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ABBA: Gold - ABBA · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Viber cuts, beats and vibes.
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We're a father daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, writing favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and this is Barbara Cuts.
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Welcome to this week. We are talking ABBA.
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ABBA, maybe ABBA. And it's there.
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The name of the album is gold and it's a greatest hits album.
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More on that later. The album year is 1992, so let's
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talk ABBA Riley. What are your least favorite 2
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from this album? My least favorite two one of
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them was Super Trooper. That one really got on my on my
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nerves. Which which elicits a laugh
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because during our sound check before this, that was the one
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that I kept playing. Yes, that one pretty
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consistently gone on my nerves. Every time it came on, I just
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wanted to be over. It's longer than you think it
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is. Not that it's a long song, but
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it is longer than you think it is.
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And yeah, that one just I do. I do like the like somewhere in
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the crowd there's you, which is what you were playing.
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I just cannot stand the beginning where it's like super
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trooper like I cannot stand it. It like really irks me in in a
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wrong way. And then?
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That's that's one of the things with this album.
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If there's something that irks you, the the like they're,
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they're disco pop, euro pop, like whatever the right genre
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is. I I don't know if I ever quite
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figured it out, but it it is quite repetitive.
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Yeah. So you you do get the the Super
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Troopa. I I kept thinking I from Super
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Mario Brothers like. Well, that's yeah.
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The what are what are those little turtles or koopas,
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whatever they're. Called.
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That's what super koopas. Super.
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That's what kept popping in my head.
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But or Koopa Troopas? Koopa Troopas.
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So I digress. That's what I thought of too.
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And then the other one that was like really my least favorite,
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apparently because I like screenshot as I'm listening it,
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listening to it to be like, I don't like this.
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I screenshotted it three separate times listening through
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this album, forgetting that I disliked it 3 for three.
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Listening to this album, I did not like this song.
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And it was knowing me, knowing you.
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OK. Not a like crazy annoying song
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per SE. I don't know why I disliked it
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as much as I did, but apparently I disliked it 3 * 3 times
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straight I think. I think this one probably was.
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I do know what this is and I'll talk more about it later.
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Like you said with the repetitive this one, I think I
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wouldn't mind if it was like a 2 minute song but then it keeps
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going and the longer it keeps going the more I dislike the
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song. And that happened a bit with
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these where it's like, I would like this if it was short.
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Yeah, but for some reason it's a 4 minute or 4 1/2 or something
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minute song. And yeah, sorry, I won't.
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I we can talk about that later. Knowing me, knowing you, was my
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least favorite three times in a. Way so least favorite for me,
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one of them was does your mother know?
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And so for the ABBA fans that are out there that will come at
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me, I get it. He turns down the young singer.
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He does nothing wrong. I get it.
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However, the fact that it's a male singer like this is I think
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the only one on there where the late like they the guys sing
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some, but normally it's the that's the two women.
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I mean, there's a guy lead singer on this and that's what
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it's about. Like, OK.
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It just gives off some creepy vibes, even though I get it, he
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does the right thing, but still. And then the other one is I have
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a dream. And this one was really just I
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think placement in here because it the first five are pretty
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upbeat, I believe, or you know it or at least build and
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whatnot. This one was slow but didn't
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seem to build. It just kind of stayed slow.
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So it kind of lost me there for a bit.
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And so does your mother know? And I have a dream.
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So Riley, that takes us to favorites.
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What are your two favorites? OK, my second favorite is a
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classic. It's Mamma Mia.
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It was I'll spoil dancing Queen is not my number one.
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It was between this and dancing queen for my second favorite.
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They're just so iconic and like say what you will to me, this is
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like the good side of ABBA is like I'm dancing to this song if
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it's coming on. I know almost every lyric and I
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don't think I've ever intended to listen to this song, but it
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like it just kind of forces a feeling, which is why I think a
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lot of people like this a band, but this song in particular
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forces a feeling. But I like the bum, bum, bum,
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bum, bum, bum bum. I like that beat a lot and it
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it's more enticing to me than Dancing Queen, which is more of
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like this one has something a little bit like special to it
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and feels less repetitive to me. Like there's so many moving
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parts in this song, so many different beat switches and
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like, it's just I really like the song, like in a very real
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way. So that was my second favorite,
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my favorite song. I'm going to say, say what you
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will, the rest of the album may not be your favorite.
