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The official ABBA thread
Topic Started: Apr 19 2011, 09:45 PM (1,574 Views)
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They reissued Super Trouper last year though in a 'super mega ultra expanded edition' type affair, so I guess that's what they're doing with The Visitors now!
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To hear From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel, skip to 1:40:00:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01f1cw3/Ken_Bruce_Zoe_Ball_sits_in/
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Oooh thanks!
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I'll definitely buy the deluxe "The Visitors" album.

Some of their b-sides were stronger than tracks they put on their albums: "Elaine", "Should I Laugh or Cry", and "Cassandra" were all fantoosh.
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Apr 14 2012, 01:04 PM
"Should I Laugh or Cry"
:drama: :clap:
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Apr 7 2012, 03:32 PM
To hear From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel, skip to 1:40:00:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01f1cw3/Ken_Bruce_Zoe_Ball_sits_in/
What a swizz this track is though. It just sounds like early versions of "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" cobbled together into one "song".
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The best No 1 singles: Abba – Dancing Queen
1976: Even 36 years later, the potency of Dancing Queen remains undiminished

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guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 May 2012 21.36 BST


After Abba's Benny and Björn finished the instrumental track of Dancing Queen, Björn arrived home to find his wife Agnetha asleep. Excited by the song – initially an attempt to combine elements of George McRae's Rock Your Baby and Dr John's 1972 album Gumbo – he drove all over Stockholm looking for someone to whom he could play it. "Finally, I ended up at my sister's house [and we] played it over and over again."

When Abba's other singer, Frida, first heard the song, she burst into tears. In the ensuing 36 years, the potency of Dancing Queen has remained undiminished. At its heart is the bittersweet paradox that distinguishes the best music of the disco era. "You can dance, you can jive/Having the time of your life," sing the girls. They're describing a moment of pure happiness, never unaware that a moment is all it is. More than 20 years later, the Sex Pistols' reunion show in Finsbury Park began to the strains of Dancing Queen – the idea being to remind us how terrible music had become when the Sex Pistols came along. It backfired, though. On recognising that opening piano flourish, everyone started dancing.

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I'm so happy right now :dance:

Billboard 200
Issue Date: 2013-01-12

36 RE-ENTRY 129
Gold -- Greatest Hits, ABBA 6x Platinum
Polar/Polydor | 517007 | UMe 13.98 36
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Love them!
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New Agnetha:

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quite pleasant, innit?
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Yeah, the melody is lovely and she sounds fantastic. I hate the production in the "instrumental" break though.
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Written by Gary Barlow apparently. I can totally hear it now actually!
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New Agnetha interview with the BBC!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21687897
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The video:

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She and Lulu obviously go to the s(h)ame surgeon. They are practically identical now.

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Awh I don't think she looks too bad. A good bit older, but she still looks like herself. She doesn't look TOO plucked and pulled.
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such a joy to hear her voice on record after so many years - on top form, noted. :clap:

a lovely, pleasant pop number it is. there's also a duet with barlow on the album, which i read is set for release the week eurovision is taking place. i wonder what that could possibly mean :drama:
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despite the celine dion-esque video, it's a lovely track.
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I heard a new track on a colleague's computer today, Dance Your Pain Away. He has the whole album on some sampler thing.

It's very 1970's Abba Gimmie Gimmie style affair... chord changes, dancey blah blah blah.

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