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Alien, I suspect you meant 'Thank you for the Music'
Grown men , on a football message board.. discussing ABBA
I did
Head is fooked today
Very good song, hard to play having just googled the chords.
They wrote some brilliant songs fair play.
Who said they were never used before? What ABBA did was fuse rock, pop and dance elements, used globalised lyrics, had hooks all over the place, scaled back the drums and bass, took the production of pop music very seriously, and in the tradition of Swedish music they focussed heavily on the melody. The result was a recipe for chart success that has been copied ever since.
Well you've talked a lot about structures and a blueprint that they put in place - but to me, they didn't do anything particularly original in that department (it's pretty hard to).
But the elements you mention here, that's where the ABBA magic is. Mamma Mia has about half a dozen hooks and the listener is bombarded with them all in the first minute or so.
I've only scratched the surface, people have written dissertations on the subject. The proof of the pudding is in the work of people like Max Martin, who went to the school of ABBA. Obviously people add their own twists, but the number of producers and songwriters influenced by ABBA tells it's own story.
It pains me to say it being a fan of Roxy Music, Bowie, Sex Pistols, Clash, Joy Division, Cure, Smiths, New Order, Pixies, Husker Du, RHCP, Flaming Lips, etc, but I think most people have a secret soft spot for ABBA
When I was young, I also listened to the Who, Beach Boys, Kinks, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hollies and the Small Faces quite a lot.
This is a rock song:
Try these, they are the same as the those played in the video I posted earlier, and not too difficult.
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/j...te/sos_crd.htm