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ABC - The Lexicon Of Love


ABC
The Lexicon Of Love

   

There are a million ways to say "I love you" in pop music, and Martin Fry, the singer and leader of ABC, has managed to cram many of them onto this dazzling debut album. Fry, who wears his heart on his silk shirt sleeve like a giant diamond cuff link, flashes a Phil Spector-like armada of horns, synthesizers, strings, percussion and backup sirens as he compiles a pumping disco dictionary of sordid B-movie romantic maneuvers and smug sexual wordplay.

The heartbreaking turns and wicked verbal jousting that characterize the lyrics ("With your heart on parade and your heart on parole/I hope you find a sucker to buy that mink stole," he sings in "Valentine's Day") may seem like soap opera
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fare. Yet Fry's vocal playacting – broad gestures à la David Bowie fringed with Bryan Ferry's aching tremolo – and the intricate yet remarkably fluid arrangements turn them into a winning combination of Gamble-Huff R&B glitz and martial funkadelic guts.

ABC's recent British hit single, "Poison Arrow," is typical of the songs here: a dramatically pleading chorus and a nimble bass line are elevated to the level of High Pop with the strategic deployment of a smoky soprano sax, an oriental marimba figure and a synthesized drum roll that explodes in Fry's face as his girl brutally cuts him down. Producer Trevor Horn (formerly of the Buggles and Yes) orchestrates these devilish touches into a series of snowballing climaxes braked only by the Bowiemeets-Henry Mancini sweep of the candlelight ballad "All of My Heart."

Martin Fry's fixation on the language of love and the look of his songs suggests that this album doesn't come entirely from the heart. But the hydraulic pump and radiant glitz of the The Lexicon of Love are guaranteed to leave you swooning in spite of yourself. If not in Fry's tears, then certainly in your own dance-floor sweat. (RS 378)


DAVID FRICKE



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M VG CD   $6.63   KRTpro
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
1998 Remaster
NM/NM CD   $8.28   CMS Music
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Abc - The Lexicon Of Love   Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Label: Mercury, Published: 1982 Mercury, 1982
USED CD   $8.34   recordsale
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Year: 1990; Label: Polygram Records; tracks: 1. Show Me; 2. Poison Arrow; 3. Many Happy Returns;
Very Good CD   $8.94   SSM Music
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810 003-2
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A10830 cd Condition: Mint Barcode: 731451494222 Year:' Title: The Lexicon Of Love Style: Pop - R Special Order
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German 10 Track Original Cd P/s (8100032) German, 8100032
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
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V Good LP   $1.74   goldspinners
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
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Brings Original Picture Cover Mercury Rec.
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1982 Mercury Srm-1-4059
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Usa Reissue W/blue-white Innerbag, Black Mercury Label, Nm/vg+ Usa, Mercury, 422-833 890-1, 1982
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vg/ex LP   $6.62   goats
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Abc - The Lexicon Of Love Album   Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Lp Vinyl, Abc: The Lexicon Of Love, Mercury 4059/cust.innersl./'82 M-/vg+... Show Me/poison Arr...
M-/VG+ LP   $7.35   Music Obsess
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Neutron Ntrs 1 With Inner, Some Marks On Sleeve
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Abc - The Lexicon Of Love LP   Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Classic 1985 10 Track Album, With Original Inner Sleeve. Mercury, 6359 099
VG / VG LP   $8.29   Vinyl Exchan
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City Label / Lyric Sleeve / Very Slight Wear Ring Mercury Srm1-4059, D, 1982
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Artist: Abcalbum: The Lexicon Of Lovecatalog Number: Srm 1 4059vinyl Co Usa
VG++ LP   $9.00   Shuga
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Abc - The Lexicon Of Love CD   Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Germany, Vertigo, 6359 099, 1982
C:EX,M:EX LP   $9.20   recordsale
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Abc - The Lexicon Of Love Single   Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Show Me/poison Arrow/many Happy Returns/tears Are Not Enough/valentine's Day/the Look Of Love (pa...
VG VG+ LP   $12.17   Vinyl Soluti
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Scarce Orig 10 Track Lp Blue Philippines, Mercury
EX/EX LP   $10.85   Disc Covery
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Uk 80's Group, Produced By Trevor Horn (buggles) F, Vertigo, 6359 099, 1982
VG++/VG++, LP   $11.41   OCTOPUSMUSIC
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
2 Copies Neutron
M- VG+ LP   $10.35   Finyl Vinyl
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Abc the Lexicon Of Love Mercury, Srm1-4059, 1982
S 9 8 7 LP   $10.47   CyrCo
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LP   $13.31   CDExpress
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Ca, Vertigo, Vog-1-3316, 1982
VG+ VG++ V LP   $14.95   suncoast
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
LP   $17.40   sugarball
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    Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
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VG+/VG+ LP   $16.58   BeatStreetRe
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Abc - The Lexicon Of Love EP   Abc   The Lexicon Of Love
Tracks: 1-show Me 2-poison Arrow 3-many Happy Returns 4-tears Are Not Enough ...
VG+ VG+ LP   $21.85   sebo do disc
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