Must Have Left My House At Eight

You can thank me later for today's song and video. With their last top 10 hit in Sweden, it's the Swedish super group ABBA from 1982 with "The Day Before You Came"... Must have left my house at eight, because I always do My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due I must have read the morning paper going into town And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned. I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so The usual place, the usual bunch And still on top of this I'm pretty sure it must have rained The day before you came. I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two And at the time I never even noticed I was blue I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me away. [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/agnetha_faltskog/the_day_before_you_came.html ] At five I must have left, there's no exception to the rule A matter of routine, I've done it ever since I finished school The train back home again Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame The day before you came. Must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see. I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then I must have read a while The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim The day before you came. And turning out the light I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain The day before you came. More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/agnetha_faltskog/#share "The Day Before You Came" Single by ABBA from the album The Singles: The First Ten Years B-side "Cassandra" Released 18 October 1982 Format 7" Single Recorded 20 August 1982 at Polar Music Studios Genre Pop / Synthpop Length 5:50 Writer(s) Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Producer Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus

Tonight the Super Trouper Lights Are Gonna Find Me

It's back to one of the super groups from the 70's with one of their few hits from the early 80's. You can tell from today's video and song released in late 1980 that the super group ABBA was not going into the 80's without a fight. Their dress (especially Frida's horrific sweater), and hair, and lighting of the video still suggests a vintage 70's song and look. Maybe they knew what lay ahead in terms of disbanding, and so they held onto the 70's as long as they could. Though not as popular as "The Winner Takes It All" from the same album, here is the modest U.S. hit that was the title track for their next to last album called "Super Trouper"...




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"Super Trouper"
Single by ABBA
from the album Super Trouper
B-side "The Piper"
Released November 1980
Format 7" single
Genre Pop
Length 4:10
Label Polar Music
Writer(s) Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
Producer Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
Certification Gold (UK)

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45
UK peak: #3

I Don't Want to Talk About the Things We've Gone Through

Today's group is thought of mainly as a 70's group, and with good reason. The majority of their hits came in the 70's, but the group did release a couple of albums in the early 80's, one of which produced today's video feature. It's the highly successful Swedish group of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha, and Anni-Frid ("Frida") known collectively as ABBA with their last U.S. top 10 hit from the year 1980. It's a bitter break-up song and we can see that Agnetha is not happy during the whole video. Here is "The Winner Takes It All"...




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"The Winner Takes It All"

Single by ABBA
from the album Super Trouper
B-side "Elaine"
Released July 21, 1980
Format Single
Genre Pop, Soft rock
Length 4:54
Label Polar Music
Writer(s) Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Producer Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Certification Gold (Netherlands)

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8
UK peak: #1