Reaching #49 in Britain and #20 on the US Billboard charts, the song featured a cool animated video (which the band has unfortunately disowned and had removed from YouTube). You can see a few snippets of the animated video during the performance clip above.
ABC had sort of an up-and-down career, as debut The Lexicon of Love was amazing, but was followed by the flop called Beauty Stab, the return to form of the aforementioned third album, and then the execrable "When Smokey Sings" off next LP Alphabet City.
They made #120 on my Top 200 with "Be Near Me", and just missed with "How To Be A Millionaire".
Be back next week with another song that almost made it.
Mr. Martin Fry, proud recipient of the award "Best Comb-Over of 1985"!
ReplyDeleteYes, it is epic isn't it?!
DeleteThis is a good song, and yes, "Be Near Me" is definitely their best song, but they've got a couple of others (The Look of Love, Poison Arrow) would have probably made my top 200.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, both great songs.
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