Members jayare Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 for all you songwriters/arrangers out there...there are more hooks in Dancing Queen than there are in most peoples whole career! ( Mutt Lange excepted!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bookumdano2 Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yeah, Dancing Queen has some universal hooks alright. When it came out, the "dancing queen" "seventeen" reference had already been done a bunch of times and in fact it had been released so close to the earlier obscure America tune "Rainbow Song" on HatTrick, that I thought everybody was jumping on that rhyme and concept all at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rlindsey0 Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 I like ABBA too, and so does my 17-year-old daughter, oddly enough. "Name Of The Game" is probably my favorite record of theirs, but they had a number of good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I see you ABBA, and raise you The Carpenters... :poke: I have to admit, I definitely was a fan. For whatever reason, their music spoke to me far more than ABBA's ever did. Maybe it was Karen's voice. Not that Fredia and Agnetha aren't good singers... but the dance pop / disco stuff just never worked for me overall. YMMV, and I respect that folks. US Americans don't like it when something is bigger and more succesful then their {censored}. Really? Last time I checked, The Beatles and The Stones still aren't US / American bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 I would wish we had a black forumite here, who explains to you pale folks how that all was and still is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 US Americans don't like it when something is bigger and more succesful then their {censored}.Really? Last time I checked, The Beatles still aren't a US band. but also, England is not part of Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 but also, England is not part of Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rlindsey0 Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 I have to admit, I definitely was a fan. For whatever reason, their music spoke to me far more than ABBA's ever did. Maybe it was Karen's voice. They had some good stuff too, uncool though it may be to think so. You just inspired me to go listen to "Goodbye To Love" on YouTube. Lovely song and record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 Very few people seem to remember or realize this. The western harmonic system was reintroduced to improvisation. harmony wise, there was nothing new invented, but melodic, and especially rhythmic wise, the black artists started a new era, a modernization, or better a renewal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 but also, England is not part of Europe. To me, that's analogous to saying that just because it's an island (several actually), Japan isn't part of the the Asian continent. If England isn't part of Europe, then what continent is it? And why are they / how come they were allowed into the European Union / EU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 To me, that's analogous to saying that just because it's an island (several actually), Japan isn't part of the the Asian continent. If England isn't part of Europe, then what continent is it? And why are they / how come they were allowed into the European Union / EU? well, you are in California, how should you know...Continental European think England is not part of Europe, no matter what a map says, and politically, and also militarily seen, it is more part of the United States of America. Nobody here would be surprised when England would become the next state of the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 okay, lets make a compromise for the sake of bancrupt Britain, England, Scotland, Ireland and Island is part of the continent Atlantica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 oh, and Switzerland will certainly never join the European Union nor the USA, but the Asia-Oceania Federation, since the new Asia-Oceania dollar will be soon the world leading currency, then there is no need for the Swiss Franc anymore . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 I like ABBA too, and so does my 17-year-old daughter, oddly enough. So do my teen sons, but they're gifted musicians themselves with broad musical taste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members N88 Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 By 'western harmonic system' I was implying western musical structure. Old-world Africa didn't really have harmony in the sense we mean today, but really, no-one else outside of the tradition did either. harmony wise, there was nothing new invented, but melodic, and especially rhythmic wise, the black artists started a new era, a modernization, or better a renewal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatfinger Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 I'm not sure why people wouldn't want to give credit where credit is due .. ABBA has some very well written songs ; very good musicians:thu: Don't worry Rudy, few people actually recognise that sort of thing these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stevieb Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 AbbA,....World's best singers and composers/producers of the last centennial,....Everyone who ridicules Abba must be out of his or hers {censored}ing mind,....Listen to their discopgraphy , it's so smart and frikkin sophisticated,... commercially and musically wise there is no bigger or better thing.They are better than the Beatles.Stones and Elvis all together. Did'ja notice this guy's location? The Netherlands. Go figure, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatfinger Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 So if I'm in so cal and I should be pimping the Beach Boys it's null and void ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Charles Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 You know, ages ago when I was a huge Elvis C. fan (still am) I read an interview with him and at one point he was talking about his first USA tour and him and his band riding around in a bus and they argued about what music to listen to all the time. Well they seldom agreed, but one of like three or four bands they could all palate was ABBA. This sort of got me out of my guilty pleasure thing with them and admit that I always just loved them! I love pop music and they are about as pop as you can get. I don't rate them above The Beatles and such but they are definitely peers. In my old band we did all manner of Beatles, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, etc, etc, etc, but my singer sweetie's little sis would show up sometimes and then we could do ABBA. We did a pretty mean 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' and 'SOS' and it was fun as hell! One last thing, I always hated disco, all of us 70's rockers did, but although they border lined on it, I never got the disgusting vibes from ABBA. Their songs were some of my absolute favs to come on the radio driving around smoking green stuff in the 70's when I was a lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 You know, ages ago when I was a huge Elvis C. fan (still am) Costello or Crespo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gabriel E. Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 Maybe I should have put it this way: "It doesn't swing." Is that better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 Maybe I should have put it this way:"It doesn't swing." Is that better? Much better. General information: A Polka swings when played by a Klezmer musician, but he must be Japanese, or it doesn't do a thing. ABBA didn't swing because Elvin Jones was never the drummer with them. Also Sid Catlett never recorded with ABBA, and Charlie Parker simply refused a generous offer from Benny Andersson because he passed away 17 years before ABBA was founded. The to a swing factor re-quantized ABBA collection will be relesed in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spleencage Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 AbbA,....World's best singers and composers/producers of the last centennial,....Everyone who ridicules Abba must be out of his or hers {censored}ing mind,....Listen to their discopgraphy , it's so smart and frikkin sophisticated,... commercially and musically wise there is no bigger or better thing.They are better than the Beatles.Stones and Elvis all together. I wish you around when describing my penis to potential new girfirends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 Wouldn't that be an odd thing for your potential girlfriends or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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