What are you listening to?

[Liep]

The new ABBA single.... That CGI music video is creepy, did some of them die or what is the reasoning to go digital?

[Syt]

The new ABBA single.... That CGI music video is creepy, did some of them die or what is the reasoning to go digital?

Them's old.

[Barrister]

The new ABBA single.... That CGI music video is creepy, did some of them die or what is the reasoning to go digital?

They all appear to be alive - but all in their 70s.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsqFd-8sy8

My new favorite song for the next few weeks.

[Duque de Bragança]

The new ABBA single.... That CGI music video is creepy, did some of them die or what is the reasoning to go digital?

Creepy as CGI Peter Cushing?

[Josephus]

King Crimson Red.

That whole Larks Tongues, Starless and Red era is so freaking awesome

[mongers]

King Crimson Red.

That whole Larks Tongues, Starless and Red era is so freaking awesome

[Caliga]

The new ABBA single.... That CGI music video is creepy, did some of them die or what is the reasoning to go digital?

They all appear to be alive - but all in their 70s.

Right, they are pretty old to start going on world tours again.  I don't blame them, especially since back in the day Agneta and Frida were like living, dancing Barbie Dolls with amazing voices, and while I listened to the singles and thought they were great, and that they can still sing, I feel like they are probably no longer Barbie Doll-esque.  So they probably felt they couldn't put on a physical act resembling anything close to the one from their prime.

[Caliga]

The new ABBA single.... That CGI music video is creepy, did some of them die or what is the reasoning to go digital?

Creepy as CGI Peter Cushing?

Nah, the CGI from the snippets in the videos looked better than CGI Tarkin.

[Caliga]

The other thing is that they might not really want to be together.  For decades they were like violently opposed to a reunion, or at least some of them were, even after they were supposedly offered a billion dollars to get back together in like 2000 or so.  So maybe now the holdout(s) (I think Agneta was supposedly the main holdout) have money issues and have caved due to that, but maybe under the condition she not have to perform on stage with the others?  I dunno, just speculating here.

[Josephus]

Meh...I'm seeing Genesis soon. Phil Collins can barely walk. If he can do it.......

I'm just thinking Abba figures they can still make millions of this CGI thing, so why go through the hassle of a tour, which, except for The Rolling Stones, no one really seems to enjoy doing after 40 or so.

[Barrister]

Meh...I'm seeing Genesis soon. Phil Collins can barely walk. If he can do it.......

I'm sorry to tell you but Phil Collins can't.  His son Nic will be drumming for Genesis on their tour.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/phil-collins-health-drummer-says-he-cant-play-drums.html

[Josephus]

Meh...I'm seeing Genesis soon. Phil Collins can barely walk. If he can do it.......

I'm sorry to tell you but Phil Collins can't.  His son Nic will be drumming for Genesis on their tour.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/phil-collins-health-drummer-says-he-cant-play-drums.html

Yes, I know that. But he's still singing; just like Agnetha and Aretha would.

[Syt]

My favorite band nobody heard of: Nocte Obducta. Their style is a little bit all over the place between their poetic purple prose lyrics and a tone somewhere between melancholy and despair. Their latest albums aren't quite as good, but their mid 2000s albums are excellent, with "Und Pan spielt die Flöte" being my favorite song of theirs, and I occasionally find myself humming or whistling bits of it.

https://youtu.be/7jvhgrU0ii8

I listened to some albums of theirs again during work yesterday, inspired by the band Syhlmagoghnar showing up for me on Spotify whose album Emergence scratched a similar melancholy itch.

[garbon]

Just saw that Aaliyah's Aaliyah album is on spotify. With my cds in storage, it feels almost like having a new album.