C'mon, Go ahead and admit it. You love ABBA.
Being the textbook sort of musical snob I like to think of myself as, I have a hard time admitting to some of the more decidedly "un-hip" sides of my music palette. At least in public anyway.…
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26 - STM
Glen wrote: "Now I do know that Abba did have gay fans. What 70's disco fixture didn't? And so what?"
Having said that, I must say the ABBA girls - Anni-Frid and Agnetha? - DID provide some *cough* fertile ground for this young teenage imagination in the Australia of the early '70s, when they became the most popular pop band since the Beatleas for a short time.
The hot pants and figure-hugging outfits, along with the leather bodysuits worn by Emma Peel of the British TV series The Avengers, gave me an instant appreciation for older women.
Or possibly ALL women.
27 - Mark Saleski
that's interesting, i don't really recall all that much anti-gay sentiment. heck, even a group like the Village People were mere cartoons, where people just disliked the music as being weak (catchy obviosly, but week).
i do remember that disco demolition stunt...and at the time, as much as i didn't care for disco, thought it was kinda stupid.
28 - daryl d
I meant disco (not dico)..lol. Typing on my new sony micro pc thumb pad can make you form words you never meant to.
I was only 8 at the time of Disco Demolition. But I do remember signs up around that period that said "Disco sucks," and "Fags Like Disco." I was young, but do remember the negative gay-disco association. It happened more in 78-79. I do remember doing "the hustle" was cool to everyone, even str8 people.
29 - daryl d
but I think the Hustle came out in either 76 or 77....
30 - Mark Saleski
disco anecdote alert! i've written before about how i was a sort of closet disco fan...actually disliked most of it with a few exceptions: "Knock On Wood", "Bad Girls", "Love To Love You Baby".
so usually we had rock bands playing at dances, but every so often they'd have a dj...and me and the boys just hated it when the disco tunes came out. so all of us would yell "FUCK OFF!" over the top of the "Freak Out"'s on that Chic record. (right, only a 16 yr old can think that that's being clever).
the irony of course is that i love that song now. that funk guitar riff is, as mr. bueller would say, so choice.
31 - Christopher Rose
I've had several musical secret lives, starting with loving The Beatles (Pop), The Rolling Stones (Rock) and Tamla Motown/Stax (Soul) all at once. This in a time when those three underground tribes (Pop fans, Rockers and Mods) were all literally fighting each other over dress codes and social or cultural values.
Subsequently, whilst almost always being part of an alternative or underground scene, I've always loved out and out pop too. I actually can't understand how people who only like one genre of music like, say, rock fans, don't get terminally bored.
32 - Peter
I'll bite. Well done, funny article... like the Frida bit at the end especially. And I would be the last to call your interest in Marillion a "flaw."
PC
33 - Glen Boyd
Hey guys --
Thanks for all the great replies and comments. I was actually in the middle of typing out one of my typically long-winded replies to this late last night when my computer more or less died on me. Not sure what the problem is, but it was pretty scary.
This means I could be offline for a few days depending on the results of a diagnostic I plan on getting later tonite.
Typing from work right now which means I have to be somewhat brief, but again I've really enjoyed the responses (even yours Daryl D --- LOL).
Hope to be back among the living in a day or so...
Thanx!
-Glen
34 - Bill Sherman
No shame in luvin' all parts of Abba, think I. Heck, this pop-rock fan still holds a big ol' crush on Frida's solo album . . .
35 - GL Hauptfleisch
Glen--to answer your #13 question: I don't necessarily prefer "GL"--I had to make a change because for some reason I was unable to continue to leave comments under my tried-and-true name, and there didn't seem to be a way to fix it.
--call me Gordon
36 - mikory
Find out the latest of what is happening with the four former members of ABBA - they are still alive and kicking (sort of).
:)
37 - Paul
I like a lot of 70s music - there was certainly variety. Chicks didn't come much hotter than blonde Agnetha, though, like when performing Honey Honey in 1976:
Look at my URL video. Watch out especially around 1:01!
38 - Glen Boyd
In order to look at the video you mention, I would of course need to actually HAVE the URL.
Thanx!
-Glen
39 - Paul
Ah, technology! Try this!
40 - Paul
Here's something of a somewhat different style