the success of Abba as a band and a phenomenon is still and again bringing material for debates every where .
if some people never understood why they were so successful , i can tell them that i never understood the success of the beatles !
if 'Pet sounds' is the ultimate masterpiece , that marmelade called "sergent paper " doesn't deserve all the buzz !
Abba can't be appreciated by people :
- too much old (15 -17), you must discover them at 5-9 years or before !
- arrogant and self satisfied , you have to be able to take yourself not too much seriously !
- happy and fulfilled , Abba brings something to the hole in your soul , many abba fans are orphans (like myself) or from divorced parents ! that happy image of a couple (father and mother ) is a lot !
but seriously Abba was unique :
1) the music was so perfect that justifiably a crtic said :
there's more melody in one Abba song than in all the top twenty reunited and this summerize
perfectly well the matter !
2) the arrangements extremely rich like an orchestrated symphony , no matter what could be heard , Benny wasn't stingy in matter of music and tracks !
the music can only be compared to classical criteria , that explains the difficulties for analysing that rock critics had at the time .
3) the emotion , even if in the early out put , Agnetha didn't put particularly emotions (the exception was disillusion on the Ring Ring album) the music just like in classical , reflects emotion without vocals (Hasta Mañana , my mama said )
4) the seductive image of the girls .
5) the skills of the musicians.
6) the particular sound which combined the beauty of the continental clean sound (french italian german schlager) , the phil spector wall of sound (much talked about ) , the echoes of pink floyd (rarely talked ) , the clever multilayered vocals and backing vocals of the girls (Agnetha is responsible for a great proportion and if you don't believe me look at the (making of wrap your arms) documentary' !
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