This marked a new level of sophistication in their output. It's nice that Agnetha and Frida both get solo moments plus we get the classic "third voice" when they sing together. It's just perfect ABBA!
As a teen in the 70’s, this was popular, but not “cool”. It was definitely a guilty pleasure, but I’d never let my friends know I liked ABBA. Now, I’m proudly a fan. I’ll blast it from my car, and sing along without caring who sees me. ❤
ABBA and the Carpenters. Complete dork in high school, but I think I know talent when I hear it. This is my wife's favorite of ABBA's, but it is impossible for me to choose.
ABBA is, for my tastes, the single most sensational delivery system for perfect pop. Sophisticated construction hidden within ear-pleasing catchy hooks with the most divine harmonies from any artists of all time.
I'm so glad you chose this song. This is probably my favorite Abba song, because the lyrics really spoke to me as a kid when it came out: "I'm a bashful child beginning to grow," "You make me show what I'm trying to conceal," "Would you laugh at me if you said I care for you." And the music is so sophisticated, so many distinct sections. Just beautiful!
Good observations This is such a deepl complex song so tightly constructed that Abba made it seem so deceptively simple. "i have no friends,no one to see and iam never invited/I was an impossible case,no one ever could reach me... This is more than just a lovesong.Behind its 'kinky velvet beat' It deals with a woman's insecurity and reluctance to give in to a love affair."If i said i cared for ,would you laugh at me?''.Man ,That phrase , how disarmingly vulnerable!...It also unsuspiciously deals with issues of agoraphobia (as a journalist once commented) hinting Bjorn's lyric theme concerned Agnetha's fear of crowds.In 'Abba The Movie' this song is presented marvelously and also has a scene on where Agneta is laying on a coach supposedly talking with a phsycologist. That version is edited compared to the original but those beautiful scenes featured are my faves over the proper video clip which i also love.
They were pioneers of multi layering their tracks. They were also perfectionists, so most of the time they wouldn’t release a song until they were 100% satisfied with it. When you mentioned being unable to stop smiling, you’re probably with 99% of all of us who enjoy ABBA. Their songs always make you smile and get you in a good mood.
ABBA, in a class of their own. Magically magnificent. Like the Beatles you should do them in chronological order. Make sure to include Andante, Andante, the mostly sensual song ever, in my opinion
Magically magnificent, yeah! Love your wording my friend Supremely sublime, too it was UK Number 1 for four weeks in November 1977, when i was eleven years old Magical & Magnificent to me then.... & still is
This one and "Knowing Me Knowing You" are my all time favorite Abba songs. I think that is a trumpet that you are wondering about and YES can we just talk about that?!? I absolutely adore that little snippet! The way it just slightly embellishes that part of the song always sends me!
I was married in 1972, so when ABBA first hit the air waves over here I was just starting my family, and I really loved ABBA. My youngest son was born in 1977, then I was divorced in 1983. Years later when I was travelling with my boys, who were in their teen years, I stuck my ABBA Gold CD in the slot to listen to, and my youngest son exclaimed "WHO IS THAT?" He was crazy about them and went back to Austin and introduced all his friends to ABBA. I was thrilled to say the least that my son was enjoying my music so much. Don't stop listening to them now because there's plenty more great ABBA songs for you to discover. 👍
Abba, in their unique style, often intermix the genres pop and rock. Not for nothing, the "pop-group" Abba was inducted in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 2010
These exotic Swedes are maybe the most apreciated and beloved pop music makers by lots of rockers and metalheads.Either openly or secretly.This is also the most beloved pop band for many rock celebrities.Bono,Richie Blackmoore,Ian Gillan,Corey Taylor,David Grohl to mention but a few...
I've noticed the same thing, many rockers, and metalheads, have this unexplainable mysterious love for ABBA, and I'm one of them. I think even Johnny Rotten admitted his love for them. In a recent stream by internet “music-dad” Rick Beato, he too admitted he loves them. ABBA songs are often clever and catchy at the same time, plus they have the vocal pyrotechnics of Anni-frid and Agnetha. There's also this slightly melancholic dreamy ambience on some songs, this one has it, Chiquitita has it too. Just a fun band that is impossible to recreate or imitate. That's usually a sign of true originality.
@@AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb Hey!Hi there!Yeah i saw this vid by R>Baeto and felt so surprised and also happy with his comments!And yes J.Rotten even sang...'Fernando' in front of a live audience in a theatre hall about a couple of years ago ...i've seen the vid in utube.
@@christianoazzuro6711 Apparently, Rick Beato has an interview with Björn Ulvaeus (songwriter and guitarist of ABBA) coming up soon. At least that's how I interpreted his studio video update from yesterday. Cheers
@@AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb Oh man you think he finally did interview him?! He actually mentioned some hints in his 'live from Sweden' video" but I gotta be aware to watch this if ever/whenever this gets uploaded.Lt'll be very interesting.Thank you very much for responding.
