ABBA
 

Beautiful Pop songs with catchy hooks, with beautiful vocal harmonies.

Does anyone else on this board like them?

Not particularly, but I guess S.O.S. is my favourite song of theirs.

One of the greatest pop bands ever.

ABBA are evil.

i can appreciate that their songs are cleverly written, but i am a little baffled by the appeal and mass popularity of this band, still, dancing queen is my "favourite" if such a word is appropriate for a song i find to be not quite as bland as the rest of their output.

How dare you! You're being watched, miss!!

there's no expression, its like Nazi music or something.

In my opinion Dancing Queen is pretty bland. Still a great song, but they have made so much better songs like Knowing Me Knowing You and Take a Chance on Me.

I find those songs insidiously bland

Nazi music????? You're adding insult to injury!

although i don't find their music upleasant to listen i do think you are probably right

I don't think that they set themselves out to write ''clever'' songs, they just wrote them like that. They are an over-played band, sure, especially with the heavy rotation they get at any christmas party all over the UK, the radio, the swanky documantaries about them on channel 4 etc. All things that might distract the pop culture junky hungry to form an opinion on just about any aspect of his/her life from what remain good, easy-going pop songs.

Dancing Queen being their biggest hit (I think?) is probably the worst one, because I've been exposed to it more often than to any other ABBA song.
To my ears S.O.S. is their least bland one... plus it also has their heaviest guitar riff, yeah!



edit: Jeez, 2 posts in an ABBA thread already, I'm out of here.

well by clever i mean whichever one of them wrote the songs has a clear talent for contructing pop songs

Which one of the other two is your favourite?

I wouldn't know, they all look like they're about to star in a homemade wife swap 70's porn movie.

i just got neg repped by that asshole!!

I have NEVER in three years been neg repped.

Sorry but, it's one of your worst posts in ages. Your other posts are normally of higher quality. You're one of my favourite posters. I didn't neg rep you because You hate ABBA, feel free to hate ABBA. .

Grow up.

i just tried to neg rep screamingskull but it wouldn't let me