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Beauty Stab by: ABC List Price: £5.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.37 You Save: £1.62 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731453639720 Format: Extra tracks Label: Commercial Marketing Manufacturer: Commercial Marketing Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Commercial Marketing Release Date: July 25, 2002 Running Time: 45 minutes Studio: Commercial Marketing Sales Rank: 68733 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Not as good as Lexicon, but nowhere near as bad as its reputation has made it out to be!Rating: 6.5/10 Best tracks: "That Was Then, But This is Now", "If I Ever Thought You Were Lonely", "Unzip", "Love's a Dangerous Language" To pull a Beauty Stab is to take everything that was special and unique about you and then throw it to the wind; this makes it sound like ABC's second album is a disaster, and in regards to how it affected the band's stock both critically and commercially, then yes, this follow-up was a big fat belly-flop of an LP; out went Trevor Horn, out went chocolate box strings, out went the sound of a million dollars, in went rough and ready guitars, an uglier production and lyrics that were just as cutting as sarcastic as those on The Lexicon of Love, but without the warmth and adversity in ... Read More: Rating:  - FantasticAs the review title says, at least on par with lexicon of love if not better in places. Rating: - Criminally under ratedHmm. . . that difficult second album. What do you do when your first album turns you into international superstars, sends you on a global tour, ropes in Julien Temple to make a film based on said album and places you at the forefront of the new wave of British pop? Err, go back to the studio, swap the gold lame suit for a leather jacket, chuck a bit of politics into the lyrics and rock out. A critical backlash awaited. . . While an eager public anticipated "Lexicon 2", Fry and colleagues were preparing its antithesis; a brash, raw album suffused with lyrics about the state of the UK under Thatcher and the shady ways of the advertising industry ("I sold the Eskimo snow, Built the skyline outta playdo, Persuading you ... Read More: Rating:  - Enjoyable-a slow growerI REALLY want to love this album. I bought this neither expecting, or actually wanting a second 'Lexicon of Love' (that would have been criminal), and looking forward to what I hoped would be a brilliant pop-rock album (again, looking forward to them being more diverse, and under a different producer). And it is enjoyable. It's smart, it's ironic, feels big and yet references the mundane- it ticks all the boxes for what makes British pop and rock great. But to me, in some inexplicable way that I cannot pinpoint, it never quite gels. Maybe this is because they were dabbing their toes in pop waters as of yet undiscovered (with songs such as 'United Kingdom' one thinks of Brit pop, although admittedly ABC did it smarter and better), or trying to meld ... Read More: Rating: - Oi! Have you got cloth ears!!?At the time this lp was criminally ignored by the record buying public. It combines great lyrics with complex and innovative arragements, and was obviously a bit too difficult for many listeners. As for music critics, they'd already decided that abc were yesterday's news(wrongly) and were unprepared to give this lp a fair review. |
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