And btw in case someone's interested here's a sneaked demo from Abba with this song while they were in the making of , during the recording proccess in the studio .th-cam.com/video/MnRopjIbLcg/w-d-xo.html
I think this is a masterpiece, surprisingly overlooked today, but one of their very best! Another sound, but also very creative, futuristic and quite gloomy, try 'The Visitors', the title track of their last studio album from 1981 (at least it was their last until their surprise comeback album Voyage). It doesn't have a video, but it's crazy!
My favourite ABBA song, and one of my all-time favourite songs period. The first time I heard it I felt I'd been waiting for it to exist all my life. Not just for the melody and lyrics, but for the astounding arrangement and production. When the soundscape clamps right down ("and you make me talk...") then widens right up, and when that high synth counterpoint kicks in - absolute magic. It sends shives up and down my spine. For pop, ABBA cannot be beaten, and this is them at their creative peak. For them at their most intriguing and experimental best, try the underrated "The Visitors".
Complex, catchy, original thats ABBA! They pioneered a lot in the studio, but unlike most of there contamporaries those experiments where tastefull and perfectly integrated. They know to craft a song!! ( its allmost 50 years old ...)
One of my favorite ABBA songs. It is more downbeat and complex than a lot of their previous songs. A few features that make the song so original - I love the syncoped bass line in the intro along with the punch drums. The point where all the instruments drop out except for the drums and then come back in. The extra “I wanna know” at the final chorus. Creates an anticipation . The combining of the different Melodies toward the end (you don’t hear this very often in pop music). The switch from minor key in the verse to major in the chorus. All this plus the amazing vocals make this quite a masterpiece.
It doesn't matter, rocker, rapper, metalhead, synth nut...good music is good music, and ABBA had fantastic melodies, vocal harmonies, lyrics, musicianship! I'll debate anyone that says they were just 'disco' - sure some of their biggest hits were, but through their catalogue, there was diverse and varied sounds that went WAY beyond just disco! HIGHLY suggest The Piper, Fernando, Lay All Your Love On Me, Chiquitita & The Eagle...for your next ABBA tracks!
ABBA has the catchiest most irresistible music out there. You can’t help feeling happy and bop along! This is one of my favorites, though, because of all the ebb and flows. Love it.
ABBA is just straight-up feel-good ear-candy pop! It puts a smile on your face, And it’s a beautiful thing. Keep in mind this came out the same year as Rumors by Fleetwood Mac…and a slew of other fantastic releases. 1977 was one of the great years for popular music.
Great reaction! Thank you. I remember when this song first was released. People didn't like it because it wasn't the same ABBA that created Dancing Queen and Mama Mia, but it heralded their growing sophistication. I never tire of this song. It's like three songs in one. Keep ABBA coming!! Thank you!!
1977 was the height and pinnacle of Disco and "The Name of The Game" IS the 70s! No disrespect to Dancing Queen, but that song and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" highlight The ABBA sound!! Yes, they used synths. They are masters of the sound and the layering. This song showcase the verses the ladies sing individually and combined to give what is famously known in ABBA-fandom as, "The Third Voice". No one has matched it to date.
This album also includes another prog gem.The magnificent opener 'EAGLE'!Spread your wings and fly with this.but be sure it's the unedited 5 plius minute version not the butchered one.
I agree about Eagle. Great reaction to Winner! We couldn't have imagined that all these years later we'd be loving them all over again by watching the young people having their minds blown at their brilliance!!
@@jillhopper5614 Oh!well ,me being a teenager in the late '70s i confirm we had a huge mass of toxic critical voices over our heads shooting poison straight to our minds for loving Abba ,trying to convince us that these perfect lil pop masterpieces that ended up being blueuprints were non worthy , unserious,forgetable commercial crap.Now i'm So glad and proud now we have the last laugh.And New Gens do aprove!.
There were so many truly great bands and talented performers making music during this era. The zenith of pop music as an art form in my opinion. ABBA were most certainly among them. What sets them apart though, ahead of all the rest, is the quality of the songwriting. Beautiful, unforgettable, intertwining melodies which tug at your emotions, and stay with you. And SO MANY of them. hit after hit, album after album. They were prolific. If you look at how long (or not) they were around, the sheer amount and quality of their output in a relatively short space of time is remarkable. It's no wonder that Bjorn & Benny went on to have such huge success as songwriters for the theatre. Literally everyone the world over loves ABBA. That is their unique genius and unparalleled legacy.
This song was a revelation in 1978. It was in a class of it's own. And to this day, it is one of the most beautiful songs ever created. I've heard it SO many times in the last 46 years, and I still get caught off guard by how perfectly layered and complex it is.
Truly remarkable group, and it's true they have so many great songs you almost can't go wrong with any of them. The live performance of Does Your Mother Know straight into Hole In Your Soul from the Wembley show in 79 is special, highly recommended
They are IT for me, and have been since 1974 when I heard Honey, Honey. I was 15, and knew. When this album came out in 1978, I used to wear the headphones like you, and listen to this over and over again. It's Brilliant. They are magnificent. Thanks for doing this.
