Ty Reacts To ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Today we dive into Swedish pop group ABBA "Knowing Me, Knowing You". The song was released in February 1977 as the third single from the group's fourth album ARRIVAL. The tune was a number one hit around the world! What Do Ya'll Think ?!
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Omg dad kills me. Lol OUTSTANDING!!!
"ABBA" consists of the first letters of the first names of the four musicians (Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid)
This song drew me in back in 1977. I saw the video on UK TV programme Top Of The Pops and it was NO.1 (for 5 weeks). I was totally mesmerised by them and to this day, my love for them had not diminished, 45 years on. They are outer-worldly. No other pop group comes anywhere near to them.
Gods and Pop Royalty ❤️
A-gnetha Faltskog
B-enny Andersson
B-jorn Ulvaeus
A-nnifrid "Frida" Lyngstad
Yes! ABBA are still the greatest pop band. Simultaneously melancholy and jolly, freaking songsmiths with angels on the pipes. Looking forward to more Swedish swish.
One of ABBA's best songs. Thank you for your reaction!
Their crowning achievement, in my opinion, and there's an amazing amount of incredible tracks from them. This track... IS... ABBA! Frida's lead vocal is so warm, lush, and rich! It's a phenomenal song in every way!
Arrival is a brilliant Album
ABBA one that is. Great harmonies from two great singers
4 great singers
My favourite all time song, sublime.
One of their best, for sure. Thanks, guys!
Keep the ABBA videos coming!!
ABBA and Queen are the best bands in history in my opinion. So much talant and so many many good song! 🍻
I couldn't agree more both groups are phenomenal
In this universe, ABBA have a song called "Dancing Queen". In a parallel universe, Queen have a song called "Dancing ABBA". Old joke, but I still wanna hear that song!
Great reaction to a great ABBA song. Oh how i like the bass playing in this song, especially in the verses! Listen carefully.... fantastic!!
That bass in this song is awesome , sublime , unmatched in a song of this kind !
Abba's velvet vocal sofa...Aaaahhg!How beautiful and relaxing.Frida's and Agnetha's utopic vocal and visual chemistry is out of this world!Some kind of addiction that you can't escape.The official video to this track is an iconic ABBA trademark.You gotta watch it.A blueprint of a whole era.Their early discography is more "carefree".Their later stuff is way more sophisticated, and sometimes times deep and dark.No matter all the venomous,humiliating critical voices at the time by the press esp in UK and America.They finally attracted a HUGE and loyal fan base that's an army of squillions.All kind of people and ages any color.From popsters,disco fans and classical music lovers to hip hopers, rappers,Lgbtq+community, metalheads,Punks and many famous Rockers that love them real hard,either openly or secretly.And greatly influential.David Grohl of FOO FIGHTERS, said that he sobbed like a baby together with his mother when he listened to Abba's 2 new songs last September, after 40 years of hiatus.Corey Taylor of SLIPKNOT, Jonathan Davies member of KORN,lead singer of SMASHING PUMPKINS and GENE SIMMONS of KISS,RAINBOW'S RICHIE BLACKMORE,some member of THE RAMONES and J.FRUSCIANTE of RHCPeppers are also self confessed big fans of Abba's "pop music" purity.John has often played and sung solo their S.O.S. classic while being on tour with the Peppers.Abba is also "all family music" to enjoy and they had oftenly been discribed as a commercial and cultural "phenomenon".And since you've asked A.B.B.A stands for the names of the band's members.A(Anni-Frid or Frida-the seductive spicy red haired beauty)Benny(the music composer and self taught keyboard wizzard)Bjorn( genius lyricist,vocalist and guitarist)and Agnetha(the shiny,blond perfumed angel).4 adorable legends but also so humble.And still there's no one to touch them in their kingdom.Thank you for doing this band first time i really,really enjoyed guys.
Still love abba
Much impressed with all of your knowledge. Glad I read your comment. 🙏❤️
They excelled in every (unique blend) of popstyles. No band has so.much diversity with their 22 world hits. Every song on most of their albums could easily be hits as well
Very harmonic ABBA like always. This song is beautiful for the electric guitar and the mixes voices.
