ABC- Show Me (REACTION//DISCUSSION)
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There is no question, Lexicon of Love is one of the best 80's albums . Date Stamp, Valentines Day, Many Happy Returns, a few more fantastic songs on the album. It was like a greatest hits debut LP!
Saw them live 2 years ago, still fab.
One of my favourite albums, listened to it many times over the years. Definitely reaction worthy of every track on the album. Just a note that the cd was very popular due to it's sonic riches in the early days of cd players.
Oooh, yes, Valentine's Day is just immortal.
When I'm shaking a hand, I'm clenching a fist
If you gave me a pound for the moments I missed
And I got dancing lessons for all the lips I shoulda kissed
I'd be a millionaire, I'd be a Fred Astaire
WHEN SMOKY SINGS...
@@SynergyCeleste I HEAR VIOLINS
SMOOTH!
One of the best debut albums EVER. While their later stuff was good, it never quite matched this.
Couldn't have put it better myself 👍
Lexicon of Love 2 comes close, fantastic 2016 album
Like everyone else said, the whole album is a delight.
One of the key UK pop records of the early 80"s. You gotta do the rest of this gorgeous record!
Another gem from this genre is My Ever-Changing Mood by The Style Council.
That's a great track from Paul Weller.
Yes, I’ve been asking for Style Council, too. That is one of my favorite songs.
The Lexicon Of Love is the perfect pop album
Fantastic opening to the best album ever made.
Watched ABC a few years ago at The Lowey in Manchester. They played the full album with an orchestra conduced by Ann Dudley who arranged the sings on the production of the album. Goose bumps when they opened with this. Still one of my favourite albums of all time.
I always try to introduce my teenage kids to 80s music. I played this for my daughter and she said the music sounded so dramatic. Show me is a perfect example of that.
So good to hear one of the top 5 albums from the eighties
Ah, Justin, The Lexicon of Love is such a treasure drove. It is LUXURIOUS. Also, Martin Fry's lyrics are delicious.
The production on this album is excellent!
One of the most iconic albums of the 80s, you must listen to the rest of the album it's fantastic 👌
I looked forward to hearing the Lexicon of Love ll, l guessed it wouldn't live upto the original, and I wasn't wrong 🙄. Then again it would be virtually impossible to recreate the magic of that first album, those songs sound as fresh today as they did when the album was released.
This album is utterly iconic - every track is killer though my favourite is Date Stamp - extraordinary production by TH and brilliant arrangement by the band
Date Stamp my favourite too 👌
Agree
Man, this song hits so hard. Like, I knew Poison Arrow and The Look of Love but not the whole album.
Just one of those magic albums that took me out with how polished it was and musically how inventive it was.
OH MY GOD ! If I was allowed to take 5 albums with me to heaven when I die, this would be one. 30 something years later and my favorite song on the album shifts between tracks Everytime I listen. Not a single skipover track on the entire release.
It’s all fire
'All of My Heart" is by far my favourite ABC track. And they have a few good ones :)
I saw the tour for this album. They played a tiny standing room only club. The band included a string quartet plus the keyboardist had a Fairelight. First time I had seen one outside of a magazine. So the songs were "lush". They played Poison Arrow three times. A regular version then a striped down piano and vocal version then when the crowd wanted an encore they played it again. One of my favorite albums.
Those rhythmic tempos and theatrical voice ...gotta be ABC! Great shirt as always btw!
I'm a hard rock and prog rock guy all the way and I have no qualms saying this is a perfect album.
The WHOLE album is amazing! Yes do Poison Arrow and Look of Love! I saw them in concert 2 years ago and Martin Fry still has the voice!
The album is 40 years old today. Pop perfection
I would enjoy watching you have a go at their tribute song, When Smokey Sings.
Now you've got to do "All Of My Heart", if you don't do the entire album that is.
That and Look of Love are my favourites along with Show Me.
all of my heart is the best track
Lexicon if probably the most crafted album of the 80s, this band came from nowhere, to produce an album story so sublime and perfect it could never be preproduced. the strings, the funky bass, the Philadelphia horns, the nile rogers style guitars, roxy silkyness, and martins angelic voice.
GREAT material!!
This album was very popular the first half of the 1980s. The 2nd British invasion! I cannot believe it's been 40 years since its release.
