Abba

[thepigjockey]

This'll settle it....

[Loz]

check the record collection of anyone who only owns about a dozen albums or so.

this will always be in it



something about abba that means that people who don't really like music always love it. I think because it requires absolutely no effort at all to listen to.

[Ro Land]

I don't think it's awful, I don't give the slightest fuck.

Actually it is awful maybe, but Dancing Queen is one of those songs that gets stuck in my head..

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by Loz

check the record collection of anyone who only owns about a dozen albums or so.

this will always be in it



something about abba that means that people who don't really like music always love it. I think because it requires absolutely no effort at all to listen to.

That's a bullshit snooty argument

[Orang Utan]

Anyway, I like some of their music - I wouldn't go so far as to say I loved it, so no vote from me

[thembuzz]

i fucking love half of their music, and fucking hate the other half. anyway, if anyone wants to be snooty about abba, i'll meet you head-on with a long, dull, borderline autistic, howard goodall-style dissection of their mastery of songcraft and form, if you like

[love_tempo]

I like Money, Money, Money.

[Loz]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

That's a bullshit snooty argument

I am snooty and full of bullshit, so it's all good

[Sheridan]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

Anyway, I like some of their music - I wouldn't go so far as to say I loved it, so no vote from me

I am pretty much in the same boat.
I don't own any of their music, but if it is on it doesn't piss me off or anything.
I can listen to it.

[dan gulberry]

Good stuff, Abba. It's not only the songs but the production - they really went for it, and tried to create the poppiest pop sound ever. Maybe it's cos I'm listening from 30 years later or whatever but I can't sense the cynicism in their recordings that I can sense in today's honed pop productions.

[soulcheck]

dan gulberry, Irrungenwirrungen, love_tempo, thembuzz, V Knid esq, Yer_Maw I bet you loved a-teens too.

[emef]

Originally Posted by Loz

check the record collection of anyone who only owns about a dozen albums or so.

this will always be in it



something about abba that means that people who don't really like music always love it. I think because it requires absolutely no effort at all to listen to.

you're talking bollocks

fucking snob

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by dan gulberry

Good stuff, Abba. It's not only the songs but the production - they really went for it, and tried to create the poppiest pop sound ever. Maybe it's cos I'm listening from 30 years later or whatever but I can't sense the cynicism in their recordings that I can sense in today's honed pop productions.

definitely. they meant it

[Spandex]

Wouldn't say I loved it.. well.. i did in the poll.. because there's some really great tracks.

[wheezer]

I liked the Madonna remix, because it was a showing of mutual respect for these two great artists

[joe pinapples]

little known musak fact:

wheezer from no future was in abba but was thrown out for wearing clothes that were deemed 'frankly embarrassing and totally inappropriate' by other band members. r o l f lz!!

[Spandex]

They all used to put on their silver capes and moonboots and then Wheezer would turn up naked apart from a pair of wellingtons and a codpiece with teeth.

[FiST]

gabba be better

[kams]

better than the beatles at pop songs..

worse than hitler at moustaches..

My mate used to have a wank fantasy about spunking on the blonde one's hair. :/ I wish he'd never told me that.

[joe pinapples]

your 'mate' sounds a right laugh. any more fantasies to share? perhaps he wanted to give a dirty sanchez to keith harris while shitting on orville. DISGUSTING.

[kams]

he's rural

[Ro Land]

I don't love them, but I voted suchwise just to add an extra Bee to MDKs bonnet.

[AVX23]

can't stand abba, I don't appreciate them in any way whatsoever.

I think there's one song that's vaguely passable and Madonna destroyed it.

My dislike of stuff like this is well honed from years of playing or going to techno clubs, then decending on an after party to find all the girls going - ohhh I know , let's put starship troopers, rasputin and dancing queen on.

Does my brain in tbh, I don't mind being a snob, I didn't get into techno or electronic because I thought it was the new disco, quite the opposite....

[Spandex]

What Abba song did Madonna do?

I think the worst thing I've ever heard was her doing a cover of "American Pie".

[AVX23]

Originally Posted by Spandex

What Abba song did Madonna do?

I think the worst thing I've ever heard was her doing a cover of "American Pie".

Gimme Gimme Gimme - she aped the synth line for it at least.

I liked the Erasure version of that, and that's probably my only compromise when it comes to Abba (and opens me up to a right slagging from any abba loving erasure haters hehe).

Agree with yeh on the American Pie cover : a travesty.

[Ro Land]

how can you like techno and electro and not like any disco? (I'm not classing ABBA as disco by the way)

[Orang Utan]

Lots of dullards only listen to techno and electro. And maybe a bit of metal or hiphop.

[Orang Utan]

I like the idea of a song by Abba called Starship Troopers

[thembuzz]

everyone's banging on about the big pop songs, but no-one's mentioned the more grown-up stuff they did later on

[Orang Utan]

Well I posted the first one on the other thread