Do you like a steak dinner (vegan comparison ) or a Knickerbocker glory.
Talking of knickers I will admit I did sometimes watch ABBA with the sound down but staring at Agnetha and Anni-Frid backsides; Benny and Bjorn I never noticed.
I was young and straight and no dancing Queen.
Beatles lyrics once they got past She loves you and I wanna hold your hand are excellent and are still relevant today.
Queen. Utter cack, music for people who hate music, to be played to crowds of muppets with foam hands in leisure centres in new towns with no football team, where a boring, shit indoor sport has just finished and noone gives a flying one.
Great question, they both have so much in common. Both had some very good musicians, both had a lot of hits, but ultimately both were overrated. Both were groundbreaking in their own ways: The Beatles demonstrating that Brits could do rock music; ABBA proving that Europop could be successful outside of national boundaries. Both had silly contrived names with unusual spellings. Both bands were better at songwriting than performing as evidenced by the fact that the best recorded music from their cannons came in the form of cover versions. For the avoidance of doubt that's Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Day Before You Came by Blancmange. Both were clever enough to produce their best work in their second language. ABBA choosing English over their native Swedish. The Beatles choosing English over their native Scouse. On their work together, it's therefore difficult for the discerning listener to judge either one as better than the other. We could look at their post-band works which are in both cases impressive. ABBA providing the writing partnership behind several successful successful west end musicals, The Beatles providing the second best Thomas The Tank narrator there has ever been (coming second only to the god-like Michael Angelis) and the world's greatest chaperone of one-legged models. It is just so hard to pull these bands two apart. I'm just going to have to don my Stig The Sexist hat and give it to ABBA on the grounds that Agnetha was prettier than Ringo.
Gob smacked that anyone would ever compare the two? As a pure ‘pop music’ group ABBA are amongst the very best…..if not the best. When it comes to The Beatles…..they were way off into the stratosphere as far as being a pop group is concerned……..of course they never were classified as ‘pop music’ musicians….thank god.
Queen. Utter cack, music for people who hate music, to be played to crowds of muppets with foam hands in leisure centres in new towns with no football team, where a boring, shit indoor sport has just finished and noone gives a flying one.
I can't stand Abba. They're like a 70s version of Steps.
Never liked ABBA, but… I somehow got roped into DJ’ing at ITN parties in the 1990s (and a couple of ITN weddings) and much as I thought I was a cool alt / rare groove DJ (lol) I actually discovered that Dancing Queen is one of the greatest floor fillers of all time (and incredibly well produced). Nought wrong with a bit of cheesiness from time to time. (Other floor fillers were That’s the Way I Like it, Sex Machine, Funky Nassau, and a Hamilton Bohannon number the title of which I’ve forgotten). Oh, and Born Slippy worked back in the day as well.
I can't stand Abba. They're like a 70s version of Steps.
Never liked ABBA, but… I somehow got roped into DJ’ing at ITN parties in the 1990s (and a couple of ITN weddings) and much as I thought I was a cool alt / rare groove DJ (lol) I actually discovered that Dancing Queen is one of the greatest floor fillers of all time (and incredibly well produced). Nought wrong with a bit of cheesiness from time to time. (Other floor fillers were That’s the Way I Like it, Sex Machine, Funky Nassau, and a Hamilton Bohannon number the title of which I’ve forgotten). Oh, and Born Slippy worked back in the day as well.
How about…It’s raining men…..The Weather Girls. That’s a great one for filling the dance floor.
I can't stand Abba. They're like a 70s version of Steps.
Never liked ABBA, but… I somehow got roped into DJ’ing at ITN parties in the 1990s (and a couple of ITN weddings) and much as I thought I was a cool alt / rare groove DJ (lol) I actually discovered that Dancing Queen is one of the greatest floor fillers of all time (and incredibly well produced). Nought wrong with a bit of cheesiness from time to time. (Other floor fillers were That’s the Way I Like it, Sex Machine, Funky Nassau, and a Hamilton Bohannon number the title of which I’ve forgotten). Oh, and Born Slippy worked back in the day as well.
I can't stand Abba. They're like a 70s version of Steps.
Never liked ABBA, but… I somehow got roped into DJ’ing at ITN parties in the 1990s (and a couple of ITN weddings) and much as I thought I was a cool alt / rare groove DJ (lol) I actually discovered that Dancing Queen is one of the greatest floor fillers of all time (and incredibly well produced). Nought wrong with a bit of cheesiness from time to time. (Other floor fillers were That’s the Way I Like it, Sex Machine, Funky Nassau, and a Hamilton Bohannon number the title of which I’ve forgotten). Oh, and Born Slippy worked back in the day as well.
How about…It’s raining men…..The Weather Girls. That’s a great one for filling the dance floor.
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I really don't like ABBA, overplayed, repetitive, and saccharine.
AbbA have written some great songs though.
Winner takes it all is a belter
Who represents the worst of 1970s music?
Both crap.
Without the Beatles there never would have been ABBA…
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Talking of knickers I will admit I did sometimes watch ABBA with the sound down but staring at Agnetha and Anni-Frid backsides; Benny and Bjorn I never noticed.
I was young and straight and no dancing Queen.
Beatles lyrics once they got past She loves you and I wanna hold your hand are excellent and are still relevant today.
The cheeky girls ain't crap
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As a pure ‘pop music’ group ABBA are amongst the very best…..if not the best.
When it comes to The Beatles…..they were way off into the stratosphere as far as being a pop group is concerned……..of course they never were classified as ‘pop music’ musicians….thank god.
I somehow got roped into DJ’ing at ITN parties in the 1990s (and a couple of ITN weddings) and much as I thought I was a cool alt / rare groove DJ (lol) I actually discovered that Dancing Queen is one of the greatest floor fillers of all time (and incredibly well produced). Nought wrong with a bit of cheesiness from time to time.
(Other floor fillers were That’s the Way I Like it, Sex Machine, Funky Nassau, and a Hamilton Bohannon number the title of which I’ve forgotten). Oh, and Born Slippy worked back in the day as well.
That’s a great one for filling the dance floor.