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ABBA THE ALBUMS is  a  online discography, listening and review guide to the music of ABBA!
ABBA THE ALBUMS is the website to find reviews and information about nearly  every album or CD that ABBA  released either as a group or as solo artists. Included are reviews of their often overlooked Swedish language releases as well as reviews of releases by related artists.
 

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Photo by Wenn of Stockholm Mamma Mia movie premiere, 4 July, 2008

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SEARCH THE SITE BY  ARTIST,  ALBUM or by YEAR!

 

ARTIST-Career overviews and reviews of albums by artist

ABBA -Career overview
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& Albums as a group

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Frida Solo career

Björn and Benny:Their work outside of ABBA!
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Agnetha Fältskog
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SOLO CAREER

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BENNY & THE HEP STARS

A Guide to Related Artists and ABBA band members

ABBA tribute albums,Covers of ABBA songs and ABBA tribute bands

Björn Ulvaeus and The Hootenanny Singers

Benny Andersson Solo Career,
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Work with BAO & films

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Latest Releases

Janne Schaffer -A Discography

Michael B. Tretow-A Discography

Where do you find reviews of all those endless ABBA compilations and reissues ? Go  directly to  to  ABBA-Career overview, Part One (1972-1982)  and  ABBA-Career overview, Part Two(1983-2006) .

YEAR : YEAR BY YEAR - ALBUM REVIEWS LISTED IN ORDER OF YEAR OF RELEASE.

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1964-1969

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1970-1975

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1976-1979

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1980-1984

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1985-1989

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1990-1995

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 1995-1999

ABBA THE ALBUMS: YEAR BY YEAR 2000-2006

Latest releases of ABBA, ABBA solo or ABBA related CD's and DVD's.

SITE INDEX: Index to all album reviews  and articles found on this site...

Index of all album reviews and articles on this site!

SPECIAL SECTIONS! ABBA GOES TO THE THEATRE ,THE MOVIES AND TO THE VIDEO STORE BUT NOT TO THE HALL OF FAME!

ABBA Goes To The Theatre-Theatre projects by ABBA,Agnetha, Björn and Benny

ABBA GOES TO THE MOVIES:Appearances by ABBA and ABBA solo in movies, videos or movie soundtracks.

ABBA releases on DVD!!!

ABBA UNRELEASED-ABBA, ABBA SOLO rare, and unreleased recordings...

Unusual and Interesting ABBA releases

WHY IS MADONNA IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME?...BUT NOT ABBA!!!!

Benny Andersson, Film and TV music and scores!

A list of songs written by Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus!

NEWS !!!!!
 
Mamma Mia-the Movie premiered including a special Stockholm premiere on July 4th. For the first since 1986 all four members of ABBA appeared together in one photo!
 
 
 
Chess was performed recently at Royal Albert Hall in London  with Josh Groban, word is that it will eventually come out on DVD.
 
 
The Mamma Mia movie is due out iin your local theatre this month!, The flick has been getting good buzz from people who seen unofficial previews of the film!
 
The new BAO studio album has come out and many of  the new Andersson-Ulvaeus songs such as "Crush on You" and "Fait Acomplit" can be heard on Youtube or wherever you can find webcasts of the the recent BAO performances in Skansen, or at the Globen.
 
There is word out that the Broadway staging of KRISTINA is running into trouble because possible financial backers found it too sad.  Instead there will a concert presentation intially to gear reaction to the show.  It's not clear how Bjorn and Benny feel about all this.
 
American Presidential candidate and ABBA fan, John McCain, briefly used "Take on Chance on Me' as a campaign song at some his rallies
 
Finally it has been disclosed that Frida is considering recording again with Jon Lord.
 
 
Where can you buy ABBA and ABBA solo CD's?
 
Aside from the always useful Amazon.com, among the best places to buy  ABBA related products are from ABBA -the Site (not much selection,but easy to use and good prices)  the ABBF record service (the best selection, but not easy to use) and on a couple of Swedish sites, Megastore and Ginza.

ABBA-THE SITE.

ABBF Fan Club Shop site!

The English Megastore

Ginza

Yours in Stig, Johnny
 

To comment on this website or to contribute a review of a ABBA album please email--- felpin80@hotmail.com

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ABBA DISCOGRAPHY SITES!!!

ABBA-the Releases .

Robert Veldman's site is the best discography  site for checking out differences between the various issuances of ABBA group albums, in particular.  The site is fully illustrated ,and has record label catalog numbers,  track listings, and song timings for most albums....The site also lists  singles, LP, and cassette  bootleg and compilation issues...
The site is  less complete on Swedish solo releases, related artists, and recent releases..

Elmar's ABBA site

Elmar 's site is fully illustrated and  has track listings with songwriter credits and songtimes for every major ABBA release.... His site is especially strong on vintage Swedish solo and related artist material. The site is less complete as far as ABBA compilations album released throughout the world...The site has the only complete chart  of Polar Record label releases... Elmar's career overview  text commentaries are in Estonian...

ABBA for the record,

OTHER ABBA WEBSITES!

ABBA-THE SITE.

The official ABBA website

THE HEP STARS-Svergies popularaste popgrupp pa sextiolet

The Abba Papers

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Rafaels and Stefans pictures, the best ABBA photo site on the web.

Mikory's My ABBA Blog-Lots of ABBA news & pictures!

ABBA FAN Club Shop ( formerly ABBF Record Service)

You can buy all ABBA related products at the ABBF record service site!

Linda's Music (Links Links Links)

The best one page Abba link  list on the web

ABBAMAIL

THE ART OF ABBA

icethesite- Dominic Ice Wallis' site on ABBA related musicals, and new releases! Check out the new website design on this page.