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This song is a genuinely like good song.
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This song may be a contender for close to a perfect song and it
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is the winner takes it all. This is a phenomenal song.
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It is a phenomenal song. Her voice plays to it really
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well. It's also a slower song but it
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it's like a sad song that actually reads a sad, which is
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weird for ABBA but then it just keeps building and.
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The the song builds though. Like oh I get chills every time
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I hear it from her. This is what it's chills and in
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like such a weird way. I feel what she's feeling and
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the like piano, the chirpy piano, the harmonies all work
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perfectly for this song in a way that hurts other songs.
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But I I genuinely just like flat out love this song, Albert or
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not like, I don't know. But additionally, this song has
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gotten put into edits nowadays of like TV show different like
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TV shows or reality shows and stuff like that of someone
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looking really sad and it's really good.
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But I just think that's like a genuinely almost perfect song.
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All the different elements to it add so much to that song.
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Yeah. And I think in in that the one
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that was they, they both deny it, but it was written after two
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of them divorced and and they deny that it's about that.
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But yet you can, you can almost feel that maybe it was, you
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know, that something went into it even subconsciously, which is
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another thing that if you, if you didn't know, there's four
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people in Abbott and it's essentially 2 couples.
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They, they weren't couples, they were couples, married couples.
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And then they weren't all in the course of, I believe while the
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band was going on. So yes.
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And I think there is there is a a shift in their album career
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and their discography where toward the end the songs do get
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a little bit sadder. Yeah.
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Lyrically so all right, so very good Riley my 2.
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And this will give you a chance to talk about it because one of
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mine is in fact Dancing Queen. So this one was actually
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originally released on the album Arrival in 1976.
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It has over 2 billion with AB strings on Spotify.
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It's their only number one hit in the US 2015, inducted in the
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Grammy Hall of Fame. All kinds of other awards, all
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kinds of other artists that have called this one of their
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favorite songs and covered it. This is another one like the
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Mamma Mia, like this one comes on and you start doing what
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Riley's doing. It's.
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Played at every wedding. If it's not played at a wedding,
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the wedding didn't happen. You started bebopping like it's
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just a catchy little tune, you know?
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So Dancing, Dancing Queen was one of mine since it was almost
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20 years. Anything you want to say about
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it? Fun fact, the piano the at the
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very beginning. Can you go play at the very
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beginning? Yeah, the.
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No, no. Oh, here we go.
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So there's that part. It's the Tidu, tidu, Tidu.
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It'll come up in a second. That piano, that little riff,
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MGMT uses that and buries it in their song Kids.
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But if you listen really, really closely towards the end, as
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things start to fade out, you can kind of hear it.
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But anytime I hear that, funnily enough, now, I think of Kids not
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Dancing Queen. That's funny.
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Yeah. I think this song is just a
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universally loved song. Yeah.
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It's one that doesn't come off as annoying to me.
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Yeah, in the way that it should. Yeah, I get that.
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It's more fun. This song, I think is a really
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good song to campaign for. Like, not all songs need to be
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that serious. Like, just chill out.
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Yeah, this song and and Mamma Mia are kind of good examples of
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that. It's like, yeah, it's not a
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serious song, but it's a good song.
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Yeah. I like it.
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Yeah. So funnily enough, the song that
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I said was the best was like the only serious song of the album.
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But hey. My let's see, my other one is
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also one that is a little bit catchy and it's because of the
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beginning and this almost made it to my best beats, but because
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it was probably my favorite song and the one that gave me the ear
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worm that I couldn't get rid of. I want it it my favorite.
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So I'll make note of this, but it's so take a chance on me.
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The beginning, no music and you know, started off acapella and
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the lady singing their part and then the guys with the ticketing
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ticketing which which is what I've been singing now for two
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weeks of us listening to this. And so this one was on their
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fifth album, 5th studio album from 1977.
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Again, it's the beginning, just super catchy and fans of the
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office in the US will know this one.
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Andy actually sang the song serenading to Angela.
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So kind of from from some other pop culture there.
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But it's just a catchy song and fun to sing, especially at
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beginning part. Take a take a chance, take a
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take a So, all right, those are my favorite, too.
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So Riley, why should people go and listen to this album?
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Well, my agreement is that you probably don't have to.
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You probably know all of these songs for the most part.
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But you. You definitely.