"ARRIVAL" is a multi million selling masterpiece pop album.10 weeks No1 in UK.Their 2nd No1 out of 10(!)number ones albums.(Their last No1 was their "comeback" LP "VOYAGE" November 2021).This song is a glorious recording.It's video clip is ICONIC.Really wish you had done this.Very emotional and very "personal".Do prefer their videos cause the beauty of their music matches perfectly to the exceptional striking looks of both Frida and Agnetha.CHER got inspired by this clip and the charachteristic way of Agnetha's and Frida's facial close up shots.So when she did the photo cover for the sleeve of her succesful 2018 Abba tribute album she "double posed" same iconic way.Despite not getting the acknowledgement they deserved in the USA at the time,ABBA was/is really big deal in the musicverse.Second best selling band in the history of recorded music only second to THE BEATLES.Over 400 million records.Both guys were musicians and the song composers.Frida was an ex Jazz singer singing in bands since she was 14 before doing pop music.And Agnetha was a pianist and song composer on her own.I read recently that their "GOLD Greatest hits" collection is way over 10 million units sold in the USA alone.Including all formats(cd/vynil/streaming/downloading etc).Elvis Costello often covers this while playing live.Maybe next time try their other rock-pop classic SOS.Thanx for reacting to Abba,our childhood's sacred guilty pleasure.
Wow! A bit of a shocker that Ty liked this track. This is my favorite ABBA song. So glad that you you both “vibed” on it. As you so correctly pointed out, the vocals of the ladies are off the chain, and that’s for a few reasons, one is the beautiful voices of Agnetha and Frida and their natural ranges complimenting each other with Agnetha’s pure soprano and Frida’s warm mezzo soprano just naturally creating a pure harmony. Now mix in a stellar vocal arrangement and throw in a genius engineer, Michael Tretow, who basically came up with his own innovative way to get the biggest, fullest, sound by layering the.vocal track upon itself which doubled the sound of the vocals in the same vein as the infamous “wall of sound” Phil Spector is credited with innovating during his prolific studio recording sessions in the 60s and 70s. However, ABBA’s recording engineer Michael Tretow went a little bit further with the “wall of sound”. He is credited with creating what is often referred to as the “third voice” of ABBA.
That “third voice” was actually the layered vocal track being laid on top of the original track but with a very slight offset in timing which resulted in the listener hearing the layered vocal track as though it’s more singers than Agnetha and Frida. The sound is often attributed to being one of the main catalyst which propelled ABBA to mega pop stars around the world. Keep on the ABBA journey because they have a huge variety of styles in their music catalog and the biggest misnomer of ABBA being a “disco” act will quickly be dispelled as you discover that what ABBA did so well (and actually still do) as witnessed by the pristine production values of their current album “Voyage” which comes 40 years after their last studio album (The Visitors).
Great insight, we talk about your point in the "SOS" video we just filmed 😎 It's kinda cool, since we have only done 2 ABBA songs thus far, Ty knows them as just a cool Rock Band with nice harmonies 😎😎
Damn I wished you did the video version. My favourite ABBA song hands down.
La mejor banda pop d la historia tienen para reaccionar a docenas d hits un tema mejor q el otro
Abba took Disco and Pop, put it in a pot and blended it together perfectly. They were masters at creating hooks in their songs too, you would always be left with this huge earworm in your head for weeks. I believe they set the bar for modern pop going into the 80s that many pop bands took aboard and developed further.
So well discribed.Apart from their gifted talents it took them a lot of hard work to create every recording and all this legacy.Guys were writting music while sitting together side by side, using piano and acoustic guitar when music technology wasn't that progressed so that was far more difficult.Music composition was way more organic and honest.No computerized generic policies at those times.(Agnetha was also a composer and pianist on her own).Then she and Frida were recording in the studio with their microphones between them but standing face to face to watch each others mouth movements so to get synchronized and sooth to each others eyes and expressions!Recording process was a "holy" time.I still remember the agony and the excitement each time a new Abba record was anounced to be released.It was a music world event.Same thing i experienced again late last year!Couldn't believe i'ld live to taste such a thrilling thing again.Re-lived all of my past youth and I felt the need to cry ...a lot.Same way millions of other Abba fans did across the globe.
They have a version en español, "Conociendome, Conociendote", on their 1980 (all-Spanish) LP, "Gracias Por La Musica". Elvis Costello has a cover version of "Knowing Me, Knowing You". This was the biggest-selling single of the year 1977 in the U.K.