ABBA on TV

You Tube

THE MAGIC OF ABBA-by Stephen Morris

carlmagnuspalm.com -ABBA guru's site... Carl is the leading ABBA historian...

Trent Nickson's ABBA-The Worldwide Chart Lists

ABBA WORLD

ABBA guru's Ian Cole's complete guide to ABBA links, songs, videos, books, and much more....Check out his new blog section!

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ABBA-The Albums is ranked as an ABBA world "Essential site"

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The Saab Four Singing "I Am An A" in Australia

ABBA-Career overview, Part one (1972-1982)

ABBA-Career overview,Part Two(1983-2006)

ABBA GOLD, and More ABBA GOLD

ABBA -The complete recording sessions box (2005)

ALBUMS- Key ABBA solo albums

Agnetha and Frida Solo Work

Agnetha's 1975 Solo album ELVA KVINNOR ETT HUS!

Frida-Something's Going On and Shine

AGNETHA's 2004 release-MY COLOURING BOOK & Agnetha's 1980's English solo albums

Agnetha's Best of Cd , MY LOVE, MY LIFE

Agnetha's English language career hits collection called THAT's ME.

Frida's 1975 solo album-FRIDA ENSAM

Frida's 1996 solo album -Djupa Andetag

 Björn & Benny projects and other artists!

Björn and Benny's cool 1970 album-Lycka

Benny and Björn's 1996 musical-Kristina Fran Duvemala

Björn and Benny's Musical, MAMMA MIA

Björn and Benny's work with Gemini including new BEST OF collection!

B&B's work with Josefin Nilsson and Ainbusk

Björn, Benny and Tim Rice's CHESS - all it's various versions!

The French and English Abbacadabra Musical

CHRISTMAS albums by the ABBA solo acts.

ABBA engineer Michael B. Tretow's solo career.

Janne Schaffer -A Discography

ALL OTHER ALBUMS -INDEX TO ALL ALBUM REVIEWS ON THIS SITE!

ABBA THE ALBUMS Site index

Death of Ola Brunkert

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Ola Brunkert

 
The world of ABBA was shaken on March 16th, by the accidental death of Ola Brunkert.  It is fascinating how prominent a news story  his death became considering how few people knew who Ola Brunkert was. One article pointed how Ola played on most of the records of what some people regard as the third most successful musical act of all time, so yes that suggests that Ola  made an important if unsung contribution to the world at large.  One thing I should note , ABBA promised on the ARRIVAL jacket that one day,  they would let us hear Ola sing, but as far as I know we never got to here him sing!!!
 
Ola was ABBA's main live and session drummer. He played on all eight of their studio albums. He played on their first single, "People need love" and many but not all of their biggest hits. He played on their, 1977, 1979 and 1980 live  tours.  He was born in Örebro, Sweden on 15  September 1946. Before working with ABBA, he worked often  as a jazz drummer but also with acts like Slim's Blues Gang and Science Poption. Aside from ABBA he recorded with Janne Scaffer, Opus III, Ted Gardestad, Björn J:son Lindh, Jerry Williams, Ingemar Olsson, and others. He had recently been  largely retired, and since his wife died, he had been living alone.  He died accidentally on March 16, 2008 at his home near Arta, Majorca, Spain. A spokesman said Brunkert hit his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself in the neck. He managed to wrap a towel around his neck and left the house to seek help, but collapsed in the garden."
 
Bjorn Ulvaeus was quoted in the Expressen after Ola's death as saying-that "I remember him as a good pal when we worked together in the mid-1970s. He was an very creative musician who contributed a lot when we toured and worked in studio," "We saw each other very briefly at the Mamma Mia tour premiere in Madrid, that was perhaps five years ago. Before that, we hadn't met in 20 years," says Björn Ulvaeus. "We were not close friends, but I miss him as a tour mate and an extremely good and creative musician. He was one of the best.""He was kind, humble..., a very good friend,"
 
Former ABBA session guitarist Janne Schaffer said  "This is incredibly sad. My thoughts go out to his sons who now have lost both their parents."
 

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I seemed to be cursed with lawns and lawnmowers, every lawnmower i get breaks and when they are working it is rainy, or snowing all the time!
 
Cape Cod is currently plagued with a brood of seventeen year cicadas, oddly I haven't really seen that many of the pesky, crunchy creatures, but I you can sure hear them, anytime you get near to a forest, they sound like a thousand car alarms, or some sort of alien invasion
 
 
 
 
I recently moved within in the same town, and my advice to you would be to never move!
 
The  end of time....oops not yet...
 
How about that Hillary Clinton, we almost couldn't  rid of her, I must admit I am skeptical of the people who keep  saying she should get out, when she was in fact, running very close to Barack Obama in terms of total popular votes. Indeed if the contest were run under the Republican rules she might have been the nominee by now...!
 
John Mayer, Gwen Stafani, Maroon Five
 
Does anybody else find these musical acts  annoying? I do! I can't think of any songs I like by these artists, though I do like some of the work Gwen did with  her group, No Doubt.
 
The great American actor, Charlton Heston died recently, and Chuck was not a good friend of mine, but I did enjoy many of his movies, notably "The Three Musketeers", "Planet of the Apes", and "El Cid".
 
Recently, I Saw "I Am Legend" a fairly good movie about a dog and his friend, Will Smith, and their experiences with golf, mannequins, and fast cars!
 
The word is out is that TheTab Energy drink has been discontinued.
 
Recently, I saw Sam, the replacement for Greg, in the Wiggles and I have to say he is not as good as Greg.

I believe in the power of TAB!
 

It's Ok to dream, even if your a member of a children's choir..!!!

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