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Know the first set. Yes, you know that I would say
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up through I don't know, I it's. A long album, So it is what, an
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hour and 18 minutes? And so I'll say, I'll say this
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for you, just so you know, ABBA is huge in social media sounds.
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OK. So I think like Chiquitita, a
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lovely little song, Yeah, the ending is huge on TikTok, so
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people know that song from that. Bula Vu is a TikTok transition,
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so people know that Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, people know money,
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money, money. Winner takes it all.
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Gimme. Gimme trooper people know. 1.2
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billion streams. Yeah, I think the only ones
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people may not know is I Have a Dream, Fernando, and then the
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last for other than. Thank you for the music.
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OK, so. Like what?
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I think people probably know most of the album and the ones
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that you don't. Hate to say it, not worth
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listening. So the, the, the, the thing
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that, you know, we, we're going off a poster and, and we've
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talked about our illustrious poster.
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The one thing that I will say about this album is it's our
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first greatest hits album, which is kind of strange.
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It feels like a cheat to me. It does, you know.
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I have to admit. So so that is that is strange
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because and the and the reason I say that not not because it's
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the greatest hits, but you know, we did Hotel California by the
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Eagles and you know that that's a massively big album, second
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most selling Eagles album ever, the most selling Eagles, easy
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for me to say most selling Eagles album, their greatest
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hits album. So it's like, you know, Abbott
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gets the greatest hits Eagles doesn't, you know, but anyway,
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it is what it is. So that that is a bit strange on
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why this one is the greatest hits and not particularly a
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single album, but it does, you know, there is some some history
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to the album in that last song, which is Waterloo Water
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Waterloo's from 1974. That's actually the song that
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blew him up. Evidently, there's something
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that still goes on today in Europe.
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The Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest.
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It started in 1956 and has gone on every year since then except
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for COVID year. It is the if I'm I'm pretty sure
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it is how Dance Monkey. Dance Monkey is from Eurovision.
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OK. You hated that song too, so you
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have a lot of hate for Eurovision.
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But. It's meant to be euro tech pop.
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Yeah. So it's it's it, it helped
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launch Céline Dion. So she won first in 1988.
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Julio Iglesias was fourth in 1970, Waterloo won.
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And so ABBA won in 1974, coming in fourth in 1974 was a singer
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by the name of Olivia Newton John, who obviously had a huge
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career was in Greece. So, you know, in in 2005, the
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Eurovision had a had a contest and Waterloo was voted the Best
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Song in the competition's history.
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From, you know, 1956 to 2005 S Waterloo kind of blew him up.
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They had a career. And the other part that's
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strange to me is that the the band broke up in 1982.
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This album came out in 1992, so it was 10 years after the band
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broke up, evidently. Running low on money?
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Yeah, somebody. Well I think what happened was
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the record label that they were on got bought out by a different
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label and then put this together and released it.
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So the the record label made money and obviously I'm sure
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they did too, but was released 10 years later, became a world
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worldwide bestseller. ABBA is the third best selling
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singles artist in the UK. They are, I think, way bigger in
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UK and Europe than they are US. Yes.
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At at least as it as it were like you saying social media is
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helping them now, but I but I. Social media and Mamma Mia.
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Yeah, yeah. The new Mamma Mia movie.
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Yeah, the new Mamma Mia movie, the old Mamma Mia movie, you
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know, and, and so every once in a while they get these.
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If I'm not mistaken, Mamma Mia was was written by the the the
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play I guess was written by the two guys of of ABBA.
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So they did, they did that too. So they've become quite the
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artists. Now, is this a safe place to
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admit that I always, always confuse ABBA and Fleetwood Mac?
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They got the same thing going on.
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They were all married, they all did like they all broke up.
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They wrote songs to back and forth to each other.
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They were kind of mad at each other at times.
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But claimed nothing. None of the songs were written
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about each other. Yeah.
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So. Like but I can.
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See that? I can see that.
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They I, I always confuse them and I'll say I think an
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interesting thing about both of them too, that it happens with
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other artists like Taylor Swift is the one I think of where you
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lose. I like this artist and it
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becomes like a lifestyle of sorts instead of just an artist
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you like and like. Taylor Swift is kind of the
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common 1 today where it, it becomes all-encompassing more so
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than anything. And to me, ABBA and Fleetwood
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Mac are the same way. There's something in there,
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music that if you like it, you love it.
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And I think that's really, I'm not criticizing that.
