ABBA - Voyage RELEASE DAY SYNC LISTEN

[octophone]

Immediate bopping in the seat to this one.

 

[Iguana]

Legs in the air girls!

 

[octophone]

Looks like @Ag had to go out right enough!

 

[RJN]

Is this an Irish jig inspired song? Or am I just wrong

 

[dmlaw]

Sad and nostalgic but with a happy tune. Yes, I like this one.

 

[Iguana]

I love the song concept. He said he'd see her at next year's fare. But she's still waiting

 

[RJN]

Sad and nostalgic but with a happy tune

The best kind of music

 

[Pingu]

This is definitely one of the main “I can’t believe how much they sound like THEM” songs on the album.

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

This one has such a complex mix of emotions. It’s so good.

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

Like a kind of defiance but also brittleness.

 

[dmlaw]

Is this an Irish jig inspired song? Or am I just wrong

A little bit, sounds like. I might claim that it’s ABBA the next time RaspberrySwirl accuses me of having sent a folk song to ASFM.

 

[Iguana]

Loo break

I mean, Little Things

 

[octophone]

I mean, the sad piano sucked me in because sad piano does that to me...and it starts fine...but as soon as "it's a lovely Christmas morning", it all goes to cock.

 

[Tisch]

Listen x4 and can confirm this is actually just growing OFF me.

But like I said before, you can't have an ABBA album without some questionable songs so I'm grateful for it in that way.

 

[Iguana]

Your NAUGHTY EYES

 

[Pingu]

“Little things like your naughty eyes” is jarring to say the least.

 

[RJN]

Oh yes a thank you song for Santa? Just what I wasn't hoping for

 

[Iguana]

“Little things like your naughty eyes” is jarring to say the least.

 

[dmlaw]

Well, yes, it’s fairly schmalzy, but imagine how we’d all feel if we were listening to this album‘s version of ‘Two For The Price Of One’ right now.

 

[octophone]

Christmas morning is never lovely. It's cold, it often comes with a hangover and it's either far too quiet or far too loud. The entire premise is flawed.

 

[Iguana]

Well, yes, it’s fairly schmalzy, but imagine how we’d all feel if we were listening to this album‘s version of ‘Two For The Price Of One’ right now.

But there's a children's choir.

 

[octophone]

This will do exactly fuck all in the Christmas charts.

 

[RJN]

But there's a children's choir.

Oh no

 

[Iguana]

Where's the mention of watching The Royale Family?

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

Well this is very much like a twee Like An Angel Passing Through but in a diabetic coma. But have warmed a lot to it over the course of the day because I love hearing their voices intertwine. But this fucking CHOIR.

 

[dmlaw]

OK, I could do without the children singing bit.

 

[Pingu]

Little Things is ALMOST worth it for that transition. Almost.

 

[Iguana]

Don't Shut Me Down

 

[Tisch]

Children's choir going into the "children's laughter" line - I only just noticed

Don't make me hate DSMD please!

 

[dmlaw]

But there's a children's choir.

Obviously, I had not heard that at the time. It is now, of course, unforgivable.

 

[octophone]

There is a single instance of a children's choir in music that isn't shit and it's Talk Talk's "I Believe In You".

 

[dmlaw]

But DSMD is on now, so I don’t care.

 

[RJN]

I've only heard this a few times but I like it. If I found out it was actually from the 70s, I wouldn't be surprised

 

[Tisch]

Sounds a bit like Främling

 

[octophone]

Children's choir going into the "children's laughter" line - I only just noticed

Don't make me hate DSMD please!

I spotted the clever segue earlier. Don't worry, DSMD escapes unscathed.

 

[Iguana]

But in this shape and form I appear now
I have learned to COPE and love and hope and why I am here now

 

[RJN]

SDMD reads too similar to BDSM

 

[RJN]

This is such an autumn song I've decided

 

[dmlaw]

There is a single instance of a children's choir in music that isn't shit and it's Talk Talk's "I Believe In You".

I will also allow I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, as far as children’s choirs go.

 

[Iguana]

SDMD reads too similar to BDSM

Shut Down Me Don't?