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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2024 16:08:00 GMT
Just to mirror the currently ongoing thread about song titles, what would you have called ABBA's albums if their actual titles had been, for some reason, out of bounds? Which songs (if any) would have made decent title tracks? Or have you got some other, more creative ideas up your sleeve?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2024 9:15:35 GMT
To answer my own question, if I had to pick alternative album titles from the available tracks (and restricting my choice to the songs that weren't UK singles, just for the sake of this 'game'), I'd probably go for the following. Obviously, as well as having a bit of oomph in terms of their actual titles, the title tracks have got to be sufficiently radio-friendly to have picked up a decent bit of airplay when the albums came out (much as the track Voulez-Vous did on the UK's Radio 1 when the VV album was released).
Voyage becomes No Doubt About It (a slight cheat, but the single was released quite a long time after the album)
The Visitors becomes When All Is Said and Done
Super Trouper becomes On and On and On
Voulez-Vous becomes Kisses of Fire
The Album becomes Thank You for the Music (obviously this was a single much, much, much later)
Arrival becomes Tiger
ABBA becomes I've Been Waiting for You
Waterloo becomes Honey, Honey (a bit naff as an album title, but you'd have got away with it in 1974)
Ring Ring (tricky one, this) becomes Love Isn't Easy (i.e. minus the bracketed bit)
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Post by bjorenny on Jan 30, 2024 10:13:25 GMT
If Arrival had been called 'When I Kissed The Teacher', think of the 'saucy' 1970's Carry On- style album cover it could have had. I also thought of 'On and On and On' for Super Trouper but thought an album title like that may have negative connotations. "ABBA should have retired but instead they go on, and on, and on". The music press would have had a field day.
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Post by johnny on Jan 30, 2024 10:57:40 GMT
ABBA = I've Been Waiting For You
Arrival = My Love, My Life
The Album = Thankyou for the Music
Voulez Vous = As Good as New
Super Trouper = Me and I
The Visitors = I Let The Music Speak
Voyage = Ode to Freedom
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Post by mymamasaid on Feb 7, 2024 20:41:17 GMT
I've always been a fan of album titles that aren't taken from one of the title tracks. Nice to keep the punters guessing :-).
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Post by johnny on Feb 16, 2024 17:01:39 GMT
Or album titles that references a lyric but not a title eg in Stevie Wonder's Hotter Than July had that line comes in the song Master Blaster (Jammin)
Maybe The Visitors could have been called "Not Too Old For Sex" 😀
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Post by jj on Feb 16, 2024 18:18:33 GMT
Maybe The Visitors could have been called "Not Too Old For Sex" 😀
Or "Dying Embers"
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