Alphabet City by ABC (Full Album Listen)

"Alphabet City" is the 4th studio album by English pop band ABC. Released in October 1987, two years after their previous album "How to Be a ... Zillionaire!".

This album spawn three singles: "When Smokey Sings" (a tribute to Smokey Robinson), "The Night You Murdered Love" and "King Without a Crown".



According to Wiki, the album followed a hiatus where singer Martin Fry was being treated for Hodgkin's disease, and that the album's title and the titles of several tracks were inspired by the Alphabet City section of Manhattan, New York City, where Fry and Mark White lived for a time prior to the album's release.

By this release, the "ABC"-sound had again evolved since "The Lexicon of Love", "Beauty Stab" and "Zillionaire!", into a somewhat more "mature" soundscape - richer with life-experience, and layered with funk, IMHO. Although I have to say, listening to the tracks as I prep this post, I cannot help but feel that this album felt like a spiritual sequel to "Lexicon of Love"...? LOL

All tracks are written by Martin Fry and Mark White, except where noted, with the inclusion of Anne Dudley (formerly of "Art of Noise")!

SIDE ONE
1. "Avenue A" (Mark White, Anne Dudley)
2. "When Smokey Sings"
3. "The Night You Murdered Love"
4. "Think Again"
5. "Rage and Then Regret"
6. "Ark-Angel"
SIDE TWO
7. "King Without a Crown"
8. "Bad Blood"
9. "Jealous Lover"
10. "One Day"
11. "Avenue Z" (White Dudley)

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