Re: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize

["dave" <eisenstadt@adelphia.net>]

this has got to be one of the more thoughtful riffs on abba ever. thing
about crenshaw is most interesting to me cause he has a vision of the
perfect bubble pop song, at least post early beatles.
but when you strip it down isn't it really brian wilson without the
intrinsic brian whateverness or, perhaps better, phil spector gone europe
(no soul sheen whatsoever).
couple thoughts cause i like the stuff but find no value in so-called
production values for their own sake. so is the listener left with anything
more than, say, that fine moniker of one of our own, ear candy? sorta like
paul mcartney without paul's voice?
feel free to rip away


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "leif joley" <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: RE: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize


> Sure, and many best-selling artists - like Spears, Aguillera, Dion - have
> travelled to Stockholm to record and compose songs that have been
> top-selling hit singles.
>
> Didn't knew that Marshall Crenshaw was an ABBA-fan. Think they're kind of
a
> guilty pleasure to many. And I don't think that Bjorn & Benny regard their
> ABBA songs as anything else than fun pop music, that had surprisingly
> international potential. Today Benny Andersson has his own folk music
> orchestra and it's very successful domestically. Sooner or later, their
> musical "Kristina from Duvemela" - written together with Tim Rice, if
memory
> serves - will appear in America, since it has an American theme: it's
based
> on books about the Swedish immigration wave in the 1870's; the same books
> was transformed into two Oscar-nominated, very naturalistic movies in the
> early 70's, partly shot in Minnesota.
>
> Leif J, Sweden
>
>
> >From: "Dever, Paul (ELS)" <P.Dever@elsevier.com>
> >Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> >To: tv@obbard.com
> >Subject: RE: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize
> >Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:13:32 -0600
> >
> >Wasn't "Ooops, I did it again" written by Swedes?
> >To bad I can't translate: http://www.tv4.se/visa/?ID=345329
> >
> >--Paul
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Jesse
> >Hochstadt
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:14 PM
> >To: tv@obbard.com
> >Subject: Re: Re: (TV) The Polar Prize
> >
> > >>From: "stephen wilson"
> > >>Richard Thompson (the gold standard of musical taste I reckon)
> > >>paid them a sort of tongue in cheek tribute by covering one of
> > >>their songs ('Money') on his '1,000 Years of Popular Music' album.
> > >
> >
> >Actually, RT's version of "Oops, I Did It Again" demonstrates that, to
> >paraphrase him, outside of its original context, it's a pretty good song.
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