ABBA are back with their first album in 40 years https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/entertainment/abba-voyage-album-reviews-intl-scli/index.html Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog reunited this year after going their separate ways in 1982. "ABBA: Voyage," their new album released Friday, features 10 tracks and is their first since "The Visitors" in 1981.
Yeah, I'm about as excited as I was when East and West Germany reunited. I didn't like their previous work, either.
The Beach Boys released an album nine years ago that was actually pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Why_God_Made_the_Radio But I always liked them more than I liked ABBA, so I'm with Rich here: meh.
Not an ABBA fan, but there's still a great story here. I really hope that 40 years after my peak, I can still take on new projects that excite and energize me. Cheers to them all!
Yeah, I'm no fan, but I do admire the boys' musicianship and ability to navigate the pop world. They've stayed strong in the music business all these years since ABBA's heyday.
I like different musical genres. ABBA have a special place in my life and lives of many millions of their fans. I'm excited that bands that I liked as a teenager still make music. Another band this time rock band I love just released an album. The youngest member of the group is 70. They released more then 100 albums since 1968. As to ABBA its a very pleasant surprise.
Wide lapels and bell bottom trousers. On MEN! Nixon's impeachment and Ford's pardon. My Bachelors degree! The OPEC oil embargo and the appalling failure of Jimmy Carter to do anything about anything. Guys? The Seventies were awful. ABBA was only a little part of the awfulness.
I so much disagree with this. Carter inherited a huge mess--politically and economically--from Nixon/Ford. He took the big hit and Reagan was able to swoop in. Kinda like now.
I often say that the president of the United States gets too much credit when times are good and too much blame when they go poorly, and I can't help but wonder whether Carter's reputation has at least in part fallen victim to that phenomenon.
Probably. But I might have felt better about the man if he didn't spend the last months in the White House wringing his hands over the hostage crisis and OPEC embargo instead of doing something. He appeared to me to be the one thing no President can ever be; ineffective. Ronald Reagan became President through Carter's incapacity to act and that was a turning point in the history of the American conservative movement.
I'm not sure that this is fair. He attempted a rescue that went about as well--badly--as you would expect from a hollowed-out military. The rest of the time the Iranians were waiting it out so they could release the hostages once Reagan was sworn in. I always wondered if the Reagan team had anything to do with that, a la Nixon in Vietnam.
You mean the criminal arms-for-hostages deal? Sure looks like it, doesn't it? As to "fair", there's nothing fair about how Americans judge politicians. They either deliver or they don't. Carter didn't. de Tocqueville makes this very point. He was correct then and he's correct now.
Meanwhile, this thread having been thoroughly hijacked by yours truly, allow me to return control of your TV set. I am so excited about the new ABBA album that I can hardly wait to not buy it!