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I I think there's goods and bads to it obviously, but I think it
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can be a very like interesting and kind of sweet way to carry
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yourself with just loving music so much.
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But I'll get into my criticism. I mentioned this before.
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Every song is too long except for the ones under 4 minutes and
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the winner takes it all because the winner takes it all needs to
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build. Like that's the only song like
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it. It builds consistently.
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The other ones don't build. They start out loud and just
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repeat five times. Yeah.
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And I just don't think it needs that because what happened to me
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a lot in this album would be I would start a song, take a
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chance on me as a great example. And I'd be like, oh, this is a
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pretty good song. And then it would repeat itself
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for the fifth time. They'd be like, I'm so sick and
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tired of this song. I do not like it.
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And that happened with almost every song.
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I was just like, I'm done. I can't do it anymore.
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It was, they were just all so long and then the album was
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long. I just think it just needed one
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less repeat all the way through, like or one less repeat for most
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of the songs. I can see that.
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And I would have liked it more, but they just, I can't.
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But I think I think the charming part of this album, on the other
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hand, is, and I don't mean this as an insult, most songs, most
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of their songs don't really take themselves that seriously.
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It seems they they kind of seem to recognize the fun in the
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music. Like even Mamma Mia is kind of
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about like falling in love again with someone you know you
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shouldn't but like, it's still fun in a in and most of their
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songs are. Yeah, and you know, and I and I
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think, you know, I guess dancing Queens about a, a girl that goes
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out or, you know, our first night on the town to a dance
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club and why you like that's, that's fun and that's an
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experience. And, and especially in that time
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and, and what, and what they were into in that, that music
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and and, and club scene. Like that was a that was a
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thing, a a rite of passage, if you will.
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And and so, you know, they got a song about that.
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And like you said, you know, some of them the the the the
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lyrics might be surfacy, but yet it's also put to very catchy
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music, which you know, the, the the pop, disco pop, euro pop,
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like like whatever that whatever that genre is.
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And, and a lot of times, and that's that's the other thing
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that's made this one hard. You know, a lot of times the the
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the records or albums that we've listened to, you know, a a band
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can Tran transform over over time, But generally the album
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itself is is kind of firmly in at least one main genre.
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This one, because it spans multiple albums, you you get a
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lot of different things in there.
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You get some that are more disco heavy, you get some that are
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more pop heavy. So, so labeling this with a
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genre was particularly difficult just because of the wide variety
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of it, you know, and if you don't, if you don't like Dancing
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Queen, move on to the next one. You got an hour and 20 ish
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minutes, 19 songs. So probably, you know, unless
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you're, you know, R&B, hip hop, rap, you know, heavy metal,
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you'll you'll find something on here that you can like.
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Yeah, because it is. It is pretty different.
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Yeah, and I would, I, I, I think ABBA for a lot of people, it's
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just a very nostalgic sound, even like I obviously wasn't
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live in the set like when this music was coming out, but like
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Dancing Queen is still a nostalgic sound to me and so is
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Mamma Mia. Like especially because the
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movie that it was in I watched when I was younger, it it feels
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so carefree. It feels of a very nostalgic
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logic time in life and I I don't know, I I just I think ABBA is a
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really good example in a lot of their bigger hits of keeping
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music fun, which you and I tend to like me especially tend to
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make music. Apparently that is sad and makes
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me uncomfortable, but I recognize a a big part of music
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can be. Yeah, but a big part of music
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can be fun as well, you know? And I think I like songs like
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Dancing Queen are a great reminder of that.
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If it comes on at a party I like, I am dancing to it.
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You can't dance to my music as well.
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I think, yeah, I can't. No, you're you're not.
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You're not dancing to your music like this is.
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This is dance music. Yeah, which is what it was meant
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to be. And when it's played that way,
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you know, again, for, for them at, at, at clubs in the 70s and
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80s, that's what they wanted people to do.
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They wanted people to get out and, and dance.
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And for the most part, most all of these, again, there are some
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slow ones on there, but for the most part, this is get on the
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dance floor type of music. And like you said, at weddings,
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at parties, when Dancing Queen comes on, like there's a lot of
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people that head to the dance floor.
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So it's fun. Yeah, it is.
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All right. Best beats and bars.
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Riley what's What's your favorite lyric from ABBA?
