Articles tagged "abba"

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Life After ABBA: Post-Ironic Swedish Rock

by Iain Ellis

[5.Dec.08] :. Welcome to the age of post-irony, where guilty pains and pleasures are played out as collective nostalgia through the warped blur of rose-tinted glasses.

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ABBA outlasts its critics

by Paul Hodgins [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[9.Aug.07] :. Remember white zinfandel? Back in the `80s, everybody was drinking it, but nobody wanted to admit it. ABBA is the white zinfandel of pop groups. Yes, they were hugely popular: more than 370 million...

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Abba: Gold [DVD]

by Kevin Jagernauth

[15.Mar.04] :. It is difficult to overstate just how brilliant Abba was.

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ABBA: The Definitive Collection [DVD]

by Marshall Bowden

[22.Jan.03] :. Yes, I am an unabashed ABBA fan for the simple reason that the time and effort put into the composition, arrangement, and recording of these pop songs is out of all proportion to their importance as...

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ABBA: The Definitive Collection

by Marshall Bowden

[5.Nov.01] :. Whoa, there! Another ABBA compilation, you say? Surely that’s all been done. And for anyone really that interested, why not simply buy their remastered individual albums and have done with it?...

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ABBA: The Best of ABBA

by David Sakowski

Blah, Blah, BlABBA… Now that the ‘70s nostalgia has been usurped by ‘80s nostalgia, how are we to view those Nordic superstars of pop, ABBA? It was good kitchy fun when drag queens...

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