Album Club Episode May 19, 2025

Episode 4 - ABBA, Celine Dion, Eurovision

10:59am - 12:01pm

This episode of Album Club is the first to feature a running theme - Eurovision! It might be a bit of a stretch to call the official Eurovision collection a 'new album' but Seth has and there's no one to stop him!

Of course there's also an old album to fit in, and who's the greatest Eurovision act ever? ABBA of course. So we'll kick off the show by diving into Arrival, the album that well and truly sent their careers into the stratosphere with hits including 'Money, Money, Money' and their all time biggest hit, 'Dancing Queen'.

And what about a Canadian album? Well Canada does boast a Eurovision winner in the shape of the legendary Celine Dion who won it for Switzerland in 1988 and we'll take this opportunity to dive into some of her French language music, in particular her 10th album in French and the best selling French language of all time D'eux.

Then we'll close things out with a couple of tracks from our new album, the Eurovision collection 2025. In particular we'll hear the winning track 'Wasted Love' from Austrian artist JJ which combines semi-operatic singing with an unexpected explosion of dance, and Seth's personal favourite from this year's competition, Italy's Lucio Corsi with 'Volevo essere un duro', an old school glam ballad.

Track Listing:

Knowing Me, Knowing You
ABBA · Arrival
Why Did It Have To Be Me?
ABBA · Arrival
Out Of The Darkness
Little Steven · Voice Of America
Je sais pas
Celine Dion · D'eux
Le ballet
Celine Dion · D'eux
Happy Birthday Sweet 16
Clive Pig And The Hopeful Chinamen · Clive Pig And The Hopeful Chinamen
Volevo essere un duro
Lucio Corsi · Volevo essere un duro
Wasted Love
JJ · Wasted Love