The Christgau Consumer Guide
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
ABC "How To Be A Zillionaire" (Mercury) The look of the Mark I ABC fooled Anglophobes into dismissing the music as fashion-plated pandering even though it was as politically suggestive as U. S. Anglophilia gets. So don't let the look of the Mark II ABC fool you into hoping the music is outrageous, or even campy except in a Bryan Ferry twice-removed way.
March 1, 1986