The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

Re: The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

Didi - 21.12.2006, 13:36

Yes, saw that information in the Box set notes, also it was to be called 12 women in a house but they must have dropped 1 track, making it 11!
Diego

Re: The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

Carribean - 11.03.2007, 19:32

There was also a story about this in the ABBF magazine (issue 63 and 64) in 2000 and this is what co-producer Bosse Carlgren (who made the scetches for the cover) said about it the fact that these scetches were never used and other struggles:

'All of that was taken away, much because of the ABBA succes. After that nobody really wanted to put that much money or effort into this project. So we couldn't make the album the way we really wanted to. It became so small in comparison to what had to be done for this international career. We had to fight to get the album completed and we couldn't get the money to make it as advanced as we really wanted to. Neither Agnetha nor I were really big on demanding, so maybe we were too nice to them. It was a dream for both of us to get this album afloat. For a while it was like "What will happen? Will we ever finish it?" We didn't want to jeopardize that because it really was important for her to do her own album, not to be just another ABBA member'.

The article is a couple of pages long and really interesting. If you want to read more just lemme know!

Re: The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

Carribean - 12.03.2007, 00:35

Ok... Agnetha about SOS (Swedish version) on her album, according to Bosse:

'The SOS idea came after Brighton, a long time after. I think when this project was reopenend. Maybe a year or more after, when the last tracks were recorded.
We didn't want SOS on there. Agnetha did not. It was an ABBA song, they even used the same backing track. My own notes tell me that she was, at first anyway, disappointed. She had wanted it to be her own music through and through.
Maybe it came to the point where everybody told her: 'If you want to make this solo-album you've got to have a well known ABBA song on it because we want to sell records'. Or maybe she had a choice and was happy with that because SOS is a great song'.

Re: The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

Nathan - 12.03.2007, 21:20

If I remember rightly (and I may, of course, be mistaken), Agnetha pointed out that it was Björn who thought that she needed a stronger song on the album. I'm not complaining - I think her Swedish version of S.O.S. is wonderful - but it does make me think: unless, I'm being totally thick, that there are two songs missing from the album. If you don't count S.O.S. then there are 10 songs on it and it was originally entitled 12 Kvinnor i et Hus. I wonder if those songs were ever recorded.

I'd love to hear them - as this is one of my favourite Agnetha albums.

Re: The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

WATERL00 - 13.03.2007, 18:57

Maxi-saxi wrote: Did Agnetha release Any singles from the Album?
Agnetha released Dom har glömt, backed with Gulleplut, as a single even before the album was released.
It was followed by S.O.S. backed with the most beautiful Agnetha-song ever, Visa i åttonde månaden.

I'm nut sure if there were other singles but the album was re-entered the Swedish charts because of the popularity of the song Doktorn!. So maybe it was also issued as a single. And I think that also Tack for en underbar vanlig dag also made the Svensktoppen.

But as I said I'm not sure, i will check the booklet of the box-set later.

Re: The Original Artwork For Agnetha's Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus?

Maxi-saxi - 20.03.2007, 04:56

Thanks for all the information regarding about the recording of the Album Carribean, I have found it very interesting reading.

Maxi-saxi :wink: