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abba v carpenters

brokenrecordprayers [Edit] [Delete] 9 replies 23:41, 8 January '10

new kid on block,shite weather.i kinda swingin towards abba,but callin occs v day before you came.help

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  • abba

    they brought the pop

    Memories | 8 Jan '10, 23:46 | X
    • The Carpenters

      Karen had the sweetest voice this side of Mimi Parker, and Richard's arrangements are truly awesome. He can't sing for shit though.

      andrewk @Memories | 9 Jan '10, 00:15 | X
      silverpop this'd this
  • ABBA

    Definitely - the palindromic music of my childhood.

    disinfected | 9 Jan '10, 01:09 | X
    • childhood as in my mum used to play it when I was a kid

      not that I was a child when they were around, obvs

      disinfected @disinfected | 9 Jan '10, 01:11 | X
    • nice use of palindromic

      gnosnam @disinfected | 9 Jan '10, 09:10 | X
  • ABBA

    every time. The Winner Takes It All is the most perfectly arranged pop song there is. I get goosebumps just thinking about that song, even though I've listened to it thousands of times.

    Also their final album The Visitors is brilliant. It's a really weird album for them with no typical pop songs on it and all the arrangements and harmonies are so complicated. It's a dark album too, as Anni-Frid and Benny divorced a month or so before the recording of the album and the lyrics reflect the fraught relationships they had with each other too.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfii5fMfas
    Listen to that, there is so much going on in that song, but the vocals and harmonies are so rich! Wow.

    An ex girlfriend of mine was Swedish and she said that she's kind embarrassed by them and thought that their English was terrible. I don't think that at all, if anything the starkness and simplicity of their lyrics is what makes their songs so good.

    In many ways i'm disgusted that they let all these musicals and films be made since they split because it cheapens them so much. The songs are so much bigger than any of that to me.

    If i could pick any band alive or dead to go and see i'd go see ABBA, and ideally performing all of the Visitors and the hits. This is over Nirvana, The Smiths, The Birthday Party, Can, Talking Heads, Kyuss, Tom Waits... as much as love those guys ABBA would be my number one choice.

    I realize I've probably lost about twenty jazillion indie points with the post but yeah, whatever.

    pip_ | 9 Jan '10, 01:59 | X
    disinfected this'd this
  • 8 cans later

    still cannot make my mind up.

    brokenrecordprayers | 9 Jan '10, 02:23 | X
  • carpenters won

    ticket to ride kinda did it,next one is manfred man v spencer davis group.

    brokenrecordprayers | 9 Jan '10, 02:52 | X
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