ABBA or Bee Gees

[FuzzyAce]

Unacceptable! Disco ball to the head, who do you choose?

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Unacceptable! Disco balls to the head, who do you choose?

RUTHLESS! FIFY!!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Unacceptable! Disco ball to the head, who do you choose?

Fine. ABBA.

 

[spawnofthesith]

My real answer is neither and goes to Disco Dead tho

 

[Aelred]

How many hooks in one song?

 

[norminal]

I honestly can’t choose between these two. I have many memories of my Mother spinning ABBA vinyl when I was a kid, so I’m going with them.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

You can't just demand that people use their fried brain matter to make a choice between two bands! What if I like both!?! These polls are too hard!

But seriously...

I voted ABBA. As groovy as the Bee Gees were, hardly anybody in the history of music wrote supremely catchy hooks like the wizards and sorceresses of ABBA did. If you looked in the dictionary under "earworm", you'd find this:

earworm​

noun​

1 : ABBA

2 : a song or melody that keeps repeating in one's mind

 

[TSJMajesty]

wrote supremely catchy hooks

I too voted ABBA. S.O.S. is one of my all-time favorite songs. It's way up there!

Fun fact: Pete Townshend said, "SOS is the best pop song ever written."

I can def appreciate BG's, and like them, but seriously..., their songs were SO overplayed during the SNF era. I got so sick of hearing that voice- Ah ah ah ah Stayin Aliiiiiiiiive


Then again, before all that, Massachusetts was also one of my favorite childhood songs.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Ah ah ah ah Stayin Aliiiiiiiiive

 

[Gothi]

Even Ozzy admitted that he could hum The Winner Takes it All, when there was no one around. “Just imagine to write such a song”, he said, or something close in one the Osbourne reality shows ages ago.

 

[Frodebro]

 

[paisleywookiee]

Choose, or else.

I don't know what made you feel like "I'm going to be fucking mean today" to make us choose, but ABBA. I guess.

 

[Sirloin]

 

[Frodebro]

 

[FuzzyAce]

How in the hell is ABBA winning?

 

[paisleywookiee]

How in the hell is ABBA winning?

The sooner you become a dancing queen, the better your life will be.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

How in the hell is ABBA winning?

That‘s because of great songwriting and this guitar.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Bee Gees should win on Saturday Night Fever alone.

 

[Gothi]

^ Really? In Denmark they were more like a dancable joke with their nasal singing. A Danish band did a parody song about them. It sounded cheesy to many. I have heard male sopranos do that much more gracefully, e.g. not sounding like you have a cold or are squeezing your nose.

 

[Aelred]

Nasal vocals? Perhaps too much time in Australia (from 1958 - 1967).

ABBA were massive here too. Molly Meldrum kept playing the video of Mamma Mia! until they released it as a sinlge.

From https://thebigissue.org.au/article/how-molly-meldrum-launched-abba-to-stardom/

"But we did play ‘Mamma Mia’ on Countdown. And RCA still refused to release it. Then we played it again…and again, finally forcing RCA to release it as a single. And when it went to No 1 in Australia, RCA in Europe also decided to release it.

Agnetha later told me the group was surprised by the success of ‘Mamma Mia’ in Australia. “Honestly, I didn’t believe in that song,” she confessed."