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ABBA - Just a Notion, 3rd single | 22nd October 2021

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Qween View member profile	18th October 2021, 09:09 AM Post #1
Schlagerdrottningen Joined: 23 August 2010 Posts: 31,877 User: 11,709	Just A Notion has been confirmed for release on Friday - they have a CD single top on the website as well, with some quite lovely artwork: You can also hear a snippet here: 2lIf4WISrrA


Qween View member profile	18th October 2021, 09:12 AM Post #2
Schlagerdrottningen Joined: 23 August 2010 Posts: 31,877 User: 11,709	Golly that image is rather LARGE But the song sounds lovely. I think they're using some of the original '78 vocals on it too (though it's sounding like that might not be the case from that clip)


tommie View member profile	18th October 2021, 09:18 AM Post #3
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 January 2009 Posts: 7,064 User: 8,073	Yeah, I was about to say that - isn't Just A Notion really old - like 40 year-odd old? Also, the forum needs an automatic re-size-ing of images function. This post has been edited by tommie: 18th October 2021, 09:19 AM


Qween View member profile	18th October 2021, 09:46 AM Post #4
Schlagerdrottningen Joined: 23 August 2010 Posts: 31,877 User: 11,709	A couple of the tracks on the album are old/existed in one form or another - Just A Notion and (Free As A) Bumblee. Plus some of the others are reworked versions off B&B material (I Still Have Faith In You being from Circlen and seemingly Little Things and I Can Be That Woman being reworked from musicals they have scored). It does make sense if they originally only intended on a couple of new songs to include in the show and then they cobbled together an album with other material to make some $$$.


Envoirment View member profile	18th October 2021, 01:53 PM Post #5
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 21 November 2009 Posts: 8,561 User: 10,030	Excited to hear it. I hope it does well enough to chart in the top 40! This post has been edited by Envoirment: 18th October 2021, 01:53 PM


blacksquare View member profile	18th October 2021, 02:07 PM Post #6
BuzzJack Gold Member Joined: 25 July 2016 Posts: 4,364 User: 23,471	Some very high expectations for 'Just a Notion' after 'Don't Shut Me Down' was such a slam dunk — definitely one of my favourite girlband songs of the year . This post has been edited by blacksquare: 18th October 2021, 02:09 PM


-Jay- View member profile	18th October 2021, 02:21 PM Post #7
"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi. Pronouns: he/him Joined: 4 April 2007 Posts: 41,456 User: 3,217	QUOTE(blacksquare @ Oct 18 2021, 03:07 PM) Some very high expectations for 'Just a Notion' after 'Don't Shut Me Down' was such a slam dunk — definitely one of my favourite girlband songs of the year . Excited for this too, hearing their old vocals on something that is technically new will be


Padamic Tension View member profile	19th October 2021, 01:41 PM Post #8
BuzzJack Idol Joined: 29 June 2006 Posts: 128,464 User: 845	Id love if they could get a third top 40 but its hard to call, i wonder are they doing physicals for this single as it would help, it should safely manage top 75.


gooddelta View member profile	19th October 2021, 01:46 PM Post #9
Hello? Joined: 8 March 2006 Posts: 83,060 User: 116	Sounds very schlager, cut from the same cloth as I Do x5. Looking forward to it though, both singles so far are 10/10s for me, I'm impressed that Don't Shut Me Down managed six weeks in the top 100.


pippa View member profile	19th October 2021, 11:29 PM Post #10
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 11 June 2011 Posts: 23,993 User: 14,031	Don't Shut Me Down has had a much stronger chart life than I expected.


Lukuzz View member profile	20th October 2021, 09:02 AM Post #11
Paradise With Ice Cream Skies♥ Joined: 31 August 2006 Posts: 24,568 User: 1,209	Clip sounds decent, not sure if I’m going to like it as much as the last 2 but excited nonetheless


Liam.k. View member profile	22nd October 2021, 06:04 AM Post #12
BuzzJack Idol Joined: 8 December 2010 Posts: 50,985 User: 12,472	Production sounds very early ABBA! Seems you can tell the old and new vocals apart, but doesn’t affect the song too much. It’s catchy but ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ remains unbothered as the best song of the era so far.


