ABC – Beauty Stab
As a huge fan of ABC’s “The Lexicon of Love,” I was thoroughly pre-disposed to love “Beauty Stab,” their sophomore effort that came just a year later in 1983. But for anyone who wanted...
Category: Pop
ABC – Lexicon of Love 12″ Singles
In the ’80s, even though the sale of 7″ 45s was on the decline, suddenly 12″ singles became the thing. Every big or moderately big or not big at all artist was putting out...
ABC – The Lexicon of Love
Moving down the alphabet but not moving out of pop. I was playing a video from this album last night, and my grownkid said of ’80s music generally that maybe you had to be...
ABBA – Super Trouper
Despite being from 1980, I just bought this one a few weeks ago — and now I realize there’s going to be an occasional problem going through my records in alphabetical order if I...
ABBA – Greatest Hits
Well, we’re three entries in and I’ve already found a record out of order. (How my collection should be organized is a discussion for another day.) Even spelling out the numbers and starting very...
ABBA – The Album
The second in a series of random musings about my record collection — in alphabetical order, so far, but who knows what the future brings. Not too surprising that the next album in my...
ABBA – Arrival
There aren’t a lot of albums that I owned in high school that made it through a pretty colossal cultural purge that occurred somewhen around the end of my freshman year of college. There...
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