ABBA are back with their first album in 40 years

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  1. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

  2. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I'm about as excited as I was when East and West Germany reunited. I didn't like their previous work, either.
     
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  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

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  4. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    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!
     
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  5. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    That's a very good point!
     
  6. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  7. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member

    Well, I do like ABBA ( and I am a Metalhead, by the way..lol) ..I am happy for the new album
     
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  8. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  9. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Polyester leisure suits coming back too?
     
  10. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Why not? Fire sprinklers are much more effective these days.
     
  11. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  12. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  13. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Agree with "swoop".
     
  14. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    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.
     
  15. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  16. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  17. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  18. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    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!
     

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