This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of
Beauty Stab, the second studio album from ABC. Back in late 1983 and early 1984, the album charted at number 69 on the US Billboard Album chart, number 58 in Australia, number 50 in Germany, number 42 in New Zealand, number 36 in Canada, number 34 in Japan, number 32 in Sweden, number 29 in the Netherlands, number 22 in Finland, and number 12 in the UK.
For my full review, please click
here.
Coming after The Lexicon Of Love which is about as close to perfect as a pop album can be, I was all kinds of disappointed with this one when I got it home took the shrinkwrap off and fed it into the linear tracking turntable. Listened to it once and then shelved it for mor ethan a decade before listening to it again.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a radical departure from the previous record and an obvious testimonial to the power of producer Trevor Horn, whose services were not retained on this one. Instead, his assistant Gary Langan took the seat behind the baord but obviously yeilded to the whims of Martin Fry and company.
It gets a few more plays these days but that is not saying a lot when it used to get zero.