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[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

Apparently he wrote "just can't get enough". That's one of my favorites.

He wrote everything off Speak and Spell, with the exception of tora! tora! tora! and the oddly named instrumental, Big Muff.

That disc, along with kraftwerk, laid the foundation for the synthpop revolution of the 80s. You could make an argument for Soft Cell, as well. It is a bubblegummy pop disc, but is actually a very important record.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

He wrote everything off Speak and Spell, with the exception of tora! tora! tora! and the oddly named instrumental, Big Muff.

That disc, along with kraftwerk, laid the foundation for the synthpop revolution of the 80s. You could make an argument for Soft Cell, as well. It is a bubblegummy pop disc, but is actually a very important record.

Good call on Kraftwerk. I'd also put at the foundation of synthpop - and feel free to mock or disagree which would be understandable - ABBA.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Good call on Kraftwerk. I'd also put at the foundation of synthpop - and feel free to mock or disagree which would be understandable - ABBA.

No way.

first, ABBA is awesome. That music is also some of the early stuff i remember being played at my house as a kid.

Second, many of the synth bands have openly cited ABBA as an influence....Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner (new order). Erasure even released an EP called Abba-esque that contained remade ABBA tunes.

Did you see the play Mamma Mia? If you like ABBA, you will like Mamma Mia.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

No way.

first, ABBA is awesome. That music is also some of the early stuff i remember being played at my house as a kid.

Second, many of the synth bands have openly cited ABBA as an influence....Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner (new order). Erasure even released an EP called Abba-esque that contained remade ABBA tunes.

Did you see the play Mamma Mia? If you like ABBA, you will like Mamma Mia.

Never saw that play. Perhaps I should.

And I am perplexed that you may have thought that I might not be familiar with Bernie Sumner.

[Runner Coug]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

first, ABBA is awesome. That music is also some of the early stuff i remember being played at my house as a kid.

Ha...that's the same for me. I still have the entire Voulez-Vous album memorized. My dad would play that all the time.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Never saw that play. Perhaps I should.

And I am perplexed that you may have thought that I might not be familiar with Bernie Sumner.

Sorry IPU, I know better than that. It was more a general parenthetical for those who may read and not be familiar...new Order was a pretty popular synth band and they showed open love for ABBA.

Man, I loved New order. i saw them a few tours, including the epid Echo and the bunnymen/gene loves jezebel tour in 87, I think, as well as when they came to LA for Technique in 89.

I can still listen to their discs for hours. Low Life and PCL are some of my favorite discs of the 80s. Specifically, the song Love Vigilantes. It used to make me sad, and now it has renewed relevance with the war in Iraq and our servicemen being shipped out overseas.

[Runner Coug]

Speaking of synth pop, my bro in law was so desperate to see De/Vision the other night that he went to some dive club in downtown SLC by himself. He couldn't talk anyone into going with him.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

No way.

first, ABBA is awesome. That music is also some of the early stuff i remember being played at my house as a kid.

Second, many of the synth bands have openly cited ABBA as an influence....Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner (new order). Erasure even released an EP called Abba-esque that contained remade ABBA tunes.

Did you see the play Mamma Mia? If you like ABBA, you will like Mamma Mia.

Abba is weak. Some time ago we on this board established that Ace of Base destroys Abba.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Runner Coug

Ha...that's the same for me. I still have the entire Voulez-Vous album memorized. My dad would play that all the time.

One song my older sister would sing, simply to piss me off...was "Thank you for the music."

If i got sent to my room, right in the middle of my walk of shame from the kitchen table to my room or whatever, she would bust out "thank you for the music...for giving it to me...."

That used to drive me nuts.

I had the last laugh when I told on her for taking the car to her friends house when she was 15. She had to wait an extra year to get her license.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Abba is weak. Some time ago we on this board established that Ace of Base destroys Abba.

That battle is only slightly less one sided than Custer fighting the indians.

A more appropriate Swedish matchup would be Ace of Base v Europe, in which I would give a slight nod to Europe for two reasons:

Any rock song about intergalactic space travel deserves immediate attention supported by funded research and perhaps even a museum or visitors center of some sort.

When one is discussing late 80s American Indian-themed rock, "Cherokee" is the beginning and end of the conversation.