I’m a soul/funk junkie since 1980. And I LOVEalmost everything ABBA. I was 10-11 when this came out. My friend is a metalhead and loves ABBA. So does my mother. 😂 And I think every boy/guy/man falls in love, just from hearing their voices. Another favorite ABBA song is Eagle. ✨👌🏼✨
ABBA has so many great songs. It's so hard to pick favorites, because they're all so great. The Name of the Game is definitely really is one of their best. My favorite was actually one of their last, off their last album called The Visitor (both the song and the album). It's very dark and serious, about paranoia... like nothing else they had done up to them. There's no video, but I hope you check it out sometime.
OK everybody thumbs up for this fanrastic reaction. This is a really complicated song,it's also hook here,hook there,hook everywhere.Don't know why but i usually get a feeling of summerbreeze many times i listen to this.This is prog/pop with soulful paintings.Hip- hop band The Fugges sampled this in 1996. Despite the strict and cynical criticism they received at the time from part of the music press(mainly USA/UK/Swedish) there were also a lot of open minded specialists that acknowleledged Abba as a global music culture "phenomenon' who had come here to stay and i still do remember such titles in their articles.Man!.. they were so damned right ... time has proved.
This is one of my favorite, this has so any different feelings, is a great song, you have like 3 or five parts, for me show how good Benny and Bjorn were as musicians, and the harmonies like always with Abba, this has Agneta, Frida, and four Harmonies, has great guitar, kboard, and some other instruments, but I not sure what is
Loving your reaction to Abba! My favourite band since 1976! I have so many suggestions! I've been waiting for you, Lay all your love on me, Kisses of Fire, That's me, Eagle, just a notion, Fernando, Chiquitita, so long, I do I do I do, Waterloo, Summer night city, my love my life, one of us, slipping through my fingers, super trouper, Andante Andante, and so many more! Also when you get a chance listen to If you leave me now by Chicago. Greetings from Barbados 🇧🇧
This is maybe my number 1 song of all time, just love it😮 It just gets better when you hear it more aswell. Next choice of ABBA if you want another kind of style - I’d pick Eagle (long version), also from ABBA - The Album. Abba was great LIVE - here my pickwould be Does Your Mother Know/Hole In Your Soul from Wembley or one from Australia like S.O.S./I’ve been waiting for you. Enjoy 🙂
Pure talent, I was 10 in 1977, although I didn’t discover them until about 79, I was obsessed, my mom was so sick of hearing me sing along with them every night when I went to bed 😂, still love them today, and was thrilled when they got back together 40 years later ❤, thanyou for sharing this truly talented group ❤.
As much as I like this song, it was Take A Chance that really took hold of me. And it was a much bigger hit here in America than TNOTG. It played on the radio throughout the summer of 78, along with Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street (another favorite). Great memories! Shortly after I bought Abba Gr. Hits vol. 1 from the RCA music club and I wore it out to the point my family shook their heads when I played it. And I also caught ridicule from my peers. But, like you, I didn't care. I have been a fan since that summer. They are forever in my heart. Yes, "Eagle" is another masterpiece; progressive rock-Abba. Side A of The Album has one of the greatest line-ups+Move On and Hole in your Soul. Abba-perfected!!
Great react SalvoG, it's a treat to watch you get "beside yourself" during a reaction. When the music pulls you left, then right, center, back and forth, then not knowing which way to go into the song is priceless. Abba is a guilty pleasure, the musicianship is stellar, upbeat pop music and clean vocal harmonies, along with wholesome lyricism punches all the buttons in one's soul. In the 70s i did what you've experienced, jumping from bands like Led Zep, ZZ Top, Doobie Brothers, to Abba, and the Carpenters, seamlessly and feel like you've had an sensory experience. Highly satisfying❤
As an old "prog-rocker" (my first own album was ELP "Trilogy", my second the "Yessongs") I had my problems admitting in the mid-70s that I also found ABBA great. But ABBA was (and still is) really good at making music. On the one hand, of course, the beautiful voices, but above all the art of arranging simple melodies that anyone can sing along in such a complex way that the songs don't get boring even after listening to them 100 times. In addition, there were also lyrics in which everyone could find themselves without being shallow.
You should work your way through ABBA Gold (plus The Visitors and Day Before You Came and Lay All Your Love On Me) as like a special treat for us. Quick edit, Benny Andersson is honestly one of the greatest composers of the last 100 years. He’s a genius.
So great seeing your reaction, re' all the different sections & changes in this song. I've often felt that there's so many ideas in this song, it could have been made into 2 songs.
