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3.27pm
13 February 2010
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Are there any other Abba fans?
I think I fell in love with them as soon as I heard the song Fernando played on That 70s Show.
I have been a disco freak ever since.
Thursday night your stockings needed mending.
3.28pm
6 June 2010
Offline When we could listen to music in DP Fernando was a must
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
~Paul McCartney
3.30pm
13 February 2010
Offline Definitley!
Everyone would Look At Me strangely when I started to sing and dance to it, though. Especiallly Mrs. Smyth. “That is an ANCIENT song, dear!”
Thursday night your stockings needed mending.
3.31pm
6 June 2010
Offline LOL
Ya but the music vid kinda stunk 
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
~Paul McCartney
3.33pm
13 February 2010
Offline Well, it did take place in the 70s when everyone was cheap and still fried from the 60s.
The plastic stars and campfire was quite cheesy.
Thursday night your stockings needed mending.
3.34pm
6 June 2010
Offline Ya being in 2010 I did expect it to be a lil cheap looking.
Oh well it's still an awesome song 
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
~Paul McCartney
7.06pm
1 May 2010
Offline Mhhhh…… I like some songs. .but I'm not a fan. And to be honest, I didn't like the movie Mamma mia much (in spite of Colin Firth)
But 2 of my favorite movies of the 90s feature Abba a lot. Muriel's wedding, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Both movies are just fantastic, and Priscilla has one of the best jokes I've seen in a movie. It's about Guy Pearce showing Terence Stamp his Abba souvenir.. I remember that moment and I laught a lot.
I strongly recommend you Muriel's wedding. Abba soundtrack is very well used here. Chessy and awesome. The WTF faces of the guest and the groom and Muriel's happiness face are just priceless… 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
7.50pm
1 May 2010
Offline I have to be in a really, really good mood to listen to Abba or disco in general, but when I am I often have a great time listening to them. Some of their songs are almost ridiculously catchy. How do you guys feel about the Bee Gees?
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7.54pm
14 December 2009
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Classic, fantastic pop band! Those hits just soared. And their LPs are full of undiscovered gems. Melody-wise, Ulvaeus and Andersson were as good candidates as any to be the Lennon-McCartney of the '70s. (The whole “Mamma Mia” thing and the use of their music as movie-jokes makes it easy to dislike 'em, however.)
And even though they certainly had disco hits, Sunii, they weren't really a disco band. (Not-that-there's-anything-wrong-with-that.)
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
8.01pm
14 December 2009
Offline GniknuS said:
How do you guys feel about the Bee Gees?
Love the '70s hits, but gotta admit that's all I know really well. I've been intending to investigate their 60s stuff more fully…
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
8.45pm
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14 April 2010
Offline Sunii – I liked ABBA when I was about your age (what teenage boy didn't?) but outgrew them by the time I got to high school in 1977.
GniknuS – I like the pre-disco Bee Gees (Massachusetts, Lonely Days, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, etc…). Disco is something I never got into.
It's kinda interesting that these two groups are mentioned on a Beatle site. If the old brain has one more lucid moment, I believe that one of the names originally considered by ABBA was FABB (an acronym using the initals from their last names). And the Bee Gees were managed by someone who worked for Brian Epstein at one time or another. You'd have to look up both to be sure.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
8.53pm
19 September 2010
Offline Zig: And the Bee Gees were managed by someone who worked for Brian Epstein at one time or another. You'd have to look up both to be sure
They were managed by Robert Stigwood, who was going to take over NEMS (but not the Beatles) prior to Brian's death. After his death, the plan was aborted
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
5.02am
1 May 2010
Offline Well in all honesty I'm not crazy about the Bee Gees, just like a few songs here or there but that's about as much as I can do with disco. Sunii, I hope that your disco obsession will eventually lead you to funk, but how to bridge the gap…
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7.49am
4 November 2010
Offline Hmm… I definitely like ABBA, but strangely enough it's their less loud/dramatic songs thatI fancy the most. I recently got into “Thank You for the Music” (which sounds oddly like it could've been the finale for a musical-and not just Mama Mia!) and “Chiqituita”.
But my favorite will always be “Super Trooper”. I absolutely adore the harmonies at the beginning!
Oh, and the Bee Gees? Never really got into them… as previously mentioned, it's probably because of how often their songs are used as parodies. But mostly because I can do some disco, but I can't go all the way.
9.20am
5 July 2010
Offline I have a best of ABBA CD,. They're songs are catchy, but being a 20 year old male, I certainly would call them a guilty pleasure. 
9.39pm
1 December 2009
Online Well, I'm twice your age and feel no guilt at all!
But maybe that's the point.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
4.50am
4 November 2010
Offline When you're a teenager, it's either 'cool-in-an-uncool-way' to like ABBA, or just uncool. It depends on the day of the week, the time of day… very fickle in their tastes, my classmates are.
But I'll sing Mama Mia in advisory either way!
6.52am
14 October 2009
Offline Benny & Bjorn = best songwriting pair after Lennon & McCartney. Look at it this way: is there actually a BAD Abba song? You've got to be really picky to find one.
Dancing Queen is one of the greatest records EVER made and the list goes on not just with singles, but album tracks too.
One interesting point that maybe not everyone knows: A great deal of the girls' vocals were recorded and then speeded up for mixing! That's how the pitch is so high!
"If we feel our heads starting to swell.....we just look at Ringo!"
12.04pm
10 May 2011
Offline Sunii said:
Are there any other Abba fans?
I think I fell in love with them as soon as I heard the song Fernando played on That 70s Show.
I have been a disco freak ever since.
Of course, I'm Benny Andersons son. No, I'm kidding (eat your heart out Mr. S).
They're a bit good. The musical Mamma Mia kinda got me into it.
They're a 'K band
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12.17pm
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1 May 2011
Offline I like some of their songs, especially The Day Before You Came. A real gem of a song that should be given more exposure in place of the same ones that are always played. I hate Dancing Queen to such an extent that i deleted it from my itunes so it never comes on by accident.
For some reason they were seen as a joke by the music scene for over a decade.
They also had the ability to write a very good Eurovision song, Waterloo. A rare entry that you can listen to without grinding your teeth and setting the dog off.
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