Advantages: Outstanding and groundbreaking tracks Disadvantages: None
...in the charts , beating Kings of the wild frontier and Dog eat Dog by 2 places.
This was possibly the most advanced and forward sounding music to be heard in 1980, with massive drum beats and an almost hypnotic style to some of the tracks on the album, Adam Ant at one stage almost sounds as though he is going into a shamanic trance.
The track listing for this album is as follows ~
1. Dog eat Dog - The track responsible for the launch of 'Antmania', ... ...to say bandage!
7. Kings of the Wil Frontier - Another song promoting the Bands beliefs and issues.
" A new royal family, a wild nobility, we are the family"
He also mentions Redskins on this track and the suffering that they had when the White Americans took it upon themselves to run the country!
8. The Magnificent Five - Not an Enyid Blighton book!!
Seems to be a very different approach to Adam trying to decide upon his sexuality!
"Which ...
Advantages: Classic album - remastered Disadvantages: Don't tell your friends you like it
...Planeta De Los Simios Prince Charming 5 Guns West That Voodoo Stand And Deliver Mile High Club Ant Rap Mowhok SEX Prince Charming (demo version) Stand And Deliver (demo version) Showbiz (demo version) Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios (demo version) Who's A Goofy Bunny Then (demo version) Scorpio Writing (demo version) Stand and Deliver, Prince Charming and Ant Rap perhaps need very little explaining, as they were very obviously huge hits of ... ...and 3 in the biggest sellers of '81, only beaten by Soft Cells' Tainted Love. Both were number one in the UK, and Ant R ap hit number 3. The rest of the first 10 tracks all really fit well into this Adam era, and the whole album flows particulary well from beginning to end. Some will say this is Adam at his best, some won't - whichever way you swing, it's a classic album that can be pulled out and reminissed over time and time again. Some of the ...
Advantages: coctail lounge sexy Disadvantages: a bit naff
..."Strip for me babe I'll strip for you"
"What do you wear in bed..
What do you like to hold, my breath, she said.."
Even ironically in "Playboy" , he states "do you like fast cars?" as a parody of his own playboy image ( I hope!).
"My only books, were a woman's looks.
But the more I read.
The less I said."
It's sexy, but also kind of funny in an ironic way, at least I think & hope it is supposed to be. I know Adam was always a pretty unpopular ... ...himself too seriously. Have you seen some of the lyrics? on Prince Charming in particular..!
A very different & much better album than his first solo album, the very patchy "Friend or Foe". And quite possibly the best solo album he ever produced, barring perhaps "Wonderful".
Tell you a secret?
I used to play this album before asking a girl out on the phone, or going on a date.
It used to give me the confidence I needed.
"Strip" to me was like ...
Advantages: Superb album Disadvantages: hard to buy in shops
...they are not at fault. Pop trash is all the essential elements of classic duran, given a new millenium feel, far from being an eighties revival band, duran show they have more to offer here than just reminiscing. From the ordinary world type ballad, someone else not me, the heady seventies inspired lava lamp to the damnright audacious hallucinating elvis, Le bon and the boys do what they do best, and that is make damn fine singalong pop tunes. This ...
Advantages: Timeless pop classics, great lyrics, vocals and orchestration Disadvantages: None
Released in 1982, The Lexicon of Love by ABC is one of the few real classic albums to emerge from the 80s pop scene. Many others, that sold in their millions at the time, now sound dated, but The Lexicon of Love sounds as fresh and exciting now as it ever did and has not been damaged by the passing of time. If you had to pigeonhole ABC, they would probably fall most comfortably into the New Romantic category, although they were less about frilly ... ...recapture the feel of “The Lexicon of Love”. Produced by Trevor Horn, who definitely has the midas touch when it comes to production, the album has a larger than life sound, and although synthesisers are used, most of the songs have fantastic arrangements featuring string, horn and brass sections. The orchestration is flawless, and I am sure it is this, and a minimal reliance upon electronic music that makes the album stand up to well, even some ...
Excellent performance, tonnes of steam, ventilated ironing board (*)
