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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 13, 2017 20:37:04 GMT -5
Love prizes. Shopping at a local mall and filling in an entry form won me 2 tickets to Disneyland, accomodation and $1000 spending money. It was 2nd prize. But those new shoes for my daughter certainly paid for themselves  Trying to work it out now, a quick 5 day trip and 2 extra tix. That's awesome, I'm happy to see some good news in someone's life around these parts for once. |
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Post by Warmonger on Jan 13, 2017 23:18:36 GMT -5
Going off on an entirely different tangent, even though I love classic rock music, especially British Invasion bands, I could never get into Led Zeppelin, no matter how hard I tried. That band just plain never moved the needle for me. There, I said it! You b**tard!!  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2017 23:35:40 GMT -5
Going off on an entirely different tangent, even though I love classic rock music, especially British Invasion bands, I could never get into Led Zeppelin, no matter how hard I tried. That band just plain never moved the needle for me. There, I said it! On the plus side, they only stole from the best. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 13, 2017 23:59:54 GMT -5
Going off on an entirely different tangent, even though I love classic rock music, especially British Invasion bands, I could never get into Led Zeppelin, no matter how hard I tried. That band just plain never moved the needle for me. There, I said it! On the plus side, they only stole from the best. I love their sound but they really should have credited Willy Dixon, or whoever it was. I think it was Dixon for most of the obvious ones, though I read somewhere he was mainly the first guy to write them down or copyright what were mostly traditional tunes that had been around a long time. I read somewhere that Bob Dylan did a lot of this in his career too - take traditional tunes without acknowledgement and rework them. Anyone know if that's really true? |
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Post by WestPhillyPunisher on Jan 14, 2017 5:50:14 GMT -5
I loved ABBA. There! I said it!  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 14, 2017 7:07:41 GMT -5
My wife has a CD with them where they recorded their music in Spanish. Sounds good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 10:40:50 GMT -5
I loved ABBA. There! I said it! Mom's favourite group. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 14, 2017 10:45:16 GMT -5
I loved ABBA. There! I said it! One of my guiltiest pleasures. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 14, 2017 11:11:09 GMT -5
I read somewhere that Bob Dylan did a lot of this in his career too - take traditional tunes without acknowledgement and rework them. Anyone know if that's really true? It is true on his early stuff (1963-1965), but being traditional songs, nobody knows who originally wrote those melodies anyway. Some of those melodies were hundreds of years old before Dylan got his hands on them. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 14, 2017 11:16:30 GMT -5
I loved ABBA. There! I said it! I can't stand them. It's the campness, the terrible clothes and their deep rooted lack of "cool". They're like a joke band! I can appreciate the brilliance of their pop music on a technical level, but their songs have never really done it for me. Here's an attendant question: In my experience, it's mostly females that are the biggest ABBA fans, while guys tend not to like them. But are Queen essentially ABBA for boys? Both acts are camp as hell, both wear outlandish '70s costumes, both wrote impeccable pop tunes, and both have songs with big sing-along choruses. |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 14, 2017 11:31:44 GMT -5
I loved ABBA. There! I said it! I can't stand them. It's the campness, the terrible clothes and their deep rooted lack of "cool". They're like a joke band! I can appreciate the brilliance of their pop music on a technical level, but their songs have never really done it for me. Here's an attendant question: In my experience, it's mostly females that are the biggest ABBA fans, while guys tend not to like them. But are Queen essentially ABBA for boys? Both acts are camp as hell, both wear outlandish '70s costumes, both wrote impeccable pop tunes, and both have songs with big sing-along choruses. How could any self-respecting musician compare ABBA to Queen??? ABBA is fun, no doubt, but Queen had range. They had silly pop tunes, and they had brilliantly expressive masterpieces. ABBA couldn't write Bohemian Rhapsody, or Who Wants to Live Forever, or Innnuendo, or all of Queen II. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 12:01:53 GMT -5
ABBA interlude
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Post by Confessor on Jan 14, 2017 12:27:05 GMT -5
I can't stand them. It's the campness, the terrible clothes and their deep rooted lack of "cool". They're like a joke band! I can appreciate the brilliance of their pop music on a technical level, but their songs have never really done it for me. Here's an attendant question: In my experience, it's mostly females that are the biggest ABBA fans, while guys tend not to like them. But are Queen essentially ABBA for boys? Both acts are camp as hell, both wear outlandish '70s costumes, both wrote impeccable pop tunes, and both have songs with big sing-along choruses. How could any self-respecting musician compare ABBA to Queen??? ABBA is fun, no doubt, but Queen had range. They had silly pop tunes, and they had brilliantly expressive masterpieces. ABBA couldn't write Bohemian Rhapsody, or Who Wants to Live Forever, or Innnuendo, or all of Queen II. Oh, Queen are definitely the superior band, as far as I'm concerned, but the two acts do share a lot of aesthetic similarities. My question was more to do with whether Queen are the acceptable face of '70s pop camp among men? Not really whether Queen were better than ABBA or visa versa. I'm not sure that I think they are myself. It's just something that I've pondered and I thought I'd throw it out to the forum. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 14, 2017 12:32:51 GMT -5
That's possibly my favourite ABBA song. It's kinda the best of a bad lot, as far as I'm concerned. I like "The Day Before You Came" too. This was from the period when they were all getting divorced and splitting up. Great lyrics... |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 14, 2017 12:45:06 GMT -5
I didn't know until years later that this was done by a former ABBA member
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