The song you hummed after the intro is a Madonna song called "Hung Up". Madonna used the melody from the song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" For this song. ABBA team 😁🥰
Sample from "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" was used in Madonna's song "Hung Up" from the album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (2005). For the right to use it, Madonna was paid about $ 800 thousand.
Madonna was paid? What a strange idea to pop in your head. There is an interview of Björn in youtube, where he telss they split the royalties of the song in half with total respect to one another.
@@TheJimbo1791 Because it’s a classic hook. And good hooks are rare and very hard to write. In the Pop world, it’s pretty standard practice to use other people’s hooks, but you have to pay for it.
@@TheJimbo1791 «The Observer. Pop and rock». Craig McLean, 13 Jul 2008 . Craig McLean talks exclusively to the two men responsible for the music, Abba's Björn and Benny. «OMM: What did you think of Madonna's 'Hung Up' and its 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' sample?» «Andersson: 'Well we had this wonderful letter from her. I framed it. Very sweet. Her assistant came over to Stockholm with a CD and we played it. And we thought the record was great. But also realising that without the 'Gimme! Gimme!' thing in it, it wouldn't have been so great. So we said, "Well, fine, of course you can. BUT WE JUST SPLIT THE COPYRIGHT, HALF-HALF ."'
The song you hummed after the intro is a Madonna song called "Hung Up". Madonna used the melody from the song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" For this song. ABBA team 😁🥰
You have to remember there was no public emphasis on the video back then. That came in the eighties. At this time the commercial video machine was not quite invented. And DVDs were much later. So all the attention was put on the sound. We heard them on the radio and bought their records in the music store. There was no internet. No downloads.
Thanks for spreading the ABBA. Better warn you. You gotta show Frida some love too. "Super Trouper". "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando". Just saying be fair. We love em both.
@@StudeSteve62 Yep that should be on the list. I really like "I Wonder" too. I was trying to think on the ones that would get the most thumbs up. But I like all her "songs".
ABBA came to fame in 1974 by winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with the song Waterloo, they were made up of 2 married couple Agnetha and Bjorn / Anni-Frid and Benny. The songs were all written by the 2 guys and in the early days with some assistance from their manager Stig. In the UK They spanned the charts from 1974 - 1982, having 9 number 1 and 19 top 10 singles they also has 8 consecutive number 1 albums a record that stands today. On 1979 Agnetha and Bjorn Divorced which lead to the song The Winner Takes It All written by Bjorn, song by Agnetha. Anni-Frida and Benny divorced in 1981 which lead to the song When All Is Said and Done. They are know for writing song with sad lyrics matched to an very upbeat melody. They have now sold 400 million records worldwide. In 2018 they have written several new songs for a live project which will be performed by avatars (ABBAtars). Hopefully this new material will be released this year. There are so many great songs and many are Album tracks not singles. ABBA Gold is a greatest hit CD released in 1992 and this year it will reach 1,000 weeks on the UK charts top 100.
@@Urfinchannel ABBA Gold (1992) is the second best-selling album in UK only behind Queen Greatest Hits (1981) very creditable to ABBA, for three reasons 1) Queen's album is 11 years older than ABBA's, that's why ABBA's has 11 years less sales (in relation to Queen's album) 2) ABBA released it 10 years after their breakup, while Queen released it in its heyday 3) and never forget that ABBA is a Swedish group that fights for leadership with the British Groups in the UK itself.
ABBA are obviously one of the greats. Their last album, The Visitors, is criminally overlooked. Please listen to the title track. It’s dark and has strong political content. They went out with a synth driven album and in my opinion it’s one of their best. But The Visitors is just a stunning ABBA track.
That final album is my favourite of theirs, and its original closing track "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" is my favourite of all their songs...
Many ABBAfacionados hail that album (personally, I'm more into Voulez vous) but to me it is also a great testament of their musical diversement. I mean, compare that album with the earlier ones. My god they knew how to do music.
From your initial ask about the melody, the super mini keyboard is an ARP Odyssey, an analog 70's synthesizer that you dial in the sound every time you use it - no presets. the sound they made with it reminds me of a lot of classical music orchestration, where a flute and a piccolo flute play the same line in octaves to make one fat flute sound. I've always loved how ABBA pair these very euro classical elements with current styles, like disco in this all-time banger. When that melody comes on, you know you're on another level of music.
