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@Tinfoilpuppy

3 жыл бұрын

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Frida's different singing styles on that particular album are incredible.... From The Visitors over When All Is Said And Done, to Like An Angel Passing to this one... just an incredible versatile singer.

@littleblackpistol

2 жыл бұрын

She's still underrated to me. Agnetha gets more attention. She is equally amazing, but in a different way.

Abba is a legendary music band we'll never have again.

@bobbyscott5162

3 жыл бұрын

Yes we will. They have reunited and 5 new songs coming out this year.

@rasul01

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbyscott5162 I wonder how it felt for you, knowing later on that they would release a full album with 10 new songs, instead of just 5 tracks.

Beautiful Frida!

I loved this when I first put on that record back in '81 and I love it just as much today. Frida's vocals are masterful. Yes it is theatrical and foretold "Chess" that Benny and Bjorn did a couple years later. The Visitors is soo layered with mature Abba themes. They also let Frida and agnetha take more individual ownership of lead vocals. Frida really shines on the Visitors as her mezzo soprano is particularly suited to the dark and moody vibes. They certainly grew from Honey Honey and Dum dum diddle. I dig your trying to understand and appreciate Abba. They are a constellation in an orbit by themselves...

Small masterpiece. Grand vocals.

Frida's amazing vocals, again.

Frida’s voice is on fire in this track! Very theatrical for sure. Reminds me of a cabaret song. Definitely hearing the influence of Kate Bush.

What a magical,beautiful song!What an angelic voice!Music can't get better than ABBA.

The Visitors is their most sophisticated album. Often called,, their album for adults. What is meant by that is it will drop the younger and more pop oriented listener. But it got noticed by music theater and classical music critics and fans. ABBA had Anni-Frid Lyngstad, their pro vocalist and front and center pro, who came from the classical/jazz/vocal centric genre's before ABBA. Stage/theater/cabaret/TV, etc... Started on stage in 1956. Pro in 1958, age 13. Highly respected since grace school. The real deal. Multiple National Best Vocalist wins, 1964 & 1967. Swept the talent hunts as a kid. Identified in grade school by her teachers for her vocal talent and her keen ear. She was overqualified for many songs, particularly ABBA's wall-of-sound, heavy rhythm, sing-songy stuff that put the ABBA girls firmly pasted to the wall-of-sound. Before the foursome became ABBA in 1972, they were an uncommitted foursome, 1970- early 71. Anni-Frid was the uncommitted one. She had options. After their cabaret shows winter of 70-71 Anni-Frid left the foursome. Went on tour with a male performer, etc... The foursome was done. No future ABBA. She had a solo contract with EMI Sweden, 1967-72. EMI wanted to extend/resign her as they had big plans for her. Stig Anderson/Polar Music wanted her badly as a solo artist and to be part of Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha. BB were already working for Stig Anderson as Polar Music house producer's, writing and producing for lots of artist too include Lena Andersson. Agnetha and Bjorn married and she came along with Bjorn. Benny & Anni-Frid were bf/gf, but Anni-Frid was not tied to the group. Anni-Frid was a kind of a free agent. In her final contract year with EMI Sweden. Stig Anderson Polar Music negotiated for about a year (1971-72) to get her to sign a solo contract and also join Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha to make the foursome official. Stig Anderson may have been Polar Music, but Anni-Frid had the pull. She was a hot property. Highly respected. Experienced. A pro! She knew her value and understood the business. Just got paid! In 1972, Anni-Frid accepted a sweet deal solo contract and other incentives from Stig Anderson Polar Music and also agreed to rejoin the group. Stig soon after named them ABBA. The rest is history. If Anni-Frid said NO to Stig, the world would never have had an ABBA. ABBA: Bright Lights Dark Shadows The Real Story of ABBA By Carl Magnus Palm

This is THE vocal performance of the album, in my opinion.

Your thinking of the harpsichord....frida loved the dramatic yes frida lead

I'm from Hungary and i'm following you because of ABBA.Here in Eastern-Europe ABBA was and still unbelievebly successful.All the new generations know their songs because there are no parties, clubs,wedding parties,radio stations without playing many ABBA hits on a daily base.I like your reactions because you seem to be honest about discovering and enjoying the finest music in the world.Music can't get any better.By the way my other favourite music is Tina Turner.I would love to see your reaction to one of her songs.

