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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 10:17:02 GMT
Let's be having them! 1. SOS 2. The Name of the Game 3. Take a Chance on me. 4. Chiquitita 5. Mamma Mia
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Post by Crunchy Col on Apr 17, 2020 10:45:40 GMT
1. Waterloo 2. SOS 3. Dancing Queen 4. The Name of the Game 5. Chiquitita
(for now - might come back to edit)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 11:27:16 GMT
I'll be curious who submits a five. It wouldn't surprise me if it's only Goat Boy; we're not a very pop board are we?
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Post by loveless on Apr 17, 2020 11:34:17 GMT
1. The Name of the Game 2. Knowing Me, Knowing You 3. Waterloo 4. Hey Hey Helen 5. Tiger
It's early here, 5 wasn't enough, etc.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 17, 2020 11:53:20 GMT
Waterloo - the best of the early stuff. Such an irresistible, ebullient blast of glam pop joy! Surely this is what mainlining coke must feel like. Just the sheer overwhelming sound of the damn thing...those huge, crashing Townshend esque guitar chords ("my my!....oh yeah!"), Benny's classic piano licks during the bridge (so damn thrilling!)....the glam sax/handclaps(?) combo in the chorus, the wall of sound vocals (cmon people, resistance is utterly futile!)....the swift snap and crack back into the imperial swagger of the verses ("my my! DUH-DUH!). It's a real statement song. This is ABBA getting their shit together in the most spectacular way.
It's obscene to be kicking this amount of arse. Almost seems unfair on damn near every other artist who has attempted pop immortality. An unbelievable record!
I'll be back after a few beers...
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 17, 2020 11:55:54 GMT
Genuinely surprised by the love for The Name of the Game.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Apr 17, 2020 12:04:27 GMT
Genuinely surprised by the love for The Name of the Game. I think it's one of the best of their later efforts. They were making a different brew after 1976 or so (you get all that stuff about 'Scandinavian angst', don't you?). And I love the way there's a pre-chorus, then the rousing ''cos I wanna know....what's the name of the game?' peak, and then there's a kind of post-chorus ('tell me please...'cos I have to know'). They really worked on this stuff but it still flows so beautifully. So much in there.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 17, 2020 12:07:12 GMT
Hot fucking damn!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 12:09:06 GMT
Genuinely surprised by the love for The Name of the Game. It's sophisto-Abba. There's something moody and adult about those slow burning verses, but you've still got the exhuberance of the 'sun breaking through the clouds' chorus. The piccolo trumpets are a genius touch too.
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Post by loveless on Apr 17, 2020 12:09:32 GMT
Genuinely surprised by the love for The Name of the Game. I think it's one of the best of their later efforts. They were making a different brew after 1976 or so (you get all that stuff about 'Scandinavian angst', don't you?). And I love the way there's a pre-chorus, then the rousing ''cos I wanna know....what's the name of the game?' peak, and then there's a kind of post-chorus ('tell me please...'cos I have to know'). They really worked on this stuff but it still flows so beautifully. So much in there. Yeah, it IS a real cup runneth over scenario, all of these layers that keep unfolding - like "the IKEA Good Vibrations" or something. There's also a palpable restraint in the tempo and feel that really adds to the power of the thing.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Apr 17, 2020 12:09:44 GMT
but yeah, I mean 'Waterloo' is CRAZY good
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Post by Crunchy Col on Apr 17, 2020 12:10:48 GMT
"the IKEA Good Vibrations" Beautiful.
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Post by loveless on Apr 17, 2020 12:12:28 GMT
And - people will assuredly differ on this point, but there is this ridiculous wheedling electric guitar motif that comes in just before the second verse, and plays two more times: each time playing a higher "nagging" inversion of the phrase, as if someone had programmed software to "modulate the hectoring guitar interjection up each time around".
It's all very "the science of Abba" and I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I'm way the fuck into it.
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Post by The Red Heifer on Apr 17, 2020 12:20:10 GMT
SOS Voulez-vous Mamma Mia Waterloo The Winner Takes It All
very nearly threw in Rock Me, always had a soft spot for it, used to hear it all the fucking time on the radio back when I started working.
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Post by fange on Apr 17, 2020 12:55:24 GMT
SOS Knowing Me Knowing You Waterloo Mamma Mia Lay All Your Love On Me
Shit, 5 just isn't enough.
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