Good music can touch you, but it can never hurt you...same goes with all music yet to be discovered. That is the beauty of music...so much to discover...endless joy
Their music has a lot of classical components in it. Mixed with a thousand other clever curiosities and elements, they created a unique sound. Nobody sounded like them and still doesn`t. But back then many artists had their own unique style. Cool. I never realized that before. But those were obviously very mentally dynamic, and experimental times, so soon after the `60s` Woodstock era and disco music waiting to make its grs .
Great reaction! Enjoy your ABBA trip, they are world class! The song you are thinking of was Madonna's "Hung Up" she's a huge ABBA fan and was given permission to sample that synth part.
Bra, isn't it fire hearing something very old to the world but BRAND NEW to you???? Now you know what EVERYONE else felt 45 years ago. I remember it when it was brand new but I was 15 and could only have a crush on Agnetha (STILL DO), but could not admit to anyone that I liked ABBA's music. And yes, all of us guys loved her, even in Canada. I see your sincerity in liking them, I am a new subscriber to your channel and will watch and like it all brother. Enjoy. Benny composed the melodies and music, Bjorn (pronounced Biorn or B yorn) wrote the Lyrics and they handed it all over to the wives to perform the hits...... a PERFECT storm from Sweden.
2:00 The instrument is an "analog" (non digital) synthesizer. They were invented in the 1930s but didn't become practical on stage until the early 1970s. Then a common instrument in popular music and jazz during the 1970s and 1980s. The thing that makes them different from ordinary "home keyboards" is that a lot of parameters in the sound generation itself can be adjusted by the player, also in real time (during performance), hence all the knobs on these instruments.
Impressed how you are able to recognize and acknowledge the sophistication of the song writing and song structure of ABBA. A perfect example can be found in their song “Hole in Your Soul”. Link is here. ua-cam.com/video/gCqfhlFoDLY/v-deo.html You will find many many interesting, unexpected, ingenious and inspirational facets to this song. Within the song are 2 epic moments.....the first being a screamer of a high note sung by the blonde where she finally stomps her platform boots and tells the world “Bitch, I’m Agnetha!!” (Correct pronunciation is “AHN-YET-TAH”).....the second epic moment happen slightly before the fade out begins....throughout the song there is a tension....a melding of notes and chords that seem to hold us in suspense despite the superficial hyper-gleefulness of the song. Before the fade out while the guitar is screaming away we are finally rewarding with this chord....this merging of notes and tones. It comes across like a rainbow bursting through the clouds and it gives the listener an indescribable feeling of exaltation. Nobody realizes what is happening at that moment....it is so ingeniously hidden within the song...and its impact on the listener is so subtle you don’t even realize what is happening. In a nut shell it is a sonic epiphany. A subconscious resolution...an answer to a riddle you didn’t realized part of your brain was trying to solve.
Lasse Halstrom directed a majority of their music videos. Halstrom also directed ABBA The Movie. He is a world famous movie director these days, with lots of great films to his credit.
The friendship of Benny and Bjorn runs deep,Bjorn was offered a job in a record studio,but refused to work there unless Benny was hired too,they replied with"Sorry our budget does not allow that",so Bjorn replied,fine,just give Benny half of my salary
I loved it! You need to react to Knowing Me, Knowing You, When All Is Said And Done, Fernando, That's Me, The Name Of The Game, Super Trouper just to name a few.
That iconic intro is played on an ARP Odyssey Synthesizer played of course by Benny Andersson. The Madonna hit that sampled this is called Hung Up from 2005.
@@anthonysmith8800 The pitch variations was made by placing a piece of tape on the capstan on the tape recorder. Michael B Tretow was their recording engineer and a master at his craft. Often considered the fifth member of Abba.
Nothing vulgar at all - asking for companionship when You feel lonely. Lasse Hallstrom is the one directing the camera shots - later on, he became a well-known Swedish movie producer. "Eagle", "Ring, Ring" and "Voulez-Vous" are another couple of ABBA hits - well worth checking out!
The 70's was the movie golden era in my opinion. The director is no one less than Lasse Hallstrom and apparently he had the skills already at an young age.
I heard you appreciated how the video was shot ..and very perceptive of you - cause the video (and many other of ABBAS videos) was actually directed by Lasse Hallström, the later famous movie director (he made “Gilbert Grape, Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Hachiko and many more), This was ofc many years before he was famous and years before he started directing full length feature films.
I love there music for there music. i never saw all the videos you and others show . That's what makes me love them more. Buying a album taking it home and with shaking hands putting the needle on to the record and only knowing the one song i heard on the radio to then listening to the songs was just AMAZING.. Buying an album was such an exciting experience, the care you had for your record player was also a big part of respecting the albums and singles you played on it.
