Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room 5 essential non Foxx albums

Brave man. I almost listed Abba - 'Abba', but went for t-pau after.

Absolutely - a fine album.

"Eagle" has always been among my all-time favourites

It's The Visitors for me. Superb

thanks for your support..! it's a sort of concept album as well isn't it?..based on Abba the Movie or vice versa ..?

Is that to me or the response from Martin?

If it's me re-The Visitors I confess, I don't know. Would ABBA do a concept album?

(...goes away...looks up Google/Wikipedia...gets a shock of sorts...)

Blimey! I didn't realise that it was some 'cult rock classic' thingy - I just thought it was a good album. Ahhh - so it's the break up album, that makes sense.

TECH-ANORAKS CORNER; Some interesting points from Wikipedia;

The Visitors album was one of the first records to be recorded and mixed digitally, and was the first in history to be issued in the new CD format in 1982.

The sexy Scandies could do very little wrong for me My favourite tho' is a cheapo compilation "18 Hits" which I bought for me little one I can't get her into Foxx or footy but I've got her into female voices (Karen Carpenter , Blondie , Joan Armatrading , Sinead O Connor , Fleetwood Mac and of course Agnetha ,Frida ,Bjorn and Benny
Being a language freak I can get my rocks off to "Gimme Gimme Gimme " en espanol "Waterloo" en francais and possibly the perfect 3 minute throwaway pop song "Ring Ring" auf Deutsch The only thing missing from the mix is "Honey Honey " pa svenska (Abba sing in Swedish shock ! )
The only thing missing on this album tho , is that slice of beautiful existential Angst (or should I say "befara" ) "Knowing me , knowing you" Swedish "Fado" no less !!

Sorry Rads it was meant for all three for your support in my Abba 'coming out' ..

Yes I remember The Visitors being the final album and I expect with all the cash they had they were well ahead in the techie dept.

Abba thread required... I could go on and on about "Arrival"...

BLACK AND WHITE - THE STRANGLERS
MOVING PICTURES - RUSH
KIMONO MY HOUSE -SPARKS
SCARY MONSTERS - DAVID BOWIE
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE - GARY NUMAN

I've got one that creeps into my mind each time I see this topic on the forum:
Richard H Kirk: Virtual State
It's on Warp records and it holds the future of electronic music.