ABBA vs Queen

I like ABBA, cute little band. Sold lots of record, wrote cute little songs, but artistically not in Queens league. You Can't compare the hype of any band getting back their original lineup and recording new songs with what Queen did with Take Me In Your Heart Again. Trust me on this, if Freddie was alive and they recorded a new album it would go to#1 in almost every country. Where Queen fit as an all time great band depends on where your from. In the UK they are regarded as a 2 or 3 band. In America they're behind the likes of The Stones and Zeppelin, but still highly regarded in the classic Rock ERA. Probably between 10 to 15th on the best bands list.

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Yea, those two lovebirds fighting again. Ruining every topic. Get a room already and be done with it.

"cute little band. Sold lots of record, wrote cute little songs"

Wow. What a fucking idiot you are.

Another Internet tough guy!....ABBA were cute...not sure what I said that was so wrong. They were Good, but do I really think they were as good as The Who or Zeppelin? Or early Queen? Or Hendrix? No I don't, but they were a cute little band. I like them.

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I like ABBA, cute little band. Sold lots of record, wrote cute little songs, but artistically not in Queens league.[/QUOTE]

SOS is one of the greatest songs ever written. It is literally perfect.

They were a lot more than just a cute little band.

They were good.....but wouldn't a comparison of say The Bee Gees, or some other dance artist from back then be better than Queen? Back when ABBA was big, late 70's Queen were a rock band. Yea, Queen had some Dance styled hits in the 80's, but I don't get the comparison. They both sold millions of records, but that's where the comparison ends. I do agree they were very Good, Including the musical. I didn't even know they were releasing new material, so It's not making many headlines In America.

ABBA is trying on last hooray for their families bank accounts with all the bells and whistles of publicity.
Queen's intention was not the same with those new tracks.

bucsateflon : I disagree with your comment there, Queen (May & Taylor) do things these days to get the money rolling in otherwise they would not do it for sweet charity,
The new track "Let me in your heart again" was a forced thing as the record company needed the excuse to release a new album (Queen Forever) and the only way to make that album sell was to include a track featuring new vocals from Freddie, and the other new tracks which we have all heard before featuring MJ were just touched up but rather boring and bland for me.
Abba will also be doing this to top there bank accounts up as well, but they have been rather clever with there publicity for this limp charade.
Queens breaking news for there new track never made the news on Tv as far as i am aware.

Abba and Queen are different on the face of it - however to the person on the street only aware of Greatest Hits and what radio stations play they are utterly in the same bracket. Great high quality 70s tunes that conjure up nostalgia for a happier time gone by that either is imagined or real depending on the listener.

That said, we think we've been shafted with unnecessary Queen comps. Abba fans 'FFS' more than we do :)

It's tempting to make a little 10 track abba song comp for those who might not get the depth of their non-singles. Seriously - If you're already familiar with Gold and More Gold and dig them, please do check out things like Eagle (Prog), King Kong Song (I can imagine Freddie singing this Roger Taylor song), Hey Hey Helen (Great plodding glam) TIger. I'm A marionette, My Love My Life, The Visitors, Like An Angel Passing Through My Room, Intermezzo No 1..

I like ABBA.
I'm very interested in what these new songs will be.:)
I would very much like if Queen would released at least one unreleased song which Freddie sung.

Globally Queen bow only to The Beatles.

I love Abba and am excited to hear a new track, since the original four members are on it. I admire the way Bjorn and Benny haven't sold their souls on some crappy reality show to look for a karaoke loser that would get them a bit of attention in America.

Would be interesting to do more threads like this. Queen Vs The Doors would be interesting - dead singer, the others carried on without him and even made a posthumous album using leftovers and are now releasing basically everything from the vaults.

calm down before use words like "fucking" and "idiot" to people. In italy everyone knows 20 queen songs and maybe 3 by Abba.
Cute little band compared to Queen in terms of versatility and musical range , even if they sold hundreds million

I was never an ABBA fan although I don't think I've ever heard a bad ABBA song or rather an ABBA snag I haven't liked. Their albums sold in huge quantities and they were able to play multiple arena shows (six sold out Wembley Arena shows in 79 if memory serves me correctly) with the promoter wanting to double that number.

What has struck me is how much of ABBA is actually Benny Anderson. Anyone who saw the Benny Anderson band touring a few years ago couldn't ignore how ABBA like the material and the band it's self sounded.