ABBA

ABBA ‘Arrival’, the Helicopter Album 🚁 I remember this from the dawn of time. Bjorn is the pilot, Benny not so happy in this one, and Annifrid and Agnetha are stuck and can’t get out without asking one of the boys. I remember crawling around my loungeroom during ‘Tiger’, being a tiger. There is a saucy one about kissing teachers ooh-lá-lá. The highlight is ‘Knowing Me Knowing You’, what a serious and mature piece that is with all those minor notes. ‘Dancing Queen’ is the best pop song ever written. The one that didn’t make the album is ‘Fernando’. Dad once played us the song and explained the lyrics and I cried. #CDsAtoZ 💿 

Yes, I am posting my #CDsAtoZ 💿 and at one per day that will take approximately 3 years unless I give up earlier. I am still at letter A.

2. ABBA - ‘The Album’. Their zenith #IMHO because who can resist the chant 🎵 take a chance take a chance take a ch-ch-chance chance 🎵 ABBA’s break up songs are the best, I think, this one represented by ‘One Man One Woman’. There is even a weird mini-musical at the end, ‘I’m a Marionette’ finishing the album with a chord of doom.

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3. ABBA - ‘Super Trouper’. Can you imagine being in the room the first time Agnetha and Frida sang together? Anyway, when this album came out, ABBA were in their 30s and therefore getting *really old*. Some of the pizazz is fading but ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’ sounds like a template for all the diva pop songs of the 1980s. ‘The Winner Takes It All’ is another sad break up song, simple with only a couple of chords but very powerful, and in the film clip poor Agnetha is not the winner. 🎵 Super-per trou-per-per 🎵 I don’t have any more ABBA CDs sorry but there is no doubt that they are musically audacious and now they have a new album etc. #CDsAtoZ 💿