Sometimes I think when all other pop music from the 20th and 21st centuries is long forgotten, ABBA will still be standing.

 

The Winner Takes It All http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Z2gR-lOXY

i bloody hope so, can't stand them

i bloody hope so, can't stand them

 

You're the first person I've heard say that, why? :unsure:

 

Personally I think the world will always want sadness, melancholy, joy, ecstasy, beautiful melodies and angelic vocals. With ABBA, you hava all of those. That said, I used to be a major fan, but I feel a bit disconnected since www.abbamail.com shut down...

they irritate me

 

they're overplayed, aswell, with abba tributes everywhere you seem to go

 

maybe if they weren't so overplayed they'd be bareable...

i dont agree with the original premis .... abba will not be the only ones left, but like the beatles their songs are QUALITY pop, so will stand the test of time better then the manufactured garbage watwertwat et al shovel down the throats of the indiscerning.

They are overplayed and annoy me to death.

 

There was much better music in the 70s than these lot

i dont agree with the original premis .... abba will not be the only ones left, but like the beatles their songs are QUALITY pop, so will stand the test of time better then the manufactured garbage watwertwat et al shovel down the throats of the indiscerning.

Isn't ABBA been shoveled down to our throats long ago?? ^_^

Isn't ABBA been shoveled down to our throats long ago?? ^_^

 

i dont mind quality food being shovelled down my gob, its the fast food junk i hate! :lol:

Something that annoys me - people saying that Waterloo is the best Eurovision song ever, simply because of what happened to them afterwards. (Not forgetting that their next single came - I think - a year after they won the contest.)

 

I've downloaded all the songs, and I don't think it's even my favourite Swedish entry, or my favourite entry from 1974.

Something that annoys me - people saying that Waterloo is the best Eurovision song ever, simply because of what happened to them afterwards. (Not forgetting that their next single came - I think - a year after they won the contest.)

 

I've downloaded all the songs, and I don't think it's even my favourite Swedish entry, or my favourite entry from 1974.

 

'waterloo' though IS a damn good pop record and it launched abba from obscurity into mainstrean uk pop. i might be wrong here but werent abba the first act to get this achievement? on the back of eurovision... true several others acts have had a hit or two post eurovision, but i think that no one has had the success that abba did. ok several acts have followed suit... brotherhood of man, bucks fizz :lol: but they cant compare with the quality pop that abba produced. theres alot more to abba then waterloo and dancing queen...

'waterloo' though IS a damn good pop record and it launched abba from obscurity into mainstrean uk pop. i might be wrong here but werent abba the first act to get this achievement? on the back of eurovision... true several others acts have had a hit or two post eurovision, but i think that no one has had the success that abba did. ok several acts have followed suit... brotherhood of man, bucks fizz :lol: but they cant compare with the quality pop that abba produced. theres alot more to abba then waterloo and dancing queen...

 

99% sure you're right Mushy.

Something that annoys me - people saying that Waterloo is the best Eurovision song ever, simply because of what happened to them afterwards. (Not forgetting that their next single came - I think - a year after they won the contest.)

 

I've downloaded all the songs, and I don't think it's even my favourite Swedish entry, or my favourite entry from 1974.

 

Well 1974 was an unusually strong year. FIVE entires made the UK charts! My favourite is Gigliola Cinquetti - Si for Italy, followed closely by Poogy - Natali La Khayay for Israel (Israel were brilliant from birth in Eurovision terms).

Well 1974 was an unusually strong year. FIVE entires made the UK charts! My favourite is Gigliola Cinquetti - Si for Italy, followed closely by Poogy - Natali La Khayay for Israel (Israel were brilliant from birth in Eurovision terms).

 

mine was ..... mouth and mc neal - 'i see a star' ... :lol:

Something that annoys me - people saying that Waterloo is the best Eurovision song ever, simply because of what happened to them afterwards. (Not forgetting that their next single came - I think - a year after they won the contest.)

 

The follow-up in the UK was a re-release of their previous single - RING RING - it peaked in the 30s. Their next single SO LONG flopped in the UK.

 

Well 1974 was an unusually strong year. FIVE entires made the UK charts! My favourite is Gigliola Cinquetti - Si for Italy, followed closely by Poogy - Natali La Khayay for Israel (Israel were brilliant from birth in Eurovision terms).

 

My favourite from that year was also Gigliola Cinquetti peaking at #8 in the UK. She was also the winner of the 1964 contest with NON HO L'ETA PER AMARTI which also charted in the UK at #17

For me Abba are kind of a strange band, I personally think they got better as they went on.

 

By the time of Super Trooper and especially the very dark final album The Visitors they were making some fantastic albums with some really good thought provoking lyrics.

 

Abba - Slipping Through My Fingers (Live 1981)

 

Abba -Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

 

Whilst the final song they ever recorded The Day Before You Came was so far ahead of its time it is not true. Little wonder Radiohead's Thom Yorke raves about this epic atmospheric track that is over 5 minutes long with no sign of a chorus.

 

Abba - The Day Before You Came (1982 UK#32)

 

Ironically the UK public was too busy buying total fluff by Dollar & Bucks Fizz to notice.

I dont think it will..

Its a trademark now.. Watch the ABBA adverts and youll see the TM sign next to their name...

I agree that ABBA improved as they went on, and their first three albums are a bit patchy (but mostly the first two). Super Trouper and The Visitors are masterpieces. (Agree about TDBYC, though weirdly UK synth pop group Blancmagne covered it two years later, and made a bigger impression on the Top 40). I quite like Dollar, and Trevor Horn made sure their tracks weren't without musical merit, and Bucks Fizz were the good kind if fluff, but no-one ever got the balance of melody, vocal and production like Björn and Benny.

 

Oh BTW Mushy, I forgot about M&McN! I have a greatest hits DVD of them... Mouth (the guy, Willem Duyn) is absolutely mental, like a stoned, swollen Dave Lee Travis... :lol:

For me Abba are kind of a strange band, I personally think they got better as they went on.

 

By the time of Super Trooper and especially the very dark final album The Visitors they were making some fantastic albums with some really good thought provoking lyrics.

 

 

 

Ironically the UK public was too busy buying total fluff by Dollar & Bucks Fizz to notice.

 

id argue that bucks fizz got better as they went on.... for what they were.

id argue that bucks fizz got better as they went on.... for what they were.

 

I do have a soft spot for The Land of Make-Believe! :wub: (I've never used that emoticon before!)

 

Norma