ABC ‎– The Lexicon Of Love

Japan vinyl pressing is dead quite, with great sonics, artwork and inner sleeve.

80s synth pop gold. This was and still is a high point in this listeners ears of pure elegant electronic pop with a mix of acoustic instrumentation. The string arrangements, Fry's vocals and the perfectly melange of electronics into the mix leaves one to wonder how they managed to top the Lexicon. Truth is that was a peak never to be traversed again. When the bar is this high topping your massive accomplishment is a swim against the tsunami. Seriously the remastered ver is top notch and a reason why the 1980s was the last true era of great pop music hands down!

Right up there with any classic Album - This was early 80's Club / New romantic's Zenith made by the sons of welders from Sheffield. The scale, glamour, pomp was wider in ambition than any Roxy Music Album yet owed a debt to that idea that it didn't matter where you were from but where you were AT. Horns's production is SO SO over the top but as said below the placing of everything in the mix is astounding. 80's Pop's finest hour. Played the album start to finish back in the day and occasional spin it today but has to be consumed as one sitting.

Classic 80's album with some true vintage 80's pop. Poison Arrow, The Look of Love absolutely brilliant. Not a classic album from start to finish but enough quality tracks on the album to make it worth adding to your collection.

My LP is stamped:
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): 6359 099 1Y 320 1 E
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): 6359 099 2Y 320 1 F

As nice as the deluxe editions are of the ABC catalogue, they are missing quite a lot of content, such as the extended versions of Tears Are Not Enough, The Look Of Love and Be Near Me to note. Why do this? Why not make a deluxe edition of an album with ALL remixes!?

Well , great song writing, great musicianship, great production. In many ways it should not work as everything is in the mix , synths, sound effects, acoustic and orchestra too, but it does.

What I find is amazing is the skill in keeping every element within each song in its own tonal and acoustic space. The album should be crowded and ‘ closed in ‘ with this much content, when there are cresendo’s the sound just gets bigger , not compressed .

Great production from TH and sublime orchestration from AD help here, shouldn’t forget Martin Fry , great Vocalist and Songwriter too.

This album can be picked up for small money, the UK 1st is a great pressing, possibly worth a few pounds, but a great find. Enjoy

I also have this release with the "skyscraper" label. The runout etching is the same as indicated above. Front cover has SRM-1-4059 in upper right corner above Mercury logo. In the lower left corner of the back corner, it shows SRM-1-4059 above '(6359 099)' which is above the Mercury logo.

I have this release- same deadwax / runout etching, but has the "skyscraper" label. There appears to be variations on this release.