There are a few musicians and bands I keep coming back to as the years go on, and ABBA is always one of them.

ABBA is the first “grown up” musical act I was allowed to listen to as a kid (I’m not yet 40), and I actually discovered the super group in a rather backwards fashion. ABBA Greatest Hits Vol. 2 was the first vinyl I owned that wasn’t a children’s album, and by then ABBA’s penultimate studio album, Super Trouper, had been released. Together with Voulez Vous, released in 1979, these three records formed my view of what ABBA was, and without the Internet, it took me a while to  work back and understand the history and evolution of the Swedish pop quartet, which was close to dissolving by the time I’d become a fan. Continue reading →