Anyone a fan? was jamming to them today, i always liked them. Martin Fry was like a mix of David Bowie meets Smokey Robinson. With New Wave meets old school...

Also very theatrical to

"Poison Arrow"

takes me right back to the summer of '82 when the video was all over MTV

abc is great. Beauty Stab was an underrated album. that was then this is now is one of my favorite songs by then.

i've loved ABC since i was a kid. great band!

Big fan of ABC. The Lexicon of Love is one of the greatest pop records ever recorded -- a landmark for ABC and for producer Trevor Horn. They had such a lush sound. The theatrics of their videos just added to that sound. I think they stumbled a bit with Beauty Stab, but rebounded quite well with How To Be A Zillionaire! and Alphabet City. Wish that sound had stayed around a while longer. They (mainly Martin Fry) put together a pretty good album about three years ago (Traffic) that virtually no one heard. I believe it was produced by Gary Langan, who was an associate of Trevor Horn (co-founded ZTT Records and was a member of Art of Noise).

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Loved these cats.................what happened 2 them?

I love ABC! They were a funky class act! My fave tracks are Look of love, Vanity Kills, Tears are not enough & When Smokey sings.

I liked ABC "Poison Arrow" is my favorite but they were very underrated and underappreciated. They had hit records but they should have been as big as Duran Duran.

babybrutha said:

Be Near Me!

How To Be A Millionaire!

Vanity Kills!

PERFECTION!!!

Hip hip hooray

Yippee I Yippee I aaaaayy

them

I dig several of ABC's songs.. they have some clever.. lyrics

like this below from "date stamp":

"I get sales talk

from sales assistants

when all I want to do girl

is lower your resistance

everything is temporary

written on that sand

looking for the girl

who meets supply with demand"

back in the early 80s

they had a.. "sophisticated

(& sometimes funky)

pop sensibility"..

I also really dig "tears are not enough"

1 of their funkiest songs

"exuses

have their uses

but now they're all used up

all used.."

also "be near me"

"how to be a millionaire" ("I've seen the future.. I can't afford it..")

as well as "poison arrow" & of course "the look of love"

right on, ABC.

Love Them. But I do have a thing for male british duos.

lazycrockett said:

Love Them. But I do have a thing for male british duos.

SAME HERE!!!!!!

"'Perdoneme me llamo Neil"

""Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love."

Neil talked bout how much the PSB respected ABC and was excited that he found a way to use his in a song in a way to honor them.

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lazycrockett said:

"'Perdoneme me llamo Neil"

""Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love."

Neil talked bout how much the PSB respected ABC and was excited that he found a way to use his in a song in a way to honor them.

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I could tell they would be 2 bands that respected each other. Imagine him & Martin... having conversations in these great british accents haha i love it.