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Post by HOMETIME on May 30, 2022 14:07:22 GMT
I found this today on my socials. It's a really nice potted history of ABBA, printed in Record Mirror in March 1978. The charts appear in the early section of the magazine, with Take A Chance On Me and ABBA The Album at the top of the singles/album charts. Arrival is at #13, Greatest Hits at #14. TACOM is even at #4 on the disco chart! www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/52029318996/in/album-72177720298381172/ |
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Post by Alan on May 30, 2022 14:51:04 GMT
We listened to The Album on the drive down to London. I forget just how good it is, and I think I’d still rate it among their best albums. They were at their peak here. Yes, it sounds a bit American but not intrusively so.
The Name of The Game with its solo parts from both A and F - why didn’t they do this more often? I’m A Marionette breaking into that long and brilliant instrumental mid-song, and never once getting boring. Eagle with its closing instrumental which could easily be longer. Hole In Your Soul is a very welcome inclusion in the Voyage show. Even Thank You For The Music fits in better here, in its rightful place. There is no other ABBA album like this one, before or after. And to pick three songs from it for the show, and none of them being either of the two big hits, suggests ABBA think so too.
I’d have loved to see The Girl With The Golden Hair as a centrepiece of this show. Updated a bit perhaps, but its basic story is perhaps more relevant now than it was then. How groundbreaking was that? To start off happy and then degenerate as time moves on, with the realisation that fame is not what it appears. To end up part of a machine you really want to get off (which is what ABBA did, and only went back to under their own terms).
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Post by lamont on May 31, 2022 17:48:24 GMT
Agree with Alan regarding The Girl With The Golden Hair, but Abba were good at that melancholy, life isn’t full of roses metaphor. Imagine they did the musical with the avatars!!! Or fan only shows with deep cuts!! The Album was my first album at 6 years old, I played it relentlessly because it was the only album I had for a number of years (and just 4 singles!) was only recently I played it in full and realised that it’s eclectic and cohesive!
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