Post by gamleman on Aug 20, 2021 12:55:07 GMT
Responding to onlyabba4meagain, a few days ago you reported that TYFTM had reached 20000 downloads since 2004. It would be interesting to see a chart of downloaded ABBA songs in order to assess whether today's download generation have different tastes in ABBA songs than the original vinyl buyers. Does such a chart exist? If so, I suspect it is dominated by songs from ABBA Gold and the first Mamma Mia movie.
Indeed, any fan will have their favourite songs and their not so favourite songs. I must admit, of the ones you mention, I had reservations about "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "Summer Night City", "I Have A Dream" and "Does Your Mother Know" when they were first released, but only DYMK because it became a single with Bjorn on lead vocal and SNC because it seemed to borrow from the Bee Gees' sound. But I just can't imagine any ABBA fan criticising "The Day Before You Came". I can only imagine that some people don't favour it because it doesn't feature the traditional 'ABBA sound' in terms of harmonies, but it stands out as a remarkable song without all of that - the production is just spot on, not to mention the emotion in Agnetha's voice.
Myself, I think the new songs will be timeless. I don't believe they will attempt to tie the songs to this particular (fallow) era in music. They were always unrestricted by musical genres, touching on various genres of their era, but I can't see them venturing into Rap, unless they have a guest rapper as Erasure did on their cover of "Take A Chance On Me" - I just don't think they will go there though. We can rely on them to make sound musical decisions, I'm sure.
Indeed, any fan will have their favourite songs and their not so favourite songs. I must admit, of the ones you mention, I had reservations about "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "Summer Night City", "I Have A Dream" and "Does Your Mother Know" when they were first released, but only DYMK because it became a single with Bjorn on lead vocal and SNC because it seemed to borrow from the Bee Gees' sound. But I just can't imagine any ABBA fan criticising "The Day Before You Came". I can only imagine that some people don't favour it because it doesn't feature the traditional 'ABBA sound' in terms of harmonies, but it stands out as a remarkable song without all of that - the production is just spot on, not to mention the emotion in Agnetha's voice.
Myself, I think the new songs will be timeless. I don't believe they will attempt to tie the songs to this particular (fallow) era in music. They were always unrestricted by musical genres, touching on various genres of their era, but I can't see them venturing into Rap, unless they have a guest rapper as Erasure did on their cover of "Take A Chance On Me" - I just don't think they will go there though. We can rely on them to make sound musical decisions, I'm sure.