This is so Frustrating. Why are both ABBA Albums not available on Spotify, Youtube Music, and Amazon Prime Music? It does not make sense. Also, the Third ABBA Album with Bonus Tracks is also Missing. I know it's dumb rights issues from UMG / Universal and ABBA are planning their Big 50th Birthday in a few years, but this is so Frustrating. I hope things change. I mean I have both Paid Downloads and CD's of their back catalog, but still. People should listen to these albums in full on Streaming Services.
Seems like a lot of the songs got replaced by the same song from a compilation album or a live version.
There are some casualties though:
- Arrival
- Dum Dum Diddle
- Hole In Your Soul
- I'm A Marionette
- Move On
- Tiger
- Why Did It Have To Be Me
Hole In Your Soul and Why Did It Have To Be Me have separate live versions that are still there... this is so sad. I hope this is temporary
Here's a list of my favorite ones in chronological order for each album respectively:
Ring Ring
Another Town, Another Train ⭐
Love Isn't Easy ⭐
Ring Ring
Waterloo
Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) ⭐
Waterloo
Ring Ring - US Remix
ABBA
So Long ⭐
Mamma Mia
Arrival
When I Kissed The Teacher ⭐
Dum Dum Diddle ⭐
Dancing Queen ⭐
Arrival ⭐
Happy Hawaii
The Album
Move On ⭐
Eagle ⭐
Thank You For The Music
Voulez-Vous
Summer Night City ⭐
Chiquitita
Does Your Mother Know
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
I Have A Dream
Gracias Por La Música
AL Andar
Estoy Soñando
Chiquitita
Super Trouper
The Piper ⭐
The Way Old Friends Do ⭐
Lay All Your Love On Me
Our Last Summer
The Visitors
The Visitors ⭐
When All Is Said And Done
Head Over Heels
Voyage
Bumblebee ⭐
When You Danced With Me
Just A Notion
Honorable Mention
Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother
Rock'N'Roll Band
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do,
SOS
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Money, Money, Money
Take A Chance On Me
Super Trouper
On And On And On
The Winner Takes It All
Andante, Andante
Happy New Year
Should I Laugh Or Should I Cry
I Still Have Faith In You
Keep An Eye On Dan
No Doubt About It
I love all the albums but here are my updated rankings where I just say the best tracks (killer) not the worst (filler) but not all the stuff I don’t include is filler. Maybe I just forgot to include it.
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Ring Ring Killer: Nina Pretty Ballerina, Ring Ring, He Is Your Brother, Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
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Super Trouper Killer: The Piper, Andante Andante, Our Last Summer, Super Trouper, The Winner Takes It All
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Waterloo Killer: Waterloo, Hasta Manana, My Mama Said, Dance While The Music Still Goes On, Honey Honey, Gonna Sing You My Lovesong
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The Visitors Killer: Head Over Heels, When All Is Said and Done, Cassandra, Slipping Through My Fingers, One Of Us, Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
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ABBA Killer: Mamma Mia, Hey Hey Helen, Tropical Loveland, SOS, Bang-A-Boomerang, I Do, I Do, I Do, So Long
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The Album Killer: Take A Chance On Me, The Name Of The Game, Hole In Your Soul, One Man One Woman, Thank You For The Music, I Wonder, I’m A Marionette
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Arrival Killer: Dancing Queen, My Love My Life, Tiger, That’s Me, Fernando, Knowing Me, Knowing You, When I Kissed The Teacher, Happy Hawaii
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Voulez-Vous Killer: Chiquitita, Lovers (Live A Little Longer), Angel Eyes, If It Wasn’t For The Nights, Dream World, Kisses Of Fire
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Voyage Killer: When You Danced With Me, I Can Be That Woman, Don’t Shut Me Down, Bumblebee, No Doubt About It, Ode To Freedom, Keep An Eye On Dan, Little Things
Mine is between Voulez-Vous and Arrival
This link (featuring a ABBA-related example of remaster hate) proves my point.
I guess people don’t like the older 1997 remaster efforts because of over-familiarity with another version of their albums (preferably the Polydor CDs), but that’s just my opinion. “Semi-remastered” refers to a so-called “remastered” CD that’s just a louder version of the older unremastered issue
The albums will be released online to Spotify, iTunes, and other music platforms at midnight tonight. If you ordered the physical album, you may be lucky enough to have already gotten it!
I know we’ve all been waiting for this forever, it’s hard to believe it’s finally here! Get your ABBA costumes on and starting dancing!
What do you think of the new music? What’s your favorite song? Discuss!
ABBA has written some of the catchiest pop music ever. Today, their new album, Voyage dropped:
Here's the Apple Music link:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/voyage/1583785050
Please feel free to share links to other services in the comments.
I know my ranking may be somewhat controversial, but my order is: 8 - Ring Ring 7- Waterloo 6 - ABBA 5 - The Album 4 - Voulez-Vous 3 - Arrival 2 - Super Trouper 1 - The Visitors
But I still find myself enjoying all their albums, even if some aren’t as great as the others.
As much as I really like the new album, it’s my least favorite of all their albums. I suppose it’s just the newness of it; the old albums are embedded (40+ years!) into the soundtrack of my life. What do you think?
They include "I Still Have Faith in You," "When You Danced with Me," "Little Things," "Don't Shut Me Down," "Just a Notion," "I Can Be That Woman," "Keep an Eye on Dan," and "No Doubt About It." ABBA actually has a lot of excellent love ballads sung by women for men. The inspiration for my playlist of love ballads sung by women for men (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fBubWvvq8q9CLr9HngLJo) was the song "I Know Him So Well" from the musical Chess. Considering that the guys from ABBA are pros at writing love ballads sung by women for men, it's no surprise that they helped write "I Know Him So Well."
I am from Canada and probably 99.9% of people didn't even know they were releasing a new album, is this different where you're from?
THE WAIT IS OVER! I know we've all been waiting for this moment for years...
ABBA finally released their two new awaited songs, Don't Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith In You. You can listen to them on their channel here and here.
In addition, ABBA announced they will be releasing TEN new songs! The new album will be released on November 11, 2021. EXCITING!
There will also be a hologram tour in London, tickets being released on September 7, 2021. You can also pre-order the album or register for early access to the tickets. All this new information can be found at abbavoyage.
DISCUSS! What do you think of the new music? Are you excited for the hologram tour and the new songs?
Also, All of the Bonus Tracks are back as well. Glad they are back on Spotify. ABBA is a perfect act.
Both Arrival and The Album are back on Spotify.
Hi, I have been wondering why Those ABBA Albums are missing? I hope UMG and Spotify put them back soon. Because I love ABBA so much. Where are the Bonus Tracks as well?
This stinks because I was about to listen to these Albums as well as their Bonus Tracks. If UMG and ABBA listen they need these Tracks to be available on the platforms again. Including Amazon Music and Youtube Music. Spotify needs these tracks back on Streaming, NOW! I love ABBA: The Album as well as Arrival. It's so frustrating.
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