Happy 48th anniversary, ABBA

 Today marks 48 years since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo, launching them into immediate international success!

Happy 72nd birthday, Agnetha!

 Wishing a happy, happy birthday to this queen of hearts!  Thank you so much for joining up with Bjorn, Benny, and Frida again and gracing us with your beautiful voice once more. <3  We love you Agnetha!

10 years of my blog

 Just wanted to point out that today is my blog's 10 year anniversary.  Even though I didn't do my first post until the 2nd, I created my blog on April 1st, 2012.  I'm surprised I've managed to sort of keep up with this blog the last 10 years, and while I know I don't post all that frequently anymore, I'm happy to have this blog and it's nice having this record of the last 10 years. :)

Yet another collection update

Guess who's gone a little record-shopping happy. :3  

When I was a kid and just getting into this whole ABBA craze/obsession/whatever you want to call it, I always dreamed about getting hard copies of all of ABBA's work, be it pre-ABBA, during-ABBA or post-ABBA.  I just wanted it all.  Now, while I don't necessarily have everything everything, like I haven't bothered trying to find the Hep Stars or the Hootenanny Singers' work (yet that is hahahahahah), or Frida's pre-ABBA singles, I've gotten pretty close and I think I've found a good point to stop at.  For now that is.  You never know when that record bug's gonna bite again and I'll have to start spending more of my money on more vinyls....

Recently I finished my Agnetha and Frida solo album collection (excluding Agnetha's albums she did with her children that is.)  It's just absolutely surreal having their entire music in my possession, and in Agnetha's case, from when she was 17 years old all the way to her latest solo album when she was 63.  

Alright, so the goal was initially to get just the studio albums, but as I as hunting for records, I found Agnetha's 1979 compilation album celebrating 10 years of Agnetha being sold from the same seller as one of the other albums, so I snagged it to.  It's an absolutely lovely album, featuring a lot of her hit songs as well as a new one written especially for this album, När Du Tar Mig I Din Famn (which she also recorded as the Queen of Hearts later.)

The album also came with this really nice poster that i wasn't expecting, so I stuck that onto my wall.  Had to make a bit of room for it though as I'm pretty much out of wall space. 

 Next we have Agnetha's När En Vacker Tanke Blir En Sång, originally released in 1972.  I think all the records I bought are reissues, but I cannot tell you what year the resissue was. xD

Som Jag Ar, released in 1970,

Then Agnetha Faltskog Vol.2 from 1969,

And last but not least, Agnetha Faltskog from 1968. 

I'll tell you something I find to be rather odd yet funny about my version of Agnetha's first album.  As you can see on the back of the album, side 1 starts with Jag Var Sa Kar, and side 2 starts with Tack Sverige...

Yet oddly enough, on the record, side 1 starts with Tack Sverige,

and side 2 starts with Jag Var Sa Kar.

I don't know if this was a common error or I have a unique one, but it's interesting, that's for sure.

Next we have all of Frida's albums, the newest in my collection being her self-titled album from 1970 and produced by none other than Benny. :')

All the records play absolutely beautifully, I really enjoyed listening to them on the record player, there's this special feeling listening to them in the format they initially came out on, and I am sooo happy to have added them to my collection.  :')

1978 animal outfits...

 Hi.  :D  I just finished recreating ABBA's 1978 animal outfits in miniature for my dolls.  For a somewhat detailed post on how I made them, feel free to check out my sewing blog. :3