An indeterminate number of albums you probably have never heard, but maybe should

[Trollheart]

You guys have all very eclectic musical tastes, and some of the bands you listen to are totally beyond my scope or interest, but although my own taste could be described as, most times, mainstream, I still have a lot of stuff that you may never have heard of. You may not want to have heard of it, true, but it's maybe a chance for you to hear music that is interesting, sometimes surprising, despite being what most would class as mainstream.

Some of these albums have been featured in my journal, but as I'm not narcissistic enough to believe that everyone hear reads that journal (Why not? What's wrong with it? Don't you like me? You HATE me, don't you? I can tell...) this may be the first you've heard of these albums.

Anyway, enough preamble. We're going to kick off with a solo effort from one of the members of ABBA (Hey! Don't walk away! She's HOT! Really. Look...)


Agnetha Faltskog, usually just known as Agnetha or sometimes Anna within the band, had released seven albums in her native Swedish and two in English before this, and yet, after it she would not release another album for seventeen years, and that would be her last one.

It's produced by Chicago's Peter Cetera so has a very polished, professional sound to it, and while I would never go so far as to say it's a "must-have" album --- there are some very weak tracks on it --- it's a pretty decent effort for someone stepping out of the huge shadow of the hit machine that was her life for over ten years.

This is the opener, great little rocker called "The last time".


One of two lovely ballads on the album, this is "Maybe it was magic".


"Let it shine" is good too


and then it ends on another gorgeous ballad, written by two of the greats, Diane Warren and Albert Hammond.