Dum dum diddle – ABBA That’s the sound of the Yamaha GX-1, of which less than ten were ever made, one of which went to Benny Andersson. People are nerds and have traced this very synthesizer as it’s changed owners and the storage units they keep it in, so if you ever wanted to play [...]
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Dum Dum Diddle
Posted in ABBA on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Me And I
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Me and I – ABBA ABBA were a synthpop band. No they weren’t. Synthpop bands bought all they could afford of amateur/consumer level synthesisers. Benny Andersson played and owned a Yamaha GX-1. Synthpop bands rarely used or needed “real”, acoustic backing instruments. ABBA utilised the synthesiser as another instrument in their orchestra. Still ABBA were [...]
Voulez-Vous
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Voulez-vous – ABBA DISCO! It’s funny writing these things at night when i don’t have the time to write them in the morning. A thousand other songs pass through my mind over the day – fleetingly, maddeningly, vitally. The original, the one i post, the one i start the day with, is now buried under [...]
Honey Honey
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Honey honey – ABBA The last song they sung for which there is a version in Swedish. I read a zine recently where the reader and his mother came to hear ABBA together and while the author enjoyed it, the mother didn’t, saying it sounded “like the end of the everything.” It was one of [...]
When I Kissed The Teacher
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When i kissed the teacher – ABBA Thus begins the trawling through ABBA’s non-gold, non-singles, non-perpetuated through the Mumma Mia soundtrack album tracks. Their other songs. This is as brilliant and encouraging a first step as your ever going to find.
Money, Money, Money
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Money, money, money – ABBA Like the Beatles covering Money (That’s What I Want), ABBA really don’t seem the kind of people to share financial commiseration with or have it handed down from. But that’s the effect and restructuring of having made it: The gap between you and your audience is irrevocably drawn the farthest [...]
Dum Dum Diddle
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on June 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dum dum diddle – ABBA Listen to this song and then listen to When You Were My Baby by the Magnetic Fields and tell me i’m crazy and the synth patch (and even some of the lines) on the latter is not targeted and based around that of the former – itself an approximation of [...]
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Posted in ABBA, swedish bands on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Knowing me, knowing you – ABBA AHAAAAA!
