{"id":29,"date":"2002-12-30T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:40:12","slug":"20-years-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis heart’s up for sale
\nYeah, this heart’s on the stand
\nMix and match and melt in my mouth
\nNothing ever goes quite as planned
\nYou fly north and I’ll sail south<\/i><\/p>\n

I know that I am 20 years behind the times on this one. But, damn what an album. To me, ABC’s The Lexicon of Love<\/b><\/a> reminds us of what was so great about early 80’s pop. It’s all here: glamorous horn sections, hooky bass lines, shimmering guitar work, Martin Fry’s fantastic (if not overdone at points) vocal delivery. Plus it has one of the greatest album covers ever designed, in my humble opinion. Even in the depths of my depression, this music makes me all smiley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This heart’s up for sale Yeah, this heart’s on the stand Mix and match and melt in my mouth Nothing ever goes quite as planned You fly north and I’ll sail south I know that I am 20 years behind the times on this one. But, damn what an album. To me, ABC’s The Lexicon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}