ABC - Lexicon of Love
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Album Details: Lexicon of Love
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1982
- Label:
- Polygram Records
- UPC:
- 042281000324
User Reviews: Lexicon of Love
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Textbook Pop Music at its very best!
, February 6, 2002Reviewer: Steve - See all Steve's reviews"The Lexicon Of Love" is without a doubt one of the finest pop records ever made. Excellency reigns over this pop masterpiece. Martin Fry's voice and lyrics are paired very well with the excellent instrumentation of Mark White, David Palmer and Stephen Singleton and over cohorts. This is a cd to have in any cd collection. -
radiant thing
, October 14, 2001Reviewer: kiril_miladinov - See all kiril_miladinov's reviewsabc's beats alone would be enough to put them on the top of my all-time list. but they get even overshaddowed by fry's vocal interpretation and intense lyrics, which clearly dominate all of their albums. and, along with 'abracadabra', 'lexicon' is for me still the most outstanding of all abc's albums. fry is definitely the most brilliant mind that has ever made pop music, comparable only to marc almond and jarvis cocker.
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Pro Reviews: Lexicon of Love
| EXPERT RATING: 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, which began fragmenting almost immediately, never equaled its gold-selling first LP commercially or artistically, despite some worthy later songs. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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