ABBA Voyage: General Discussion 2021 Sept - Dec

Sales are counted towards the chart once the CD is despatched to you.  

If you bought online from Amazon.co.uk or the Official ABBA Voyage site, those sales will count towards the chart.   I don't know about the Dutch site, but am guessing not. 

I have had a confirmation this morning from the Voyage store that they have sent my JAN CD to me now. 

Nicely put, alib.

Out of interest Alan did you order from abba voyage?  I ordered 0730am on 18th as soon as it came online? Still nothing received nor even an email to say its been dispatched. Really disappointed. 

9.93 was taken from my account on 19th and confirmation email at 0740 on the 18th....

Yes i emailed this morning but still awaiting a response....

Justabba, you are not alone. I haven't received my copy of JAN yet but I did receive confirmation that CD has been dispatched yesterday evening. Hopefully it should arrive this week. You do feel disappointed and as Alan pointed out yesterday the service is a little on the slow side but that may be due to the dreaded pandemic that we can never get away from. You have my sympathy as I am in the same boat.

Hi Pixi. Welcome to the forum. Don't worry I think the pandemic will have some impact on shipping and dispatch. I am still waiting for my copy of JAN and received confirmation of dispatch yesterday. Fingers crossed !

NINE (9) DAYS TO GO!!

www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/27/abba-reunion-interview-voyage-younger-selves

Great new article with 3 new photos!

I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m rather sad when they say “this is it” no more ABBA… as we have so much to look forward to! And they’ve said “no” for long enough in the past. Just in the chorus they chime “we’ve only just arrived!”
Roll on 5th November.

Yes, grumpy Benny has to put a damper on it already by saying that that’s it and two unfinished songs will remain that way. Also confirms that Agnetha and Frida will not be involved in promotional activities. I wonder if Agnetha looks back at the promotion she did for “A” back in 2013 in a negative way? She seemed so comfortable with it at the time.

Great to see a decent photo of them at last though. Hopefully this time they were all actually stood together. The motion-capture outfits photo appears to be a composite.

Well, I didn't expect another studio album but this means there won't be any extra tracks for a further release of "Voyage" or for a 50-year retrospective album (be that in 2022 or 2024). To leave us with the knowledge that there were two unfinished tracks that will never be finished was a bit unnecessary. This seems a rather negative message before "Voyage" has even been released but perhaps B&B felt the need to make all of this clear so that they can draw a line under ABBA and enjoy their retirements (and I hope they do). It's as if they're saying "that's it from us, now over to the ABBAtars". I wonder whether the final track of the album "Ode to Freedom" refers to their own freedom.

I was amused by Benny saying of Agnetha and Frida "they haven’t been doing much for the last 40 years". I dare say A&F may not agree - despite being labelled as a recluse, since the ABBA days Agnetha has put out 5 studio albums in English plus a Christmas album in Swedish, various 'Greatest Hits' albums and an autobiography.

I was also amused by the headline photo in which Frida looks like she's being naughty, unable to conceal her giggles

A really lovely article - and made all the better by the fact that it's written by a genuine, respectful-not-hysterical fan, Alexis Petridis. The new studio photos are fantastic - as is the new composite headline photo, mimicking the pose for the motion-capture image that we've seen everywhere for a couple of months. 

I can't believe that m/any of us had serious expectations that another album was a realistic prospect. Like, really?! As with Just Like That and I Am The City in 1982, ABBA head off into the sunset teasing us about the existence of two new songs. This time, they've preempted some of the demand and declared them unfinished. We don't know if the songs moved beyond the writing stage and/or the demo stage to a point where - like Frida's Shot Down In Action - they simply walked away mid-session with the discordant clang of instruments being dropped on the floor and someone suggesting Deliveroo.

I like that we get some history on the shape of the show's evolution - especially that ABBA themselves nixed the idea of holograms and pushed to deliver the new music in the absence of a definite show. That the video for ISHFIY is what led to the next chapter. Given his credentials and history, I hope that Baillie Walsh has been asked to develop a proper documentary. Not just for the show, but for the entire span of the ABBA history. A proper music-focused documentary is long overdue.

I thought the article was insightful, well-written and enjoyable, filling in some of the history of the "ABBA Voyage" show. But as I indicated above, the declarations from B&B at the end left me feeling deflated.

Some oddities I picked up... "Put On Your White Sombrero" was lumped in with B-A-B and DDD as 1970s ABBA songs when it actually didn't see the light of day until 1994 and was recorded in 1980 (or was it 1979?). Later on, the article talks about the stress of needing a 10th song for the "Super Trouper" album, until the title track came along. I understood that POYWS was due to go on this album but was left off at the last minute in favour of ST, in which case they did already have a 10th track. I really wish they had made use of POYWS at the time as a B-side or even as an A-side for the Summer of 1981 - it could have been a big Summer holiday hit.

Ha ha, I have soft spot for Sombrero, I really like it, maybe guilty pleasure, maybe it coz was previously unheard track. In fact, Cassandra (which I previously loved) sounds bit plodding now, though the storytelling is so touching.