Really, Elvis Costello 😎 Fascinating
@@reactionextraction 🙂 Yes, besides Elvis Costello, ABBA has some pretty interesting and "unlikely" fans, admirers and those who praise their music. For example........Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Scott Ian (Anthrax), John Lennon (The Beatles), Pete Townshend (The Who), Bono (U2), one of the members of Swedish band "Ghost", Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, Lars Palmqvist, one of the vocalists of the Swedish Melodic Death Metal Band, "Scar Symmetry"......among others.
@@bachatamusica Scott Ian(Anthrax) wow pretty weird didn't know that.thanx.
@@christianoazzuro6711 👍😆Yep....I thought the same myself❗I remember seeing that in a T.V. documentary on ABBA. Even though they admit it now, they wouldn't have admitted it back in the day to their friends.....for fear of being considered "uncool".....Lol
ABBA is the initials of their first names.
Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid
Nice one guys! Colossus of a song and my fave ABBA track, good to see the young fella lovin' it too!
"ABBA" is an acronym formed from the first letters of each group member's first name: Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid, although there has never been any official confirmation of who each letter in the sequence refers to. From Google.
Thank you for another great video reaction!🇸🇪❤🇺🇸
Show your lovely kids ABBA singing their songs in the stadiums in Australia, they were such a great live and stadium group, just like Queen was.
thank you Therese 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇸🇪 I have seen those shows on great documentaries about ABBA's first rip to Australia, pretty incredible 😎
@@reactionextraction Another great live performance is Queen at Live Aid, that's an iconic one😉
Arrival is a fantastic album. The UK favorite album
I think the ARRIVAL album is their greatest achievement swiftly followed by ABBA the album, people of the 70's era can only truely understand/appreciate that.
The arrival album is when Abba started to be taken seriously and like the title of the album suggests they ABBA had well and truly arrived and were a force to be reckoned with. Two number one singles and a top three hit in the UK charts. They were on top of their game and Britain and the world couldn't get enough of them.
If the rest of the world took to them like Europe, Australia & South America did then they would've been at least on par with The Beatles
Great song, super reaction.
One of my fave songs from ABBA ❤️
ABBA... JUST LOVE IT! GREETINGS FROM VENEZUELA
ABBA - The Visitors will blow his mind!
I agree totally 😎😎
The name is acronym for the bands first letter of their first names
I’m following you just because you truly appreciate what ABBA was and still is; music icons
Listen to The Day Before You Came
Thank You and more ABBA on the way 😎😎
This Swedish supergroup is really something extra. Not only for their amazing music and talent but also their personalities and humble attitude.
🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇸🇪 🤘🏼
Their humbleness is a very Swedish trait.
i listened to the ABBA album all the time as a kid! My dad had one of those fancy portable CD players (this is like early 2000s before the ipod) I’d repeat this album on long car trips!! I ADORED this particular song, I haven’t listened to it again until now omg… I still think it’s amazing 🥹❤️
It’s an amazing tune that has stood the test of time very well. Hmm fancy portable CD player, gotta check into those, ha 😎😎
@@reactionextraction Yess! If you’re curious I believe the model was a Sony Walkman :D
Lets comment on something else than the awesome vocals. How about that bass line? ABBA allways had the bass high in the mix and it sounds superb.
This is such a good song. ABBA were legends at bridging Rock and Disco into a whole. People call this pop music and of course it is popular music, but ABBA is so much more than that. Those with ears will hear! ABBA is definitely not a disco band. They are a Rock band with Disco influences.
So True Richard .....So far Ty hasn't heard any Abba "disco" type stuff, so to him their just a cool rock band with good harmonies 😎😎
@@reactionextraction Well to be honest ABBA didn't actually release that many disco songs. They certainly considered themselves more of a Rock / Pop band.
This is also a melancholy but 'look you straight in the eye' anthem about the two AB- BA marriages both splitting, which soon would be leaving actual empty houses and no more childrens laughter... the swelling emotion of the 'we just have to face it this time we're through is astonishing imho. By the way, thats the meaning of ABBA ; Agnetha Bjorn Benny Annafrieda.
"Knowing me, knowing you" has 4 separate harmonies with both girls doing all vocals.