Benny's post-ABBA group, the Benny Andersson Orchestra, did some terrific stuff too, including the exceedingly ABBA-like power pop piece "Story Of A Heart" with Swedish theatre singer Helen Sjoholm on lead vocal...
The elevated mini-keyboard is a MiniMoog synthesizer, and I think Madonna sampled the melody played on it, into one of her songs from somewhere in the 2000s or 2010s, or so. This song (Gimme Gimme) reminds me of two others they recorded near that time, (late 70s/early 80s) "Summer Night City" and "Lay All Your Love on Me." They came to play, for sure!
And yes. In those days, synths were modular. They were ‘built’ and all the wiring determined the type of sound they made. Want more ‘fuzz’? Rewire it! Probably an old Korg or a Moog as far as the make.
The only group to ever sound anything like ABBA, without being a tribute or cover band, was STEPS. A UK based dance group from the 90's. Check them out sometime 👍
you have listened to five songs that are quite representative of ABBA, (I think that among the most viewed on UA-cam they have) other great successes await you such as Fernando, Knowing me knowing you, Take a chance on me, The winner takes it all, Super trouper, etc but it seems more important to me that before you listen and see "Waterloo", the song that gave ABBA its world knowledge through its conquest of the famous Eurovision Song Contest in England 1974 ABBA's manager believed that a good participation in Eurovision, a classic annual competition in Europe since 1956 with world television, would give ABBA the knowledge and mass dissemination they needed to transcend beyond Scandinavia They made a first attempt in 1973 but their song "Ring ring" was third in the Swedish tie and did not qualify for the final. The following year ABBA managed to win in Sweden with "Waterloo" and thus the passage to the final in the mystical England. "Waterloo" was a different number to the other 16 songs from all over Europe, ABBA's performance was enthusiastic, joyous and revolutionary, it went over the screens and not only won the pageant, but Waterloo was a success beyond Europe (including # 1 in South Africa, Top 10 in US Canada Australia and New Zealand) I leave you this special link with the live presentation of ABBA (with the logical nerves of the competition) ua-cam.com/video/Vp1_OKawHYw/v-deo.html There will be many excellent ABBA songs in his career, but this one has the magic of being his first hit, and his first official as ABBA.
For a second there I thought you were finally getting the impact of how powerful Agnetha was when she held and then tremolo'd that note... but all you were thinking about was the headset... Oh well. By the way, they're not being vulgar. She wants somebody who won't skip out, who will stay the night and be there in the morning.
they were ahead of their time. the guy who did most of their seventies videos went on to become a big hollywood director in the 80s and 90s. Try one of their Australian tour live performances, such as Why Did It Have to Be Me, I'm a Marionette, and a wembley live performance of Hole in your Soul.
I love your comment on the visuals! I completely agree!! I know it, in some ways, seems like "nothing" compared to today.. But I agre with you that they are so well made and "coreographed"/planned! ♥️
ABBA = happy music making you feel great, a rare gift indeed :-) I still love ABBA after all these years. Hope their new songs will be as awesome starting a new ABBA era :-)
It' s funny. I was an ABBA fan when I was young (10 - 16 years) and became a Queen fan when I was grown up. You seem to do it vice versa. Well, I hope you' ll become an ABBA fan, too, because there a really lots of real good songs waiting. If you want to try a different vibe from there last album I can recommend The Visitors, The Day Before You Came or When All Is Said And Done. Another song with good vibes is When I Kissed The Teacher from one of their first albums. Anyway, similar to Queen you can hardly find a bad song from ABBA. Just enjoy...
I believe the keyboard is a Minimoog. Benny Andersson has used the Minimoog before, search Abba Chiquitita Switzerland 1979 for example (except it was wood grain. This one is black, but they made black variants) - Model D?
You've heard the music before because Madonna used it in her song Hung Up. She had to beg ABBA to use it, and that's fair enough because it's THEIR music.
One of my favorites (yet less known) is "When all is said and done". It was the end of their marriages and the end of their career as a group. It is probably the best breakup song I've ever heard (not the usual lamentations). It actually helped me go through a very painful breakup.
I grew up listening to ABBA and their music is amazing and so different from one song to the next. Having listened to various artists who have covered their music it is not as easy or as simple to create as many people think. There are so many songs, I’d just like to recommend a few of my favourites that show their versatility: Voulez-vous, The Piper, When I Kissed the Teacher. Dies Your Mother Know, On and On and On to name just a few...
