ABBA Voyage: General Discussion 2020

  Stepalm - I know that there will be a 'Live' Band in The ABBAtar 'Shows', but I was assuming, (& hoping!), 
  that the actual ABBA Vocals would be from their Studio Recordings. Not that I'll - ever - go to any of the
  'Shows'. I never go outside Great Britain. Even if The ABBAtars 'Static Shows Venue', was in London, I'd
  never go. I've never liked London. I just stay in Manchester. There will probably be a DVD released, of 
  one of the 'Shows'. We will see, I'll buy that - out of curiosity...

Oh, Richard. I echo your feelings. Indeed. A final masterpiece. Something more than just ABBA GOLD.

The group need/deserve this. Something to cement their legacy and do away with Mamma Mia! and any other dubious associations once and for all. Yes, I know they've been inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and so on...they have the museum...but one final, classy retrospective, just as you described.

I suppose there's no harm in dreaming. It's just a tad frustrating because I can see it in my mind's eye. Why can't they? Oh, well.

Would have to strongly disagree - it's just about their worst album cover design, perfunctory and uninspired.  The matching boiler-suits are a bad idea, the empty white background spatially indeterminate and dull and the oil-crayon 'air mail' edging is done sloppily, plus, Benny should've been taken out at dawn and finished off with rusty bullets for opting to wear those ghastly boots. Discogs credits Rune Soederqvist with the design, which I find very hard to believe, but if he was responsible, then he clearly treated it as a contractual obligation job, to be dashed off as quickly as possible.

Have to agree. That's their worst album cover. It's in the running for worst album cover of all time, actually. Truly hideous. Whoever decided on that needs sacking. They all look a state. Frida's make up is hideous and the blokes look ridiculous.

Apart from that, I like it. Joke. I hate it.

Ooh you are orful 😆

Any more puns as bad as that and you'll have to clear orf, matey. Zeebee, of course you're right, and I understand that I'm free to read or ignore any post, and wasn't pushing for a forum 'rule' to be implemented. It just strikes me that stuff relating exclusively to sales has a specialist/limited appeal, and it would make more sense both to those enraptured by such stuff and those enervated by it, for it all to be kept together in one or two authoritative 'ledger' threads, where the charting of the ups and downs, and the long lines of figures comprising many zeros, would have more meaning, in a continuum-sense. It was just a casual suggestion. I think I'll have to disagree with you about these stats and figures constituting ABBA 'news', since I don't think they say anything of interest about ABBA as a band, or a creative force, or as a set (a 'dynamic') of individual personalities (we could tell each other our heights and shoe sizes and how much we earned last month, but I don't think we would learn anything especially enlightening or essential about each other). ABBA stats carry on their merry way, never reaching an end and will continue to do so long after the members of ABBA and the rest of us have long gone, and such inexorable and open-ended situations seem a bit beside the point, personally. But to reiterate: I accept what you say, and I'll just have to put up with it.

^I already suggested the avatars could be used to make videos for old ABBA songs, specifically ones without an official video. I think it could be fun. I'd like to see 'Agnetha' and 'Frida' singing 'Angeleyes', for instance. Why not? I am kind of puristy but the technology is here and it ain't going away so embrace it I say. It's going to happen whether we like it or not.

The one thing it will do will make the actual recordings of ABBA singing more special.

   Josef - Yes, The ABBAtars could be used to also make Videos for Songs that never had a proper Video. Tracks such as: 
   'Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)', 'Rock 'N' Roll Band', 'Hasta Manana', 'Nina, Pretty Ballerina', 'My Mama
   Said', 'Dance (While The Music Still Goes On', 'What About Livingstone?', 'Gonna Sing You My Lovesong', 'I've Been
   Waiting For You', 'Hey Hey Helen', 'When I Kissed The Teacher', 'My Love, My Life', 'Dum Dum Diddle', 'Thats Me', 'Why
   Did It Have To Be Me', 'Tiger', 'Arrival', 'Move On', 'Hole In Your Soul', 'I'm A Marionette', 'As Good As New', 'Angel Eyes',
   'If It Wasn't For The Nights', 'Kisses of Fire', 'Lovelight', 'Dream World', 'Andante Andante', 'Me & I', The Piper', 'Lay All
   Your Love On Me', 'The Way Old Friends Do', 'Put On Your White Sombrero', 'Elaine', 'Soldiers', 'I Let The Music Speak',
  'Slipping Through My Fingers', 'Like An Angel Passing Through My Room', 'Should I Laugh Or Cry', 'Cassandra', 'You
   Owe Me One', and 'I Am The City'. There's Just a small selection there, but they are just examples. (Lol!). I've only
   left off the Album Tracks, that I'm not so keen on. Or, The ABBAtars could be used, to do Videos, of every Track, on
   every ABBA Studio Album, including the Non-Album 'B' Sides. The 'ABBAtars' Albums would then be released on DVD...

   Plus, an ABBAtars DVD, of ABBA's 'Foreign' Language Songs...
 

Apart from the bits extracted, was the rest okay?! I can waffle; I've admitted it before. And I was bored. But to be fair, I wasn't taking issue with just a single sentence. (There are snappier ways to say 'soporific volumes' for that matter, but then you were making a point, and besides, soporific is a nice word and deserves a trot round.)

Oh and onlyabbaforme a lot of the songs you mention already have a video or at least a performance by ABBA available somewhere. I meant ones where there is NO footage of the group singing the song at all.

I hear ya, bro! *echo...echo...echo*

Yes, I saw a post recently that you deleted. It was quite lengthy. Something about the Agnetha and Frida picture threads? How many, etc. Your knowledge impressed me! When I looked later, it had disappeared into thin air! 😮

You don't half remind me of my old pal from the old abbasite. Similar sense of humour.

I suppose we should be grateful there is this forum as so many places have folded on the net. Bloody Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have cornered the market in social media.

As long as there are a handful of us that post, we’ll be ok, there’s rather a lot who never post, which is annoying as they are naturally of varying opinions, and would be interesting to hear. Most of the regulars , we tend to know a little of their thoughts, and no real big surprises, me included.
Im not a social media person, no accounts, so this is a little life line for me, and what meagre news there is, that’s why I’m happy with chart facts etc, I’m not a picture person so much, so horses for courses, at least it’s a post and something to read, look. We’re lucky to be going at all after 40 plus years, and for something to talk about is a bonus..
Im sure there will be a non stop snow storm of facts figures thoughts when we eventually get the new stuff, which will keep us going for another couple of years.
So a post is better than non, and as said you don’t have to read , respond or agree.. just keep those that we have posting..posting..

That fear is probably one of the reasons I babble on at times.  By going 'round the Wrekin I can try and get a couple of shots off without provoking an abruptly harsh response, or something.  I might come across as one of the more confident posters in here, but in reality I'm pretty thin-skinned.  Confrontation in real life very much gets me down.  But on the whole, when the choice is between posting or not posting, I'd say post.  And if you cop a bit of flak, try not to lash-out defensively in the heat of the moment.  Have a think, and see if you can't learn something about yourself from it (sometimes it's a 'lesson' you've had to sit through before, but a 'refresher course' does no harm).  Above all, resist the urge to 'flounce'!