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.
Photo by Wenn of Stockholm Mamma Mia movie premiere, 4 July, 2008
SEARCH THE SITE BY ARTIST, ALBUM or by YEAR!
ARTIST-Career overviews
and reviews of albums by artist
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.
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 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...
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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Felpin's Pond
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 "TheThree 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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