I'm holding out for "Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You," which will contain essential ABBA tracks like "King Kong Song," "Dum Dum Diddle" and "I'm a Marionette."
Don't forget the classics Bang a Boomerang, Nina Pretty Ballerina, The Piper and What About Livingstone!
Anyone else remember the long version, including the terrific instrumental, to "Visitors?" You couldn't NOT hear it in the 80s. But to be fair, it's very atypical of the original Abba sound.
The entire final album from ABBA was genius. Their sound was constantly being refined, taking advantage of change in trends and new technology. Arrival marked the first major shift for them after their first three albums, catapulting them into the stratosphere with Dancing Queen which was the segue to their milestone album, The Album. Voulez-Vous is viewed more of a transition "disco" album, but I've always held it in high regard, especially for its inclusion of I Have a Dream and Chiquitita. Super Trouper was the next milestone while The Visitors was sadly, mostly forgotten, with the exception of Slipping Through My Fingers, due to the musical, and Madonna's cover of Like an Angel Passing Through My Room recorded for her album Music, but "officially" unreleased.
I would have delighted in seeing a couple more of their post-album singles as they did with Under Attack (which was stupidly left out of the film version). You Owe Me One is delightful; Just Like That ("officially" unreleased) is a terrific earworm, though not in the "saxophone version" (I especially like the alternate version recorded by Gemini, but a hybrid of it and the original would be optimal); and The Day Before You Came would be difficult to use, but is probably their most surprising and mysterious song.
So bang, a boom-a-boomerang is love. A boom-a-boomerang is love.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