Thank you for your ABBA - journey ! go on with... -Take A Chance On Me - (Live Switzerland '79) -Summer Night City (Live Wimbledon -79) -My Love My Life
Hey @Fortworthfabian, glad to see you expanding your musical horizons, it's refreshing to see artists that other reactors don't react to. I always liked Abba ..they had some songs that were big hits in Jamaica (if you can belive that) my two personal favorites were Chiquitita and Fernando...I would appreciate it if you could give Fernando a listen. Anyway keep ascending bro..I'm happy to see the growth...stay blessed.
Once again, I love your reaction to this! I will say it is fun to play on the piano! I would love to watch your reaction to Fernando. Frida sings lead on this and it is beautiful. It is about a war, but no particular war is specified. Def a Spanish influence, but dang... Frida shines on this, as do they all.
If you liked the video of this song I recommend to you the song "Money, Money, Money" which has the best video of all ABBA songs 😁 And this song was also a very big hit in the 70s and for it still is the hit 🥰😍
You were referring to Madonna's Hung Up. Keep reacting to ABBA. I just subscribed to your channel. Please keep it up. NEXT Super Trouper, Money, Money, Money, Fernando, Take a Chance on Me
ABBA PLAYLIST : ua-cam.com/play/PLe70UwDfhHBiSE6eQONCuJcTq_E4l3LAo.html
The song you hummed after the intro is a Madonna song called "Hung Up". Madonna used the melody from the song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" For this song. ABBA team 😁🥰
Benny Andersson only used minimoog for this intro,
Have you seen the Mamma Mia movie? If not .... well you know what to do tonight 👊
The Videography is similar to what Olivia Newton John and the BeeGees use.
Sample from "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" was used in Madonna's song "Hung Up" from the album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (2005). For the right to use it, Madonna was paid about $ 800 thousand.
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Madonna was paid? What a strange idea to pop in your head. There is an interview of Björn in youtube, where he telss they split the royalties of the song in half with total respect to one another.
@@TheJimbo1791 Because it’s a classic hook. And good hooks are rare and very hard to write. In the Pop world, it’s pretty standard practice to use other people’s hooks, but you have to pay for it.
@@TheJimbo1791 «The Observer. Pop and rock». Craig McLean, 13 Jul 2008 . Craig McLean talks exclusively to the two men responsible for the music, Abba's Björn and Benny. «OMM: What did you think of Madonna's 'Hung Up' and its 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' sample?» «Andersson: 'Well we had this wonderful letter from her. I framed it. Very sweet. Her assistant came over to Stockholm with a CD and we played it. And we thought the record was great. But also realising that without the 'Gimme! Gimme!' thing in it, it wouldn't have been so great. So we said, "Well, fine, of course you can. BUT WE JUST SPLIT THE COPYRIGHT, HALF-HALF ."'
Dude realized that sampling was a thing with this song lol
The song you hummed after the intro is a Madonna song called "Hung Up". Madonna used the melody from the song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" For this song. ABBA team 😁🥰
To hear and see how effortlessly Agneta is singing those high notes is just beautiful..
ABBA FOREVER!
You have to remember there was no public emphasis on the video back then. That came in the eighties. At this time the commercial video machine was not quite invented. And DVDs were much later. So all the attention was put on the sound. We heard them on the radio and bought their records in the music store. There was no internet. No downloads.
Thanks for spreading the ABBA. Better warn you. You gotta show Frida some love too. "Super Trouper". "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando". Just saying be fair. We love em both.
Can't miss with either one. My favourite of all their songs, "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room", has Frida on lead...
@@StudeSteve62 Yep that should be on the list. I really like "I Wonder" too. I was trying to think on the ones that would get the most thumbs up. But I like all her "songs".
@@StudeSteve62 "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" is the only ABBA song where only one voice is singing.
You will binge’n a long time with ABBA. Tons of great songs.
ABBA came to fame in 1974 by winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with the song Waterloo, they were made up of 2 married couple Agnetha and Bjorn / Anni-Frid and Benny. The songs were all written by the 2 guys and in the early days with some assistance from their manager Stig. In the UK They spanned the charts from 1974 - 1982, having 9 number 1 and 19 top 10 singles they also has 8 consecutive number 1 albums a record that stands today. On 1979 Agnetha and Bjorn Divorced which lead to the song The Winner Takes It All written by Bjorn, song by Agnetha. Anni-Frida and Benny divorced in 1981 which lead to the song When All Is Said and Done. They are know for writing song with sad lyrics matched to an very upbeat melody. They have now sold 400 million records worldwide. In 2018 they have written several new songs for a live project which will be performed by avatars (ABBAtars). Hopefully this new material will be released this year. There are so many great songs and many are Album tracks not singles. ABBA Gold is a greatest hit CD released in 1992 and this year it will reach 1,000 weeks on the UK charts top 100.
