best moment on Lexicon of Love

Love this record so unconditionally. It was a harbinger for a new era in pop at the time, but alas that didn't last very long.

I cannot vote when "One day, Martin, maybe you'll find true love" is not present.

it was high on the longlist

you're missing a lot of good ones

I stuck a marriage proposal

In the waste disposal

If that's the trash aesthetic,

I'd suggest that we forget it

"Your lipstick and your lip gloss seals my fate"

When she's gone, all I got to learn

Is the law of diminishing return

Speak! No. Speak! No.

And all my friends just might ask me – they say, "Martin, maybe, one day you'll find true love."

OMG Geir hivemind convergence. What's happening!

We all make! Make mistakes!

Love how snotty & put-out Martin sounds on "Tears Are Not Enough".

Anyway I agree this is far from a comprehensive list, esp. as it's just lyrics.

ha my first choice before even seeing the options was option 1! love that string stab right at the end. Valentine's Day is still my favourite bit of 1980s pop production ever i think. justifies all the hype about Horn all on its own.

another vote for the Poison Arrow spoken bits as the best, but after that-

I know democracy, but I know what's fascist

"But all i wanna do girl is lower your resistance"

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that female voice

Looking for the girl who meets supply with demand.

I get sales talk from sales assistants. When all I want to do girl, is lower your resistance.

I've grown to love the next album's "She's vegetarian except when it comes to sex/She's strictly ad-lib except when it comes to sex" almost as much as these offerings.

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that female voice

― meisenfek, Sunday, 25 March 2012 08:34 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with this times a million

his irl ex-girlfriend's voice!

Blowing my mind all over again right now. The arrangement of the bass and synth on Many Happy Returns.. man. Trevor Horn is *under rated* if anything.

so this is out....

http://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ABC-The-Lexicon-of-Love-II.jpg

Yep. I haven't heard it yet because I'm worried it'll be awful.

Anyone heard it yet?

Is that Eva Green? Got 30 seconds in before I switched to something else. I'll give it another go at some point soonish.

Quite fearfully, I listened twice through the other day and was positively shocked by how much I enjoyed it. The first three or four songs, in particular, are terrific.

Curious what others think...

criminal that "hip hip hooray / yippie-yi, yippie-yi-ay" wasn't an option in this poll

Tom Ewing writes about it here:

http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/145006620611/blame-cupid

And Chris Roberts writes about it here for The Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/20313-abc-lexicon-of-love-2-album-review

Good review from Chris Roberts. "One of the fey, foppish, book-reading, film-watching, idealist army"? Haha, yes, guilty.

Clearly I need to dedicate some time to check out this sequel.

I'm curious as to whether this holds up as a sequel to The Lexicon of Love, or whether it may as well be just another late-period ABC album with the name bolted onto it.

This sounded like a bad idea but I couldn't resist listening to it and it's actually really good. Well done! Don't be afraid to give it a chance.

I liked it a lot. Only recall one eh track, but it was in the background so maybe I didn't hear it right. Don't really get the idea of it as a sequel, though, any more than any band with an identifiable sound essentially releases a series of sequels. When was the last ABC album, anyway?

I'm not too enamoured with it although the strings are nice. I miss the hard brittle funk edge that was on the original record

man all these basslines are insane