One of my favourites! I love the little hiccup in the guitar rhythm at the beginning of the first chorus. Knowing Me Knowing You would be my suggestion for you to do next :)
LOVE your genuine, passionate reviews. ABBA are AMAZING! I STRONGLY SUGGEST "The Winner Takes It All!" "Lay All YOUR Love On Me" is my second favorite ABBA single. "The Day BeforecYiu Came" is a close second one.. I also strongly recommend you review this years Grammy nominated "Don't Shut Me Down" from almost two years ago NEW MUSIC from the #1 album globally, "Voyage." Amazing SURPRISE revival album, after almost 40 years!!!
I like it that you do a research in the intro of your reaction videos.I apreciate it and enjoy thius.And since you mentioned Led Zeppelin do know that one of their albums (i think 'In through the outdoor")was recorded in Abba's super special studios in Stockholm.The famous Polar studio that was one of the best equiped ones worldwide.
Not my usual Floyd Yes stuff, but ABBA were such a part of my childhood and this song is an absolute CLASSIC! ❤❤❤ Try Under Attack: among the last things they did at that time. Now I’m on an ABBA trip I’ll have to see your other reactions 🎉
I am one of those new subscribers and had already enjoyed your reactions of Elvis and Wilburys, and now another of my favorites, this is becoming great. All about this group is fabulous, the astonishing vocals of the girls, those harmonies of the entire group, everything. Will give you some suggestions I think you will enjoy: 'As good as new', 'Angeleyes', 'Happy Hawaii', 'Waterloo', 'S.O.S.', 'Ring, Ring', 'Knowing me Knowing you'.
Now you need to listen to by ABBA: Dancing Queen Waterloo Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Knowing me, knowing you Take a Chance on Me Honey Honey Lay all your love on me Super Trouper Does your Mother Know Fernando Chiquitita Angel eyes One of Us SOS Our Last Summer Move On Thank You For the Music Just listen to them all!
Dude, in the same boat. Love my rock but appreciate great pop and Benny and Bjorn's musical choices and the production values are still absolutely insane. A masterclass in pop-craft.
ABBA is wonderful. It will be a long time before they are forgotten. And even so, as soon as someone listens to them again, they will surrender to their musical quality.
I really think SalvoG would love "winner takes it all." It has the remarkably strong vocal he will gush over and the strong emotion behind the meaning of the song. He will like it in 10 seconds.
This is Abba's reaction to west coast rock of the late 70's. Dude, go into other things, like Chiquitita or Money, Money, Money. They will blow your mind.
Great use of vocals as another instrument with them drifting in and out. Very much a change with ABBA in 1977 with a more adult sound starting the year with Knowing me Knowing you and ending it with this.
Your reaction to this brilliant ABBA song is brilliant so far I have watched it six times. Because unlike you I haven't studied music the way you have I listen to ABBA Purley on a I love ABBA, you listen to them instrument by instrument basis with a very discerning ear.
This marked a new level of sophistication in their output. It's nice that Agnetha and Frida both get solo moments plus we get the classic "third voice" when they sing together. It's just perfect ABBA!
As a teen in the 70’s, this was popular, but not “cool”. It was definitely a guilty pleasure, but I’d never let my friends know I liked ABBA.
Now, I’m proudly a fan. I’ll blast it from my car, and sing along without caring who sees me. ❤
Same here!
Ditto!
Same, they are ear candy!
ABBA and the Carpenters. Complete dork in high school, but I think I know talent when I hear it. This is my wife's favorite of ABBA's, but it is impossible for me to choose.
Me too! Absolutely loved them since I first heard them aged 4 in 1974❤❤ Not always easy to admit to
ABBA is, for my tastes, the single most sensational delivery system for perfect pop. Sophisticated construction hidden within ear-pleasing catchy hooks with the most divine harmonies from any artists of all time.
That synthesized orchestration in this is amazing. Bjorn and Benny knew what they were doing.
I'm so glad you chose this song. This is probably my favorite Abba song, because the lyrics really spoke to me as a kid when it came out: "I'm a bashful child beginning to grow," "You make me show what I'm trying to conceal," "Would you laugh at me if you said I care for you." And the music is so sophisticated, so many distinct sections. Just beautiful!
Good observations
This is such a deepl complex song so tightly constructed that Abba made it seem so deceptively simple.
"i have no friends,no one to see and iam never invited/I was an impossible case,no one ever could reach me...
This is more than just a lovesong.Behind its 'kinky velvet beat' It deals with a woman's insecurity and reluctance to give in to a love affair."If i said i cared for ,would you laugh at me?''.Man ,That phrase , how disarmingly vulnerable!...It also unsuspiciously deals with issues of agoraphobia (as a journalist once commented) hinting Bjorn's lyric theme concerned Agnetha's fear of crowds.In 'Abba The Movie' this song is presented marvelously and also has a scene on where Agneta is laying on a coach supposedly talking with a phsycologist. That version is edited compared to the original but those beautiful scenes featured are my faves over the proper video clip which i also love.
They were pioneers of multi layering their tracks. They were also perfectionists, so most of the time they wouldn’t release a song until they were 100% satisfied with it.