If I'd been around as a teen when this came out, I probably would have hated it and laughed at it, wanting to listen to something I thought was much edgier, like some early goth that was floating around at the time.
Now? I can easily listen to this and appreciate how good it is, and even start swinging my hips a little to the beat.
Great stuff.
I was a bit older than a teen when this came out, and for our university radio station we could mix songs from this LP with other Brit electro-pop bands like Heaven 17 ("Fascist Groove Thang", "Penthouse and Pavement", "Temptation", "Crushed By The Wheels of Industry") or go Goth or post-punk with Siouxsie and the Banshees ("Spellbound", "Halloween", "Monitor", "Israel") or Gang of Four ("To Hell With Poverty", "Nature's Not In It", "Anthrax") amongst so many other bands from that time (like Madness).
And Justin, you're quite right in hearing a bit of Roxy Music in this. As you can, arguably, in so many British bands that followed them in the 70s, 80s and beyond.
Speaking of bands from late-70s and early-80s with something of an edge (rather than one with The Edge), really hope you'll try songs by the English band Magazine (who influenced Radiohead). Could start with early songs like "Definitive Gaze" and "Motorcade" before "Rhythm of Cruelty" or "Sweetheart Contract", etc.
I was close to that age when the album came out (and a metal head!) and the singles grabbed me right away. The arrangements, the bass playing, everything was just awesome. So classy, so danceable.
Groovy song, extra vibrant. If 80’s chords are a thing, this has em.
Very happy you’re doing ABC.
Ok Justin, time for some movie soundtrack songs. I’d love to see you do a bunch, but how about John Barry “on her Majesty’s Secret Service” for fun. Just sayin.
Ha, loving your reaction here JP...My very first comment on your channel (with Manny) was recommending this album to you believing you would love it (yay me lol). Whenever people talk about the 80's , this is my go to album (along with the Associates and the Cure for Brit Synth acknowledgement), not the dross that make up those awful '80's Nites' that surfaced decades later. When I had my first CD player, I bought this and Pink Floyds 'Animals'...two completely different albums that you can get, but for me, still sit very comfortably together in my collection...there's not a bad song on this seminal album, 4 Ever 2 Gether and Many Happy returns my personal favourites.
Thanks Justin! Together with Duran Duran's Rio, this was also one of my childhood favorites. This is a great song and the album as a whole is definitely worth listening to. The songs are arranged very well and the production is fantastic. There are many great little details and I bet we need to thank Trevor Horn for at least some of them. Anne Dudley made the orchestrations and also played some of the keyboards. She did a wonderful job.
I really like Martin Fry's vocals. He's a great singer with an expressive voice. I also agree with everything you said in the video about the musicians and the playing. You caught some of the best parts of the song and the arrangements and I really enjoyed the video.
ABC was one of the bands I wrote about in the comment section of your Ultravox's Vienna reaction. I mentioned a few very specific songs from some well-known and not so well-known bands that had a bit similar style. ABC was the only band on that list where I recommended the whole album.
I'm glad you decided to check this one out. Take care and have a wonderful weekend!
1982 was an amazing year for music, you had this album, Duran Duran - Rio, The Cars - Shake It Up, Toto IV, Stray Cats - Built For Speed, Michael Jackson's Thriller came out at the tail end, Men At Work - Business As Usual, etc... a lot of iconic records.
Other albums that came out were Phil Collins - Hello, I Muat Be Going!, Judas Priest- Screaming For Vengence, Paul Mccartney - Tug of War, Rush - Siginals, The Pretenders - Learning To Crawl, Led Zeppelin- Coda, and so on. Amazing year.
You need to listen to "The Look of Love" by ABC off of the same album
Classic and classy album ! All of my Heart has great lyrics and passion to boot
Glad we did not steer you in the wrong direction. You enjoyed and made the connection as to why "Swing" by Japan reminded some of us of DD & ABC. It still blows my mind that the Japan track came out two years prior to the other two. Sounds like David and the boys were ahead of the curve. It may be that Trevor Horn himself is playing the bass on this ABC track. He is an excellent bassist and would often play on various tracks, but take no credit since he was producing. I can't be sure, but some of my fellow commenters might know.