Abba Gold is the UK‘s best selling Album of all times
Couldn't have said it better myself as I consider myself somewhat of an ABBA Expert.
@@Urfinchannel It's actually second behind Queens Greatest Hits but not my much...and both albums are still in the UK Top 20 all these years later.
@@Urfinchannel
ABBA Gold (1992)
is the second best-selling album in UK
only behind
Queen Greatest Hits (1981)
very creditable to ABBA, for three reasons
1) Queen's album is 11 years older than ABBA's, that's why ABBA's has 11 years less sales (in relation to Queen's album)
2) ABBA released it 10 years after their breakup, while Queen released it in its heyday
3) and never forget that ABBA is a Swedish group that fights for leadership with the British Groups in the UK itself.
@@eduardooscar309 sometimes both groups change the pole position
Madge paid an awful lot of money to use a sample for hung up, ABBA got half the royalties from Madonna.
Something like 8M
ABBA are obviously one of the greats. Their last album, The Visitors, is criminally overlooked. Please listen to the title track. It’s dark and has strong political content. They went out with a synth driven album and in my opinion it’s one of their best. But The Visitors is just a stunning ABBA track.
@@m.menneke8513 obviously I disagree lol. But that’s opinions for you :-).
That final album is my favourite of theirs, and its original closing track "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" is my favourite of all their songs...
The Visitors is my favorite album of theirs and I love all their stuff. The Visitors is so creepy... I love it the darkness and mystery of it.
Many ABBAfacionados hail that album (personally, I'm more into Voulez vous) but to me it is also a great testament of their musical diversement. I mean, compare that album with the earlier ones. My god they knew how to do music.
Totally agree!!!! I had a speech in high school (in the 80s) with song lyrics, and that is the song I chose. So beautiful!
From your initial ask about the melody, the super mini keyboard is an ARP Odyssey, an analog 70's synthesizer that you dial in the sound every time you use it - no presets. the sound they made with it reminds me of a lot of classical music orchestration, where a flute and a piccolo flute play the same line in octaves to make one fat flute sound. I've always loved how ABBA pair these very euro classical elements with current styles, like disco in this all-time banger. When that melody comes on, you know you're on another level of music.
Madonna used a sample of this song in her global hit 'Hung Up', which went to no.1 in 41 countries, setting a world record. You should react to it.
Dude you really need to experience gimme gimme gimme,live. Agnethas range will blow you away,and her emotions
Good music can touch you, but it can never hurt you...same goes with all music yet to be discovered. That is the beauty of music...so much to discover...endless joy
I grew up with these. So many amazing songs
They also sang all their hits in Spanish, that's why, they're so popular in South America.
In this version the bridge is cut out. A very strong bridge that sounds a little like thriller (MJ). The intro is used by madonna
Their music has a lot of classical components in it. Mixed with a thousand other clever curiosities and elements, they created a unique sound.
Nobody sounded like them and still doesn`t.
But back then many artists had their own unique style.
Cool. I never realized that before. But those were obviously very mentally dynamic, and experimental times, so soon after the `60s` Woodstock era and disco music waiting to make its grs .
Both women look their best in this clip, just amazing
Great reaction! Enjoy your ABBA trip, they are world class! The song you are thinking of was Madonna's "Hung Up" she's a huge ABBA fan and was given permission to sample that synth part.
Dancing Queen live Australia ‘77. Beautiful performance
Bra, isn't it fire hearing something very old to the world but BRAND NEW to you???? Now you know what EVERYONE else felt 45 years ago. I remember it when it was brand new but I was 15 and could only have a crush on Agnetha (STILL DO), but could not admit to anyone that I liked ABBA's music. And yes, all of us guys loved her, even in Canada. I see your sincerity in liking them, I am a new subscriber to your channel and will watch and like it all brother. Enjoy. Benny composed the melodies and music, Bjorn (pronounced Biorn or B yorn) wrote the Lyrics and they handed it all over to the wives to perform the hits...... a PERFECT storm from Sweden.