When you mentioned being unable to stop smiling, you’re probably with 99% of all of us who enjoy ABBA. Their songs always make you smile and get you in a good mood.
Much was thanks to their engineer, Michael B Tretow, who is a genius.
ABBA, in a class of their own. Magically magnificent. Like the Beatles you should do them in chronological order. Make sure to include Andante, Andante, the mostly sensual song ever, in my opinion
Magically magnificent, yeah!
Love your wording my friend
Supremely sublime, too
it was UK Number 1 for four weeks in November 1977, when i was eleven years old
Magical & Magnificent to me then....
& still is
This one and "Knowing Me Knowing You" are my all time favorite Abba songs. I think that is a trumpet that you are wondering about and YES can we just talk about that?!? I absolutely adore that little snippet! The way it just slightly embellishes that part of the song always sends me!
Wow! Same here. My 2 favorite ABBA songs are also #1 Knowing Me Knowing You and #2 The Name Of The Game.
@@jerrycote659Awesome!!!❤ we have good taste! Lol😊
Glad you did this one. Please please please do Knowing Me, Knowing You!!!!
Absolutely!
Yes, do it! My favorite FRIDA-lead song. And a top 5 favorite.
I was married in 1972, so when ABBA first hit the air waves over here I was just starting my family, and I really loved ABBA. My youngest son was born in 1977, then I was divorced in 1983. Years later when I was travelling with my boys, who were in their teen years, I stuck my ABBA Gold CD in the slot to listen to, and my youngest son exclaimed "WHO IS THAT?" He was crazy about them and went back to Austin and introduced all his friends to ABBA. I was thrilled to say the least that my son was enjoying my music so much. Don't stop listening to them now because there's plenty more great ABBA songs for you to discover. 👍
Abba, in their unique style, often intermix the genres pop and rock. Not for nothing, the "pop-group" Abba was inducted in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 2010
These exotic Swedes are maybe the most apreciated and beloved pop music makers by lots of rockers and metalheads.Either openly or secretly.This is also the most beloved pop band for many rock celebrities.Bono,Richie Blackmoore,Ian Gillan,Corey Taylor,David Grohl to mention but a few...
I've noticed the same thing, many rockers, and metalheads, have this unexplainable mysterious love for ABBA, and I'm one of them. I think even Johnny Rotten admitted his love for them. In a recent stream by internet “music-dad” Rick Beato, he too admitted he loves them.
ABBA songs are often clever and catchy at the same time, plus they have the vocal pyrotechnics of Anni-frid and Agnetha. There's also this slightly melancholic dreamy ambience on some songs, this one has it, Chiquitita has it too. Just a fun band that is impossible to recreate or imitate. That's usually a sign of true originality.
@@AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb Hey!Hi there!Yeah i saw this vid by R>Baeto and felt so surprised and also happy with his comments!And yes J.Rotten even sang...'Fernando' in front of a live audience in a theatre hall about a couple of years ago ...i've seen the vid in utube.
@@christianoazzuro6711 Apparently, Rick Beato has an interview with Björn Ulvaeus (songwriter and guitarist of ABBA) coming up soon. At least that's how I interpreted his studio video update from yesterday.
Cheers
@@AbrahamdeLacy-xm8sb Oh man you think he finally did interview him?! He actually mentioned some hints in his 'live from Sweden' video" but I gotta be aware to watch this if ever/whenever this gets uploaded.Lt'll be very interesting.Thank you very much for responding.
And btw in case someone's interested here's a sneaked demo from Abba with this song while they were in the making of , during the recording proccess in the studio
.th-cam.com/video/MnRopjIbLcg/w-d-xo.html
This song imo, highlights the amazing harmonies of ABBA…it’s one of my favorites of all time.
I think this is a masterpiece, surprisingly overlooked today, but one of their very best! Another sound, but also very creative, futuristic and quite gloomy, try 'The Visitors', the title track of their last studio album from 1981 (at least it was their last until their surprise comeback album Voyage). It doesn't have a video, but it's crazy!
Aren't they just marvelous!!!
My favourite ABBA song, and one of my all-time favourite songs period. The first time I heard it I felt I'd been waiting for it to exist all my life. Not just for the melody and lyrics, but for the astounding arrangement and production. When the soundscape clamps right down ("and you make me talk...") then widens right up, and when that high synth counterpoint kicks in - absolute magic. It sends shives up and down my spine. For pop, ABBA cannot be beaten, and this is them at their creative peak. For them at their most intriguing and experimental best, try the underrated "The Visitors".
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Genius. There is no other word for this song.
More! More ABBA!
You won’t regret it. 💙💛💙💛
They were and are the geniuses of their time,all their songs were and are perfectly put together, with the vocals that can't be matched.
Complex, catchy, original thats ABBA! They pioneered a lot in the studio, but unlike most of there contamporaries those experiments where tastefull and perfectly integrated. They know to craft a song!! ( its allmost 50 years old ...)