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Mine comes from Fernando, which originally, like in Swedish was
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a song was a love song about comforting a friend in their
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version, like that beat, but their version is about two war
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veterans, which is really interesting.
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Throwing in the same album as Dancing Queen, you can hear like
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the drum and I didn't love the song.
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I I just didn't appeal to me that much.
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However, the second time I listened to it when I really
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like drew on the lyrics rather than just how it sounded and it
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kind of shocked me. I was like, oh, this is like a
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pretty dark song that has a lot of emotions compared to some of
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the other ones. And I loved the building of the
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winner takes it all. But it doesn't it it kind of
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repeats itself in a lot of ways too.
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It just keeps getting more emotional.
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Whereas Fernando it it talks about like these fears of war
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that are just like out there, but it's it's a really pretty
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song if you think of it that way, but keep getting distracted
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by the song. These songs will distract you.
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That's anyway I the favorite lyric has already passed.
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But it was talking about how every they could hear all the
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bugles, the drums, the firelight.
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They could see everything going around and it just said we were
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young and full of life and none of us prepared to die.
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And I'm not ashamed to say the war of guns and cannons.
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Cannons almost made me cry. And I, I, that is like a very
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sobering emotion. I, I mean, respect our troops
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and everything like that. That was just a very sobering
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thing to hear of. Like how many young people do
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fight for our freedom and they are young and full of life and
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not prepared to die. I get like choked up thinking
31:23
about it, which is so dumb because it's not like that's a
31:27
very sad thing. This song is playing in the
31:28
background. It's not very sad in my head.
31:32
But like just imagining someone my age, like offering their life
31:38
is like a very sobering thing. And then to hear someone
31:41
verbalizing, not necessarily wanting to die, like people
31:45
don't do that thinking I'm going to die.
31:49
And it just, it really gets me. But then the really sweet thing
31:54
at the end to me is, though, I never thought that we could
32:00
lose. There's no regret.
32:01
If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando.
32:05
And that's like the other side of that, like sobering reality
32:08
for a lot of people who fight for freedom is like a lot of
32:12
them have these fears and have these like, I'm not prepared to
32:16
do this and then still say I would still do it again and
32:20
again. And I think that's, I think for
32:23
a group of four people who who wrote a lot of pretty surface
32:28
level things, they, they captured that that like, I think
32:35
they gave a lot of humanity to soldiers and people fighting
32:40
for. Freedom, the beginning of that
32:42
song reminds me of the Don't Cry for Me Argentina, the way it
32:46
starts. And but that's really the only
32:49
part. But yeah, that is a good
32:52
capture. Like you, you you see that in in
32:55
documentaries where they interview veterans that they
33:00
will mention like, yeah, we were scared.
33:02
We didn't think we're coming back, but I would do it again.
33:06
They that that the camaraderie ship that they have with fellow
33:11
people is definitely something something to behold that is is
33:19
just unusual to see, but probably not when you can't
33:24
imagine what they've gone through.
33:26
But yet you know. So my best beat, I said it was
33:37
between this and the beginning. I take a chance on me, but it is
33:41
another opening, the opening of Gimme Gimme Gimme.
33:47
And there's this high pitched synthesizer keyboard riff that's
33:53
really good. And here we go.
33:58
And it's not this part. It's very ominous.
34:01
It is, but that's nice too. Here it comes.
34:18
Oh, it feels like a power walk. Like anytime I hear this I just
34:22
think someone's power walking so I can imagine.
34:26
Like that's so good. And it's funny because like you
34:30
mentioned the power, like when, when, when people say power
34:35
walk, it's like, you know, for me and people that know the, the
34:38
movie reservoir Dogs when they're walking all slow MO,
34:41
like somebody needs to put, put that to them walking.
34:46
And because if you know anything about reservoir dogs, it's like,
34:50
not at all. Does this fit with that movie?
34:52
But that would be funny. And then the, the, that little
34:56
riff also appears a little bit later in the song.
35:01
But then it, you know, we we talk about a lot of times how
35:07
when songs do something unexpected that you're like, Oh,
35:10
I like that. And so this song does do that.
35:16
And it's one of those things where Fast forward real quick to
35:19
about 2:50 if you want to go listen to it, you think based on
35:24
that, that that synthesizer keyboard solo is about to
35:28
happen. But no, you get this this super
35:33
funky like bass that's there's no keyboard to it at all.
35:41
None of that high scent that you'd think would be there.
