Swedish superstars ABBA: New song later this year

Ooohh Yeah, can you hear the drums Fernando, bring it on, the world need something on a happy and harmonious note atm.

One of the greatest bands ever. There's always room for an ABBA revival.

Best news of the day!!!

Please be awesome!!!!

ABBA made great pop music.

I’ll give this a listen.

Here we go again.

Just the other day I was sorting through some old CDs and came across best of ABBA. Everyone trashes them, so I secretly slipped it into the car system and drove around for a day or two with it on full-blast.

How young they were (we all were) and full of hope!

Everyone trashes them

Irritating music snobs trash them.

Here we go again

My my, how can I resist you.

Irritating music snobs trash them.

Which always amazes me. How can one find fault with ABBA?

Jimizo: Irritating music snobs trash them.

Quote of the week! :thumbs:

Which always amazes me. How can one find fault with ABBA?

Let me help you. They made bland awful repetitive pop music in a decade that was defined in part by just that. Not to mention their if-hitler-had-won-the-war creepy on stage image and, oh yeah, DISCO. Them, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles were neck and neck there for a long time for most awful band but I’d have to give that nod to the Eagles just because they were/are such rotten people.

No thanks needed ;)

Great music, great group.

J-DakeToday 05:33 pm JSTWhich always amazes me. How can one find fault with ABBA?

Let me help you. They made bland awful repetitive pop music in a decade that was defined in part by just that. Not to mention their if-hitler-had-won-the-war creepy on stage image and, oh yeah, DISCO. Them, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles were neck and neck there for a long time for most awful band but I’d have to give that nod to the Eagles just because they were/are such rotten people.

I agree that the 70s was a decade of RUBBISH. But ABBA, the Ramones, glitter rockers, Roxy Music - they paved the way for the better decade that defined and enriched my teens and early adult life - the Eighties!

Some of ABBA's songs are schmaltzy but most of their stuff still stands up now. When they were at their late 70s peak I loved seeing them on TV (esp. the ladies) because I was changing from boyhood into manhood ....

DISCO. Them, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles were neck and neck there for a long time for most awful band but I’d have to give that nod to the Eagles just because they were/are such rotten people.

Yes, 99.99% of DISCO SUCKS! And Fleetwood Mac + The Eagles have done nothing, absolutely NOTHING but start this grossly disgusting and sickening trend of $250/ticket for old tired adult contemporary rehash CRAP tours playing their old tired adult contemporary crap.

I saw Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music in 2017, Cheap Trick and ZZ Top last year, Springsteen, and Sting + Peter Gabriel (co-headlining!) in 2016 - they're never boring, they keep on putting out great music and the ticket prices have been a lot cheaper. Now that's more exciting - and innovative stuff!

Let me help you. They made bland awful repetitive pop music in a decade that was defined in part by just that.

I disagree, I think the 70’s produced a lot of great music, especially you saw the rise of rock and what would soon become metal, hard rock, but it also gave rise to a new genre of music to a defiant anti-government establishment movement: punk, ska and New Romantic in the last year of the decade. Yes, music is subjective, but saying that it was all crap is an understatement.

Not to mention their if-hitler-had-won-the-war creepy on stage image and, oh yeah, DISCO.

Loved it, but again, it all depends on how and where you grew up and how important or relevant that particular genre was during the time of its popularity. I grew up in a musical family and lived near a big city and the downtown was bustling with disco clubs, I was a kid, but still I grew up listening to a lot of funk which spawned from the disco era. Bands like Lakeside, Slave, Bootsy Collins, Parliament, Cameo Raydio, Kool and the Gang just a sample of some of the most talented legends that music could bring.

Them, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles were neck and neck there for a long time for most awful band but I’d have to give that nod to the Eagles just because they were/are such rotten people. 

What? Wow, just wow....

But I respect everyone’s taste, it’s all subjective, but what is an indisputable and irrefutable fact is that these mentioned musicians have definitely made a huge impact to the music as well as the fashion scene. My daughter loved BTS and all K-pop...go figure...

Let me help you. They made bland awful repetitive pop music

Nope.

They made catchy, polished and goodtime music.

Aka - pop music.

Not too many did it better.

bass4funkToday 12:19 am JST

 I grew up in a musical family and lived near a big city and the downtown was bustling with disco clubs, I was a kid, but still I grew up listening to a lot of funk which spawned from the disco era. Bands like Lakeside, Slave, Bootsy Collins, Parliament, Cameo, Raydio, Kool and the Gang just a sample of some of the most talented legends that music could bring.

Those bands were more pure funk than outright disco and the last 5 on your list survived and even thrived in the post-disco backlash. Kool and the Gang was everywhere in the 80s - and their 1980 classic 'Celebrate' stands up even now because of - you know. It came just 'in time' for the Christmas 1980 season, World Series, Rose Bowl, Super Bowel, American hostages released from Iran, start of Reagan era, etc.

I think the 70’s produced a lot of great music, especially you saw the rise of rock and what would soon become metal, hard rock, but it also gave rise to a new genre of music to a defiant anti-government establishment movement: punk, ska and New Romantic in the last year of the decade. Yes, music is subjective, but saying that it was all crap is an understatement.

Yes - the punk/new wave explosion and the glam metal scene were inspired by the glitter rock bands like Bowie, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls Roxy, Slade. And even the other genres took notice. Psychedelic kings Pink Floyd released their classic 'The Wall' in late 1979, prog bands like Genesis and ELO refined their sound quite a bit, and reggae and all those new genres inspired by Kraftwerk started appearing in the end of the 70s. All this stuff was brewing and rescued rock from its mid 70s doldrums. And yes, even the emergence of rap was important, at least until all those boorish chumps hijacked that genre in the late 80s.

Jimizo

ABBA did make some 'goodtime' music and they were better than most at the time. They also inspired the 'Euro-disco' scene and even 'Hi NRG'.

Bee Gees were their No. 1 enemies.

And nobody heard about Flower Travellin' Band from Japan and other similar bands at that time.