Top tier ABBA song! Perfectly showcases the four of them, four major talents coming together for a perfect song
One of my favorite ABBA songs. It is more downbeat and complex than a lot of their previous songs. A few features that make the song so original - I love the syncoped bass line in the intro along with the punch drums. The point where all the instruments drop out except for the drums and then come back in. The extra “I wanna know” at the final chorus. Creates an anticipation . The combining of the different Melodies toward the end (you don’t hear this very often in pop music). The switch from minor key in the verse to major in the chorus. All this plus the amazing vocals make this quite a masterpiece.
ABBA = Perfect pop.
The best after 50 years! Incredible! Respect 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
ABBA’s "Chiquitita" will be a perfect follow-up.
It doesn't matter, rocker, rapper, metalhead, synth nut...good music is good music, and ABBA had fantastic melodies, vocal harmonies, lyrics, musicianship! I'll debate anyone that says they were just 'disco' - sure some of their biggest hits were, but through their catalogue, there was diverse and varied sounds that went WAY beyond just disco!
HIGHLY suggest The Piper, Fernando, Lay All Your Love On Me, Chiquitita & The Eagle...for your next ABBA tracks!
As georgous and stunning as 47 years ago ❤❤❤!!
I enjoy watching how the music moves you so dramatically...dance and spin
ABBA has the catchiest most irresistible music out there. You can’t help feeling happy and bop along! This is one of my favorites, though, because of all the ebb and flows. Love it.
ABBA is just straight-up feel-good ear-candy pop! It puts a smile on your face, And it’s a beautiful thing. Keep in mind this came out the same year as Rumors by Fleetwood Mac…and a slew of other fantastic releases. 1977 was one of the great years for popular music.
One of their best, so complex on many levels.
Perfection.
Certainly the most sophisticated song by ABBA ! 😍😍😍😍😍😍👌
Frida ❤
This was recorded in 1977 - still sounds fresh today / they worked so hard and were all perfectionists/ signing in a foreign language - incredible
Chanson très sophistiquée. Un vrai bijou. ❤❤
most complex and most contemplative song by ABBA. Just my absolute favorite one
Great reaction! Thank you. I remember when this song first was released. People didn't like it because it wasn't the same ABBA that created Dancing Queen and Mama Mia, but it heralded their growing sophistication. I never tire of this song. It's like three songs in one. Keep ABBA coming!! Thank you!!
1977 was the height and pinnacle of Disco and "The Name of The Game" IS the 70s! No disrespect to Dancing Queen, but that song and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" highlight The ABBA sound!! Yes, they used synths. They are masters of the sound and the layering. This song showcase the verses the ladies sing individually and combined to give what is famously known in ABBA-fandom as, "The Third Voice". No one has matched it to date.
This album also includes another prog gem.The magnificent opener 'EAGLE'!Spread your wings and fly with this.but be sure it's the unedited 5 plius minute version not the butchered one.
I agree about Eagle. Great reaction to Winner! We couldn't have imagined that all these years later we'd be loving them all over again by watching the young people having their minds blown at their brilliance!!
@@jillhopper5614 Oh!well ,me being a teenager in the late '70s i confirm we had a huge mass of toxic critical voices over our heads shooting poison straight to our minds for loving Abba ,trying to convince us that these perfect lil pop masterpieces that ended up being blueuprints were non worthy , unserious,forgetable commercial crap.Now i'm So glad and proud now we have the last laugh.And New Gens do aprove!.
No pun intended, but it absolutely soars.
There were so many truly great bands and talented performers making music during this era. The zenith of pop music as an art form in my opinion. ABBA were most certainly among them. What sets them apart though, ahead of all the rest, is the quality of the songwriting. Beautiful, unforgettable, intertwining melodies which tug at your emotions, and stay with you. And SO MANY of them. hit after hit, album after album. They were prolific. If you look at how long (or not) they were around, the sheer amount and quality of their output in a relatively short space of time is remarkable.
It's no wonder that Bjorn & Benny went on to have such huge success as songwriters for the theatre.
Literally everyone the world over loves ABBA. That is their unique genius and unparalleled legacy.
This song was a revelation in 1978. It was in a class of it's own. And to this day, it is one of the most beautiful songs ever created. I've heard it SO many times in the last 46 years, and I still get caught off guard by how perfectly layered and complex it is.
Truly remarkable group, and it's true they have so many great songs you almost can't go wrong with any of them. The live performance of Does Your Mother Know straight into Hole In Your Soul from the Wembley show in 79 is special, highly recommended
I keep coming back to these ABBA reactions. Brings me back to a simpler time 🥹
They are IT for me, and have been since 1974 when I heard Honey, Honey. I was 15, and knew. When this album came out in 1978, I used to wear the headphones like you, and listen to this over and over again. It's Brilliant. They are magnificent. Thanks for doing this.
