ABBA - The Album + THE REST Sync Listen

[Pingu]

Another one younger me had absolutely no interest in, but it's really quite lovely when I listen to it now.

 

[GNL]

I misheard the opening lyrics as "They say a wrestler's body can hide a peaceful soul"

Strangely poetic.

 

[Pingu]

The SCALE of this album compared to Arrival is something else.

 

[Pingu]

6. Hole In Your Soul

 

[Jark]

Move On passed me by to the extent that I can't remember a thing about how it sounded.

Hole In Your Soul is a bit MESSY! I generally don't like their '60s rock n' roll-aping numbers that much.

xx Eagle
10 Take a Chance On Me
07 One Woman One Man
09 The Name of the Game
06 Move On
06 Hole In Your Soul

 

[Penelope]

The BVs on the chorus (for Move On)

 

[Jark]

The SCALE of this album compared to Arrival is something else.

meaning what?

 

[Pingu]

meaning what?

It's all so much "grander."

 

[Penelope]

HUGE intro to Hole In Your Soul

 

[Pingu]

(Not Hole In Your Soul)

 

[GNL]

Watch out for those seagulls Frida, they'll steal your donuts

 

[Tisch]

(Not Hole In Your Soul)

Oh I dunno I'm feeling pretty grand!

 

[Pingu]

I believe this is the one the record company wanted as the lead single.

 

[Iguana]

The vocals are kind of ANNOYING but in a good way

 

[Iguana]

I believe this is the one the record company wanted as the lead single.

WHY?

 

[RJN]

I believe this is the one the record company wanted as the lead single.

that would have been a mistake. It kind of sounds like it could have been by any number of bands

 

[Penelope]

LOVELY CONTRAST

 

[Pingu]

7. Thank You For The Music

 

[Pingu]

I feel you're all going to try and make me feel guilty for loving this one.

 

[Iguana]

Making Agnetha sing "I'm a bit of a bore" was a CHOICE

 

[RJN]

7. Thank You For The Music

This is my least favorite famous ABBA song I think

 

[Jark]

this album feels really really inconsequential compared to the one that preceded and the one that followed. definitely the unfortunate middle sister.

xx Eagle
10 Take a Chance On Me
07 One Woman One Man
09 The Name of the Game
06 Move On
06 Hole In Your Soul
08 Thank You For the Music

 

[Penelope]

This wasn't the final track on the album?!

 

[Tisch]

Thank Abba For The Music is better

 

[Iguana]

I feel you're all going to try and make me feel guilty for loving this one.

I like it too!

 

[Pingu]

this album feels really really inconsequential compared to the one that preceded and the one that followed. definitely the unfortunate middle sister.

xx Eagle
10 Take a Chance On Me
07 One Woman One Man
09 The Name of the Game
06 Move On
06 Hole In Your Soul
08 Thank You For the Music

I will concede that it doesn't hang together as a collection nearly as well as Arrival or Voulez-Vous.

 

[GNL]

7. Thank You For The Music

I have a soft spot for this because that cheesy Thank ABBA For the Music thing in the 90s is how I got into them as a kid.

 

[Penelope]

It's VERY DIABETIC, but you know, usually you have a lovely time on the way to the diabetes (or so I assume)

 

[Pingu]

This wasn't the final track on the album?!

It was the show OPENER in the stupid mini-musical it came from.

 

[Iguana]

Am I going to have to put @Jark on ignore tonight?

 

[Pingu]

I like it too!

Well of course you do, it's basically a Barry Manilow song.

 

[RJN]

Am I going to have to put @Jark on ignore tonight?

Maybe @funky can rate too and see who pisses you off more

 

[Iguana]

Well of course you do, it's basically a Barry Manilow song.

It is very I Write The Songs

 

[Pingu]

8. I Wonder (Departure)

 

[Iguana]

A bit of filler and then a CRACKER

 

[Jark]

I Wonder is unbearably musical theatre nice vocal harmonies but it's ABBA so that's really the bare minimum. on balance - no thanks!

xx Eagle
10 Take a Chance On Me
07 One Woman One Man
09 The Name of the Game
06 Move On
06 Hole In Your Soul
08 Thank You For the Music
05 I Wonder (Departure)

 

[Penelope]

VERY 'CHESS' OPENING

 

[AGinAg (37)]

8. I Wonder (Departure)

I love this.

 

[Iguana]

Maybe @funky can rate too and see who pisses you off more

" @Iguana One Man One Woman sounds really Natalie Imbruglia-esque! 0/10"

 

[Pingu]

I Wonder is unbearably musical theatre nice vocal harmonies but it's ABBA so that's really the bare minimum. on balance - no thanks!

xx Eagle
10 Take a Chance On Me
07 One Woman One Man
09 The Name of the Game
06 Move On
06 Hole In Your Soul
08 Thank You For the Music
05 I Wonder (Departure)

You're literally a whole track ahead, you could have done Eagle.