now i know its a wind, its a wind up!

Look gp what is wrong with your brain ?
this is a thread about Abba .... live with it !

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They keep releasing "remastered" or "repackaged" versions of ABBA
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that bugged me about Abba even back in the
70s they were releasing "best of albums "
mixing up tracks just to confuse
everyone and jack up the sales.

The Beatles never did that, they just went from album
to new album, they did n't mess around.

fine. however, posting silly pictures, comparing them to `brotherhood of man` and suggesting that benny should go solo. is hardly fitting. especially considering benny released a compilation album of his work since abba. only a year ago!

I d like to see Benny performing live at the piano
performing his songs....
Ive never seen vid of him performing solo
..... a simple post gp, live with it !

why have you got to back bite with every post ?

I didn't think that would be possible !

I think they are. Some (eg Dancing Queen) seem a bit cheesy but look beyond the cheesy songs and there are some real gems.

My ABBA Top 5 are

1) Summernight City (Full Length Version)
2) The Day Before You Came
3) The Winner Takes It All
4) One Of Us
5) Super Trouper


http://www.musicchartheaven.com/Abba...iscography.htm

thanks Dave for that great link.
1981 and Visitors was really the end,
it was like turning off a tap

what have they really written since to compare ?

that intro really does add drama to the song! quite an underrated song to be fair.

What an amazing career, what a fabulous catalogue of songs !
add to that Agnetha and Frida, the two foxiest babes in Sweden !

Ring Ring......................1973

Ring Ring
Another Town, Another Train
Disillusion
People Need Love
I Saw It In The Mirror
Nina, Pretty Ballerina
Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother
He Is Your Brother
She's My Kind Of Girl
I Am Just A Girl
Rock 'N' Roll Band




Waterloo.................. 1974

Waterloo
Sitting In The Palmtree
King Kong Song
Hasta Mañana
My Mama Said
Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
Honey Honey
Watch Out
What About Livingstone?
Gonna Sing You My Lovesong
Suzy Hang Around



ABBA........................1975

Mamma Mia
Hey, Hey Helen
Tropical Loveland
S.O.S.
Man In The Middle
Bang-A-Boomerang
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Rock Me
Intermezzo No.1
I've Been Waiting For You
So Long




Greatest Hits....................... 1975

S.O.S.
He Is Your Brother
Ring Ring
Another Town, Another Train
Honey, Honey
So Long
Mamma Mia
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
People Need Love
Waterloo
Nina, Pretty Ballerina
Bang-A-Boomerang
Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
Fernando




Arrival................... 1976

When I Kissed The Teacher
Dancing Queen
My Love, My Life
Dum Dum Diddle
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Money, Money, Money
That's Me
Why Did It Have To Be Me?
Tiger
Arrival




The Album..................1977

Eagle
Take A Chance On Me
One Man, One Woman
The Name Of The Game
Move On
Hole In Your Soul
Thank You For The Music
I Wonder (Departure)
I'm A Marionette




Voulez-Vous............1979

As Good As New
Voulez-Vous
I Have A Dream
Angeleyes
The King Has Lost His Crown
Does Your Mother Know
If It Wasn't For The Nights
Chiquitita
Lovers (Live A Little Longer)
Kisses Of Fire



Super Trouper...................1980

Super Trouper
The Winner Takes It All
On And On And On
Andante, Andante
Me And I
Happy New Year
Our Last Summer
The Piper
Lay All Your Love On Me
The Way Old Friends Do




The Visitors................1981

The Visitors
Head Over Heels
When All Is Said And Done
Soldiers
I Let The Music Speak
One Of Us
Two For The Price Of One
Slipping Through My Fingers
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

I know this is slightly off thread, but this is an amazing extended version of Lay all Your Love on Me-never actually released but only used as a club promo for DJs back in 1981.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ECx...eature=related

Im amazed that this has since has never been released commercially because it is quite sought after.

I had a very poor quality MP3 once but it was'nt worth the bother to get it Couldn't hear the track very well.

Perhaps whichever label now publishes ABBA could do the honour once and for all?

I've actually got 3 CD's called 'From Sweden With Love' which are full of extended remixes of a lot of their tracks............ it's really interesting. Some tracks sound better, some don't. But it has remixes of 'Just Like That' & 'I Am The City' also

Another Town , Another Train from the 73 album ring ring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvQV-rHis0

my theory is that Bjorn wrote the words and the music to that,
but Im never gonna prove it am I ?

Abba, did some great songs. Liked a few of them. Loved Dancing Queen especially, as appropriate for all music lovers. Esp people like myself who like anything from ballads, to death metal, and are defo not 17.

Abba - Dancing Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s&ob=av3e

Wow I never knew Abba remixes existed: Are these CDs available in shops or on itunes?

it was a bootleg collection. there is no official remix album.

erm... yes! they wrote many songs superior to that and ARE regarded as the best ever songwriters of pop music, benny/bjorn though (as i originally stated) could be argued that they are second...


oh lord.... winning the anual cheesy fest ISNT a mark of quality! ok, abba were again arguably the 'best' ever winner of the song contest, but the esc was always a bit of light hearted fun and bore no comparison to real pop music..

as for brotherhood of man.... they were going long before their 1976 win, and were re-packaged for it... but apart from them being a direct copy of abbas format, bore no resemblance to them. bom were a manufactured pop act, not a self driven entity that abba were...

Err, it's slightly more than that.

Don't know about Beatles but ABBA have sold 375 million records worldwide.

Personally I prefer ABBA but recognise that The Betles were more talented and far more willing to take risks musically.

Oh and comparing Brotherhood of Man to ABBA is like comparing piss to champagne.

Dont knock Bro of Man, they made some great music
go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2zzwVNM2yM


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Perhaps we should petition the record company.

I am amazed that there are so many authorised remixes of ABBA and other acts, MJ and Madonna for example, which have never been made commercially available but where used in the clubs as dance mixes.

Unless there is some licencing issue, it seems the labels are missing a golden opportunity to sell more music.

There used to be so many blogs on line where you could find sought after tracks and remixes, but they have all been closed down.

Talk about making life difficult for fans.

m8, they were utter shite! sorry but they epitomised everything wrong about mid 70's pop... in a time when so much great music was being made, prog rock, rock, punk, disco, northern, and abbas quality pop. im glad they won the esc in 76, but thats their zenith.

its sad that their style of cheesy manufactured pop has today become the norm, and excepted as such. no wonder the charts are so rubbish.

On checking the ABBA singles releases, it looks like they actually called it a day when the public got bored of them when thier last few singles failed to get above No 25 back in 82. Check this site out http://www.everyhit.com/searchsec.php

The link aint working right, but do a search on ABBA single releases

that is partly true. however, their 3rd greatest hits album. also got to #1 in the album charts at the same time as those singles. the second single from the visitors album previously performed badly in the uk. however, that was a #1 album too.

the second divorce in 1981 was another factor. along with andersson/ulvaeus wanting to break into musical theatre, the girls also had solo ambitions.