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post #1 of 19
2/25/07 at 12:06am
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Feel free to bow down and worship the soaring harmonies and perfect pop hooks of Sweden's 2nd-greatest export herein.
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post #2 of 19
2/25/07 at 12:10am
I'm not sure about bowing down and worshipping. But I can dance with you, honey, if you think it's funny. Does your mother know that you're out?
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post #3 of 19
2/25/07 at 2:27am
What was their first one?
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post #4 of 19
2/25/07 at 2:37am
Waterloo was their first big hit.
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post #5 of 19
2/25/07 at 3:01am
I grew up listening to ABBA. I owned all of their albums on vinyl.

All of them.

These days, I only have the greatest hits compilation, but I still feel the temptation to get those full albums again. Not on vinyl, though; nostalgia only carries me so far.

I'm not sure that people who didn't grow up during the seventies even understand how enormously huge this group was. I don't know that there's been a group since that so thoroughly dominated the pop music scene for so many years.
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post #6 of 19
2/25/07 at 3:07am
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I think even absent context, the songwriting holds up tremendously well.

The production is a little cheesy and thin on the early stuff, but damn those women could sing.
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post #7 of 19
2/25/07 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by Chavez
Feel free to bow down and worship the soaring harmonies and perfect pop hooks of Sweden's 2nd-greatest export herein.
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Originally Posted by Jesse The Mind
What was their first one?
Ace of Base? Ikea? Roxette? The Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show?
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post #8 of 19
2/25/07 at 5:28pm
Britt Ekland

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post #9 of 19
2/25/07 at 5:53pm
Touchdown! Greg.

And every time Madonna song "Hung Up" is playing I can only hear Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!. Sure, the sample (well, it's nearly the whole song) is the reason, but still.....

ABBA ruled.
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post #10 of 19
2/25/07 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by Randolph Carter
Ace of Base? Ikea? Roxette? The Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show?
The output of Swedish Erotica.
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post #11 of 19
2/25/07 at 7:31pm
And Chewers everywhere who think the Music forum is safe for work are now standing outside their former places of employment wondering what the hell happened.
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post #12 of 19
2/25/07 at 7:45pm
Any boss who can't appreciate Britt Ekland naked is a boss you shouldn't be working for.
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post #13 of 19
2/26/07 at 3:28pm
Britt Ekland may be nice, but she aint got nothing on Christina Lindberg.




What a woman!
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post #14 of 19
2/26/07 at 3:44pm
Seriously now, guys. Some of us do work in fairly conservative jobs.
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post #15 of 19
2/26/07 at 4:02pm
At least those hot nudie pics have killed a lot of the gayness of this ABBA thread.

"I'm reading about ABBA...but there's hot n00dZ too!"

"Oh I see. That'll teach me to question your manliness ever again, Smith! Carry on!"
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post #16 of 19
2/26/07 at 8:21pm
I am a firm believer that both ABBA and The Bee-Gees will be remembered by future generations for their songwriting prowess, soaring harmonies, and overwhelming influence on popular music long after any of today's current crop of pop superstars have been properly forgotten. The secret's in the sauce.
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post #17 of 19
2/27/07 at 12:16am
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
Seriously now, guys. Some of us do work in fairly conservative jobs.
Our apologies. Here's a Swedish gift to the world that's appropriate for work.

And who the hell is Christina Lindberg? She looks like she's 14. And that's just so very wrong. *scrolls back up again* So very, very wrong.
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post #18 of 19
2/27/07 at 8:02am
..And yet so right.

This thread offers so much.I came for the 70's pop but I stayed for the Swedish boobs.
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post #19 of 19
2/27/07 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
And who the hell is Christina Lindberg? She looks like she's 14. And that's just so very wrong. *scrolls back up again* So very, very wrong.
Christina Lindberg played the lead role in the Swedish exploitation masterpiece Thriller : A Cruel Picture.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072285/
Check it out, its a fantastic film.
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