Do Waterloo or Winner takes it all - if you like to react to a ABBA live version. Waterloo put them on international stage, WTIA is just a MASTERPIECE
2:00 The instrument is an "analog" (non digital) synthesizer. They were invented in the 1930s but didn't become practical on stage until the early 1970s. Then a common instrument in popular music and jazz during the 1970s and 1980s. The thing that makes them different from ordinary "home keyboards" is that a lot of parameters in the sound generation itself can be adjusted by the player, also in real time (during performance), hence all the knobs on these instruments.
Impressed how you are able to recognize and acknowledge the sophistication of the song writing and song structure of ABBA. A perfect example can be found in their song “Hole in Your Soul”. Link is here. ua-cam.com/video/gCqfhlFoDLY/v-deo.html
You will find many many interesting, unexpected, ingenious and inspirational facets to this song. Within the song are 2 epic moments.....the first being a screamer of a high note sung by the blonde where she finally stomps her platform boots and tells the world “Bitch, I’m Agnetha!!” (Correct pronunciation is “AHN-YET-TAH”).....the second epic moment happen slightly before the fade out begins....throughout the song there is a tension....a melding of notes and chords that seem to hold us in suspense despite the superficial hyper-gleefulness of the song. Before the fade out while the guitar is screaming away we are finally rewarding with this chord....this merging of notes and tones. It comes across like a rainbow bursting through the clouds and it gives the listener an indescribable feeling of exaltation. Nobody realizes what is happening at that moment....it is so ingeniously hidden within the song...and its impact on the listener is so subtle you don’t even realize what is happening. In a nut shell it is a sonic epiphany. A subconscious resolution...an answer to a riddle you didn’t realized part of your brain was trying to solve.
It's nice to know Abba knew what they were doing and became as famous loved and respected as they are without your help.
The full version with the guitar break is the best !!!
Lasse Halstrom directed a majority of their music videos. Halstrom also directed ABBA The Movie. He is a world famous movie director these days, with lots of great films to his credit.
And he directed Chocolat!
The friendship of Benny and Bjorn runs deep,Bjorn was offered a job in a record studio,but refused to work there unless Benny was hired too,they replied with"Sorry our budget does not allow that",so Bjorn replied,fine,just give Benny half of my salary
Years later, this song was rerecorded and used as the theme song for a UK sitcom called "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" that ran from 1999 to 2001.
You must see. THE first song of ABBA . They winning THE bigges music context in europe. Song is Waterloo
I loved it! You need to react to Knowing Me, Knowing You, When All Is Said And Done, Fernando, That's Me, The Name Of The Game, Super Trouper just to name a few.
ABBA are compelling on EVERY level. Absolute legends. You are a really good reactor, loving it, G’day from Australia.
I can recommend ABBA's Take a chance on me, Frida got some moves there and I'll hope you will like the choreography.
There will be no other band like abba.no other bands could come close.abba forever.
That iconic intro is played on an ARP Odyssey Synthesizer played of course by Benny Andersson. The Madonna hit that sampled this is called Hung Up from 2005.
Another aspect of the ABBA sound is the double tracking...
@@willrichardson519 absolutely! They would multi layer the vocals and slightly change the pitch which gives that magical ABBA sound
@@anthonysmith8800 The pitch variations was made by placing a piece of tape on the capstan on the tape recorder. Michael B Tretow was their recording engineer and a master at his craft. Often considered the fifth member of Abba.
Nothing vulgar at all - asking for companionship when You feel lonely.
Lasse Hallstrom is the one directing the camera shots - later on, he became a well-known Swedish movie producer.
"Eagle", "Ring, Ring" and "Voulez-Vous" are another couple of ABBA hits - well worth checking out!
The 70's was the movie golden era in my opinion. The director is no one less than Lasse Hallstrom and apparently he had the skills already at an young age.
I heard you appreciated how the video was shot ..and very perceptive of you - cause the video (and many other of ABBAS videos) was actually directed by Lasse Hallström, the later famous movie director (he made “Gilbert Grape, Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Hachiko and many more), This was ofc many years before he was famous and years before he started directing full length feature films.
I love there music for there music. i never saw all the videos you and others show . That's what makes me love them more. Buying a album taking it home and with shaking hands putting the needle on to the record and only knowing the one song i heard on the radio to then listening to the songs was just AMAZING.. Buying an album was such an exciting experience, the care you had for your record player was also a big part of respecting the albums and singles you played on it.
best melody writers of all time! No doubt. You'll probably know a lot more of their songs subconsciously. Too catchy!
Check out: "ABBA - The Name Of The Game". Great song that was sampled by The Fugees with Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean in 1997.
"Honey Honey" is a high energy Tour De Force pop gem! So much in that song! Please react to that one!
