Quality (?) ABBA Covers?

Subject: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 02:47 PM

ABBA is of course a deeply concealed fave of many people (like a passion for nachos), but it seems to me that their great tunes have not been exploited except by BB's overstuffed arrangements (wonderfully baroque as they are). Does anyone have any recommendations of ABBA covers (not the Mamma Mia musical, etc.) that would be worth searching out?
(I am particularly fond of "One of Us" with its cracked lyrics! ("a concealed attraction!")

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 02:50 PM

"Does anyone have any recommendations of ABBA covers"

Ya... don't bother... please...

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: John Hardly
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 02:51 PM

DEEP cover.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 04:04 PM

Livingston Taylor does a cover of "Fernando" during his "Songs That Should Never Be Played On The Banjo"

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 03:02 AM

Stanley Accrington has a new song based on Bohemian Rhapsody about Charles and Camilla. Very, very funny.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 05:39 AM

Quality? Abba ? covers = OXYMORON

eric

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 07:04 AM

I like ABBA's stuff but haven't heard any covers that I would care to listen to again.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 08:22 AM

Patterson Jordan Dipper do a tune (the title of which I have forgotten) written by Benny Andersson. It's really rather good and bears no relationship whatsoever to ABBA songs.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 09:02 AM

Say what you like they wrote some very strong tunes I guess some could be jigged, polka ed or what ever. Da Dannan did a great job on Welcome to the Hotel Connemara.

One of the blokes plays in a Swedish folkdance band I believe.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 09:26 AM

The The Meat Purveyors do a great cover of "S.O.S." on "All Relationships Are Doomed to Fail." Great band.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 12:06 PM

Richard Thompson does a fantastic, creepy version on 'Money' on 'A Thousand Years of Popular Music' (available via his website www.richardthompson-music.com).

I never liked Abba(still don't really) but that certainly showed me the quality of the song.

Chris

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British folk on the radio and online. www.coolasfolk.co.uk

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 03:07 PM

Never could see it about Abba. Apart from "Knowing Me Knowing You" and there's a great country-Byrdsish version of that by Mole something or other.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 09:39 AM

continuing thanks, yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 06:58 AM

If I'm listening to an "oldies" radio station and an ABBA song comes on I might try to cover the radio. Still, unless the cover is extra thick, or made of sound-proofing material, some sound still leaks out. Usually just changing the station works better.

if I had to do it all again, I would my friend, for Nando.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Splott Man
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 07:38 AM

Why all the negativity just because they were popular and in a commercial discipline.
I was never a fan but they were tremendous writers of pop songs.

Ceilidh band Allan Yn Y Fan did a great 72 bar adaptation of Dancing Queen which we fitted a longways dance to, the dancers invariably loved the rhythm.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:49 AM

Two foot of concrete should cover them nicely

RtS

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 03:19 PM

Roger !! Have a saucer of milk !!

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:53 PM

I heard a pan flute version of Fernando this evening -- an album called Pan Flute from a Canadian company called MTL -- they also had a cover of the Final movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony on pan flute. You really haven't lived until you have heard the pan flute version of this.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 11:26 PM

The Kingston Trio recorded this on a "Live at The Crazy Horse" recording some years ago. I always like the song and it was just very rcently I kearned it was from ABBA.

Don

The Way Old Friends Do


You and I can share the silence
Finding comfort together
The way old friends do
And after fights and words of violence
We make up with each other
The way old friends do
Times of joy and times of sorrow
We will always see it through
Oh I don't care what comes tomorrow
We can face it together
The way old friends do

(repeat)

We can face it together
The way old friends do

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: GUEST,big jake
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:52 AM

It's funny how snobby people get when Abba are mentioned. A lot of their tunes are up there amongst the greatest pop melodies EVER. Its just a shame that the lyrics never really broke out of the cat/mat mould......

Apart from Richard Thompsons Money, only Mike Oldfields version of Arrival immediatly springs to mind. But I've been known to do a slowed down and simplified SOS during a set if the mood takes me. Lovely chords.

Knowing me, Big Jake
Knowing you, the Mudcats
AH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 04:13 AM

SOS ? shit on a shingle ?

eric

Subject: RE: Quality (?) ABBA Covers?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:17 AM

folk music = OXYMORON

isn't this clever