Old Enough to Forget

Back in the day I bought one ABBA album, and it was their 1981 swansong (okay, they've since released Voyage , but it's after their best-before date so I'm not counting it, even though I bought it), The Visitors , and for me that was enough. Of course I'd end up with a couple of best-of CDs and a few of their other albums. Then my daughter went through her Mamma Mia phase, and a decade later we had to watch Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , which had stretched things pretty thin as I thought they'd more or less used up their best songs in the first one. That, and it looked like Cher would break if she moved too quickly. I never really went through an anti-ABBA phase, and I liked a lot of their songs - but I didn't go out of my way to broadcast this to my friends. Apparently they were often categorized as disco, but they were just vanilla pop that didn't offend your parents. However, as I'm listening to this, my wife yells downstairs, "Honey, are you on...