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16 January 2006

So Like, How do we feel about Abba?

post by: It's Raining Florence Henderson at: 18:36 | 22 comments

Abba are brilliant.
I will not hear otherwise.

posted by seanyboy 16 January | 18:38

I am pro-Abba. We are part of a worldwide Abba-loving coalition. By treaty, our obligations include defending Abba with great vigor. Hope you don't mind that I signed that treaty. At least it was Abba cause I would have signed any treaty.

posted by panoptican 16 January | 18:40

I love ABBA. "Waterloo," "Take a Chance On me," and "Dancing Queen," are excellent pop candy. I have an mp3 of ABBA singing "Waterloo," in German that's a tad strange though.

posted by jonmc 16 January | 18:41

Abba++;

posted by mischief 16 January | 18:45

Kick ass. *bangs head*

But on the whole - some truly great writing, mixed in with a lot of schmaltzy, by-the-numbers stuff.

You know what sucks is when you get tune #1 above, stuck in yer head and you go 'round singing about "gimme a man" under your breath all day.

posted by Wolfdog 16 January | 18:45

God damn it, that Tad Morose "Knowing Me Knowing You" just rocks me out.

posted by Wolfdog 16 January | 18:48

Wolfdog: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 16 January | 18:51

We feel it is amusing when you slightly misremember their song titles and go to Google for lyrics.

posted by Wolfdog 16 January | 18:54

A++++ GREAT POPSONGS WOULD ABBA AGAIN!!!111!!!

posted by matildaben 16 January | 19:01

I do not like Abba at all. I will never argue their vocal skills etc, but I just can't dig their stuff.

posted by richat 16 January | 19:06

"Does Your Mother Know" and "Knowing Me Knowing You" are just two of my longtime favorite Abba songs. And I just recently rediscovered the wonder that is "On and On and On". And for sheer dumb fun - "King Kong Song".

The production and instrumentation might sound cheesy today, but those hooks are rock solid catchy. I'm pro-Abba despite the kitch factor those songs are burdoned with now.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 16 January | 19:07

ABBA is what "shuffle" was invented for. So that "Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box" can be followed by "Dancing Queen."

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 16 January | 19:13

Oh, i love Abba! (blame my mother who subjected me to Abba growing up!) Slack-a-gogo, Does your mother know is my all time Abba favorite too, followed closely by Andante Andante, Voulez Vous and Super Trouper.

posted by ramix 16 January | 19:16

I like how Madonna uses that Abba sample on the assumption that since she is the oldest thing in the pop world, nobody else will remember it.

Gimme gimme gimme is my favourite Abba song, so it's nice to give that little riff an airing in the modern world.

Oh wait maybe my favourite is Knowing me, knowing you (a-haa!).

So much catchy-hook goodness to choose from.

posted by nomis 16 January | 19:22

Voulez-vous

posted by Wolfdog 16 January | 19:27

S.O.S. is my favorite Abba tune, but I pretty much dig 'em all, even the weird stuff like Eagle and The Visitors.

posted by BoringPostcards 16 January | 19:51

Since I met MetaChat, my life is like an ABBA song.
/Muriel

posted by jrossi4r 16 January | 19:54

Alan Partridge made "Knowing Me Knowing You (uh huh)" into my favorite ABBA song.

Next to "Abba Dabba Honeymoon," of course.

posted by wendell 16 January | 20:00

I also like Ted Nugent.

posted by mischief 16 January | 20:23

I love Abba! "Under Attack" is way underrated.
Jonmc, I have an mp3 of Abba singing "Waterloo" in French. I think they sang a lot of their songs in other languages...French, Spanish, you have German, and I heard a version of "The Winner Takes It All" in Italian this summer.

posted by sisterhavana 16 January | 23:43

Haven't heard much of them, but the impression I got was cheese. Catchy, but cheese. Obviously, mileage varies.

Ted Nugent is a worthless poser.

Nowadays the only music that doesn't annoy the hell out of me is 30's and 40's swing. Dunno what the deal is. It's damn impossible to find a quiet bar these days.

Whatever happened to the sort of bar described in "Red Wind"? Nobody there but a quiet drunk with a pile of dimes and .22 with the front sight filed off; a pro. Poor Waldo.

posted by warbaby 17 January | 01:04

Abba are lovely.

I get strangely nostalgic now when I listen to Abba. They were never a band I sought out or bought albums for. Rather, they were the ambient music that was playing while my adolescence happened. When I listened to them, it was very passively and it just kind of washed over me. Now when I listen to them, it washes memories of my youth over me. Even though I was one of those wallflowers that wanted to be whatever the male counterpart to Dancing Queen would be, the song never evoked loneliness; only the potential that might one day be fulfilled. And eventually, it was. So maybe Abba was the optimistic counterpoint that kept me going when my favorite music was stuff like The Who's dreadfully cathartic Quadrophenia.

Gawd. I sound like Etherial Bligh.

posted by Doohickie 17 January | 15:51

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