Qween View member profile	22nd October 2021, 08:09 AM Post #13
Schlagerdrottningen Joined: 23 August 2010 Posts: 31,877 User: 11,709	It’s good - it definitely feels very ABBA (album) era and already would have been a bit dated by 1978, at least production wise. It’s not up to the level of the other 2 tracks and still feels a bit “unfinished”, the vocals sound quite low in the mix and the chorus doesn’t quite pop in the same way as the verses so it’s a shame they didn’t do a full re-recording. I suspect this is more emblematic of A+A’s involvement/interest in the entire project i.e. not very. Which is a shame as I’d rather have 2 sublime songs than a whole album that’s been cobbled together.


gooddelta View member profile	22nd October 2021, 08:34 AM Post #14
Hello? Joined: 8 March 2006 Posts: 83,060 User: 116	It does make the prospect of any further new albums after this more unlikely too, if ancient vocals have been used for this album. Unless Agnetha and Frida are so won over by the reception to this album that they turn up in full next time. For me this song is good - catchy, sounds like a a classic ABBA album track, which it probably should have been in the 70s. Doesn’t compare to most of their other singles though - whereas the first two from this album slot in very nicely indeed to that canon as extremely high quality stuff.


Lukuzz View member profile	22nd October 2021, 09:23 AM Post #15
Paradise With Ice Cream Skies♥ Joined: 31 August 2006 Posts: 24,568 User: 1,209	It’s good, not as instant as the other 2 songs for me though


Jessie Where View member profile	22nd October 2021, 09:34 AM Post #16
Break the tension Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 89,016 User: 51	Passable


JulianT View member profile	22nd October 2021, 12:10 PM Post #17
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 20 April 2009 Posts: 8,562 User: 8,705	As others have said the song doesn’t really seem to be anything to write home about (from a first listen anyway) but it’s a decent album track. I can’t imagine it will do that much in the charts though it is currently No 4 on iTunes.


Qween View member profile	22nd October 2021, 03:04 PM Post #18
Schlagerdrottningen Joined: 23 August 2010 Posts: 31,877 User: 11,709	Predictably 10 plus listens later and I’m enjoying it a lot more. It’s just a shame the vocals are so low in the mix.


Popchartfreak View member profile	22nd October 2021, 03:54 PM Post #19
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,856 User: 17,376	on first hearing it's very in the tradition of early Abba 50's-styled rock'n'roll-beat pop and could easily have slipped out alongside Ring Ring. Quite charming to hear something that retro that no-one else is doing this century, even if it is actually period in origin circa summer 1978 while they were watching Grease presumably. Annoyingly that Abba Top 100 I did is already out of date I don't see this having the appeal of the first 2 singles though, it's more of an album track, album primer. If they wanted to re-do some more old material, they could flesh out the fab Just Like That that they gave to 80's band Gemini in a less-good rewritten version, do a recording of I Know Him So Well and One Night In Bangkok from Chess, tinker with the Avicii We Write The Story track, and re-do the good Story Of A Heart that Benny Andersson Band released in 2009, rework Frida's B.A. Robertson vocal version of Arrival with added Agnetha, and we're half-way into a new album Or now it's clear they aren't going to damage the memory of the back catalogue Gold, they could get their arses in gear and do a whole nother entirely new one! PS I hear Just An Ocean, is it just me...


gooddelta View member profile	22nd October 2021, 04:04 PM Post #20
Hello? Joined: 8 March 2006 Posts: 83,060 User: 116	QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ Oct 22 2021, 04:54 PM) on first hearing it's very in the tradition of early Abba 50's-styled rock'n'roll-beat pop and could easily have slipped out alongside Ring Ring. Quite charming to hear something that retro that no-one else is doing this century, even if it is actually period in origin circa 1974. Annoyingly that Abba Top 100 I did is already out of date I don't see this having the appeal of the first 2 singles though, it's more of an album track, album primer. If they wanted to re-do some more old material, they could flesh out the fab Just Like That that they gave to 80's band Gemini in a less-good rewritten version, do a recording of I Know Him So Well and One Night In Bangkok from Chess, tinker with the Avicii We Write The Story track, and re-do the good Story Of A Heart that Benny Andersson Band released in 2009, rework Frida's B.A. Robertson vocal version of Arrival with added Agnetha, and we're half-way into a new album Or now it's clear they aren't going to damage the memory of the back catalogue Gold, they could get their arses in gear and do a whole new one! I think they pretty much already did with I Still Have Faith In You, there are certainly some similar sonic elements from 3:22 onwards in that song. Agnetha and Frida doing I Know Him So Well is probably a fan dream!