This fourth and final single from The The's recent album Ensoulment was a bit of a surprise, as I bought a bundled trio of singles just ...

The Cure finally returned with a new album last month, and it is better than its predecessors - at least, that's what I think. The first...

Kim Wilde's latest offering is the second single from her forthcoming album Closer , due out at the end of January. Based on the previou...

Steven Wilson's album The Future Bites is a fantastic record, and I was very glad when I received the deluxe edition of that album on C...

Physical releases of Eurovision songs from this year have been very scarce, unfortunately. So far, I've only been able to get Olly Alexa...

'Some days I drink my coffee by the grave of William Blake' was released as the third single from The The's recent album Ensoulm...

'Cognitive dissent' was released digitally in May this year as the first single from The The's new album Ensoulment . The limit...

The The have released three singles from their new album Ensoulment until now, but unfortunately the first and third one have eluded me unt...

Although war crept in to some Abba tracks from time to time (most notably 'Waterloo' and 'Fernando'), the feeling of paranoi...

After a short break, Abba returned to the studio in the spring of 1982. The first results were deemed disappointing: the tracks 'Just li...

'Head over heels' was released in March 1982 as the second single from the album The Visitors .  Agnetha Fältskog sang the lead voca...

At the start of the 1980s, Abba was slowly falling apart. After the divorce of Björn and Agnetha (which some felt was documented in 'The...

'Lay all your love on me' was not intended to be a single but after a remixed version gained popularity in nightclubs, the song was...

I've always viewed 'Super trouper' as an Abba-by-numbers track. Sure, the melody is there and the vocals are spot on, but the ly...

Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson started writing 'The winner takes it all' in the summer of 1979 in a cottage on the island of Vig...

'$1 one vote' is a single by The The, released last year as a strictly limited 7" single. According to Matt Johnson: “It is a s...

'Honey Honey' was released as the second single from Abba's second studio album, Waterloo , after the success of the title track...

While Abba performed 'Waterloo' in English at the Eurovision Song Contest, it was originally performed in Swedish at the national fi...

Unless you've spent the last 50 years under a rock, you will be familiar with the Abba song 'Waterloo'. It was their internation...

'Love isn't easy' was one of the last songs to be recorded for the album Ring Ring , released by the quartet of Björn, Benny, Ag...