I appreciate the guidance! :D Ty Joseph
Best album of the 80's , pop meets classical , review Date Stamp , just brilliant 🎹
One of the best pop albums of the early '80s. There's not one song on it that doesn't have the period hit potential. Great production by Trevor Horn (who was in The Buggles, famous for Video Killed The Radio Star, but with two very good albums of their own) and produced a string of hits in the '80s for bands like ABC, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones and more. Before getting involved with Yes.
The ABC songs excel in catchy tunes AND lyrics.
Trevor Horn... Art of Noise, that weird Malcolm McLaren album Duck Rock, Buggles. Pure genius.
Martin Fry had the archetypical ‘flick’ haircut that I was hugely jealous of as a 12 year old when this came out. Poison arrow is a great song
This is the one album I remember buying solely based on the the cool album cover. This album would be a great candidate for a full album review. One of my faves of the 80s.
ABC , The Associates, Simple Minds, Japan...the new breed of glistening pop in 1982
Trevor Horn and Anne Dudley worked with ABC on this album before they formed the Art of Noise, and that's all you have to know about it. The band itself is brilliant, and Martin Frey has a killer soulful voice, in a Darryl Hall kind of way. This album might have been impressive if it had come out after 1984, but in 1982 this was genre defining.
Yes! pretty much on par with your 'Rio' react. Luv It. Of course! naturally, the next Should be 'The Look of Love '! 👀 💏
Hey Justin, enjoying this current trip through the more sophisticated parts of 80s pop and new wave of yours.
I heartily recommend listening/reacting to some DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS at some point. They are best known for "Come on Eileen", but actually have made at least two really great albums (the debut 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels' and the follow-up 'Too Ry-Aye').
Hi Justin ! The Lexicon of Love is 1 of my favorite kitsch album ! A Trevor Horn Production (Buggles, Yes, FGTH)
One of the greatest albums of the 80's, I saw them doing this album live in '82 at the city hall Sheffield, the band's home city - 39 years ago. As others have said the whole album is a treat. I saw a comment about Scritti Politti, I think you'll like their albums Cupid & Psyche 85 and Provision, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)", and "Oh Patti" (with Miles Davis on trumpet) are classics. Great to see Justin liking Prefab Sprout and ABC, I really think he'd like "The Style Council" (Paul Weller's band after The Jam), Aztec Camera, The Teardrop Explodes (start off with the singles Reward, or Treason), Everything but the girl, Black, or Martin Stephenson and the Daintees. If you want a song with a massive bass groove, try 'Big boss groove' by the style council - killer!!
The Teardrop Explodes! Well, bless my cotton socks.
@@BigMacIain Wow!, I'm in the news.
Phenomenal track
This album would not have been possible without producer Trevor Horn; the sound of the 80's.
The bass was probably Horn.
I bet you’d really like Human League, especially (Keep Feeling) Fascination with it’s fat bass. Also some of the early Talk Talk like their eponymous song, The Party’s Over, It’s My Life, or almost anything else from their first two albums. You already love Mark’s voice and you seem to like some of the 80’s ‘new wave’ sounds so it should be right up your alley.
Oh, excellent! Fully approve this path and looking forward to seeing the whole album and then perhaps a dip here and there to the rest of ABC's ouvre. Follow-up Beauty Stab is SO different, but a great album as well. And I concur that there's some much synchronicity with ABC, Japan, Duran Duran, early Talk Talk and a bunch of other bands, great bass, sweeping synths, great singer and some really nice tunes.
And you CLEARLY enjoyed this!
I'm so curious to see your reaction to All of My Heart, my fave from this album and one of the best songs of the decade IMHO.
this album is class
Where are the diamonds, where are the pearls? On the album!
Be near me off their 3rd lp
Justin, if 80's bass is your thing try early Simple Minds. Tracks to listen to I Travel, The American, Love Song, Sweat In Bullet.
perhaps.... some shriekback too..... My Spine (is the bassline)... All Lined Up
Love Real to Real Cacophony album!
@jeezoh000, how about Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel by Simple Minds? My favourite bassline ever. Derek Forbes is a monster.
Poison Arrow and the Look of Love are must listens from this album. You won’t be able to sit still in your chair! Lyrics are terrific.
It's always been the tracks not released as singles that have been my favourites. There again that applies with a lot of my favourite albums.
Mark Lickley was the original Bass player but left before the album was finished
Speaking of bass lines…
Please check out Gowan’s album Strange Animal.
Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, and David Rhodes - all from Peter Gabriel group, play on this Canadian’s album! 👍🏻👍🏻
Love this and the second album Beauty Stab, though very different.
Fantastic Day??? Sounds like a segue to Haircut 100! And by all means, listen to "Lexicon of Love" in its entirety!
This is one of the great albums of the 80s, done at a time when just about everything producer Trevor Horn touched turned to gold. I love the orchestral intro to the song. The ending perfectly leads right into the next song, "Poison Arrow." One of the band's strong points is sort of a Bryan Ferry kind of lounge-lizard self mockery, as well as leader Martin Fry's lyrical word play. Here is my parody of this song, entitled "Blow Me":
Once I loved to make love
But that was be-fore I blew out my mind
With the happy pills meant to cheer me
My libido declined
A funny face, a silly gaffe
The pinstripes on that pink giraffe
Now if you want to make me laugh
All you really have to do is
Blow me, blow me
Blow me one more kiss
Blow me, blow me
Out of this abyss
Blow me, blow me
Up in your explosion
Blow me, blow me down
Now they're lacking a purpose, darling
Some things have gone to sleep
You may restore what was there before
Or it may just lie in a heap
A bust of Pallas with a Chia fro
A raven's call sayin' "Nevermo'"
Dancing round inside your pantyhose
Not so strange if you propose to
Blow me, blow me
Blow me one more kiss
Blow me, blow me
Out of this darkness
Blow me, blow me
Like a double bubble
Blow me, bubble yum
Amore on the breeze, breeze
One kiss is bidden
One kiss for free
Pucker up
Blow it to me
Sharpen your aim
Your target's in place
I won't be happy
Till it hits me in the face
Blow me, blow me
Blow me one more kiss
Blow me, blow me
Till I am breathless
Blow me, blow me
Sailin' on your ocean
Blow me, blow me north
A shipful of cheese
Adrift on your wheeze
Cheese, wheeze
Where are my feelings?
Where is my heart?
Where are the things that won't jump when I start?
Here are my feelings
Here is my heart
Here are the things that your kiss blew apart
I recall 80s radio really took hold of that "Shoot that poison arrow through my heart" refrain.
Thank you so much, dear JP, for sharing another fantastic song from another great Band from the 80s, unfortunately already extinct... Whenever I see the emotion you show when listening to bands from other times, particularly from the 70s/80s, more I convince myself that in fact you were born in the wrong generation...Incredible!!! 😂
ABC are one of those bands that I consider (rightly or wrongly) a guilty pleasure. Martin Fry is a real cool singer and I've always had to dance to 'When Smokey Sings'.
Wrongly. Why would people feel guilty about getting pleasure from a certain piece of music? Have they signed a legal document that restricts them to a specific genre?
Sophista-pop at its finest 😍 speaking of, please do some solo Bryan Ferry! Don't Stop the Dance or Slave to Love would be a great start.
Mark White played bass and guitars in general and I assume also on this album. By the next album, Beauty Stab, it was just him and Martin Fry, perhaps also the drummer not sure. This song is my fave on the album along with All of my Heart. Try a song from Beauty Stab - King Money for instance.
College album!! Oh, we danced until the wee hours of the morning to this album.
💃🕺🌃
"Hey Mikey he likes it"!!! When the bass popped, I knew you were sold. On to jazz Sunday, take a trip to ' Cantaloupe ✌️
😁Cantaloupe Island is a classic!
I'm a prog/hard rock guy (Genesis, Yes, GnR) and hated dance music. ABC is so good that this became one of my favorite albums when it came out, and is still one of my favorites.
Used to work in an American px in London selling hi fi when this was released. Not sure if I drove them nuts playing this daily. Totally over the top Trevor horn production, and all the better for it.
And fyi, they performed live in gold lame' suits. Martin Fry exuded such class and sophistication.
You'll end up doing this entire album - and you'll be happy you did
Afterwards , you might want to check out some tracks from Spandau Ballet and The Fixx - you have a lot to look forward to from this time period
Glad you like this..I'm a big Trevor Horn fan and this is one of many great production jobs of the time....Frankie Goes To Hollywood,Scritti Politti,Propaganda ,Art Of Noise and anything from ZTT label...looking forward to more of this type of stuff...thumbs up
@Ken Gregory, Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85 was actually produced by Arif Mardin, but yes, it belongs to the same family of absolutely gorgeous-sounding records. Justin, if you're eavesdropping, I'd strongly recommend Absolute from said album.
