide



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