'Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie' - the "lost" 1985 single ..

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markfiend wrote:Yeah but Abba are s**t.
Forgive him Benny and Bjorn, he does not know what he says......

I love 'em! Harmless boppy pap that's great to groove to, Man!
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they're perfect pop. which is a good thing.

fwiw, i remember hearing several times around the time of madonna's "gimme gimme" rip off song that abba were supposedly notorious for not letting people sample their songs, and that allowing madge to use the 'gimme gimme' sample was a bit of a first.

i dont think the same applies to covers because the band dont really have a say in who covers them.
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markfiend wrote:Yeah but Abba are s**t.
:eek: :eek: :eek: Noooooo!!! :lol:

Abba produced the most wonderful pop music of all time! Especially their post-divorce glum-pop stuff (their "Ingmar Bergman period" as Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant once put it); The Winner Takes It All, The Day Before You Came, (most of) The Visitors LP ... Put all the awful Mamma Mia / office party / ironic "they're sooo bad they're good" student snobbery stuff to one side and listen to these as the brilliantly constructed, beautifully produced, utterly FANTASTIC pop songs they are. And, oh, those voices...
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pop pap, I have spoken
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James Blast wrote:pop pap, I have spoken
I concur.
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Now that you all mention it, it makes sense... :oops: :oops: :oops:
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They played it five times live back in 1984, so Von's take isn't all that impossible to experience. There was even a YouTube vid of it once...
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my best memory of anything to do with ABBA was at a Ghostdance gig @ the Clarendon Ballroom where it seemed like all of ABBA's singles were played between bands (I think that was the time the Wonderstuff were the first band on... 25 people in the venue, one REALLY pissed up person "dancing").

When the ABBA tunes started, 150+ goths started bouncing up and down, singing along... fan-f**king-tastic.
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copper wrote:They played it five times live back in 1984, so Von's take isn't all that impossible to experience. There was even a YouTube vid of it once...
here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu1XfUcSSVA
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he's better when he has Love & Rockets behind him just as they are with him in the spotlight
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markfiend wrote:Yeah but Abba are s**t.
Thought I was the only one on here for a sec who thought they were rubbish. 8)
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not rubbish, pop pap shite
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love Abba - Dancing Queen was me wedding song.

the orchestral version from Muriel's Wedding.
think Cocteau Twins sans vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUglGbQZpug
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James Blast wrote:oh, I forgot to mention that I think ABbaaaa are pants apart from The day before you came
Grumpy old bugger....;-)
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