This challenge was full of.... challenges. And originally I'd planned to make this a "mega-mix," where each song flows into the other in seamless bliss. But two things stood in the way - one practical, one more esoteric. The first thing to note is that Ringo is very much a "feel" drummer. His tempo wavers a bit ("Drive My Car" varies between 122 and 124 beats per minute), but the songs always seem to be "just right." And Ringo would be the first to admit that other drummers can carry a better, more [...]
I always thought the 80s was gonna be one of the easier decades to do. However I got to this point and found I'd used everyone I knew. But with a little a digging I unearthed a wealth of 80s music lost in the depths of my mind. I decided this week to celebrate those who you can't help laughing at, for one reason or another. The 80s had its fair share of these, with film clips being an especially hilarious outlet. The sad thing is that they thought they looked hip. However sadly the worst dressed were the worst [...]
With the run up to the show this past week (and I thought I'd give you all a bit of a respite before I roll out the big recap), I haven't had the chance to discuss some stuff I've been enjoying, both old, new, and new to me. Making up for it in a cluster, here's five... These New Puritans - "En Papier" These New Puritans continue to impress , even if their relative blog invisibility makes finding their songs a bit [...]
Blimey: Meryl Streep is being lined up to play the titular Mamma in the Mama Mia movie. Yes, the Abba-song driven musical entertainment. This means when We Will Rock You comes to the screen, there's every chance Helen Mirren will take on the role of the Killer Queen. music meryl streep abba
DOWNLOAD: ABBA - Happy New Year (MP3)
Wednesday came, Wednesday went. Thursday came, now it went, too. You might call it Sample Weekday. Hope you all have as much fun listening to these as I did putting this together. Ramsey Lewis - " If Loving You Is Wrong Then I Dont Wanna Be Right " used in "Fu-Gee-La" Delfonics - " Ready Or Not (Here I Come) " used in "Ready or Not" Rotary Connection - " Memory Band " used in "Killing Me Softly" Roberta Flack - " Killing Me Softly " [...]
We're in two minds about the proposed Abba Museum in Stockholm - obviously, the largest collection of gold lame jumpsuits in private hands needs a home, but we're given to understand that the idea came to the organisers after they visited The Beatles Story Experience at Albert Dock, Liverpool. Which suggests that the whole thing might take itself a little too seriously. A soulless hole dedicated to celebrating Abba's music without much understanding about what made it magical? It's Hung Up by Madonna, isn't it? music abba
Bad news is you have to wait till 2008 for it! Sorry y'all. Here's more from Billboard: An ABBA museum dedicated to the music, clothing and history of the legendary Swedish pop group and its four members will open in Stockholm in 2008, organizers said today (Nov. 28). The interactive museum will feature original outfits and instruments used by the group, handwritten song lyrics, a display of different awards and "all other things we can think of and find," said Ulf Westman, an event consultant who [...]
Here's something an eye-watering exclusive from Victoria Newton in The Sun : MADONNA is working with ABBA legends AGNETHA FALTSKOG and FRIDA LYNGSTAD on tracks for her new album. Blimey. How has she managed to fit that around not-getting-special-treatment- from-Malawi and flying back and forth? Erm, it turns out "is working" is an extrapolation of "has had a conversation about working with": A source said: “Madonna has been in contact with Agnetha and Frida for a few months." Oh. Still, [...]
There's another Madonna story in the Sun today, where Victoria Newton has exclusively bought a copy of the new Abba compilation and reproduces the sleeve notes, written by Madonna: “Abba’s timeless music continues to inspire me. It’s joyous. Standing still when you hear Abba is impossible. Well... joyous unless it's something like One of Us. And impossible to stand still, unless it's one of the slow songs like Chiquitita. Perhaps Madonna has only heard a couple of their songs? Then, god help us all, Victoria Newton herself decides [...]
In one of those wonderfully exciting over-inflations of a report, the Daily Record has taken Anni-Frid Lynstad saying: "Robbie and I talked about doing an Abba hit together, although he's not yet come back to me." ... and turned it into a story suggesting that Robbie Williams might "reunite Abba". Wouldn't he have to start returning phone calls, and work with all of them before he did that? Still, it might be nice for him to try. After all, every gay night club from here to [...]