ABBA always looks like they are enjoying themselves. ESP Benny ( the bearded one). Agnetha likes to wear her phones forward.
Benny's post-ABBA group, the Benny Andersson Orchestra, did some terrific stuff too, including the exceedingly ABBA-like power pop piece "Story Of A Heart" with Swedish theatre singer Helen Sjoholm on lead vocal...
The elevated mini-keyboard is a MiniMoog synthesizer, and I think Madonna sampled the melody played on it, into one of her songs from somewhere in the 2000s or 2010s, or so. This song (Gimme Gimme) reminds me of two others they recorded near that time, (late 70s/early 80s) "Summer Night City" and "Lay All Your Love on Me." They came to play, for sure!
My parents generation in Germany is crazy about ABBA! As a teen, I found them corny, but today I really like some of their songs. 😅
Madonna sampled this song on her song "Hang Up" . ABBA is my fav group! ❤️❤️ Try "The winner takes it all"
25 top 40 hits and 9 #1's. lots to discover and enjoy!
It's a Mini Moog synthesizer. 😎
And yes. In those days, synths were modular. They were ‘built’ and all the wiring determined the type of sound they made. Want more ‘fuzz’? Rewire it! Probably an old Korg or a Moog as far as the make.
The only group to ever sound anything like ABBA, without being a tribute or cover band, was STEPS. A UK based dance group from the 90's. Check them out sometime 👍
I keep going back again and again listening to Happy New Year (ABBA) Perfect voices and lyrics that are never getting too old
you have listened to five songs that are quite representative of ABBA, (I think that among the most viewed on UA-cam they have) other great successes await you such as Fernando, Knowing me knowing you, Take a chance on me, The winner takes it all, Super trouper, etc
but it seems more important to me that before you listen and see "Waterloo", the song that gave ABBA its world knowledge through its conquest of the famous Eurovision Song Contest in England 1974
ABBA's manager believed that a good participation in Eurovision, a classic annual competition in Europe since 1956 with world television, would give ABBA the knowledge and mass dissemination they needed to transcend beyond Scandinavia
They made a first attempt in 1973 but their song "Ring ring" was third in the Swedish tie and did not qualify for the final.
The following year ABBA managed to win in Sweden with "Waterloo" and thus the passage to the final in the mystical England.
"Waterloo" was a different number to the other 16 songs from all over Europe, ABBA's performance was enthusiastic, joyous and revolutionary, it went over the screens and not only won the pageant, but Waterloo was a success beyond Europe (including # 1 in South Africa, Top 10 in US Canada Australia and New Zealand)
I leave you this special link with the live presentation of ABBA (with the logical nerves of the competition)
ua-cam.com/video/Vp1_OKawHYw/v-deo.html
There will be many excellent ABBA songs in his career, but this one has the magic of being his first hit, and his first official as ABBA.
A Broadway Musical was made from ABBA song's, recently a movie was made based on the Broadway show. The title was Mama Mia
New Subscriber, great reactions to ABBA. Agnetha always wore her headphones that way. Keep exploring, you have so many to enjoy.
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC!!!! By ABBA , great SOLO from her!!
Yes 😍😍😍😍
For a second there I thought you were finally getting the impact of how powerful Agnetha was when she held and then tremolo'd that note... but all you were thinking about was the headset...
Oh well.
By the way, they're not being vulgar. She wants somebody who won't skip out, who will stay the night and be there in the morning.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY ALL ABBA SONGS THEY WERE GREAT BACK THEN AND ARE STILL GREAT TODAY
The bass lines on this are just sick!
Haha... I Love Agnetha... singing in such a carefree way, with her hands in her
pockets, so cute, so f***kin cute... so bad@as$ :D
they were ahead of their time. the guy who did most of their seventies videos went on to become a big hollywood director in the 80s and 90s. Try one of their Australian tour live performances, such as Why Did It Have to Be Me, I'm a Marionette, and a wembley live performance of Hole in your Soul.
I love your comment on the visuals! I completely agree!!
I know it, in some ways, seems like "nothing" compared to today.. But I agre with you that they are so well made and "coreographed"/planned!
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The side to side/back to back face shots became synonymous with ABBA, it's often used by other artists as a homage to them. 💖
ABBA = happy music making you feel great, a rare gift indeed :-) I still love ABBA after all these years. Hope their new songs will be as awesome starting a new ABBA era :-)
It' s funny. I was an ABBA fan when I was young (10 - 16 years) and became a Queen fan when I was grown up. You seem to do it vice versa. Well, I hope you' ll become an ABBA fan, too, because there a really lots of real good songs waiting. If you want to try a different vibe from there last album I can recommend The Visitors, The Day Before You Came or When All Is Said And Done. Another song with good vibes is When I Kissed The Teacher from one of their first albums. Anyway, similar to Queen you can hardly find a bad song from ABBA. Just enjoy...