@@harripalomaki8796 thx Harri, I realised that after typing..then thought i couldnt take them off haha..indeed.. Absolute is a gem,,Also,if you read this JP,Seal's first album 'Seal',also a Horn production ,is an aural masterpiece..
@Ken Gregory, another thing: A Secret Wish by Propaganda might be my all-time favourite album, so I'm kinda afraid to recommend it to Justin.
@@harripalomaki8796 prob in my top 10...love Dream Within A Dream....had Stewart Copeland on drums but seems to have been remixed and can't find that version now.know what I mean?
that's odd...ive just found that version now :)
Fun, but we’ll put together technically. That sets it apart from lesser 80’s musicians. Loved this.
Excellent track from an equally majestic new romantic record. For somewhat similar territory, check out the dominant basslines and multilayered atmospherics on Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) record.
I’ll second New Gold Dream!
Great album!
Yes. So luscious. And not exactly lacking in snaky basslines.
My girlfriend at the time got me into this album. Favorite tracks were Tears Are Not Enough and 4Ever 2Gether.
One of my favorite bands of the 80's was ABC......They are the real deal....mixing Crooner style of music of the 30's, 40's, and 50's with catchy metaphor lyrics and orchestral instruments(violins. cellos. Tom Tom. Clarinets. Horns. etc.) Crooner suits adds a Classy look in appearance and Martin Fry's Bryant Ferry style of singing is outstanding. "Blow Me. Poison Arrow. Look of Love" are my favorites on this album but the whole album, being a concept album, is Excellent.
Evening, Justin. Dave from sunny London, having spent Saturday In The Park. Great song from this classic 80s album. Love the lush orchestral overture, trademark Trevor Horn production, stonking bass line, and smooth, gold-lame-suited vocals by Martin Fry. If I had a favourite from the album it would be the luscious ballad All Of My Heart. Also, check out their later song When Smokey Sings, a clever homage to soul king Smokey Robinson.
Glad you enjoyed it. The first three albums all sound very different from one another. 'Beauty Stab' has much more emphasis on guitar and contains some vicious social comment.
If you want more from this era, a certain Walter Becker produced China Crisis' third album 'Flaunt The Imperfection' in 1985. He made a rather good job of it.
Another Bowie, Roxy Music influence. And another Trevor Horn production. In fact the one of his early ones. That's probably his Fairlight on the big orchestra sound in the middle. I'm as big of a fan of the prog bassists of the 70's as anybody, but I'm equally a fan of this era as well, including John Taylor, Mick Karn, Colin Moulding, Tina Weymouth, and Paul Webb of Talk Talk being one of my favorites.
If you want to catch the "New Romantic" era at the beginning, Visage was the origin. I mean all of it is influenced by Bowie and Roxy Music. But every genre is that way of course. But Visage was a super group than originated out of and created for the most progressive dance club scene in London and maybe across the world at the time. And influenced, ABC, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Boy George, Depeche Mode among many. The song "Fade to Gray" being the go to track when this moment in time is referenced. But their first two 2 albums were seminal.
I like this! I have only heard their single from this album (can’t remember the name) but this is really good!
Thanks for sharing this bro!
Drilliant track, ABC hit hard with their debut album & got better with subsequent albums.
You might want to check out:
The Buggles
Depeche Mode
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark [OMD]
The Sisters of Mercy
Level 42
The artists of the 80's were so diverse.
One of my favorite bands (of many) 80s New Wave. Preferred to Duran Duran - personal favorite 'SOS', and from this album 'All of My Heart' is heart-strong.
Instant 80's groove: funky, glossy and poppy. Not deep but catchy. The vocals remind me of Spandau Ballet, although, Tony Hadley is even better IMO (try Gold or Through The Barricades). I agree the bass line is cool. You would love Level 42 (try World Machine or Running In The Family).
This album is Peak 80s, and I mean that in a GOOD way. Not necessarily the best, but if you cut it, it bleeds 80s.
Having said that, this IS probably the best album opening ever. The look on your face when the beat / bass came in!
One thing you'll miss now is the fact that there is a perfect 4 beat pause before the next track, Poison Arrow.