Last week's adorable footage of young France Gall winning hearts and votes in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest got me thinking. What other great clips could be culled from the 50 year old contest's archives? After extensive searching, I give the conclusive answer...None. For those of you in the dark, the Eurovision Song Contest is like the pop song Olympics of the European Union. Member states all submit a yearly entry, whose merits are judged by the teeming masses of all those countries. From Russia to Luxembourg, national votes [...]
I can’t believe this journey is at an end. The last installment in this 26-part series. Hope you all have enjoyed it as much as I have… Dig in! Joseph Arthur ~ Get his KEXP performances Antibalas ~ Dirt & Blood (featuring some expletives) Tori Amos ~ Pass The Mission (featuring Trent Reznor) Ryan Adams ~ Dear John (featuring Norah Jones) ABBA ~ S.O.S. (featuring some sweet Swedes) What do you have in your collection under “A� [...]
As most of you know, I have a lil internet radio show at EAST VILLAGE RADIO called SANDY ACRES SOUND LAB & it's my pride & joy. It's on the air LIVE every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon EST & there are podcasts & archives available so you can listen to shows whenever you'd like! East Village Radio is a community-run INTERNET radio station located in the East Village in Manhattan. It's very much a DIY operation. (Learn more about EVR HERE) . So each DJ [...]
We're not sure which "music fans" Q magazine asked to come up with its list of the top 100 singles ever, but we suspect they might be self-hating. Live Forever? Admittedly, it's the best Oasis single, but the best single ever? And a poll which reckons Oasis have written the first and second best songs in recorded history? At least it's not Bohemian Rhapsody. That's at number six. The 100 in full: 1 Live Forever â€" Oasis 2 Wonderwall â€" Oasis 3 Smells Like Teen Spirit â€" [...]
I have a themed posting to offer tonight: songs sung in unexpected languages by famous artists. I'll bet there's a whole blog dedicated to this somewhere. The first track should come as no suprise; ABBA are Swedish and the Scandanavians are always good with the foreign languages (they kinda need to be.) In fact, ABBA recorded songs in Spanish, German, French, Swedish and English during their career and have an entire version of their greatest hits album in Spanish! Fellow Swedes Roxette do too . ABBA - Waterloo (German Version) [...]
The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me : Stand By Me Soundtrack OK, so right up front I'll tell you that this post isn't about vikings . Hopefully most of you won't stop reading here. Instead, I'm going to talk about some musical exports that we can thank Scandinavia for. More on a whim other than anything else, I picked up Ane Brun 's semi-recent (released May 15th) album, titled A Temporary Dive , at the local used music store. Although [...]
It was tough growing up in the late 70s/early 80s as an ABBA fan in America. Y’see, while the Swede popsters were next to the Beatles and Elvis in pop chart dominance worldwide, in the States they were relegated to the occasional Top 10 or Top 40 hit, with many, many more singles falling far short of that. “Mamma Mia,†a single that everyone now retroactively adores? Peaked at a wimpy #32. “Money, Money, Money� #56. “Voulez-Vous� #80. As a young, ahem, homo I proudly called ABBA my all-time [...]
I'm sorry for the late post. Blame the slowness from my MP3 host and the fact that I had to work a lot today. It's hard out here for a girl! If you don't like ABBA, you have a cold cold heart. Yes, they're Swedish. Yes, they're pop music. And yes, they're damn good. You'll catch yourself humming along to the songs and you remember them. I don't need to explain any more than that. ABBA - Dancing
It's the least fertile idea for a pub debate of all time, although it does get asked from time to time: Just what is the greatest Eurovision winner of all time? It's Waterloo, obviously. Most people, of course, then move on to choosing the All-time Earth XI who they'd pick to represent the planet in an intergalactic test match against Mars. Not so the people behind Eurovision, who decided that answering that question (and getting back the answer Waterloo) would be the perfect way to mark fifty years of Eurovision Song Contests. So free of tension was [...]
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