35:45
So that was a nice little all in the same song was was neat to
35:49
see. So really two parts from the
35:53
same song. So listen to the entire song at
35:56
the beginning and get this good bass solo there and in the
36:03
middle. So those are my best beats.
36:07
Which brings us to. Well, one thing I really want to
36:11
say about that song that I do appreciate you were talking
36:13
about how it dispels your expectations and it does in that
36:17
front, and I think it does it another way.
36:20
It is an ominous love song. And I do appreciate that you
36:27
don't get those often. But it it is saying like, I want
36:31
someone to love. I want someone to come hold me
36:35
and not let me be lonely, but it's like a threat.
36:40
I do appreciate that. Won't somebody help me chase the
36:43
shadows away, take me through the darkness to the break of
36:46
day? You know so.
36:48
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme a man on a mission.
36:50
Yeah, yeah. So, all right, ratings.
36:55
Riley, what are your ratings? This one's SO I think this album
37:04
is just so hard for me because I think the highs may not be that
37:13
often, but boy are they strong. Like Dancing Queen is a strong
37:19
Mamma Mia strong. Like they're just so strong.
37:23
I'd, I'd probably end up personally rating it around 7:00
37:28
because of the like, there's just too many songs that if they
37:31
come on like an event, they are great.
37:38
And they are so great that it kind of counteracts the I don't
37:43
necessarily want to listen to it by myself.
37:47
My my hot take Dancer Queen is meant to be in a in a crowded
37:50
room, not meant to be by myself in my car.
37:57
So I it would probably level it out around A7 just because of
38:01
how great they are and how much I do enjoy them at parties, if
38:05
that makes sense. Objectively, I, I, I am gonna
38:12
rate it an 8. Objectively, I know that's a
38:15
really hot take. It's a great album, but I go
38:18
back to they, they, they just go on too long.
38:24
They just repeat one too many times.
38:27
And I think it would be, I think it's a it's an album that I
38:32
should listen to before I die. But I think to give it any
38:39
higher to some of the other albums we've listened to, it
38:42
just doesn't feel right. Yeah, I can see that so.
38:49
But really, I just think they go on a little too low.
38:51
Yeah, so my, my objective rating is a nine, so just a tad bit
38:55
higher than yours. And, and really, you know, I, I,
39:01
I kept debating on that, but at the end of the day, it's a
39:06
greatest hits album, you know, and, and I, we're just given the
39:13
album by the poster, so we listen to it.
39:15
We, we can debate on that, but just given the album, you know,
39:18
it's, it's, it's a like a fantastic group that was
39:23
basically around for 10 years. This is a compilation of their
39:27
greatest hits and like, they've sold a lot of albums sold, sold
39:34
a lot of records like, so it, it's, it's, it's hard not to
39:38
give them something high personal rating.
39:44
It, it, it is very easy not to give them something high because
39:47
I don't like this type of music. I gave them a 5.5.
39:52
It would not be something that I would go to.
39:54
It would not be something that I listen to.
39:58
You know, if it, if it comes on the radio, I'd probably change
40:01
it. Just not my cup of tea.
40:05
All that to be said, the the reason that, you know, albums
40:09
like this don't get A1 or A2 or something like that is because
40:14
when I do listen to it and, and for, for this, you know, we're
40:17
like, hey, let's, let's listen to it even even if we don't end
40:20
up liking it. You know, Dancing Queen comes
40:23
on, I'm I'm bopping around, I'm singing all the words.
40:26
Take a chance like I'm singing all the words, Mamma Mia singing
40:29
all the word like So there is a part of me still that can enjoy
40:34
it when it happens, even though it may not be something that I
40:38
would ever, ever seek out. So 5.5 and 9 for me.
40:44
So that takes us to Song of the week.
40:48
Riley, what is your song of the week?
40:53
I I'm really glad that your best beat song is what it was 'cause
40:59
I was talking about how I I enjoy the love song that's
41:06
almost threatening and my song of the week is exactly that and
41:11
that's why I chose it. My song of the week is I'm sorry
41:16
about Last Night by Ezra Bell. Ezra Bell is a band.
41:19
Do not be confused. And it it's a very ominous
41:30
sounding song, but it's saying I'll only love you more
41:37
throughout and out. But the what it's saying in
41:43
between those is like threats. So it's like when you're lost
41:46
and afraid, I will only love you more.
