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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 23:27:09 GMT
Good research, you worked hard for your money! I can recommend the beautiful documentary about her mother that came out last year, where she features prominently along with her half-Swedish half-siblings!
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Post by Zeebee on Nov 29, 2016 22:46:51 GMT
I decided to create a separate thread with the posts about the mistake in Dancing Queen.
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Nov 30, 2016 21:24:32 GMT
A few of you may know that The Visitors was pressed on red vinyl in El Salvador but believe it or not in Sweden, it was pressed on WHITE vinyl  |
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Nov 30, 2016 21:34:03 GMT
In Educator, Uruguay, France and Australia these following albums were pressed on:-
Arrival - Orange
The Album - Red
Voulez-Vous - Red, Green, Blue
Super Trouper - Red, Blue
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Dec 1, 2016 11:38:10 GMT
No responses - Well this is BORING
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Post by chron on Dec 1, 2016 13:26:24 GMT
What a travesty. The pressings should've been churned out thusly:
Arrival - blue
The Album - cerulean (heh)
Voulez-Vous - chartreuse, coquelicot, mud
Super Trouper - terracotta, sarcoline
Alternatively, they should've been released on glow-in-the-dark Edison cylinders only, in these territories.
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Post by Zeebee on Dec 1, 2016 21:35:46 GMT
^^^Mud? Other than blue and chartreuse, I've never heard of any of those colors.
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Post by Michal on Dec 13, 2016 21:02:19 GMT
^^^Mud? Other than blue and chartreuse, I've never heard of any of those colors. My thoughts exactly...  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 22:59:48 GMT
Here's a nice little trick question I'm very proud of: Did you know that ABBA's Eurovision entry once lost out to Malta's? Do you know which year this occurred?
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Post by abbarich on Dec 16, 2016 23:40:04 GMT
Here's a nice little trick question I'm very proud of: Did you know that ABBA's Eurovision entry once lost out to Malta's? Do you know which year this occurred? It was 1973. In the Swedish semifinal ABBA, then known only by their christian names, came 3rd with Ring Ring. The jury picked another Swedish group called Malta. Sweden came 5th that year. Ring Ring was a much better song and would have done better in the final. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 20:52:25 GMT
A Friday night quiz: Can you name three ABBA covers that placed higher in the UK chart than the original version? (Not counting Erasure's EP)
No googling allowed!
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Post by shoshin on Mar 3, 2017 22:27:30 GMT
A Friday night quiz: Can you name three ABBA covers that placed higher in the UK chart than the original version? (Not counting Erasure's EP) No googling allowed! Erm.. Blancmange's TDBYC? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 22:38:30 GMT
A Friday night quiz: Can you name three ABBA covers that placed higher in the UK chart than the original version? (Not counting Erasure's EP) No googling allowed! Erm.. Blancmange's TDBYC? Correct! I thought that would be the hardest one, since neither made the top ten! Keep it up! |
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Post by shoshin on Mar 3, 2017 23:34:50 GMT
^^ I remember that one because it crops up when ABBA's demise is debated.
Sweet Dreams' Honey Honey maybe? I'm struggling to control the Google reflex.
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Post by abbarich on Mar 3, 2017 23:36:23 GMT
I have a dream by Westlife.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 23:46:42 GMT
^^^
Good work! Blancmange, Westlife and Sweet Dreams were what I was thinking about! Although technically, Honey Honey was not to difficult to top, since it wasn't released as a single in the UK, for reasons God and Epic records will never reveal.
I Have A Dream: Westlife Nr 1, ABBA Nr 2
The Day Before You Came: Blancmange 22, ABBA 32
Honey Honey: Sweet Dreams 10, ABBA -
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 20:23:49 GMT
Another Friday night quiz: Which one of Frida's fellow 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees also has Norwegian roots on the maternal side?
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Post by dizzymoe33 on Mar 10, 2017 20:29:55 GMT
Benny?
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Post by Liebezeit on Mar 11, 2017 0:05:57 GMT
Another Friday night quiz: Which one of Frida's fellow 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees also has Norwegian roots on the maternal side? Iggy Pop! I like his early materials with The Stooges.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 20:00:05 GMT
^^^
He's a legend, indeed! And his real name is the very Swedish Osterberg, from his father's adoptive parents…!
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Post by shoshin on Mar 17, 2017 22:35:18 GMT
SOS holds what unique record in US, UK and Australian chart history?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 1:22:56 GMT
^^^ Does it have to do with reading things backwards? If so, you've stolen my idea for a quiz! |
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Post by gary on Mar 18, 2017 7:37:12 GMT
^
Ah, the only palindromic hit by a palindromic group?
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Post by Liebezeit on May 6, 2017 23:45:26 GMT
Frida named her dog after a member of the American avant garde group, The Mothers of Invention, who would go on to be famous (A plausible inference.. No, it's not Jimmy Carl Black)  |
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Post by shoshin on May 7, 2017 1:31:12 GMT
^^ I think it's Zappa. But it should have been Fernandog. Or if it had been smaller, Chiquiwawa. Or maybe bEagle.
Any more?
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2017 21:08:45 GMT
^^ I think it's Zappa. But it should have been Fernandog. Or if it had been smaller, Chiquiwawa. Or maybe bEagle. Any more? Zermutt? Fido, Fido, Fido, Fido, Fido? |
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Post by shoshin on May 7, 2017 21:37:06 GMT
Rover? (they live a little longer)
Fältsdog?
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Post by Liebezeit on May 8, 2017 12:19:58 GMT
Anni-Frid Lyngstad is a fan of the British rock band Queen (and went to their concert) – it's not a surprise, but she's got a very slick taste in music. She also has owned a Maserati luxury car ('haar Maserati', English: 'her Maserati"), as opposed to Björn Ulvaeus's BMW. Hitkrant (Dutch), 1979  Note: the Maserati Merak's production started in 1972, and ended in 1983, which coincide ABBA's timeline.   |
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Post by Liebezeit on May 16, 2017 12:06:09 GMT
Not to stir controversy (well, at least, some of you may have already known it, so...), but Agnetha Fältskog was a struggling (she tried quitting, but, eventually, on the rise of the divorce, she even resorted to even more.. until she had an epiphany) smoker during ABBA's career...  She just seem so lost... 😢 Until she gave up smoking for the corny but memorable 1980s fashion (partially)... but in actuality, she had an epiphany that she had to quit for the last time, when she began to experience cardio-related problems (Veckorevyn magazine, Dutch, 1984)  |
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Post by Liebezeit on May 31, 2017 2:13:28 GMT
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