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September 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 91: ABBA – “The Visitors”

I grew up hating ABBA without really listening to them. Truth is I loved Dancing Queen and The Winner Takes It All and Fernando – and then, a few years on, when my brother returned home from uni with a copy of ABBA Gold I was sold. But that’s mostly all I’ve ever needed. I […]

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May 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Britta Phillips: Luck Or Magic

Britta Phillips Luck Or Magic Double Feature For the last two decades Britta Phillips has partnered with Dean Wareham to provide a great range of music across the “dream-pop” spectrum, first as half of Luna, and then as the duo Dean & Britta. There they mixed covers and originals and worked on commissioned soundtracks for […]

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January 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 966

ABBA, The Singles: The First Ten Years (1982) Released the year the band broke up – this double compilation was a stop-gap, ABBA was at a loss for a new record, the first time in their decade-long career. They chose to release this instead – a couple of new songs and well over a dozen […]

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May 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1121

ABBA, Arrival (1976) I grew up at a time when you couldn’t really admit that you liked ABBA – well, thinking back now that’s how it seemed. And then there was that Abbasolutely compilation – which was cool. And then a bunch of movies played ABBA songs (some of them were good, some not so […]