ABBA was / is a journey through a world of melodies and harmonies. Four talents that together made magic. Many of their best songs are lesser known and are true gems: The Piper, Soldiers, The day before you came, Eagle, Cassandra, Angel Eyes and the list goes on. They were just AMAZING.

Frida really nails it in this one...

Feels like this is Abbas version of bohemian rhapsody

Abba was experimenting on this Album. This song was a mix of "Music Theater" , "Folk", "Ballad" and "Pop". All mixed together with profound, Artistic vision. (and great storytelling). My favorite Frida song.

This is their "Bohemian Rapsody"

What a phenomenal work of Art this song is. Actually, that whole album. The two ladies were just incredibly talented vocalists. Bjorn & Benny are up there with the greatest Composers of the last Century. I can only wonder at how Abba could have progressed after this stunning masterpiece...and now looking at those old videos, how naturally stunning both Agnetha & Frida were : ). Oh, and your intelligent reviews are such a breath of fresh air Fabian!

ABBA DID LET THE MUSIC SPEAK: TWTIA, MONEY MONEY MONEY, DANCE (WTMSGO), SOLDIERS, RING RING, HASTA MANANA, ROCK ME, TIGER, TAKE A CHANCE ON ME, AS GOOD AS NEW, THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC.......🤗🤗🤗🤗

In this one you can hear how strong influence from classical music was in Benny's composing of ABBA's songs. That's the main reason they are so versatile, why there is no copy of another (their) song in their opus, every single one is different, and why every song is a small masterpiece. Listening to this one, when I close my eyes, I see ballet act in an old empty theatre.

11:30 no, it wasn't off, at 10:37 they've changed the rhythm. From 4/4, they went to waltz (3/4).

They can make you do that! Grin in disbelief and or joy.

With The Visitors, there were 9 songs. 4 had lead vocals by Frida, 4 by Agnetha and 1 by Björn.

Their most inventive song IMO which is saying something. Proper arty.

You are spot on with the time signatures. The song changes towards then end from 4/4 to 3/4, skips a beat and go back to 3/4 I think, or possibly 6/8. I'm sure someone that know music theory can make more sense of it than me.

That's why I subscribed, there are people that do fake reactions, but you obviously don't. I unsubscribed to one of them because it was obvious that he faked it.

From this album you should react to Head over heals and one of us!

Abba is known for their multitracking. Benny and Bjorn had the girls re sing the lyrics then overlaid them and that's how they get such a full sound...no auto tune.

This song would be right at home in a Musical like the sound of music.

There are keyboards playing strings and flute sounds, and the song credits list a clarinet (played on the choruses)

Frida ... in my humble opinion ... the best female voice ever! ❤

Glad to see you again Fabian!

This is like a hit song from a stage musical. Benny and Bjorn did go on after ABBA to write a hit musical 'Chess' .. so there you go. Check out 'I Know Him So Well' .... it's ABBA with two different female singers.

Yes, Benny and Bjorn certainly had their sights on Musical Theatre at this point and would soon be working on 'Chess'. By the way, there are some very cool ABBA videos for songs that don't have official ones by RJS. You get a real sense of the song (and it features a harpsichord too) .... Here's what they did for this song...... kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaxlvMiuirvgpKQ.html

@dinodasbunce6224

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is one of the best "fan made" videos I have ever seen. I have been recommending this video to people for some time now.

I told you a while back to react to Benny's acceptace speech at RRHOF. He lays out perfectly where their sound comes from. It's not just Frida on the album. Both girls did some of their best work in these sessions.

You should really listen to Björn and Benny in the musical "Chess". There are some great songs.

Did you catch that time signature change near the end when changed to a 3/4 waltz tempo? I love it, but then I come from a classical background, as well as folk.

A&U always had musical theatre in the back of their minds, so you're detecting the theatricality accurately. (That's why it was so good an idea to write a musical around classic ABBA songs, namely "Mamma Mia"; but A&U wrote theatre scores from scratch too, "Chess" and "Kristina", after ABBA broke up...)

Their last album contained more solo lead vocals than any of their other albums. Pretty much equally shared. 4 each with Bjorn doing one.

