Double CD of the show, presented in a deluxe 6 panel fold out sleeve with accompanying 8 page booklet. Supporting SDE with these initiatives is leading to similar collaborations with labels/artists and we are keen to bring your more in the near future! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In terms of what’s on the SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio, it very much mirrors what we did with the best-selling (and now sold out) blu-ray audio of Tears For Fears’ The Hurting.

Lead vocalist Martin Fry said that they had wanted to fuse the attitude of punk and the sophistication of disco. The band was augmented by session musicians, and the 11-piece ensemble toured Europe, the US and Japan. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp.The Lexicon of Love was an early production by a producer that in many ways would go on to define the sound the eighties, Trevor Horn. Disc 2 features some early demos and a previously unreleased live run-through of virtually the entire album, recorded during the band's heyday in 1982. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While he has denied that it is a concept album, [14] The Lexicon of Love features recurrent themes, including heartache and the struggle to make meaningful connections. Decked out in tailored suits and gold lame, the Sheffield quartet - fronted by the elegant Martin Fry - pounced onto dance floors in October 1981 with the splendid "Tears are Not Enough".

The band’s timeless debut delivered three UK top 10 hit singles: ‘Poison Arrow’, ‘The Look of Love” and ‘All of My Heart’, and enjoyed US success as well, with ‘Poison Arrow’ and ‘The Look of Love’ reaching 18 and 25 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. I guess Michael Jacksons Thriller and Fleetwood Macs Tango in the night would also be contenders but Lexicon of love truly is a timeless album and blows your mind everytime you hear it. Album d'ABC avec la fraicheur des premiers morceaux d'un groupe et surtout la perfection et finesse du producteur de ce début de décennie : Trevor Horn.Here’s what Martin Fry has to say about Wilson’s work on this album: “…Part-alchemy and part-archaeology. My remix of ABC’s classic 1982 album The Lexicon of Love was released on 4th August 2023 for its (somewhat belated) 40th anniversary.

Lauding the "pristine pop songs", he declared that it "remains a benchmark of 80s pop, and a formidable collection of melodramatic love songs assembled in one neat package. In a BBC review of the 2004 Deluxe Edition, Rob Webb stated that " The Lexicon of Love stands as a landmark album in British pop", and "underpins just what a sharp band ABC were: witty, lyrical and very, very funky". It was released on June 25, 1982 and reached number 1 in the United Kingdom and number 24 in the US Billboard 200. Ken Tucker of The Philadelphia Inquirer was less enthusiastic, dismissing the album as "prissy dance music, light on the beat and heavy on the sort of maundering crooning that the effete English rock musicians frequently mistake for passion.ABC leader Martin Frey sings with a histrionic despair, at once naive and cynical, and all dressed up by horn and string sections that feel positively overwhelming.