Song ABBA
posted by on September 11 at 9:52 AM
Yeah, yeah: I’m a ‘tard, no taste, prefer musicals to rawk. But my boyfriend put a bunch of ABBA albums on my iTunes last night, and I’m sitting here at Victrola having my usual inexplicable reaction to “Fernando.” It makes me tear up, every time. “Nina, Pretty Ballerina” doesn’t have that effect on me. What’s up with that?
Abba is seriously one of the best pop groups ever Dan. Fernando, Dancing Queen, Mama Mia, etc, etc. The Best.
It's called having a heart. CRY YOUR TEARS!
"The Way Old Friends Do" is the one that always gets my waterworks fired up.
Last week at Victrola the girl in front of me inexplicably gave me her mistaken Americano order, just what I was going to order! Cheers!
Kurt, enjoyed the Algebra Suicide write up.
"u can danse you can juve, having the tuime of your life!"
I have the exact same reaction to "Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)", but instead of crying, I MUST DANCE!!!
If loving Abba is wrong, I don't want to be right.
In case you're also a Meryl Streep fan (who isn't?), you'll be happy to know she'll be starring in the movie adaptation of Mamma Mia!
Remember Erasure's "Abbaesque"? Pure gold.
It's OK, Dan. I can't listen to Pet Shop Boy's version of "Go West" without balling like a baby.
I just think of all those '70's and '80's gay refugees running to "safety" in the big city, and what happened to them... :(
Read if you haven't yet Elisabeth Vincentelli's book on "Abba Gold," part of the 33 1/3 series. A beautiful appreciation. Made me run out and buy all the original albums. I agree with her that "SOS" is their best song--
balling like a baby.
That's one precocious, horny baby.
It means that you prefer the melodious, gorgeous voice of Frida's (Fernando) over Agnetha's (Nina ... though everyone's vocals were pretty representative). Tell your boyfriend to put on Knowing Me, Knowing You.
You'll be a goner.
I find Village People's song "Ready for the '80's" to be quite sad as well. All the optimism about the turning of the decade, not knowing about what the '80's would bring to the gay community...
I loooove that song. Ever since Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette wistfully sang a couple lines of it in "Muriel's Wedding."
@13: Oh god... don't get me started! Fantastic.
You'll be into Eurovision next, mark my words.
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