Beauty Stab

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Beauty Stab
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Studio album by ABC
Released 14 November 1983
Recorded 1983
Genre Pop, Rock
Label Neutron Records (UK)
Mercury Records (USA)
Vertigo Records (Canada and Europe)
Producer ABC, Gary Langan
ABC chronology
The Lexicon of Love
(1982)The Lexicon of Love1982		 Beauty Stab
(1983)		 How to Be a ... Zillionaire!
(1985)How to Be a ... Zillionaire!1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Smash Hits 6/10 stars[1]
Allmusic 3/5 stars[2]
Robert Christgau A−[3]

Beauty Stab is the second album by the British band ABC. Released in November 1983, it was a departure from the stylised production of the band's first album, The Lexicon of Love, featuring a more guitar-oriented sound.

The album was produced by ABC and Gary Langan, who was the sound engineer on the band's first album. The band employed the rhythm section of Andy Newmark (drums) and Alan Spenner (bass)[2] both of whom had recently played and toured with Roxy Music at the time. The cover photography was by Gered Mankowitz.

The album was certified Gold by the BPI for shipments in excess of 100,000 copies, but was not as commercially successful as its predecessor. It peaked at no. 12 in the UK album charts and spawning only two top 40 singles (neither of which made the top 10).[4] In a 1995 article, music journalist Simon Reynolds listed Beauty Stab among "the great career-sabotage LPs in pop history".[5]

In 2005 a digitally remastered reissue of the album was released.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Martin Fry, Stephen Singleton, and Mark White.

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "That Was Then but This Is Now"   3:34
2. "Love's a Dangerous Language"   3:40
3. "If I Ever Thought You'd Be Lonely"   3:55
4. "The Power of Persuasion"   3:32
5. "Beauty Stab"   2:06
6. "By Default by Design"   4:07
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Hey Citizen!"   3:55
2. "King Money"   4:02
3. "Bite the Hand"   3:06
4. "Unzip"   2:49
5. "S.O.S."   4:49
6. "United Kingdom"   3:23

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] 58
Canadian Albums Chart[7][8] 36
Dutch Albums Chart[9] 29
Finnish Albums Chart[citation needed] 22
German Albums Chart[10] 50
Japanese Albums Chart[citation needed] 34
New Zealand Albums Chart[11] 42
Swedish Albums Chart[12] 32
UK Albums Chart[13] 12
US Billboard 200 Chart[14] 69

Personnel

Additional personnel

References

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