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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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 likes