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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2022 16:22:09 GMT
I like " Elaine " a lot.
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Post by HOMETIME on Jun 13, 2022 18:04:01 GMT
That aaaahhh sound is gorgeous and crops up in many great places across the ABBA catalogue. I love the work it does in The Day Before You Came. It might not be part of the third voice because, to my ears at least, the texture seems to lean a little more on Frida - even though it's clearly both voices. Maybe it's to do with the key of the songs.
ALSO!! How could I have failed to mention those gorgeously angelic call-and-repeat backing vocals in Should I Laugh Or Cry? Agnetha is right up in the stratosphere. I love that naggingly repetitive guitar that underscores the song too.
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Post by richard on Jun 13, 2022 19:07:31 GMT
I think Lovelight reveals a different, fascinating and lovely deployment of Agnetha and Frida's voices. In the first half of the song's verses, it sounds to me like it's Agnetha harmonising below her own already low lead; with Frida then joining in the second half of these verses with her beautiful harmonising.
As wonderfully as their voices were used, overall, in ABBA, I think Agnetha and Frida's vocals could have been switched around a bit more - as when Frida harmonised above Agnetha in the third verse of Move On, as Michal mentioned.
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Post by iiwftn on Sept 23, 2023 12:01:11 GMT
Bjorn really going for it vocally during the opening chorus of Bobby’s Brother.
The entire instrumental opening to If It Wasn’t For the Nights, especially when the funky guitar kicks in.
The synths on the second chorus of Gonna Sing You My Love Song.
Agnetha’s searing vocals on the “Ooooh, oooohhh” chorus of Dancing Queen.
Agnetha’s “but you see” spoken line on TWTIA 😭
The musicianship and chord progression at the “breaking up is never easy I know” line on KMKY.
The crescendo lead up to the chorus on ‘I Still Have Faith in You’.
The electric guitar on ‘People Need Love’; not too dissimilar to that on The Beatles’ masterpiece, ‘Here, There & Everywhere’.
The key board melody after each chorus line of ‘S.O.S’.
The little glockenspiel (or whatever it is) at the end of the instrumental bits in ‘Super Trouper’.
The “Paris Restaurants” line near the end of ‘Our Last Summer’.
The wall of sound intros to Waterloo and Ring Ring.
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Post by iiwftn on Sept 23, 2023 12:05:46 GMT
…and the way Agnetha belts out the word “YOU” at the end of each line in the chorus of ‘Tiger’.
“I am behind YOU, I’ll always find YOU”
Brilliant stuff 😍
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Post by bjorenny on Sept 23, 2023 15:20:49 GMT
One of mine is in the 2nd verse of Cassandra - "Packing your bags, being slow and thorough" where it utilises harmonies more than the rest of the verses. Another one is the 5 or 6 second instrumental bit in TYFTM, straight after "capture a heart like a melody can".
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Post by jj on Sept 23, 2023 16:27:10 GMT
One of mine is in the 2nd verse of Cassandra - "Packing your bags, being slow and thorough" where it utilises harmonies more than the rest of the verses. Benny re-used that little snippet ("Packing your bags, being slow and thorough") and built a whole new song out of it, with matching choruses, for their Kristina musical:
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