You're maybe thinking about Hung Up from Madonna, who used a sample from this song
I believe the keyboard is a Minimoog. Benny Andersson has used the Minimoog before, search Abba Chiquitita Switzerland 1979 for example (except it was wood grain. This one is black, but they made black variants) - Model D?
They looked like they were having fun
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The synthesizer was the ARP 2600, the original is really expensive and they are getting rare. Korg reissued it last year.
Abba = flawless talent and a lot of fun.
You've heard the music before because Madonna used it in her song Hung Up. She had to beg ABBA to use it, and that's fair enough because it's THEIR music.
I've actually never heard this ABBA song before. It reminds me of Hot Stuff by Donna Summer, one of my favorites by her.
You really ought to react to their first hit, they won the Eurovision song contest with, "Waterloo".
One of my favorites (yet less known) is "When all is said and done". It was the end of their marriages and the end of their career as a group. It is probably the best breakup song I've ever heard (not the usual lamentations). It actually helped me go through a very painful breakup.
You understand the concept of the time perfectly. I was there, and I'm still here now...
Benny is playing a mini-Moog which riff Madonna bought years later
The song which used the sample of this song (the way you sang it 3:40), was Madonna's Hung Up.
In your own time please watch a very young Angetha sing 'Jesus Christ Superstar' :) Special!!!
I grew up listening to ABBA and their music is amazing and so different from one song to the next. Having listened to various artists who have covered their music it is not as easy or as simple to create as many people think.
There are so many songs, I’d just like to recommend a few of my favourites that show their versatility: Voulez-vous, The Piper, When I Kissed the Teacher. Dies Your Mother Know, On and On and On to name just a few...
I think their best live performance is Does Your Mother Know live at Wembley.
Lasse Hallstrom Hollywood director is directing all their videos, before he had his break with "My life as a dog"
The most recent photos of Agnetha in the studio from 2017 still show she wears her headphones like this.
Many of ABBA's videos were filmed by Lasse Hallström, who went on to direct Hollywood movies like Chocolat and Cider House Rules
Thank you for your ABBA - journey ! go on with...
-Take A Chance On Me - (Live Switzerland '79)
-Summer Night City (Live Wimbledon -79)
-My Love My Life
The song you was thinking about was Madonna's "Hang up". She took that part from this song.
Hey @Fortworthfabian, glad to see you expanding your musical horizons, it's refreshing to see artists that other reactors don't react to. I always liked Abba ..they had some songs that were big hits in Jamaica (if you can belive that) my two personal favorites were Chiquitita and Fernando...I would appreciate it if you could give Fernando a listen. Anyway keep ascending bro..I'm happy to see the growth...stay blessed.
The Universal appeal of Nordic melancholy...full disclosure, my mum's Norwegian :-)
Abba da best singer since ,y born and until now very uniqe sounds
You have to do, Eagle nd The day before you came.
This as to be one of the best intros to a record ever!
That song is „Hung Up“ by Madonna, who sampled that hook. It was Madonna‘s tribute to Abba.
Once again, I love your reaction to this! I will say it is fun to play on the piano! I would love to watch your reaction to Fernando. Frida sings lead on this and it is beautiful. It is about a war, but no particular war is specified. Def a Spanish influence, but dang... Frida shines on this, as do they all.
The visuals are the fantastic work of Lasse Hallström ;-)
Great live performance is a hole in your soul at Wembley stadium amount some other great tracks
The synth lead line is an ARP Odyssey. (Now reissued by Korg and Behringer)
No, you are spot on. Madonna ripped the riff (with permission) for her song "Hung Up" and that is what you are remembering.
You just realised it wasn’t a visor? I only realised it after 42 years only because you mentioned it!
I loooove your smart comments. You really get it!
The instrument is a classic Hammond organ.
The bass is popping.. literally. Can you dig it?
If you liked the video of this song I recommend to you the song "Money, Money, Money" which has the best video of all ABBA songs 😁 And this song was also a very big hit in the 70s and for it still is the hit 🥰😍
You were referring to Madonna's Hung Up. Keep reacting to ABBA. I just subscribed to your channel. Please keep it up. NEXT Super Trouper, Money, Money, Money, Fernando, Take a Chance on Me