Yeah I'm trying to think of songs I actively dislike. Not as familiar with their earlier work, but even saccharine stuff like I Had A Dream, Thank You For The Music, are just affecting enough to be redeemed.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
xpost:Obviously Dancing Queen is overplayed but its just...magisterial. Transcendental. Went to the pub with some friends the other week, smoked a few joitns and then we tried to think of "like, man, what must be, like...the most...popular...like, well...loved song...like ever"? We came up with three, we immediately forgot the other two, then put Dancing Queen on at full whack and I swear each of was trying not to literally cry over how perfect it is.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
Been doing some research, and this is definitely the objectively worst Abba song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0ISwSa7dU
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Warned u
― fit for one who twerks and cries (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 January 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
You like that one?
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
That is so awful it calls into question their masterpieces.
― intimately bellowing (staggerlee), Monday, 13 January 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
I've just listened to the otherwise great "ABBA - the Album" and I loathe the mawkish Lloyd Webberisms of "I Wonder (Departure)". Ugh, horrible.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
can something be a lloyd webberism if it came out before lloyd webber's tenure
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
"Evita" was '76.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
But, fair comment.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
Twice in fact.
Either 'Dum Dum Diddle' or 'Bang-A-Boomerang'
― Turrican, Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Just remembered that Agnetha was in the first Swedish production of Jesus Christ Superstar, doh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3czi5MXck
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
― Turrican, Saturday, October 3, 2015 1:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
these are both great! well, the conceit of "dum dum diddle" is stuuuupid but it's a nice spritely abba song.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
got the boxset cheap a few months ago, still not given it the time it requires.
mainly due to the overplayed aspect of the big tracks.
i need to fix this.
which album should i start with to help revise my attitude ?
― mark e, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
ok ...
random click and play : 'on and on and on' : fucking brilliant. glam excess perfection.
i need to seriously give the boxset some love ..
― mark e, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
for once i have to agree with alex in nyc. dancing queen, obviously. it's the song which was played everywhere everyday when i grew up in the second half of the seventies. i never liked it and the constant play did not help. you could not escape it, you could not escape the mediocrity of that song when you went out. it stands for the mediocrity of the 70s. in a way it destroyed my youth.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Great live version of On & On & On from their final concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKClIgUEPSI
― everything, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
Sorry! Wrong one. This is the live version that rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5129BMoXg
― everything, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
On fire!
― niels, Sunday, 4 October 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link