ABBA Voyage: General Discussion 2021 Sept - Dec

I think it was the ABBA Fan Club magazine that stated that Just A Notion has a new backing track. It’s not too much of a stretch of the imagination to assume the vocals have been completely re-recorded too. I would hope there’s nothing of the 1978 demo on a new album.

The rumour and Conjecture to which I was referring was Just a notion being the next single, a week after a different rumour of a different single had been circulating.  Like you, I have of course read the official fan club magazine.

Thanks Johnny for those educated guesses
Its a terrible reflection of how dire the sales of singles/Albums are these days...It must be hard for new acts to actually make any money from new releases.
Gone are the days of nearly instant 250.000. Alas the new singles must be among the poorest selling tracks here in the UK for ABBA, So Long being the worst ? Ironically one of the most sought I expect.....
Its all an argument for the ABBAtars show, as concerts seem to be the main source of income these days.....

On another note... still no news on JAN !! is it all rumour .... where do they come from....
Its been a week or so since the last snippet, the clapperboard...
Are we getting impatient ...lol

It came from PopJustice, who were right about a ten-track album days before it was announced. They must have people from within the music industry on that. It’s all a bit of a game, they pretend they’re releasing confidential information when in reality it’s to generate interest.

But yes, I agree, there’s no official confirmation yet. It would make sense to release something just before the album though, now that the initial excitement has died down.

^^ gamleman, I think it was Colin that mentioned about When You Danced With Me, but he didn’t give a source.

Incidentally it was the same person on PopJustice that said about Just A Notion that mentioned a couple of weeks ago that exciting news was coming.

It was actually me that prompted the announcement - I posted on there and mentioned When You Danced With Me and the “exciting news”, neither of which had materialised, and a reply then commented to say that someone had briefly posted about Just A Notion the day before and quickly deleted it. The person behind the original post then posted it again and left it on this time.

There isn’t much to gain from making fake announcements based on rumour, so I’d hope it’s correct, but who knows? I’m keeping an open mind.

Here’s the link. I have the same username on there. forum.popjustice.com/threads/abba-voyage.67379/page-117#post-8297767
(I’m assuming it lets anyone view the topic without being logged in but I’m not sure).

As I suggested a few pages ago (!) on this thread, why not just abandon this thread now and start one in The Music section perhaps simply entitled 'The Voyage album' ? The vast majority of the recent discussion here could have been suitably encompassed in such a new Voyage thread.

Or Alan's idea - I think that would be worthwhile, too.

If I remember right, Gary wanted this 'Can it be true?' thread locked ages ago!

The problem is it can’t be locked without a moderator, which we don’t have. Also, I personally think that starting a new topic (which anyone can do) will just confuse things further. You’ll get some people still posting in here and others in the new one. Attempts have been made at starting other topics but they haven’t fully taken off.

I think it’s a bit late now, this topic is too firmly established to abandon it.

I’d have to disagree, I don’t really see it as cumbersome. I quite like having a “go-to” thread. If you were on the ABBA 4 Ever forum (2006 to 2014), you may remember how moderators treated everyone like children and stifled conversation, not allowing anyone to go off-topic. The reasoning was that it was then easier to find things on the forum. The reality was that hardly anyone checks old threads, most people are on forums to check new posts.

There are two other topics - one about reviews of the two singles so far, and the other about what we know about the ten new songs. The latter is still on its first page and the former hasn’t progressed beyond a second. There’s probably stuff in there that some forum members haven’t seen if they only check this one. That’s the “danger” of having more than one topic.

I go into the forum now via “view recent posts” - I used to use “view recent topics” but the posts one is better. It puts the newest post - in any topic - first and means I don’t miss anything, regardless of where it’s posted. I just read them until I reach one I’ve already read!

Justabba, You will probably know this already as you have joined the International Fan Club as I have. There is a very interesting article about ABBA's new album " Voyage " and the songs featured on it. There is a mention of JAN re-worked with new vocals added. I apologise for sounding a little terse in my previous comment. You are right there are many conflicting rumours circulating about the next potential single. Whatever the song it won't disappoint " I Still Have Faith In ABBA ". i couldn't resist the pun. Well done Alan. You will be very good as the new forum moderator.

I’ve created a poll on what to do with this topic (if anything at all). Would be great if you can all vote so we can get an accurate idea.

abbachat.boards.net/thread/1398/future-true-thread

Every time I hit the link to vote,  it logs me out?! Can I add a vote for abba voyage please?

Take the ABBA Voyage thread at PopJustice, for instance. It has essentially become an ABBA omnibus thread, with fun comments sometimes coming in from left field, and it's this very fact that makes it popular and constantly added-to. If you were to create narrow topics (e.g., "Agnetha's hairstyles over time"), there'd not be enough interest to sustain such discussions.