I felt this song had a classical sound to it! The next track on this song is One Of Us. Please react to it. It has a nice reggae beat!

The difference between the singing voices: Frida has the jazzy,musical style voice,Agnetha is more adept in Rock and straight out ballads. Both could sing the classical voice and together they formed a sound carpet of voices extraordinaire. If Agnetha sang this song,you would hear something reminiscent of 'My love,my life. BTW,you looked for a certain instrument,I can't relate to the point in the song, but maybe you just really heard Violins played staccato or fingertipped. Sounds crazy,but violins can deceive you in their sound,when played in an other than the conservativ way.

@steffichristina4259

2 жыл бұрын

Absolut richtige Einschätzung! 👍👍

I truly respect your intelligence. No lie!

OK, theatrical A&U: I Know Him So Well (Chess) Anthem (Chess) One Night In Bangkok (Chess) Gold Can Turn to Sand (Kristina) Audio of all these, and video for one or two, can be found on KZread. #1 is by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson; #2 and #4 are by Josh Groban; #3 is by Murray Head...even if you don't react to any of these I think you would enjoy hearing them...

The "rustic flutes" hark back to Swedish folk music.

Gosh what was that detractor even talking about? If you had researched the song, you'd know the instruments used, the thematic setting, the modes, etc.. Some reactions by musicians can say all of this on-the-fly. Using your dumbest detractor as an example of your skills, is something best kept private ;)

It's a very descriptive and theatrical song. This album, The Visitors reflects Benny and Bjorn's moving past pop music and developing their theatrical skills. It wasn't soon after this, they started work on the musical Chess. Soldiers, Two For The Price Of One, I Let The Music Speak are all examples of their style going beyond the 4 min. pop song and into more descriptive, melodramatic concepts. Critics started to praise them, but by this time Benny and Bjorn had decided to move on, and so did the group as a whole.

It wasn’t off. It went into waltz time.

I am not sure why people need to speak to you like that, you have a great sense for music. I have seen it even in your non-ABBA reactions. BTW they kept switching up the time signatures especially near the end which is probably why it was hard to follow or seemed off beat.

There was a lot of not letting the music speak there.

It's not wrong to call it "theatrical". Benny and Björn shortly after starting working on an an actual theatrical piece - the musical "Chess". The closest ABBA came to classical music, I suppose.

@gerhardvanderwesthuizen842

3 жыл бұрын

An earlier album, ABBA The Album (1977) also contained three songs from a mini musical called "The Girl with the Golden Hair" - "I wonder (Departure)", "Thank you for the music" and "I'm a Marionette". This song is much more complex than "Thank you for the music".

You are probably thinking about the "baroque" period of music. I'm guessing.

How can you concentrate if you always read Wikipedia at the same time.Don’t share the first holy moment with information that you can read after also.

I think you thinking about a chembalo, not sure about the spelling 🙂

Tja da ist der HipHop Chevker einfach mal überfordert,keine stupide Kopfnick Mugge

Its part of a mini opera, with Thank You For The Music and I'm a Marionette

@rdwulf6289

3 жыл бұрын

You're confusing this with I Wonder.

@nielsulriksrensen9818

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdwulf6289 Yeah, this was four years after they released the mini musical as part of The Album.

@gerhardvanderwesthuizen842

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if "I let the music speak" was maybe also written for that mini-musical, or had its genesis as part of that project. Maybe they worked on it for some years before releasing it on "The Visitors". Another song on The Visitors, "Like an angel passing through my room"'s melody later re-appeared in "Chess".

@stevendurrant1724

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdwulf6289 yep. My bad

@rdwulf6289

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevendurrant1724 Easy mistake to make 👍

Harpsichord, probably.

@thomasvea1646

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah maybe a harpsichord

Should have been on Chess. Not a popsong

@chelseacharger

3 жыл бұрын

'Pop' covers a wide spectrum of musical genres plus crossover. And many theatrical numbers have charted including by ABBA. From 'Chess' itself, 'I Know Him So Well' was a UK #1. The lyrics of this song don't fit the 'Chess' storyline anyway.

@Lisa-M

6 ай бұрын

@@chelseacharger We all know that he only said that because Frida is singing it. If Agnetha was the lead singer he would never say that this song doesn't belong on The Visitors. He probably would call it a masterpiece then.