👉 ABC - Alphabet Soul (BBC Swapshop Version)
_Lexicon Of Love_ is a glorious, essential album & the above b-side deepcut shows hard & Funky ABC could go.
The whole album is fabulous mate. Enjoy. And when you're done with that - and since you appreciate a fat bass - try Hipsway by Hipsway. One album, easily digested. IMHO the best album from this period. And yes, I'm that old.
Justin: From ABC, it's just a quick side-step to discover Spandau Ballet (you may have already reacted to them...I'm too lazy to look!). I was into both in the '80s, and the fog of nearly 4 decades sometimes blurs one from the other for me!😎But, a short distance it is, now, to also lay needle to the vinyl of Scritti Politti! Their "Cupid & Psyche 85" and their Top 20 hit, "Perfect Way" (that even fellow Warner Bros. Records artist, Miles Davis, covered! In fact, he contributes a trumpet solo on SP's original "Perfect Way"!)
Fun factotum: I bought the "Cupid" LP completely sound-unheard in '85 based on only one word from noted L.A. Times rock critic, Robert Hilburn: He said SP's sound was "precious"! Had to hear a band described as "precious," and I wasn't disappointed! In fact, I anxiously awaited and bought their follow-up, "Provision," in '88. Lead singer, Green Gartside, is an enigmatic Welshman, and still performs, at 66. He's suffered, in the past, from stage fright, a reason SP toured little, if any, in the '80s. Another reason was the difficulty in re-creating the Scritti sound, synth-heavy that they were, on stage.
Ty! Never heard of them lol
When Smokey sings
For pure pop nobody does it better. Great concept, vocals, and production. Lush is my best description, but there are moments on this album were they raise the stakes. The song 4ever 2gether,comes to mind, not pop !
Trevor Horn sprinkle ample fairy dust all over the album.....!!! Lexicon of love is one one of my fave 80s album...... and do check out Lexicon of Love II too, its worth a listen
Clicked on this because I thought it was Yes' Show Me which is simply amazing. The live performance at Montreux is highly recommended.
Do *The Look Of Love, Be Near Me,* & *Vanity Kills*
Love ABC but this is not one of their big hits. Or maybe I'm just familiar with their big 80s hits. Still a great song! I love their sound and I forgot the singers name but I love his voice. Songs by them I love "Poison Arrow", "Book of Love", "When Smokey Sings", "Be Near Me". Yes, he does sound like Brian Ferry.
The Lexicon of Love is an iconic 80s album. Imo, this is actually one of the weaker tracks - it only goes up from here. Art-Pop is how I would describe it - a definite Roxy Music influence here.
It's an album l still enjoy as much today as when I bought it when it was released.
Good stuff, although a little too pop for my taste. Why don't I remember this? Maybe it got little air play in US.
I was pretty sure this would be up your alley right away. You're more open-minded than I tend to be. This was a group and an album that should not have gotten my attention when it was released because on the surface it's the kind of music that I dismissed. Somehow it broke through with me. I saw there was more to it than just the synth and semi-disco feel. The lyrics and the music are intelligent. Martin's voice is unique. They didn't take themselves too seriously and made it fun. I quickly became a fan of this album and the band.
Pretty good actually. never heard the album but i'm au fait with their singles/hits. From what i remember a very stylised band. Don't know who did what, but from what i remember of T.Horn, listed credits and who actually played, not always the same. It was catchy, poppy, and you had to love the fretless that appeared early on in the track. Better than i expected.
Nice call pointing out trevor
Unexpected choice, Justin. I notice you are moving more and more towards the eighties.
This is a great album! Top notch production by the master himself: Trevor Horn. Sophisticated and glamorous and full of surprises. The second album Beauty Stap is much more raw and equally pleasing to the ear.
Ty Erik :) Trying to explore a bit more
@@JustJP Trevor Horn is be a starting point. He is one of the key producers of the eighties and made lots of bands great: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Art of Noice (you’ll love them), Propaganda, Seal and Grace Jones (Slave to the rhythm) and more.
serious BASS
It's good gthat you noticed Trevor Horn as he always comes along with the amazing Anne Dudley (orchestration and keys). Perfect pop album not too deep but deep enough.
Anne Dudley IS amazing. She is a musical goddess, in my eyes.