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:

 

http://www.noise11.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Abba-Just-A-Notion.png

 

You can also hear a snippet here:

 

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)

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.

Edited October 18, 20213 yr by tommie

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 $$$.

Excited to hear it. I hope it does well enough to chart in the top 40!

Edited October 18, 20213 yr by Envoirment

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 *.*

Edited October 18, 20213 yr by blacksquare

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 *.*

:lol: :kink:

 

Excited for this too, hearing their old vocals on something that is technically new will be :wub:

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.

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.

Don't Shut Me Down has had a much stronger chart life than I expected.

Clip sounds decent, not sure if I’m going to like it as much as the last 2 but excited nonetheless

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.

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.

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.

It’s good, not as instant as the other 2 songs for me though

Passable

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.

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.

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 :lol:

 

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 :teresa:

 

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! :D

 

PS I hear Just An Ocean, is it just me... :teresa:

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 :lol:

 

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 :teresa:

 

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! :D

 

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!