ABBA's "Voulez-Vous" Album-A Great Discorecord?

**Videoskooter** · March 17th, 2006, 04:41 PM

Let's heat it up! Now, Abba didn't have gay or lesbian members, but this may come to a schock for some guyz/girlz here:

"Mamma Mia", the musical, has premiered in Belgium last week. It's a huge success and so Abba are very hot again over here!

The Belgian quality weekly magazine "Knack" has devoted an issue to the Swedish gods and they claim that, fasten your seatbelts, the album "Voulez-vous" is a milestone Discorecord!!!!!

Now as you know, I agree on that fact, so does Quinny, but the other members and memberettes, what do they think, mmmmh?

"As good as new" and "Voulez-vous" are outstanding Discotracks!

Let's skip "Chiquititties" BTW :o

**neonlights** · March 17th, 2006, 05:04 PM

I love ABBA, I admit I do enjoy all their albums. That said, I think Voulez-Vous is more disco-influenced than a full-fledged disco album. Looks like they embraced elements of disco (the cover was shot in a disco, after all), but they didn't really go all the way. "Voulez-Vous" (the most danceable, IMO), "As Good As New," "Kisses Of Fire" are either disco or disco-influenced, but "Chiquitita," "I Have A Dream" (I usually skip that one), "The King Has Lost His Crown" are definitely not..

In any case, some of ABBA's best disco moments came after this album like "Gimme Gimme Gimme" and "Lay All Your Love On Me."

**DJ-Pir** · March 18th, 2006, 04:24 PM

Mama mia..........

I barely got out of being forced to accompany my wife to this so
called Musical....
Imagine someone coming home all happy and cheerful after listening
to a night of Abba songs in Dutch :-(

There are a few Abba songs that have stood the test of time like
Lay all your love on me, Gimme Gimme (thank you Madonna) or the
classic Dancing Queen.....

But Abba disco.... nope.... Milestone ? for the flae market bins yes...

No offence intended Johan, but Abba is just polished pop music.
Still cherish my copy of the S.O.S album :-)

Thank you for the music !, Peter aka DJ-Pir

**RetroRuss** · March 18th, 2006, 06:00 PM

Abba are the antithesis of Disco as far as I am concerned. I'm not surprised a Belgium magazine reckon that album is a milestone! But I do acknowledge that BITD different countries had different Disco experiences. In London Abba was usually heard at school end of term parties, or house parties. If a DJ at a club (that I frequented) played an Abba tune he would be left with an empty dancefloor & people flocking for the door :o

I would never play an Abba track, either live or on a radio show, I honestly can't think of one of their tracks that has any decent groove or vibe. Great pop music though.

**discofresh** · April 28th, 2006, 05:23 AM

Sorry folks, i have to agree with Headlamp, Abba never featured in my club days..but that's how it was for my experience.

**Disco Dave** · April 30th, 2006, 01:31 PM

Whether it got played in the day or not, I often throw a few Abba tunes into a set. Voulez Vous, Lay All Your Love, Gimme Gimme Gimme, and of course Dancing Queen (overplayed yes) all work well.

Really not sure why they are getting the thumbs down from people here unless they are looking exclusively on whether they played them in the past. I can't speak for that but they will work easily in a current disco set.

**SandraDee** · April 30th, 2006, 02:30 PM

Voulez-vous actually featured funky US group Foxy so that might make it of more interest to the 'all disco has to be funky' brigade. :roll: Or not. I loved Abba's stabs at disco & really can't understand why they are considered any less disco than Madleen Kane or Debbie Jacobs or Ferrara for example.

**remicks** · April 30th, 2006, 02:54 PM

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ABBA not (sometimes ) disco??

Next , someone will try to argue that when ABBA sang about a DANCING QUEEN ..... they were referring to a young lass at a hillbilly square dance !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

At TROC"s last reunion party DJ Jerry Bonham .... effortlessy worked in TWO ABBA song's into his night 's set :

The mixes :

PASSION ---The Flirts
GIMME GIMME GIMME --- ABBA
LOVE ME TONIGHT --- Coco Dujour

UP AND DOWN --- Wonder
ON AND ON AND ON --- ABBA
HOT WAX --- Mother F

..... neither caused the disco indulgent crowd to clear the floor ....

.... add to ABBA's disco hit list : THE VISITORS ....crackin' up ....

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**SandraDee** · April 30th, 2006, 03:15 PM

Originally Written by remicks

Next , someone will try to argue that when ABBA sang about a DANCING QUEEN ..... they were referring to a young lass at a hillbilly square dance !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: U Americans are so much more open-minded when it comes to dance music.

**JussiK** · May 2nd, 2006, 01:45 AM

Abba's "On And ON"...topped the Billboard disco charts later on, did it not, so at least some of their output's got to be classified as dance music? But actually dancing to "Chiquitita", that must have been difficult. There was a charity-type event on tv right after that album came out with Abba and Donna Summer as special guests, and as a grand finale, everybody started to try and make a spectacle of getting down to Chiquitita. Donna especially looked decidedly uncomfortable. There is however a disco version of the tune by one Hans Edler. I've always wanted to hear those horrible, omnipresent Inca bands doing an "authentic" live version on a city square.

**KayJayEm54** · May 2nd, 2006, 03:46 PM

Just received a brilliant box set - Abba - The Complete Studio Recordings [BOX SET] on CD. Includes every single track recorded by Abba, plus videos and demo tracks.

Amazon-U.S. | Amazon-U.K. | Amazon-Germany | Amazon-France

Wasn't until I started to take a trip down memory lane that I discovered the Disco-orientated 'The Visitors' track. I guess there are other treasures in this box that could equally fall into the Disco theme, afterall just take a look at the costumes they used to wear - nothing different to those that Arlene Philips' Hot Gossip used to (not) wear - included the then yet-to-be-famous Sarah Brightman!

Oh the memories are now flooding back - glamorous looks, brief outfits, cow bells, disco horns and synths!!

Amazon-U.S. | Amazon-U.K. | Amazon-Germany | Amazon-France

**remicks** · May 5th, 2006, 11:20 AM

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The Billboard Disco/Dance #1's for the last days of April-early May (4/28-5/3)were as follows:

1975: (9wks) "BAD LUCK" - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
1976: (3wks) "LOVE TRILOGY" LP - Donna Summer
1977: (7wks) "DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO" - T-Connection
1978: (1 wk) "IF MY FRIENDS COULD SEE ME NOW/ GYPSY LADY" - Linda Clifford
1979: (4wks) "DANCER/ DANCE TO DANCE" - Gino soccio
1980: (1 wk) "LOVE'S HOLIDAY/ SEARCHING/ THE GLOW OF LOVE" - Change
1981: (1 wk) "LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME/ ON AND ON AND ON" - ABBA
1982: (1 wk) "MURPHY'S LAW" - Cheri
1983: (1 wk) "LET'S DANCE" - David Bowie
1984: (1 wk) "HOLD ME NOW" - Thompson Twins

hard to argue #1 !!!
Gotta love the charts !!! :)

courtesy Markydefad
THE WAY WE WERE thread

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