Shnootz - Reaction Video (ABBA - Take a Chance on Me)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- What's up, people! I'm back with another ABBA reaction from their 1977 album The Album, and this time we listen to the fantastic "Take a Chance on Me," a song I knew indirectly from the Erasure cover, and indeed, I thought I had already reacted to that cover, but as it turns out, I hadn't done it yet (but recorded it after this video). In any case, I was keen to hear the original, and wow, this did not disappoint. So join me for another shining (if subtly melancholic) masterpiece from ABBA. Cheers!
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This was the very first record I got with my pocket money cuz it's so catchy.
Great memories when they were the hitmachine back in the day. Each single rushed to the top of the charts one after the other.
Björn came up with the lyrics to this whilst out jogging. He got a TK A CH rhythm from his feet and used that sound to come up with the phrase ‘take a chance’ and built the lyrics around that. Fun ABBA fact of the day for you.
So nice to see you again reaction to more ABBA songs in your ABBA Journey
"Take a chance on me" (1978)
is one of their best ABBA hits in all the world,
the most selling song of ABBA in U.S.
(more than Dancing Queen),
#3 in Billboard U.S.
one of their four Top10 in US :
#6 Waterloo (1974)
#1 Dancing Queen (1977)
#3 Take a chance on me (1978)
#8 The winner takes it all (1981)
This is one of few song than the vocals are more extensive than the music (They begin 'a capela' and singing at the end)
the blonde singer Agnetha is the lead vocal in the solo verses, her voice is so powerful, in perfect armonies and chorus with the brunette Anni Frid in co-leads vocal (and the boys in back voices singing repetitive the frase 'take a chance, chance')
Agnetha & Anni Frid have fantastic voices and harmonies together
Agnetha is soprano
Anni Frid is mezzo soprano
and together made a 'third voice'
the guitarist Björn got the idea while jogging, by the sound of the footsteps he interpreted t-k-t t-kt and adapted it to "take a chance, chance, take a chance", so the song was born
Although it is a disco europop, it's like a constant and happy march, captivating, cloying, addictive
The official video was filmed on January 1978, a month after Agnetha postpartum (She was mother of her second child, with the guitarist Björn, in December 1977)
It's one of their most funny official videos
It begins with a zoom, like the old TV serie in US"The Brudy Banch" (and was used a lot un the social media for the COVID times)
and one special comment
in the official site of ABBA there's a section of articles about some songs,
of "Take a chance on me" the tittle Is
'the firewall of innocence'
I wish you a greatest week
My best regards from
Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
South America
Go away Eduardo
Their 7th number 1 in UK. The first single I bought. Love it.
In 1992 the new interest in ABBA can be put down to 4 keys things
1) Erasure ABBA EP which spent multiple weeks at No 1 in the UK charts
2) the inclusion of ABBA music in the Australian film Muriel’s Wedding
3) The including of ABBA music in another Australia film Pricilla Queen of the Desert.
4) The release of a new ABBA Greatest Hits CD called GOLD bringing 19 songs on 1 Disc for the 1st time. This was possible due to ABBA whole catalogue now being under one companies jurisdiction.
ABBA GOLD which was 1st album to spend 1,000 weeks on the UK charts enjoying 3 spells at number 1 (1992, 1999 & 2008) and today it is still in the charts bringing their music to many new younger fans along with the musical Mamma Mia , the 2 films Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2 Here We Go Again and the Voyage Concert in London using digital version of themselves to perform along with a 10 piece live band.
Continue the great reactions there so much more to come and it does keep getting better and better.
Will be interesting to see what you make of the Album The Visitors and it is very different to what went before. And as a young fan in 1981 (10 years old) it took me a while to grow on me.
This was ABBA's 7th number one in the UK in February 1978.
Best Band Ever
Love this song!! Fun fact this song is Abba's second biggest success on the US Billboard top 100 peaking at number 3.
True, their biggest hit in the US after Dancing Queen.
@@pascal-Z 🤗
@@pascal-Z Actually at the time(in the '70s) it ended selling more copies there compared to their USA N01 DQ.
I think it's the first time in 1978 they used an accapella intro with "Super Trouper' following in 1980 ages ago before the likes of Pentatonix and Homefree made it a trend.This is one of their finest classics and the most jolly tune of the album.
Such a fantastic song. It’s very easy to get lost in the intricate arrangements of ABBA songs but that acappella at the beginning shows the harmonization talent those four voices have. This has always been one of my favorites from ABBA, a song that almost demands to be listened to from beginning to end. Thanks Matt! 👍
Great strong solo parts from Agnetha and then it just flows into the blended voices of the both of them. Typical ABBA in that the end of the song builds with the instrumentation from the synths and the additional background vocals from Agnetha.
This song is just packed with hooks.. low an high register, and in the middle. Their engineer could mix the girls vocals far in front in the mix, like instruments.
There wasn't their engineer, there were the girls, especially Agnetha, who can manage the harmony)
Engineer Michael B. Tretow was a genius and played a key role in mixing their 'wall-of-sound' backing track and the the voices of Lyngstad/Faltskog. Sadly, he suffered a stroke 20 years ago and could not work on the new 'Voyage' album.
@@nickchristoforou7850 I know about Michael B. Tretow. But l didn't see any his interview about mixing of voices, but saw one of Agnetha where she told about this
The Erasure track lacks the harmonies created by the girls throughout and that's a big reason why the Abba original feels much richer. It's more dense harmonically in both voice and instrumentation. Vocally, both girls sing together through most of it except for one section which is Anna..."You know I've go much than I want to do.....etc" that's repeated again with different words in the second section.
