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Post by anthony40 on Nov 8, 2021 19:59:41 GMT
My CD arrived today. Yay
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Post by theatreian on Nov 9, 2021 10:09:51 GMT
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Post by karloscar on Nov 9, 2021 14:50:27 GMT
There's normally one track on an Abba album that I can't stand. Voyage hasn't provided one so far. My only complaint is that quite a few tracks are too short and would have benefited from another chorus, and Benny is guilty of overuse of the old glockenspiel!
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Post by danb on Nov 10, 2021 9:38:47 GMT
There's normally one track on an Abba album that I can't stand. Voyage hasn't provided one so far. My only complaint is that quite a few tracks are too short and would have benefited from another chorus, and Benny is guilty of overuse of the old glockenspiel! Too much glockenspiel? Are you mad? There is never enough in modern music! Thankfully Sam Fender has picked up the baton with his use of a xylophone patch in lots of his stuff. |
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Post by karloscar on Nov 10, 2021 16:55:20 GMT
I'm all in favour of tuned percussion, but a bit of variety is good and Glockenspiel can lead to sugar overload.
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Post by anthony40 on Nov 10, 2021 17:44:37 GMT
WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Frida will be dialling in to
@bbcradio2
tomorrow morning to speak about ABBA's new album with
@zoetheball
on the 'Breakfast Show'!
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Post by theatreian on Nov 12, 2021 21:52:13 GMT
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Post by karloscar on Nov 12, 2021 22:30:28 GMT
ABBA's last studio album was among the first to be issued on CD ( the Visitors used digital recording techniques and was used to test prototype CDs before they were launched commercially), and Voyage is the fastest selling Vinyl release of the 21st century. (And could well be the biggest selling cassette too). Time warp?
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Post by interval99 on Nov 12, 2021 23:19:43 GMT
Four hours of ABBA on BBC 2 Saturday starting from 8, repeats of previous shown programs but the ABBA at the BBC has some good clips from when they did top of the pops in person rather than video
And at 11 it's ABBA in Switzerland from 1979 which hopefully is the full program which I have not seen in full since its first showing.so it should include guest Kate Bush along with Bjorn and Benny's Long intro, (who's voice is amazing,who looks are amazing, who dancing is amazing, is it a tree no it's a bush ladies and gentlemen Kate Bush) will see tomorrow how much of that intro I remembered correctly. Think she does wow in a purple dress, by then I had become a fan of hers and forgiven her for knocking ABBA and take a chance on me off number one with wuthering heights in 78.
I would also say it's the only chance to hear the different intro to does your mother know but that might make me sound bit obsessive, but the nice thing about this thread is seeing many of the board members are out ABBA fans as well!
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Post by danb on Nov 14, 2021 9:00:33 GMT
An enjoyable evenings entertainment, but I would have loved to have heard all of those Voulez Vous songs performed live on the Switzerland thing.
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Post by theatreian on Nov 15, 2021 16:36:15 GMT
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Post by interval99 on Nov 15, 2021 18:03:47 GMT
Everyone remember to wish Frida a happy birthday today 15th November.
76 years young
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Post by theatreian on Nov 17, 2021 17:18:19 GMT
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Post by interval99 on Nov 18, 2021 17:12:11 GMT
Just issued on the voyage site Christmas merchandise to go with the new single little things out December 3rd.
Must admit after years of very little merchandise it looks like it will be an avalanche of stuff by the time the arena opens
Unfortunately some of the items are limited numbers - the socks to 200 pairs worldwide and the abba puzzle if the little things cover at £25 is limited to 500 worldwide.
They must have seen the eBay market for the limited vinyls they did and I expect most of these will be grabbed by resellers rather than fans.
You will be glad to know the abba Christmas jumper at £80 is unlimited it seems.
With the visitors album 40th anniversary issues to come by the end of the month I think I am spending all that money saved in the 40 years ABBA were not an active group in three months.
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Post by theatreian on Nov 20, 2021 8:46:53 GMT
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Post by talkingheads on Nov 20, 2021 11:26:27 GMT
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Post by interval99 on Nov 22, 2021 0:10:51 GMT
There is now a tiktok and YouTube clip showing the jumpers being hand knitted by Bjorn and Ian McKellen. Seems Ian is the quicker knitter. Rather odd and you only wonder how Ian ended up in the clip but may explain the price. |
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Post by karloscar on Nov 23, 2021 23:09:40 GMT
Grammy nomination for I Still Have Faith In You. First ever nomination for Abba, which shows how little impact they had in the USA in the 70s.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 5, 2021 12:33:53 GMT
M proud of this stat.  |
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Post by theatreian on Dec 18, 2021 22:43:47 GMT
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Post by justsaying113 on Dec 19, 2021 10:21:18 GMT
Not in the daft gender neutral category I hope!
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Post by fiyero on Dec 29, 2021 14:05:49 GMT
Not in the daft gender neutral category I hope! Which gender should they go for if they have to be gendered? |
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Post by anthony40 on Dec 29, 2021 18:31:23 GMT
I actually purchased a new 2022 wall calendar yesterday and wrote down all of the important dates- Birthday's, Father's Day, Mother's Day and the date I am seeing ABBA Voyage
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 29, 2021 18:50:21 GMT
Very canny, anthony40. You could almost be a Yorkshireman...though a true Yorkshireman would have waited a few more days. They're bound to be even cheaper in the new year! 🙂 |
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Post by anthony40 on Dec 29, 2021 21:21:49 GMT
Very canny, anthony40 . You could almost be a Yorkshireman...though a true Yorkshireman would have waited a few more days. They're bound to be even cheaper in the new year! 🙂 I'm London TallPaul and from experience I know that if I go down to Waterstones in Piccadilly after Christmas, all wall calendars are 50% off. The only problem is deciding which one to pick. |
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