41:49
Forget everything you choose. I will only love you more like
42:01
that sounds like a threat to me. That's not like a sweet, like it
42:04
gives me like chills almost. And it's you're mine and I'm
42:10
yours. No matter how you behave or
42:12
which cowards call you brave, I will only love you more.
42:15
Like it's just a very like obsessive song, but it's I think
42:22
if you just listen to it, a very pretty song too.
42:26
It it builds and I think the the guy's voice is a very weird
42:32
voice, but it it works really well for this song and the
42:40
violin is pretty. I'll see if I can get to the IT
42:47
has like a building solo of the I think it's some sort of Violet
42:54
or string, but I just appreciate kind of how ominous it is.
43:07
But I I love Ezra Bell. If you haven't heard of Ezra
43:10
Bell's really great bands, the the lead singer unfortunately
43:16
passed away I think sometime last year.
43:19
So I I'm not sure if they still make music.
43:23
This sounds like it should be in a movie to me though like that.
43:27
Like it's it's such a good solo in the middle of it.
43:33
But yeah, Ezra Bell, I'm sorry about last night.
43:35
There's another great song that they have.
43:39
That's how I found Ezra Bell. That's let's move to Vietnam and
43:43
his his it's a. Good title.
43:47
Yeah, it is. His voice shines a little bit in
43:50
this song with the but I'm still on the I like weird voices
43:56
grind. Ezra Bell is no different.
43:58
But I'm sorry about last night. I just think it's such a
44:01
hauntingly pretty misguided song that I've just really enjoyed
44:10
the past little bit. They're good.
44:12
My Song of the week went back to Roots to counteract Alba, so
44:21
Pearl Jam went to A Vitology, which is their third album from
44:26
94. Better Man gets all the
44:30
attention from that album. But my favorite too would be
44:35
Corduroy and this one. Which is the third one not for
44:41
you. Oh.
44:44
Not for yeah. Wow.
44:48
I see that with love for any better too.
44:52
So it's it's essentially A rejection to the corporate music
44:58
industry. You know, this was him suing
45:02
Ticketmaster because he felt they were gouging prices.
45:08
Yeah, true. But that the the music doesn't
45:11
belong to them, but to the artists and to the listeners.
45:16
And, and it's got a guitar solo in the middle that that leads
45:21
into the second verse, which to me is the most probably scathing
45:36
remark to the people running the show.
45:38
So there's some of that guitar solo, but it's all that sacred
45:50
comes from youth. Dedication's naive and true with
45:54
no power, nothing to do. I still remember.
45:57
Why don't you? And so it's like you, you've,
46:03
you've, you've grown up. You've taken away what youth is
46:08
because, and here's the lyrics comes from you.
46:20
And it gets slow to where you hear these words and it's like
46:24
we're, we're, we're taken away from the youth.
46:29
After this, he screams. Yeah.
46:32
And so which the youth in me really enjoyed at that time.
46:42
So this is Pearl Jam, not for you and from Vitology, their
46:49
third album, this is also got a song on it where he plays
46:53
nothing but the accordion and it's about bugs.
46:57
So there's. Quite, yes.
46:59
In this album. But it's one of my favorite pro
47:02
jam songs. And then I'm Sorry about Last
47:06
Night, right by Ezra Bell to Songs of the Week.
47:12
That brings us to our next album.
47:18
Our next album I've excited for is Park Life by The Blur or Blur
47:26
but. The blur.
47:28
By blur. We're going to search for him on
47:32
the Google. Yeah.
47:35
So which? Which Blur album was it?
47:37
Park Life. Park life all right, very good.
47:40
So Burr park life by blur and so that's what we got.
47:52
So next, no two weeks. So in the meantime, go give ABBA
48:02
gold. I listen also Not for You by
48:08
Pearl Jam, I'm Sorry about Last Night by Ezra Bell.
48:12
And if you want to work ahead, go and listen to Park Life by
48:18
Blur. In the meantime, we've also got
48:23
some socials. Barber Cuts pod on Instagram,
48:27
Facebook, and you can watch us as we bebop along to Alba songs
48:33
at Barbara Katz Pod over at YouTube.
48:36
Also, feel free to shoot us an e-mail barbarakatzpod@gmail.com.
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I got nothing else. My name is Todd.
48:46
I'm Riley, and this was another episode of Barbara Katz.