Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?

Re: Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?

Arrival57 - 12.12.2007, 11:00
Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?
How many times when you are listening to a song and your mind drifts on to other things nothing to do with that song,so i was wondering what songs you personally relate to ABBA :?:
When i listen to WHEN WILL I SEE YOU AGAIN by the Three Degrees i always think of ABBA wishing they would reunite and record again.
How about you :?:

Stu :frida:

Re: Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?

johnny59 - 12.12.2007, 11:55

Another one is "Return to paradise" by Elton John. I don't relate it to ABBA exactly, but to Sweden. I always hum it in my mind when I cross the Swedish border after a holiday, heading home to the continent.


"Return To Paradise"

It's paradise here where the sun meets the sea
There's nothing to fear and so much to be
But soon I must go, say goodbye to it all
That homeland of mine is beginning to call

[Chorus]
Goodbye doesn't mean this has to be the end
Fading dreams grow cold as ice
And I got a feeling we will meet again
When we return to paradise

The wind in our hair and the sun in our eyes
There's no need for tears and no time for lies
So reach out your hand and I'll reach out my heart
Remember me while we are apart

I'm heading homeward
Leaving sunshine and heading for rain
But we'll return to paradise again

The song is on the album "A Single Man" from 1978.

Re: Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?

Toni - 12.12.2007, 20:15

Agnetha: "Maybe It Was Magic"

When she sings it, it sounds to me, that she talks about her time with ABBA:

There was something in the air (that night Fernando.... :D ..)
maybe it was magic..

and there was music
we danced in the sunlight and glittered like gold
life was free then
with time on our side we would never grow old

and there were feelings
burning with fire in the heat of a summer night
and there were sweet dreams
when once upon a time was just right


I love this song

Toni :wink1:

Re: Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?

cdnut - 21.12.2007, 08:25

I always think of Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love" as an A8BA song.
The lyrics and the vocal "sound" hauntingly remind me of Agnetha's vox
in "One Of Us" and "The Winner Takes It All"

-Jeff

Re: Other Songs You Relate to ABBA?

drimnagh - 31.12.2007, 16:25

Gotta agree with you there, Jeff! I've always thought that about Roxette's 'It Must've Been Love'- that echo! Agnetha all over! A rip off if you ask me. But a good one.

-J