& Bjorn/Benny singing the backing vocals, the song wouldn't be the same without the backing vocals
Great reaction to this awesome band👍!! You were close with their best yrs….from 1972-1982🕺!! Agnetha (blonde) was actually married to Bjorn for 9 of those yrs….& Frida was married to Benny (beard) for the last 3 yrs of their career. They were inducted into The Rock Hall of Fame in 2010 by The Bee Gees Barry & Robin Gibb….& The Gibb’s were inducted in 1997 by The Beach Boys Brian Wilson. Try to make it to The Rock every yr….as live about an hr from there🎼!
Very Cool indeed .... Wow those are all total legends !! 😎😎
It would be fun for him to watch the video because the visual element is just as enjoyable as the song itself
Brilliant record ♥
Another interesting song by ABBA to check out is "Eagle, remember that one?
"Eagle" is the song that it's keyboard riff was kinda "unofficially sampled" by the Human League for their 1981 smash "Don't you want me".Twas stated by member of the group some decades later on.Same happened with Blondie's 1980 "Dreaming" hit single.Chris Stein main male member of the band confessed some years ago that the main melody was ripped off by the chorus of "Dancing Queen" and that they were kinda lucky that Abba didn't do anything ,against it.
Yes great example of Abba as New Wave before New Wave really existed. The Visitors is another one - near Goth Abba!!
@@mongooz24 ""Near Goth Abba"...ha!ha!i loved that.
There is a video here on TH-cam of this lady who breaks this song down and sings all the individual parts of it and it is insane. How layered and perfectly structured this song is, ABBA does not get the credit they deserve when it comes to songwriting
I love ABBA so thanks! I love loads of kinds of music. I don't care what genre or who it is as long as it speaks to me. Subscribed. I will say my idol is George Michael and I hope you react to him sometime. xx
Thx Suzanne 😎 Yes love George, awesome talent, legendary Mojo. More to come on the show for sure. We have done wham! and GM reactions already, but don't watch "The Edge of Heaven" one, Ty was having a bad day, ha 😳
@@reactionextraction Ahh I won't then 😆! That song is special to me because, though, because it was Wham!'s last song and it reminds me of The Final concert they did at Wembley, which I was so lucky to be at. But if Ty doesn't like that one then maybe try Where Did Your Heart Go? from The Final EP which included The Edge of Heaven. It's sublime and is actually a cover - it was written by Was Not Was. George's voice is wonderful as usual. Thanks, 😃. I'll be watching your reactions, whatever you do. XX
Very good choice. I mean other songs like 'Dancing Queen' and 'Mamma Mia' are great but tend to get overplayed in connection with ABBA. 'SOS' and 'The Name Of The Game' are stellar tracks too.
SOS is next!
there is a music video to this song its really good
My brother is almost six years older than me, so I grew up hearing all the mid- to late-70s stuff thanks to him. I heard a lot of ABBA - mostly hits! I didn’t know this one as well as most, but it was good! I’m into catchy, so “Take A Chance” has always stuck with me as a favorite. What’s more catchy than that?! 😎
Hey NoCanDu hi there!.PLS You Do watch the official video 1977 clip to this gem.You'll really fall in love with these two naturally beautiful girls and feel even more the spirit of this breakup anthem.It's a must.Your dear brother was blessed to know even more lol!
"TAKE A CHANCE ON ME"" "What's more catchy than that?!ha!ha!Agree This jolly song is like dopanine.
2022 and the band as good as new! ! (@t least virtual avatars) None can match Frida n Agnetha voices
"Knowing me knowing you" (1976)
is one of ABBA's most famous heartthrob songs
The lyrics are strong and raw (some say there is a preview of the couple conflicts between Agnetha & Björn)
And it has a powerful chorus on Agnetha and Frida, and a nice melody
There is an excellent official video, it shows the four of them in separation situations, and plays with the images of the trios
The part that stands out the most is the appearance of the image of Agnetha almost whispering as a reflection of Frida's main voice
"Knowing me knowing you"
was five weeks in a row at #1 in the UK, and one of them coincided with the #1 of "Dancing Queen" on the Billboard.