I’m a soul/funk junkie since 1980. And I LOVEalmost everything ABBA. I was 10-11 when this came out.
My friend is a metalhead and loves ABBA. So does my mother. 😂
And I think every boy/guy/man falls in love, just from hearing their voices.
Another favorite ABBA song is Eagle. ✨👌🏼✨
rarely see anyone react to this song ♥
"Thank You For The Music" is my favorite song, and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is great too!
To see your enjoyment is priceless. I love this band too. Always have.
SOS, Knowing Me Knowing You, Chiquitita, Take a Chance on Me, Dancing Queen, Fernando 😃
ABBA has so many great songs. It's so hard to pick favorites, because they're all so great. The Name of the Game is definitely really is one of their best. My favorite was actually one of their last, off their last album called The Visitor (both the song and the album). It's very dark and serious, about paranoia... like nothing else they had done up to them. There's no video, but I hope you check it out sometime.
OK everybody thumbs up for this fanrastic reaction.
This is a really complicated song,it's also hook here,hook there,hook everywhere.Don't know why but i usually get a feeling of summerbreeze many times i listen to this.This is prog/pop with soulful paintings.Hip- hop band The Fugges sampled this in 1996.
Despite the strict and cynical criticism they received at the time from part of the music press(mainly USA/UK/Swedish) there were also a lot of open minded specialists that acknowleledged Abba as a global music culture "phenomenon' who had come here to stay and i still do remember such titles in their articles.Man!.. they were so damned right ... time has proved.
Great reaction to a wonderful underrated ABBA single.
I have always found it mesmerizing.
I first heard this song aged 7/8, found a box of cassettes under my mums bed and played one and this came on and loved it.
This is one of my favorite, this has so any different feelings, is a great song, you have like 3 or five parts, for me show how good Benny and Bjorn were as musicians, and the harmonies like always with Abba, this has Agneta, Frida, and four Harmonies, has great guitar, kboard, and some other instruments, but I not sure what is
Loving your reaction to Abba! My favourite band since 1976! I have so many suggestions! I've been waiting for you, Lay all your love on me, Kisses of Fire, That's me, Eagle, just a notion, Fernando, Chiquitita, so long, I do I do I do, Waterloo, Summer night city, my love my life, one of us, slipping through my fingers, super trouper, Andante Andante, and so many more! Also when you get a chance listen to If you leave me now by Chicago. Greetings from Barbados 🇧🇧
Universal appeal, even space aliens dig ABBA.
This is maybe my number 1 song of all time, just love it😮 It just gets better when you hear it more aswell. Next choice of ABBA if you want another kind of style - I’d pick Eagle (long version), also from ABBA - The Album. Abba was great LIVE - here my pickwould be Does Your Mother Know/Hole In Your Soul from Wembley or one from Australia like S.O.S./I’ve been waiting for you. Enjoy 🙂
Please do "One Man, One Woman"! We would note the synth-guitar in the intro.
Pure talent, I was 10 in 1977, although I didn’t discover them until about 79, I was obsessed, my mom was so sick of hearing me sing along with them every night when I went to bed 😂, still love them today, and was thrilled when they got back together 40 years later ❤, thanyou for sharing this truly talented group ❤.
‘77 was a great time to be 10 ☺️
As much as I like this song, it was Take A Chance that really took hold of me. And it was a much bigger hit here in America than TNOTG. It played on the radio throughout the summer of 78, along with Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street (another favorite). Great memories! Shortly after I bought Abba Gr. Hits vol. 1 from the RCA music club and I wore it out to the point my family shook their heads when I played it. And I also caught ridicule from my peers. But, like you, I didn't care. I have been a fan since that summer. They are forever in my heart. Yes, "Eagle" is another masterpiece; progressive rock-Abba. Side A of The Album has one of the greatest line-ups+Move On and Hole in your Soul. Abba-perfected!!
Great react SalvoG, it's a treat to watch you get "beside yourself" during a reaction. When the music pulls you left, then right, center, back and forth, then not knowing which way to go into the song is priceless. Abba is a guilty pleasure, the musicianship is stellar, upbeat pop music and clean vocal harmonies, along with wholesome lyricism punches all the buttons in one's soul. In the 70s i did what you've experienced, jumping from bands like Led Zep, ZZ Top, Doobie Brothers, to Abba, and the Carpenters, seamlessly and feel like you've had an sensory experience. Highly satisfying❤
When you treat yourself to bands you love, you treat us too-because it is great to watch someone experience songs we know and love getting heard!
More Abba!
As an old "prog-rocker" (my first own album was ELP "Trilogy", my second the "Yessongs") I had my problems admitting in the mid-70s that I also found ABBA great. But ABBA was (and still is) really good at making music. On the one hand, of course, the beautiful voices, but above all the art of arranging simple melodies that anyone can sing along in such a complex way that the songs don't get boring even after listening to them 100 times. In addition, there were also lyrics in which everyone could find themselves without being shallow.
