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Post by HOMETIME on Feb 21, 2022 9:44:13 GMT
That "I think it would be fair to say" line is actually kinda funny: I can imagine the guy opening the door, seeing his tantrum-prone ex and going "WTF?!" If there's a new album, maybe there should be a song about the application process for restraining orders.
I totally agree about KMKY. Those first eight words just plunge the listener into the story. Of course, Frida's delivery is the other half of that double whammy (equally restrained, zero hystrionics). Less really is more sometimes. I wonder how a great song like Story Of A Heart might have worked out if written in that period. Hands on oars and 'the back of a bus' probably wouldn't have featured?
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Post by Michal on Feb 21, 2022 10:51:57 GMT
chron , HOMETIME , will you stop it, guys?! I've never realized there was something wrong and now you're spoiling the songs for me!  By the way, I've never been a fan of Gemini's second album (and now I wonder if I ever have been a fan of the first), so I hardly ever paid attention to the lyrics. So I searched for it today and you're right... Ghost Town features one of the weirdest lyric I've ever heard.
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Post by Michal on Feb 21, 2022 10:58:51 GMT
Maybe I've being doing Stig a disservice down the years; his name is in the writing credits of quite a few of what I think are ABBA's best songs (KMKY, Dancing Queen, My Love, My Life, That's Me, The Name Of The Game, Move On). Maybe the wily old popster helped constrain Bjorn's authorial ambitions a bit for the better during that glory time when he was chipping in with ideas for songs and lyrics. Hasn't Stig provided only the titles? I think it was that way at least in the case of Knowing Me, Knowing You, Move On and The Name Of The Game. |
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Post by HOMETIME on Feb 21, 2022 11:15:44 GMT
chron , HOMETIME , will you stop it, guys?! I've never realized there was something wrong and now you're spoiling the songs for me! But the way, I've never been a fan of Gemini's second album (and now I wonder if I ever have been a fan of the first), so I hardly ever paid attention to the lyrics. So I searched for it today and you're right... Ghost Town features one of the weirdest lyric I've ever heard. Aw, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to spoil it for anyone. I actually prefer the second Gemini album. It feels poppier and lighter. TLC is great fun (and, now that I think of it, from the same bloodline as No Doubt About It). I Am The Universe and Nearly There are a great tunes too. Only Ghost Town and I'm a B1tch When I See Red are let down by their lyrics (and Karin's OTT delivery). |
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Post by chron on Feb 21, 2022 16:48:11 GMT
Hasn't Stig provided only the titles? I think it was that way at least in the case of Knowing Me, Knowing You, Move On and The Name Of The Game. I'd imagine that even if Stig's concrete input was limited to that, Bjorn would've still used him as a sounding board for ideas and lyrics from time to time. I'll have to check in one or other of CMP's books. |
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Post by HOMETIME on Feb 21, 2022 19:19:03 GMT
I have read all four pages of the megarate and I really can't see what could be deemed unkind or cruel? And I certainly couldn't see anything that criticised Edmund personally. In fact, I'd venture to say that people have generally made decent efforts to be sensitive to Edmund, knowing the challenges he deals with. That said, two people might read the same thing very differently. Certainly I'd be grateful if anyone could let me know if they read something that I wrote and found it unkind/mean/insensitive. I'd want to make that up to the offended party quickly.
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Post by chron on Feb 21, 2022 20:11:30 GMT
You can't keep fishing the meat out of your replies for fear of upsetting a single hypersensitive member. No one has ever posted anything that could be construed as an outright personal dig at Edmund that I can recall, but I have seen him receive lots of support and encouragement - Alan, Tony and Joe have all been especially good in this regard. I really wish him well, but I think it's right for him to think hard about whether online forums are for him; he's had two or three tries of this one, one of the most decent and well-meaning forums you'll find, and has had to leave each time after being provoked by things that haven't seemed to register a flicker on anyone else's seismometer.
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Post by Michal on Feb 22, 2022 19:56:44 GMT
Hasn't Stig provided only the titles? I think it was that way at least in the case of Knowing Me, Knowing You, Move On and The Name Of The Game. I'd imagine that even if Stig's concrete input was limited to that, Bjorn would've still used him as a sounding board for ideas and lyrics from time to time. I'll have to check in one or other of CMP's books. I've read somewhere that by the time of completing The Album Stig's input was limited to inventing the titles. And he had no hand in writing lyrics since Voulez-Vous onwards. |
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Post by Michal on Feb 22, 2022 20:16:46 GMT
It's kind of you to think that way. However, unfortunately it's not easy not to offend Edmund. He left the forum several times already. The last time it was because he thought he was being ignored and felt as an outcast. And I have a suspicion it may have been because some of us (me included) avoided reacting to his posts in order not to make him upset by some unconsciously painful remark. And the truth is this is a place where we should have fun and not a psychoterapeutic group, where we should be constantly worrying about not saying something inappropriate. I hope Edmund is fine but I'm afraid that unless he gets over his hypersensitivity, he should maybe really avoid this type of social interaction.
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Post by chron on Feb 22, 2022 21:24:54 GMT
I've read somewhere that by the time of completing The Album Stig's input was limited to inventing the titles. And he had no hand in writing lyrics since Voulez-Vous onwards. Yep, dug out Bright Lights, Dark Shadows earlier and a passage in that supports this. The Album was the last release to carry songs containing lyrical input from Stig. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2022 22:35:11 GMT
Michal, I appreciate your comments. I agree, this isn't a psychotherapy session but a friendly forum. However repeated swipes on favourite songs of forum members is becoming tedious. Yes, I am hyper-sensitive and I have tried to toughen up but it is a struggle. I would learn to accept criticism of a particular song if the other party would learn to call it a truce and not throw jibes all the time. That is not considerate or polite behaviour.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2022 14:19:34 GMT
Ring Ring
1. Ring Ring
2. Another Town Another Train
3. Nina Pretty Balerina
Waterloo
1. My Mama Said
2. Waterloo
3. Honey Honey
ABBA
1. SOS
2. Mamma Mia
3. Bang a Boomerang
Arrival
1. Knowing Me Knowing You
2. Dancing Queen
3. Money Money Money
The Album
1. Take a Chance on Me
2. Eagle
3. The Name of the Game
Voulez Vous
1. As Good as New
2. Kisses of Fire
3. Voulez Vous
Super Trouper
1. Lay All Your Love on Me
2. On and On and On
3. Andante, Andante
The Visitors
1. When All is Said and Done
2, One of Us
3. The Visitors
Voyage
1. Don't Shut Me Down
2. I Still Have Faith in You
3. Ode to Freedom
Non Album
1. Summer Night City
2. Elaine
3. Gimme Gimme Gimme
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