I have been waiting for these visitors...

I don't know if I've talked about it much, but in recent years, a lot of ABBA's later albums are starting to become my favorites. I always have trouble choosing a favorite album since honestly I love them all, but among my top favorites would be Voulez-Vous and The Visitors.  I got Voulez-Vous for $1 a a year ago at a convention and that was pretty cool.  But two years ago, in 2016, I had been at yet another convention where I saw the Visitors for sale for $5 which is awesome, but because I didn't have any cash on hand I didn't buy it.  (Stupid me, haha.)

From my instagram when I saw the Visitors for $5.

Just this Monday actually, I had a random idea to go look for records on Ebay and I happened to come across The Visitors again, this time for $7. Compared to the other 2 records that I've managed to find for $2 and less, this is more expensive, but $7 for a record is a great price so I grabbed it. :)  And today it arrived in the mail. :D

Honestly I was a bit scared about ordering records from online since I've heard horror stories of how records can break in transit, but this one arrived in great condition and it arrived really quickly too!!  Definitely a great first experience for buying records online. :)

And now here is my current collection of LPs.  I'm absolutely delighted to have them in order, from The Album to the Visitors.  this means I currently have 4/8 studio albums.  Now I just need to get the first half.... xD

One of the things I was a bit concerned about was that my copy of The Visitors has this printed on the front...  :S  thankfully I've been reassured that there's nothing wrong with my owning this record, haha.

 

I have yet to play this on the record player, but I really look forward to hearing it on the record player.  I'm definitely quite happy with how easy it was to buy this album through ebay, so I definitely plan on trying to complete my ABBA record collection and getting the first 4 albums on record now... wish me luck. :'D

July 6th, 1971

Today in 1971, Agnetha and Bjorn were married. :)

ABBA wearing the same clothes years later

Weird title but I've had this idea for a blog post for a while now only I never got around to actually working on it. xD  One thing that I've noticed about ABBA is that they ted to wear a lot of their clothes more than once.  I mean, everyone does, right?  But I think a lot of celebrities tend to not re-wear the same clothes, especially clothes that they got years before, and so this kinda shows how normal and down the earth ABBA are. :)

ABBA in 1974, shortly after winning the Eurovision Song Contest.  Note Agnetha's dress.

A still from the Money, Money, Money music video from 1976.  Agnetha's wearing the same dress 2 years later.

A promotion picture from 1974. 

Frida wears the same shirt in 1975.

Agnetha also tends to wear that same vest and shirt several times throughout 1974 and 75.  Sometimes even paired with the same flowered jeans. :)

Agnetha's wearing this jumpsuit in 1976 during the advertisements for National.

Agnetha's wearing the same jumpsuit a year later while pregnant from Peter in 1977.

Another picture from 1977 in color.

Agnetha and Frida wearing Melbourne football club shirts in 1977.

Agnetha wears the same top during a performance of Chiquitita in 1979, 2 years later.

Agnetha and Frida both had matching dresses in 1976, but Agnetha seemed to wear hers a lot throughout 1976.

But the dress makes an appearance again in 1977.  Also notice Frida's dress.

It's the same dress from this photoshoot later that year.

Agnetha wears these very pretty boots with her Arrival flightsuit in 1976.

She wears the same boots at a photoshoot at Drottningholm Castle in 1977.

She also wears the same shirt in 1978.

Agnetha wears the pretty striped dress during a photoshoot in 1977.

Agnetha wears the same dress at the premiere of  ABBA the Movie in late 1977.

Frida wears the same outfit from the premiere in the Take a Chance on Me music video in 1978.

She even reuses the same boots while on tour in Japan, 1980.

Agnetha also has a matching shirt to Frida's in red which she is seen wearing in Japan in 1978.

She also wears the shirt while on tour in 1979.

ABBA in 1976.  Note Bjorn's simple, striped shirt.

Bjorn wears the same shirt while filming additional scenes for ABBA the Movie a year later.

He wears the same shirt again here in early 1978.

And here while in the US, same year.  I should also mention that he wears this shirt a lot throughout the year, even on the cover of the Summer Night City single.

Agnetha wears this very large silver top during a photoshoot in 1977.

Here she's wearing the same top as a dress at an event in 1978.

ABBA in 1978.  Agnetha's wearing this really pretty white jumpsuit.

She wears the same jumpsuit again 3 years later for a photoshoot in 1981.

I have more pictures which I can include but I think this post is getting to be a bit long so I'll end it here.  I hope you enjoyed this rather random post and please et me know if you want me to do a part two at some point. :)

Happy birthday Gorel.

Today is the lovely Gorel Hanser's birtday.  Happy birthday Gorel, and thank you for everything that you've done for ABBA and all of us fans.  You're incredible! <3

Happy Father's Day

Happy father's day to my wonderful dad and to all the incredible father's out there. :)

Bjorn and baby Linda

Benny and his son Ludvig.