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ABBA is coming back! Now, all we need is an IKEA and an H&M ...
Published: 1/26/2012 3:31 PM
Last Modified: 1/26/2012 3:38 PM


This is ABBA. I love their music more than their fashion sense, but whatev.

Ever since I found my parents' eight-tracks of ABBA, the band famous for "Dancing Queen" has been my favorite export from Sweden.

In fourth grade, when I recorded favorite songs off the radio, I stumbled across Mom & Dad's ABBA stash. I made a tape and would listen to it on my Sony Walkman whenever I was in the backseat of our white Caprice Classic, especially in the fall when my brother had away football games.

All these years later, I still love them, so it should come as no surprise that I was ecstatic to hear ABBA's reissuing "The Visitors," their final album, on April 23. And it'll feature a previously unreleased song titled "From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel," as reported on CNN.com.

What's your favorite ABBA song? Or do you hate ABBA like most of my friends do? Whatever, this "Dancing Queen" is gonna keep rockin' to those eight-tracks.

Peace, love and "Lay All Your Love on Me" ... XOXO


Reader Comments 6 Total
wilson (last year)
You gotta love those platform shoes! They were so cool in the '70's.
wilson (last year)
Oh, and my favorite is Waterloo.
Barney Doyle (last year)
They gave us Mamma Mia! What more could we ask?
217719 (last year)
Always liked the Stones "Let it Bleed". ABBA was for wussies.
220668 (last year)
Right (Wright)or (Write) on Jason. All of them. There isn't a bad song anywhere in their work.
tdlrenault (last year)
"Take a Chance On Me" is my favorite, and "Dancing Queen" is what my phone plays when my sister is calling. My 5 year old niece can sing along when we watch "Mama Mia!" which is probably odd.
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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