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Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 14:32
by streamline
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!
Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 14:41
by Quiff Boy
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.
Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 18:43
by metal on metal
markfiend wrote:Yeah but Abba are s**t.
Noooooo!!!
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...
Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 18:45
by James Blast
pop pap, I have spoken
Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 19:17
by markfiend
James Blast wrote:pop pap, I have spoken
I concur.
Re: 'Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie' - the "lost" 1985 singl
Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 20:12
by Sita
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 01:01
by copper
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...
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 13:35
by shiver
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.
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 13:46
by shiver
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
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 14:44
by Holly_DelRey
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 18:45
by abridged
You should've seen Peter Murphy murder Purple Rain in Hudderfield.
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 18:49
by James Blast
he's better when he has Love & Rockets behind him just as they are with him in the spotlight
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 19:31
by Holly_DelRey
markfiend wrote:Yeah but Abba are s**t.
Thought I was the only one on here for a sec who thought they were rubbish.
Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 20:41
by James Blast
not rubbish, pop pap shite
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 16:14
by davedecay
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
Posted: 22 Aug 2010, 16:29
by DasPerltAber
James Blast wrote:oh, I forgot to mention that I think ABbaaaa are pants apart from The day before you came
Grumpy old bugger....