Hi, Matt!
This is a great song👌 i like it so much... And the official video is so good too.
❤️🇨🇱👍
Congrats to 2000 subscribers. 🎉
Thank you! It's crazy what this channel has become from its humble origins, lol.
Also I have to apologize, I was supposed to do the next Ace of Base reaction this morning---which seemingly has a connection to an ABBA song too?!?---but ran out of time. Will definitely be in the next batch, even if I'm not fully sure what day that will be this week.
@@mattsnider2667 No worries. Just happy you’re continuing to react to Ace of Base. I always share your videos in the fan groups. The next song should be „Voulez-Vous Danser“, I think. You’re probably thinking about the ABBA song „Voulez Vous“ but they are not really connected apart from both of the songs having French lyrics in the refrain.
@@pascal-Z Yes, that is the next song, but okay, gotcha. The first part of the phrase was identical so I thought they may be related. Cheers as always for the info!
Yeah congrats!A slow but steady climber.Greatest meals are cooked in non-fast heat.
@@christianoazzuro6711 Haha, well said! And I appreciate it. :)
Pounding rhythm...light bulb moment for bjorn when out jogging..= 🎉
That opening line!
1 thing is for certain you can park the Queen Mary between this masterpiece and whatever the crap was that Erasure came out with
An absolute classic, and the video is also iconic (Erasure's spoof video is fun as well). It's a perfect showcase for the fact that all four of them are essential to the ABBA sound. The female vocal at the front with the guys backing up is just brilliant.
Not sure if you caught Benny and Bjorn's voices throughout the entire song providing the Baseline "take a chance take a chance take a chance chance chance" beneath the girls harmonies
Erasure's ABBA-esque EP and the film Muriel's Wedding pretty much singlehandedly (dualhandedly?) rehabbed ABBA's reputation in the early 90s. ABBA post-1982 occupied the third rail of music appreciation; in the late 80s where I spent most of my teenage, you didn't really mention your true ABBA fandom lest you relinquish your post-punk credibility. But after the craze over those two early 90s ABBA-related pop-culture moments, ABBA released the compilation Gold in 1992, which ..... well, let's just say it started the ball rolling for a wholesale artistic and commercial reevaluation. If it wasn't for Erasure, we probably would not be sitting here doing this right now. Their versions may sound a little.. thin? in retrospect, but that EP was such a turning point.
So well said Delius Lyndon.I would also add ( regarding my personal perception) i had the sense at the time, that things had slowly and gradually started happening by the very late '80s(late '87/'88/'89.There was a light Abbasick feeling.First tribute band Bjorn Again was a succesful opening to the door and also the Abba-ish vocals of the Stock Aitken Waterman movement was also reminiscent of the uptempo and more 'simplistic' '70s sense since things had started getting less 'serious' in the mainstream scene and people really wanted to have fun ignoring the previous 'darker' and 'heavily artistic'' post punk era of the early/mid '80s synth acts that had already worn out.
@Marvin MQZ Fair enough, I was speaking from more of a North American experience, I'm sure the timeline and chain of events did differ from region to region.
There was NOTHING like it on the radio when it came out ...
Risk taking with acapella vocals at the beginning ...
I assume they decided to add that during post production editing for an intro ( smart )
The stand outs that made it a classic ;
Likely would have been discouraged by record execs in the U.S.
( like Toni Basil's ' Mickey ' was )
~ Execs going for things that worked in the past for a hit
instead of taking a risk with something new ...
Agnetha is pronounced “Ahn-Yet-Tah”
Thats Agnetha alright 😉
@3:29
Rewatching this and it reminded me of this short video on how Swedes pronounce her name ...
th-cam.com/video/5HJmW8EY8m0/w-d-xo.html
Most of us Westerners always say it wrong with OUR alphabet and grammer rules ! ( Agnetha ) ha ...
Similar to how we say beeyork instead of bjeouthk
th-cam.com/video/Zn6AVLDTNMA/w-d-xo.html
Not that it matters too much but fun facts ...
By the way it’s not Agatha it’s Agnetha
To my ears, the Erasure version is miles below the level of the original in terms of production and delivery. (listening to the original version 25+ years before I heard the erasure version). As always, the bass is great and especially when it kicks in after the acapella intro. Bjorn came up with this while jogging! (rhythmic cadence)
I get it, and I respect that totally. But Erasure is a group from my nostalgic youth (and I've obviously reconnected with them since starting to do reactions), so I enjoy their version on its own terms too. But cheers, I do appreciate the thoughts!
@@mattsnider2667 I certainly understand that. Music has the most formative influence at a young age. In addition, at a later age, the nostalgia aspect is also an important element in the music experience.
@@mattsnider2667 Erasure's version was a kind of a 'sacred tribute-parody' adopted for the 90s soundscape that was hugely significant and responsible for Abba's 'ressurection'.Andy Bell was a huge Abba fan. self confessed.
I like both versions, Erasure's is a bit faster with more groove. That is my one complaint about ABBA in general... they play very grid-like with no swing/shuffle.
@@adamlewis3729 its 70ties disco! I think the base lines in most ABBA songs ad a lot of grove to the (can I say european pop 'white' tight grid like beats?) (not always 'in your face' but its there). They had a briliant bas player!
fantastic song but not emotional enough for me. Still wonderful though !!