You should work your way through ABBA Gold (plus The Visitors and Day Before You Came and Lay All Your Love On Me) as like a special treat for us. Quick edit, Benny Andersson is honestly one of the greatest composers of the last 100 years. He’s a genius.
So great seeing your reaction, re' all the different sections & changes in this song. I've often felt that there's so many ideas in this song, it could have been made into 2 songs.
Love this song. Knowing Me, Knowing You is my favorite.
That was very enjoyable reaction.
Hope you get back to ABBA sometime.
One of my favourites! I love the little hiccup in the guitar rhythm at the beginning of the first chorus. Knowing Me Knowing You would be my suggestion for you to do next :)
LOVE your genuine, passionate reviews. ABBA are AMAZING! I STRONGLY SUGGEST "The Winner Takes It All!" "Lay All YOUR Love On Me" is my second favorite ABBA single. "The Day BeforecYiu Came" is a close second one.. I also strongly recommend you review this years Grammy nominated "Don't Shut Me Down" from almost two years ago NEW MUSIC from the #1 album globally, "Voyage." Amazing SURPRISE revival album, after almost 40 years!!!
I like it that you do a research in the intro of your reaction videos.I apreciate it and enjoy thius.And since you mentioned Led Zeppelin do know that one of their albums (i think 'In through the outdoor")was recorded in Abba's super special studios in Stockholm.The famous Polar studio that was one of the best equiped ones worldwide.
Someone said, make your way through ABBA Gold, great idea.
Love this song
One of my favorite by them! Bought this the week it came out!! Thanks for the reaction!!!!
Money, Money, Money will blast you!
Not my usual Floyd Yes stuff, but ABBA were such a part of my childhood and this song is an absolute CLASSIC! ❤❤❤ Try Under Attack: among the last things they did at that time. Now I’m on an ABBA trip I’ll have to see your other reactions 🎉
This like many Abba tunes throws me back into my childhood memories
Another brilliant ABBA reaction as usual
Instruments :
Benny Andersson: Keyboards
Ola Brunkert: Drums
Malando Gassama: Congas, percussion
Rutger Gunnarsson: Bass
Björn Ulvaeus: Guitars
Lasse Wellander: Guitars
More ABBA they have so many hits! ❤
Can’t wait till you get to the full length version of Eagle…..the synths and vocals are amazeballs
For more "ELECTRIC" ABBA - The Visitor is a MUST!
I am one of those new subscribers and had already enjoyed your reactions of Elvis and Wilburys, and now another of my favorites, this is becoming great. All about this group is fabulous, the astonishing vocals of the girls, those harmonies of the entire group, everything. Will give you some suggestions I think you will enjoy: 'As good as new', 'Angeleyes', 'Happy Hawaii', 'Waterloo', 'S.O.S.', 'Ring, Ring', 'Knowing me Knowing you'.
You can never revisit ABBA to often or too soon. Do “Fernando.”
One of my favorite bands ❤
"Summer Night City" and "The Visitors" are worth a listen.
I always think there are elements of this track that sound like the Beatles from around the Sergeant Pepper era … brilliant song by a great band.
So glad you liked this. It’s in my top 3 Abba singles. Check out the full length version of their 1979 single Gimme Gimme Gimme
SOS is fantastic with lots of different hooks.
Now you need to listen to by ABBA:
Dancing Queen
Waterloo
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
Knowing me, knowing you
Take a Chance on Me
Honey Honey
Lay all your love on me
Super Trouper
Does your Mother Know
Fernando
Chiquitita
Angel eyes
One of Us
SOS
Our Last Summer
Move On
Thank You For the Music
Just listen to them all!
Dude, in the same boat. Love my rock but appreciate great pop and Benny and Bjorn's musical choices and the production values are still absolutely insane. A masterclass in pop-craft.
ABBA is wonderful. It will be a long time before they are forgotten. And even so, as soon as someone listens to them again, they will surrender to their musical quality.
I really think SalvoG would love "winner takes it all." It has the remarkably strong vocal he will gush over and the strong emotion behind the meaning of the song. He will like it in 10 seconds.
He did it recently 😊
@@rodrigoguabiraba600 oh man. I looked and didn't see it. Thank you. I'll go watch.
This is Abba's reaction to west coast rock of the late 70's. Dude, go into other things, like Chiquitita or Money, Money, Money. They will blow your mind.
Wonderful !!
Great use of vocals as another instrument with them drifting in and out. Very much a change with ABBA in 1977 with a more adult sound starting the year with Knowing me Knowing you and ending it with this.
A personal favorite by ABBA! Great song!
Love ABBA. Chiqitita might just be my favorite.
Your reaction to this brilliant ABBA song is brilliant so far I have watched it six times. Because unlike you I haven't studied music the way you have I listen to ABBA Purley on a I love ABBA, you listen to them instrument by instrument basis with a very discerning ear.
obba hahaha love the way you say this !