(Just this week of April 9, 1977, 44 years ago, ABBA was #1 in the U.S. and U.K. with two different songs from the same album
Knowing me knowing you"
is one of their hits that ABBA recorded in spanish at 1980, with the tittle: "Conociéndome, Conociéndote",
part of their album in spanish language
"Gracias por la música" (1980)
ABBA recorded in spanish after the colossal success of "Chiquitita" (1979) in Latin American countries
I ask you if you can give one more visit to this fantastic album "Arrival"
There is a very special ballad:
"My love My life"
and with a very special video, because only the blonde singer Agnetha (who is the main voice) appears
I highly recommend it
Here I leave the link:
th-cam.com/video/C7oiWbA6hDc/w-d-xo.html
ABBA is an acronym of all four members names! Agnetha Benny Bjorn Anni-Frid. ABBA!
ABBA is an acronym: Agnetha (Fältskog) Björn (Ulvaeus) Benny (Andersson) and Anni-Frid (Lyngstad)
Thank you.. interesting reaction.
Abba was really in their own league ..
I´d say:
1. The Beatles
2. Abba
Then .. the rest.
Can't argue with that 😎 maybe add Depeche Mode at 3 to the list ✌🏼
@@reactionextraction I think there are other prospects as no 3 in that case.. Like Beach Boys, Queen or Elton John maybe.
Ok maybe your right, just trying to get my Fav band in there somewhere, ha. 🤩
Listen to Agnatha’s album”A” it is wonderful. Give it a go
You really should show him I`m a marionette. Very different song by Abba, part of the Girl with the golden hair- mini musical from The Album.
Yeah their the Best. Voulez Vous is the Best Song Ever.
Maybe you guys also want to react on the first music video played on MTV. Video killed the radio star by the Buggles
Please do introduce Eagle to the channel. And The day before you came. And I`m a marionette. They have so many fantastic songs to chose from. Their biggest selling hit Fernando. Hole in your soul. So much. Gimme Gimme Gimme ( a man after midnight). Summer night city. Voulez-Vous. The visitors.
The success they had in the US is nothing compared to the success they had in Europe, South America & Australia. ABBA are one of the all time biggest bands ever 2nd only to the Beatles.
And honestly if I'm going to put it mildly.... The place that they had the least success was probably the US as far as promotion and charting with songs. Now the UK and Australia. That's a whole other story. They were borderline fever epidemic there in both those places, every single album they released including the last album 2021's Voyage... And the lead single from that album, got to the top 10 in the singles charts
I have watched a documentary on ABBA's first rip to Australia and it was epic 😎 The US sometimes has artist, even great ones, get lost in the artistic noise of the time period. I recall my older brother and sister loving ABBA and always playing their records big time 😎
@@reactionextraction The big thing with the US is that it's a market that you have to constantly be promoting yourself in, you have to spend long periods of time in the US and everyone know that ABBA for notorious Burnett wanting to travel for very long periods of time especially Agnetha
You like a bit of Rock. Try Hey hey Helen
ABBA Is simply Agneta, Björn, Benny, and Annifrid. The names of the band members. It is also the name of God in Hebrew. "God as Father"
In Sweden ABBA is also the name of a nationally known and very popular fish company with many canned fish such as herring being a staple in Swedish households.
@@jerrycote659 Hahahhaaa... Shhh... lol
People ignoring the very sad story behind this song, and it's not about a couple breaking up
Abba mean's father. It's in the Bible, look it up. Or in the great words of pop icons every where, Prince, Madonna, Abba (Father or POP) hey Pop, I love you.
Thx for the love Sam 😎✌🏼
(A) Agnetha (B) Bjorn (B) Benny (A) Anni-Frid = ABBA.
During their heyday, Abbas success in the USA was decent, but not mega status like most other countries.
Yes ABBA stands for their first name initials. Also, listen to Level 42's Something About You!!
I like this version, but you can do the original too: th-cam.com/video/wbydKAFfJAc/w-d-xo.html
WJay SABY was my fave one from Level 42!
Believe You Me, I've been waiting patiently on the show to Dive Into one of my fav 80's bands Level 42 !!
@@reactionextraction Having heard only some big hits of Level 42 (which i do like),i can tell they sound more American to me than English.Kinda Hall and Oates reminiscent,which btw i also like and enjoy ,maybe slightly even more.
ABBA is classic and is as good now as it was then and probably in fifty years...
Guy on the right can't sit still :)
Aniridia's son went to the same school as me in Eskilstuna 12 Swedish miles from Stockholm.🇸🇪🫶🥰👍