ABBA
Jan 8th 2009, 2:15 am
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Re: ABBA
Forget Abba, I think Bumwink is a great name. But it does make your mind go to places you wish you hadn't
Jan 8th 2009, 2:20 am
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Re: ABBA
Derek, Una, Martha, Bert 
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Jan 8th 2009, 2:28 am
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Jan 8th 2009, 3:39 am
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Jan 8th 2009, 7:32 am
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Re: ABBA
Peter Ingrid Steve Sonia plus their roadies Fred Leon Andrew Paul and Stewart
Jan 8th 2009, 11:52 am
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Re: ABBA
This reminds me of a classic SNL skit:
Jan 8th 2009, 5:51 pm
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Re: ABBA
Funny.
From an early age I was led to believe that 'ABBA' stood for 'Absolutely Bleeding, Bloody Awful'.
It wasn't until later on in life I found out it was actually their names.
From an early age I was led to believe that 'ABBA' stood for 'Absolutely Bleeding, Bloody Awful'.
It wasn't until later on in life I found out it was actually their names.
Jan 8th 2009, 6:04 pm
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Re: ABBA
You were probably right in the first place - I personally believe that ABBA were set up as a joke, and for some reason there are people out there who took it seriously and liked their music. It's a real shame that there are so many gullible people out there with terrible taste.
Jan 8th 2009, 10:23 pm
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Re: ABBA
You were probably right in the first place - I personally believe that ABBA were set up as a joke, and for some reason there are people out there who took it seriously and liked their music. It's a real shame that there are so many gullible people out there with terrible taste.
Jan 9th 2009, 12:52 pm
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You were probably right in the first place - I personally believe that ABBA were set up as a joke, and for some reason there are people out there who took it seriously and liked their music. It's a real shame that there are so many gullible people out there with terrible taste.
Despite their apparent soulessness and vapidity (if that's a that a word) they were clearly perfectionist craftsmen of the first order and masterful pop hook creators. I'd argue that a song like Super Trooper (about a brand of spotlights, by the way) is a classic pop tune. When the girls hit the high notes in the chorus, you'd have to be a curmudgen to not admit that they've got some serious chops. They wrote at least twenty singles that were equally good. All of their albums were beautifully produced and featured some surprisingly great musicianship. Check out the work of their bassist Rutgar Gunnarson, for example.
In their time, I think they got caught up in their carefully managed, plastic, ultra-teeny-bopper, "we're global megastars" image. However, that was before my time so I missed all of that. Judged solely by their music, they were pretty damned accomplished.
Overall, I'll take ABBA over most of the Pro-Tools pitch-corrected automatons on the radio these days...
Jan 9th 2009, 11:52 pm
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Jan 10th 2009, 1:06 am
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Re: ABBA
I order to prove your point (and my signature), I'll now unmask myself as an ABBA fan.
Despite their apparent soulessness and vapidity (if that's a that a word) they were clearly perfectionist craftsmen of the first order and masterful pop hook creators. I'd argue that a song like Super Trooper (about a brand of spotlights, by the way) is a classic pop tune. When the girls hit the high notes in the chorus, you'd have to be a curmudgen to not admit that they've got some serious chops. They wrote at least twenty singles that were equally good. All of their albums were beautifully produced and featured some surprisingly great musicianship. Check out the work of their bassist Rutgar Gunnarson, for example.
In their time, I think they got caught up in their carefully managed, plastic, ultra-teeny-bopper, "we're global megastars" image. However, that was before my time so I missed all of that. Judged solely by their music, they were pretty damned accomplished.
Overall, I'll take ABBA over most of the Pro-Tools pitch-corrected automatons on the radio these days...
Despite their apparent soulessness and vapidity (if that's a that a word) they were clearly perfectionist craftsmen of the first order and masterful pop hook creators. I'd argue that a song like Super Trooper (about a brand of spotlights, by the way) is a classic pop tune. When the girls hit the high notes in the chorus, you'd have to be a curmudgen to not admit that they've got some serious chops. They wrote at least twenty singles that were equally good. All of their albums were beautifully produced and featured some surprisingly great musicianship. Check out the work of their bassist Rutgar Gunnarson, for example.
In their time, I think they got caught up in their carefully managed, plastic, ultra-teeny-bopper, "we're global megastars" image. However, that was before my time so I missed all of that. Judged solely by their music, they were pretty damned accomplished.
Overall, I'll take ABBA over most of the Pro-Tools pitch-corrected automatons on the radio these days...
I always thought they were just one of the earlier manufactured groups that appeared every now and again. I think it all started with the Monkees and went downhill very quickly after that
Jan 10th 2009, 2:10 am
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Re: ABBA
Absolutely Bloody Beautiful Agnetha 