Dancing Queen- Abba.

[Leekbrookgull]

What is it about this track ? You just cannot help to tap to it. As a rule and a soft/rock man, this is not a track for me ! Yet it just connects !!

 

[Eric Potts]

What is it about this track ? You just cannot help to tap to it. As a rule and a soft/rock man, this is not a track for me ! Yet it just connects !!

Soft rock , good god man : have you nothing less embarrassing to disclose .
Being a Palace fan , perhaps .
Having a penchant for shagging kittens.?

Dear , dear me .

 

[The Oldman]

ABBA eh? In my youth I could never decide which one to bed.

In my later years (1994?)after ABBA had fallen out of favour I dined with the Finance Minister of Sweden. Remember Sweden has some of the highest tax rates in the world. All he kept saying was we need another ABBA. Given the resurgence of ABBA due to the film Mama Mia I bet there is one happy Fimnce Minister in Sweden right now.

S'funny as I was cooking the evening meal tonight I had ABBA Gold CD playing. Spooky or what?

 

[Easy 10]

Friday night and the lights are loooooooooooooooooooooow

 

[Horsham Gull]

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From the Brighton Dome

 

[Beach Hut]

I used to dance with a pretty French girl to this at the students disco in Bexhill.

The place where it was held is now a chinese restaurant

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Eric,soft rock. Tom Petty,Southside Johnny,Bruce Hornsby and more.

 

[rusty redeyes]

Jim the train driver, ex goalie for English's Sunday team favourite tune. Once saw him strutting his stuff in MckCuskeys to it

 

[Norman Potting]

Wonderful track. Read somewhere that the piano riff in "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello was inspired by the piano in "Dancing Queen".

Could leekbrookgull please explain his assertion that Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (the second greatest musical thing to come out of Asbury Park NJ) is "soft rock".

 

[Stevie Boy]

I used to dance with a pretty French girl to this at the students disco in Bexhill.

The place where it was held is now a chinese restaurant

Blimey they had such things as discos when you were younger, thats suprises me Beach Hut

 

[Beach Hut]

Blimey they had such things as discos when you were younger, thats suprises me Beach Hut

Oh yes, the radiogram used to belt out some classics

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

It is one of the greatest pop songs ever written so I do not see that there is any embarassment whatsoever.

 

[NMH]

I'll help you pin it down Leekbrook, and if you think about it you'll realise this answer goes throughout music;
VOCAL HARMONY.

Yep, take a listen to the most successful pop groups and the ones that were liked as so many people's 'guilty secret' (or just universally loved).
The Bee-Gees, esp on the Sat.Night Fever soundtrack music.

Female harmonies, on a great song, might sweep you off on a magic carpet ride that your musical taste can't stop you from taking.
For my money, these tunes remain admirable;

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Did you keep from toe-tapping to that?
In a sweaty disco dance-floor, belted out over the sound system, those voices vibrate right through the middle of you!

Let's not forget the conduits for great pop vocals in the 1960's - Walker Brothers (lead by the excellent Scott Engel/'Walker'), Simon and Garfunkel, and of course the incomparable combos with brilliant songs and harmonies; The Beatles, and The Beach Boys....

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[Eric Potts]

It is one of the greatest pop songs ever written so I do not see that there is any embarassment whatsoever.

No embarrassment about ABBA , US . But SOFT ROCK .



NO

 

[NMH]

All the above also owe a debt to the 1950's, when these people specialized in harmony pop;

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And for a bit of fun (the old guffers might enjoy), here's the 50's mugging with the 60's on each other's tunes;

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[NMH]

A creditable version of a (brilliant) fifties classic (which Lush would agree), but from an 80's Scandinavian band. Excellent harmonies, again;

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[The Large One]

Dancing Queen - the song that ALWAYS dug me out of a hole when DJing at parties.

 

[ridda]

Abba ,ok pop music nothing more nothing less.

 

[Slowhand]

Listening to the original version it shows how much studio production and overdubs went into the song when t was released as a single.

 

[Jam The Man]

It is one of the greatest pop songs ever written so I do not see that there is any embarassment whatsoever.

Is the right answer... but there's always some ignorant knob who will label it as crap...