[Closed] ABBA - Come on fess up

No no no.

Worst band of all time (IMHO)

Can't understand their popularity

Worst band of all time? You have got to be kidding! Milli Vanilli? Spice girls?

A brilliant euro pop band. Catchy songs, lots of hits, longevity. No pretensions to be anything but a catchy pop band but boy were they good at it.

Its the only LP that I nicked off my Mum and played.

Awful dull soulless music for dizzy blonds.

A mate of mine is in an Abba tribute band, Abbalicious or something 😆

Its just an excuse for you to get your white flared jumpsuit on again, isn't it?

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[i]Milli Vanilli? Spice girls?

A brilliant euro pop band.[/i]

And those 2 weren't brilliant pop bands? Ok Milli Vanilla weren't brilliant, but give me the Spice Girls over Abba any day.

ABBA developed and used quite remarkable production and sound reproduction techniques that have very rarely been surpassed since, especially considering the recording technologies available at the time.

Kind of Phil Spector for the 70's/80's.

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Edit - OMG, WTF, LOL, ... look at Barnaby/Bertram/Billy (left of shot) in Binners' pic up there ! The guy on the right looks alright but, jesus, that look wouldn't have worked even on children's TV of the time.

I've lived through 3 Abba revivals I have no intention of enduring another one. Stop now.

How can you compare the Spice Girls to Abba? Just because Abba's 'break' was the Eurovision song contest shouldn't in anyway dent their credibility.

One is endearing with immense longevity and the other is a manufactured UK-centric pop act that was good at the time for little girls to bop to.

Yes Abba's music hasn't aged well however as a package its eternal. They also retired at the right time.

...then I read the Milli Vanilla alongside and realised you were trolling 😉

SOS is a brilliant song. I read an interview somewhere that said that Joe Strummer cited it as his favourite pop song.

Worst band of all time? You have got to be kidding! Milli Vanilli? Spice girls?

Sorry, what I should have said is "worst band of all time that are considered credible"

I like them. Got most of their stuff on CD [b]and[/b] vinyl.

I've lived through 3 Abba revivals

Revivals? ABBA never really go away, they just flare* up from time to time. Like herpes.

My mum and dad played ABBA Gold endlessly in the car whilst I was a kid, along with Richard Clayderman and various Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, which I think inoculated me completely against cheesy 70s music for the rest of my life. Can't stand 'em.

*sorry.

Even worse, I kinda like the film. Its one of those things thats soooooooooo stupidly bad that you can't take you're eyes off it!

[i]How can you compare the Spice Girls to Abba?[/i]

You might want to read the posts again. Nobody did that. Although I can compare them if you wish - Abba had 9 UK number ones, Spice girls had 9 number one singles.
Thats about as interesting they are to me.

This popped up on my playlist last week:

Abba has double the album sales worldwide but (I admit) what is amazing is even in SpiceGirls short window- their total is amazing in itself.

My mum and dad played ABBA Gold endlessly in the car whilst I was a kid, along with Richard Clayderman and various Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, which I think inoculated me completely against cheesy 70s music for the rest of my life. Can't stand 'em.

Yep that about sums up my childhood, I still haven't forgiven my parents.

I love ABBA, genius song writers and producers - the boys

Fantastic voices, diction - the girls

I was so in love with the brunette girl when I was a kid

Plum

My dad used to play Sergio Mendes and Brazil '77 in the car, as his concession to children and "pop" music, and if we were very very lucky and especially well behaved (or if I had vommed enough to get some sympathy) the soundtrack from Grease. It was better than 8 hours of Beethoven all the way to Auckland.

I would have loved a bit of ABBA !!

Everyone likes Abba, just like everyone really likes the Beatles.
Some are too scared to admit it to themselves though 😀

Music is great.
Musical snobbery is sad and pathetic.

It's great music, you can't deny the advances and quality IMO.

Everyone likes Abba, just like everyone really likes the Beatles.

wrong - I for one don't like either, or Queen...

Everyone likes Abba, just like everyone really likes the Beatles.
Some are too scared to admit it to themselves though

Music is great.
Musical snobbery is sad and pathetic.

Spot on!

Oh and plumber, I too had a crush on the brunette...

Abba, the carpenters, simon and garfunkel, mantovani were the mainstay of my early years and I still like them now. 😳

ABBA are like a musical lobotomy.

spicegirls = hollyoaks
abba = coronation street

pop music and soap operas = suicide

Luv abba. Great music

When i was in high school the bloke running the youth block at dinner time where i played pool would only play abba. Every single day, i became used to. Not fussed either way now

Guilty. 😳 Strangely enough, it's always the first album to pop up on my iPod. 8)

Rusty Spanner I loathe the Beatles just awful. They were good though cant deny that, I just hate them.

Calling ABBA crap is just daft, classic pop they wrote themselves. One of the drummers got to drive in F1 and another died in a bizare accident very rock and roll 😆

Everyone likes Abba, just like everyone really likes the Beatles.
Some are too scared to admit it to themselves though
Music is great.
Musical snobbery is sad and pathetic.

I think you're confusing "snobbery" with "taste"

Agnetha (the blond one) featured in most of my teenage fantasies 😯

just like everyone really likes the Beatles.

The beatles were alright when they went through their "stoned off their heads" phase, maybe abba should have done the same.

I like a lot of crap music, and have no problem admitting it. Well, maybe there's some I'd rather keep to myself.

But I honestly don't get how Abba are still so popular. Music for people that don't like music? Dunno. Always thought of it as being the kind of stuff your Mum and Aunty's would dance to at a wedding, but no-one actually [b]likes[/b]

I was brought up listening to ABBA as it one of my dad's favourite bands. Not something I'd particularly listen to by choice these days, but I probably know most of the words to most of the songs these days.

Caught Bjorn Again at Download (I think, might've been Sonisphere) a couple of years ago; they went down surprisingly well.

The reason ABBA are still popular is that they made well crafted inoffensive pop songs with catchy lyrics. Just very good at what they did

One man's well crafted inoffensive pop song is another man's catterwauling dirge.

heh, they're alright. Just music that's catchy and sounds ok, I wouldn't purposefuly listen to it, but I wouldn't say they are crap, same goes for the beatles and queen. I have pink floyd and lady gaga on the same ipod... so?

I have pink floyd and lady gaga on the same ipod... so?

Ooh. Eclectic...