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Post by edmfio76 on Oct 5, 2019 17:10:17 GMT
What are your thoughts regarding ABBA cover versions ? For me, the songs immediately lose their shine and sparkle performed by other artists. The originals are always the best. Although, I checked out Hazell Dean's album of ABBA covers online and it wasn't bad at all. Miles better than Cher's. Erasure's mini EP wasn't bad either. They actually inspired and created the whole ABBA revival. However, it is very cringeworthy when contestants perform ABBA songs on these talent shows which I never watch as these shows are as exciting as watching paint dry ! Personally, it is a travesty of ABBA's timeless music when these so called artists " interpret " them. Also, I am not a fan of tribute acts as there are far too many. Nobody can emulate ABBA as a band, however hard they try. I wish You Tube would stop these endless ABBA playlists as so many are not ABBA recordings at all but inferior covers.
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Post by Michal on Oct 5, 2019 17:53:38 GMT
I would not dismiss all ABBA covers as bad. There are some that are really good - Sissel's Like An Angel Passing Through My Room for example (which is as good as the original at the least), Helen Sjöholm's Money, Money, Money or Laleh's Chiquitita. I also like some of the metal covers such as At Vance's take on The Winner Takes It All (and there are many more in this genre - the metal groups seem to appreciate ABBA's music quite a lot - check out Yngwie Malmsteen, Halloween or Edguy).
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Post by josef on Oct 6, 2019 10:21:17 GMT
I'll give them a listen with an open mind but there aren't many I like and none that I prefer to the originals. I'm not averse to them although a really bad one can incite my wrath.
The kind of cover I like tends to be an acoustic version that's been given a very bare treatment. I don't see the point in trying to copy the original. I'm sure one day I'll discover a cover of an ABBA song that I like more (I know, sacrilege!) but it hasn't happened yet.
I noticed recently just HOW many of ABBA's songs have been covered! Sinead O'Connor has even covered Chiquitita. I like her work but for me this fell short
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Post by richard on Oct 6, 2019 12:28:52 GMT
I like listening to instrumental music as much as I do to vocal music, so I'd love to to hear interpretations of ABBA from, say, a jazz piano trio or a classical chamber music group. This kind of thing would help foster a greater awareness of, and appreciation for, the quality of the tunes especially, I think; and help, in a small way, in future-proofing them if it became a recurring occurrence, free of the novelty aspect.
However, I don't go much on some of the orchestral arrangements of ABBA songs I've heard: overblown, and with pop percussion, they sound a bit naff to me.
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Post by shoshin on Oct 6, 2019 18:48:28 GMT
I like listening to instrumental music as much as I do to vocal music, so I'd love to to hear interpretations of ABBA from, say, a jazz piano trio or a classical chamber music group...
Check out one of my old threads about Judith Nijland's interesting Jazz Tribute to ABBA 
abbachat.boards.net/thread/720/abba-all-jazz
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Post by richard on Oct 6, 2019 21:23:09 GMT
Thanks for the link. I'd like to hear others try to do interesting things with ABBA songs, too.
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Post by onlyabba4me on Nov 20, 2019 20:34:54 GMT
Here is a recent You Tube Video, (Friday 15th November), of a 2,100 Member Choir singing
'Dancing Queen', in the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, (Capital of Canada). I think that it is
fun, charming and heartwarming. It is by Choir! Choir! Choir!, who are currently on an EPIC
ABBA Singalong Tour of Canada. Basically, the Audience becomes the Choir:
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Post by HOMETIME on Nov 27, 2019 20:10:29 GMT
^^When I eventually start a cult, that is what the services will be like!
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Post by josef on Nov 29, 2019 14:39:06 GMT
I'm not sure why but I wasn't massively impressed with that choir. I get it, but something about it is 'off' to me.
Even so, I'd like to think Agnetha and Frida would view this and feel immensely proud.
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