ABBA has delivered a few of the best pop music of all time.
The Swedish ensemble — comprised of Agnetha Fältskog, 71, Björn Ulvaeus, 76, Benny Andersson, 74, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 75 — are famend for his or her chart-topping success within the 70s and 80s. Now, followers might be delighted to know they’re flirting with a possible comeback.
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As a result of the band teased they’ve new music within the works, 9Honey caught up with the Wilkins boys, Richard and his son Christian, to speak all issues ABBA.
“ABBA has written a few of the most business pop songs of all time, brilliantly constructed, they’re catchy, the chord progressions, the musicianship and manufacturing had been all incredible,” Richard tells 9Honey of the enduring band.
“One wants to remember that English was not their first language, the lyrics had been saved fairly easy.”
With that in thoughts, let’s discover out the place the boys ranked their high ABBA songs. The decision is in!
Gold commonplace
ABBA did not earn the title of one of many best-selling music acts of all time for no purpose. There’s a formidable repertoire of songs to select from, however Richard and Christian landed on a high 4.
“My primary is ‘The Winner Takes It All’ as a result of it actually does. It is one of the crucial brilliantly constructed songs of all time. A tremendous vocal. It is arduous to go previous that,” Richard says.
This was intently adopted by ‘Thank You For The Music’. Richard says, “The title says all of it. Once more, it is an ideal pop music.”
Shifting into third place was none aside from ‘Dancing Queen’.
“It is inconceivable to go previous, everybody has coated it. It is the go-to music at each dance social gathering,” Richard says.
And shutting out the gold commonplace of ABBA tracks was ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’ — “Lined by Cher, say no extra,” Christian says.
Combating probability
“Are they the highest of the listing? No. Are they beautiful shut? Rattling proper,” Richard says of the tracks that fell into our ‘preventing probability’ class.
ABBA shot to fame once they launched their music ‘Waterloo’ in 1974. “It is the music that began all of it,” Richard says.
Subsequent on the listing was the 1976 observe ‘Fernando’.
‘He was superior within the air tonight, his hair appeared good, Fernando’. The lyrics led to an unlikely 70s chart-topper about two warfare veterans reflecting on the Mexican revolution of 1910.
Different particular mentions go to ‘Realizing Me Realizing You’ and ‘Chiquitita’. Of the latter. Richard says, “It is primarily based on a Peruvian folks music, I am undecided who Chiquitita was however all of us fell in love along with her.”
Another notable tracks that made the lower had been ‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘Cash Cash Cash’.
Take it or go away it
There have been a few songs that did not shake us to the core, however they nonetheless have their place within the ABBA catalogue.
First up was ‘Take a Probability On Me’. Richard says, “It is the bizarre a capella intro, British primary, he’d hummed it to himself whereas he was working.”
Closing out the listing of songs that did not overly encourage was ‘Does Your Mom Know’, ‘Voluez-Vous’ and ‘Title of the Sport’.
Yeah, nah
It is tough to consider an ABBA music that belongs on this class, however Richard had his causes for ‘SOS’ falling to the underside.
“‘SOS’ was certainly one of my favourites of all occasions till Pierce Brosnan butchered it within the Mamma Mia film,” Richard says.
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