(November 14, 2014 at 6:58 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: For me the songs mark some landmark moments of my life. Watching the documentary recently was really inciteful into the meaning of some of the songs, which I'd grown to become almost embarrassed about, unjustly it turns out.

You think YOU were embarrassed?? I'm a Jimmy Buffett fan. Mediocre melodies, (usually) sophomoric lyrics, musicianship that's (at best) run-of-the-mill.

Still, there's something about him...

Boru

UK. They were pretty much everywhere here too. Even amidst the rebellion going on around them.

(November 14, 2014 at 7:18 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: UK. They were pretty much everywhere here too. Even amidst the rebellion going on around them.

I think, they were even more successful than the Beatles.

Actually, me and my friends faced kind of a dilemma when growing up. We hated disco, which was all the rage in the late 70ies. So we went back a decade and listened to music from the 60ies.

These songs are still my favorites, since I have a brother who's 15 years my senior. Even being a baby I couldn't escape the songs of the Who, the Stones and all the other groups rising and falling at that time.

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(November 14, 2014 at 7:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

That reminds me of a trip to France in 79. It was in the charts back then, together with "Does your mother know?"

The irony is that after I got the "Magic Of ABBA" Album I got the "Super Trooper" Album and at the time hated this song which I love now.

(November 14, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The irony is that after I got the "Magic Of ABBA" Album I got the "Super Trooper" Album and at the time hated this song which I love now.

I hated it too. I found it pretty kitschy. But you certainly have watched the documentary, I guess. It falls into the time when the relationship - can't remember if she was involved with Björn or Bennyi - ended. The song is about that and I see it in a different light now.

By the way, where are you from?

I look back at that song having never dated or been married at that time because I was too young. But looking back at it it is a very mature song about handling pain and break ups without getting bitter or vindictive. It is acceptance. Life goes on.

(November 14, 2014 at 7:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I look back at that song having never dated or been married at that time because I was too young. But looking back at it it is a very mature song about handling pain and break ups without getting bitter or vindictive. It is acceptance. Life goes on.

Yes, it is.

Originally I grew up on Northern Va just outside of DC. Now I am in NC living near my mom who is in a retirement home.

Did Abba make the charts in the US too?