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Post by poul on Oct 17, 2014 20:27:31 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 17, 2014 20:12:25 GMT
That last shot is priceless Maxisaxi New Zealand Some lucky boys, I'd say, maxisaxi!
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Post by poul on Oct 17, 2014 20:01:37 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 22:41:06 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 19:54:06 GMT
Shoshin said: ... Of course, there is so much more to Agnetha's voice than her range. The following Jesus Christ Superstar song, 'What's The Buzz', may not seem to display anything too special, but the precision with which she maintains perfect separation between the notes really shows her class ...
Oh yes, very much more, but hard to nail down, I think. Still, there are very few "mezzoes" among my favourite female vocalists.
I discovered Agnetha late in life. Heard "A" before "Eleven Women In A House" and enjoyed her voice on the latter more for many of the same reasons that I enjoy Dusty Springfield. They're straight shooters. Having written one of the most played songs in Danish Pop Radio ever ("Tears Of Gold"), - much more than ABBA - it's surprising that she stopped writing altogether just when she got access to the ABBA machinery.
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 10:00:37 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 0:56:35 GMT
Who Writes Loveletters Still These Days
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 0:33:33 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 0:29:54 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 16, 2014 0:26:53 GMT
The Young One should also have a Favourite Early Photos thread, I'd say, that's only natural ...
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Post by poul on Oct 15, 2014 22:02:07 GMT
My pleasure! Glad you liked them, Roxy. This picture is something special, I think. Usually, profiles are mostly for royalty. The Danish Queen has done a lot of profiles dressed up to the nines, I think you call it in English. It's as if the photographer knew what laid in store for Frida - at least it looks like he thought she deserved it.
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Post by poul on Oct 15, 2014 19:22:16 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 15, 2014 18:43:36 GMT
WOW - AHA! Thanks a billion! So many good pictures. They make one happy for sure.
Special thanks to fafner for this photo. It shows very well the girls' sense of good knitwear like in mwilson's pic.
Frida sports the alpaca and silk sweater in the picture with the horse, I think. Such a nice pattern! I got one like it.
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 22:51:10 GMT
Looks like Frida liked her cowboy hats big, maxisaxi.
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 20:53:11 GMT
I forgot those earlier songs as you pointed out on thecAustraluan Tour. This is why I would love a real ease of a full concert like we have with Wembley, I have always loved the concert version of He Is Your Brother and such a shame we only got a fraction of I've Been Waiting For You. Just a shame they never included the full video footage of this song on The Movie Maxisaxi New Zealand Perhaps ABBA should let Ludvig Andersson re-issue The Movie, too, maxisaxi He seems to be an able young man! And they did bring a lot of film then, I think.
Tiger - Poland
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 20:26:10 GMT
Very difficult to understand why the key was raised. It reminds me of the surgeon in The Naked Lunch, who deliberately endangers his patient so that he can show off his scalpel skills with even more aplomb
Agnetha seems to disagree about the two eardrums here. I’m not sure if the still is from ‘As Good As New’ from the Milwaukee gig in 79
or if only the sound is original in the one I found. It's such a great song - parts I seem to have known always, although I just heard it recently.
I think Agnetha mentioned sometime that the boys got still more demanding in the high notes department as they went along.
“You almost have to scream,” she said. “Almost.” (sic.) Probably the girls let the boys call the notes most of the time.
Did it change much from when she wrote her own hits before ABBA, do you know, shoshin?
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 19:15:52 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 17:53:55 GMT
Beautiful picture, mwilson, very nice birds, too! The girls always had a great sense of top-of-the-line knitwear. Good mixes and special patterns you’d like to know about in Scandinavia, say alpaca wool mixed with silk. I'm so relieved by this thread. Let’s admit it, the boys are terribly bad dressers, looking kind of goofy in most pictures.
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 13:23:29 GMT
Tour 79
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 12:59:43 GMT
It seems Frida got a little hot during the photo shoot, fafner. It wouldn't be the first time she raised temperatures all around.
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 11:13:20 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 11:11:13 GMT
I created this thread to share images of the girls that do not include the boys - as suggested by member Poul So remember - no boys allowed !! And as we already have individual topics for Agnetha and Frida, this thread is for images of the two lovely ladies together.
Oh, thank you very much, Roxy, that was really sweet of you! I certainly hope this is gonna be a lo-ong thread.
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 10:52:32 GMT
That's such a nice picture of Frida, Monica, I simply had to boost it a bit.
Hope it's OK with you.
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Post by poul on Oct 14, 2014 9:24:54 GMT
I like that "Lois" T-shirt one. Me too! It's always so-o hard to find a picture where the boys look good, I think.
I'd like to have a thread just for the girls, where the boys are not allowed at all, as in 'never',
not even in the background, but where to put it? There doesn't seem to be a proper place for it.
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Post by poul on Oct 12, 2014 22:11:18 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 12, 2014 22:01:15 GMT
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Post by poul on Oct 12, 2014 9:18:48 GMT
Also on the Australian tour is a lovely 'I've Been Waiting For You.' It is equally lovely on the studio track, which is in the same key. It might be worth noting that Frida sings just as high as Agnetha in this song when she harmonizes 'my lonely days are through'. Of course, if both girls had exactly the same vocal range, it wouldn't be ABBA. In harmonies, Frida is able to sing above Agnetha when she needs to, and Agnetha shows in Fernando that she can harmonize below Frida. It's a winning combination...
'Winning combination' sums it up very well, shoshin. Choosing between the girls is like choosing between one's eardrums.
Two's better than one!
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Post by poul on Oct 11, 2014 21:00:31 GMT
Best “aha” anecdote told by Björn, who seemed rather pleased about it:
When a director of “Mama Mia” decided to take out an “aha” from one of the songs for some reason,
the audience went “aha” where it’s supposed to be, so he had to put the “aha” back in. Customers are always right, of course.
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Post by poul on Oct 11, 2014 20:12:55 GMT
Rumor has it that you didn't vote for Agnetha in the Aussie poll on the world's best lower back, Roxy.
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Post by poul on Oct 11, 2014 19:32:11 GMT
Frida seems to be much more at ease when interviewed in Swedish or Norwegian than in German and English.
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