Here we go again: ABBA records first new songs in 35 years

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/04/27/here-we-go-again-abba-records-first-new-songs-in-35-years/

LONDON – Mamma Mia! The members of ABBA announced Friday that they have recorded new material for the first time in 35 years.

The Swedish pop supergroup said it had recorded two new songs, including one titled “I Still Have Faith in You.”

The news was announced in an Instagram statement from Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog.

ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo” and had a sequin-spangled string of hits including “Dancing Queen” and “Take a Chance on Me” before splitting up in 1982.

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[OriginalGeek]

1. I'd listen to it

I freely admit not hating them nearly as much as my metal-head friends and 70s disco-hating acquaintances. And I am looking very much forward to Mamma Mia 2.

It's nice they could bury their respective hatchets.

[Dave Starsky]

2. How did I not know about this?

I love ABBA. I always have, my whole life. As a teen, I was all about Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, and Van Halen--outwardly to all my friends. But in the wee hours, when none of them were around, I was listening to ABBA.

ABBA created some of the most sophisticated and beautiful pop songs ever made. People blow shit on them all the time. Their lyrics were not the best (they were singing English as a second language), but lyrics aren't all that important in the pop world. It's the craft and mastery in all of the components of a song to deliver a message that's important. And they were absolutely amazing at that.

I'm sure that no one here has probably heard of Rutger Gunnarsson. He was ABBA's bass player, and he was well known to be one of the best in the world. If you have a sound system that will do it, listen to "Dancing Queen" with the bottom (bass) end turned up high and all of the higher parts (vocals, etc.) turned down low. It is absolutely amazing. Just the bass line is like something from Johann Sebastian Bach. It's one reason that "Dancing Queen" is not just another forgotten thumpa-thumpa disco song and is, in fact, a masterpiece.

[Iggo]

3. They do have some pretty mean bass lines.

I recently acquired a bass from someone who decided bass wasn't for them. (Actually, I think they decided some time ago that it wasn't for them. They just recently made it official that the bass I've been holding onto for them was now officially mine.) Anyway, I'm learning a new instrument in the Age Of YouTube, and I'm hearing songs differently that I've heard a billion times before. Dancing Queen is one of those songs.

[Dave Starsky]

5. Listen to the bass on "Mamma Mia".

It's just as beautiful and amazing.

[elleng]

4. Tried to catch it, but couldn't. Here he was, tho.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xuflp

[Dennis Donovan]

6. That was a pretty cool bass line, wasn't it?

[UTUSN]

7. Luv-em, update me, all original mates?

[zanana1]

8. Tell me it isn 't so! nt