ABBA to be Inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame!?

[martx-5]

Well, Wikipedia says their active years were 1972-1983...a little after the "A"s divorced the "B"s... :laugh:

 

[Guest]

This pic didn't help the rock image either.

Notice use of "subliminal" chic costumes.
(probaly why you older guyd dig 'em so much.)

https://home.freiepresse.de/diklu/abba.jpg

 

[Guest]

Can't figure out who would be "sheet rock."

It would have to be the - The Satins -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI

Thanks, I couldn't think of anything.

Good JOB !!! I knew one'ya come up wit sumptin'!

 

[DaveatMoon]

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Statement of Purpose:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of rock and roll music. Artists are eligible 25 years after the release of their first record and must have <span style="text-decoration: underline">substantially contributed to the history and direction of the genre.</span> [/QUOTE]

(<span style="font-style: italic">As the statement implies,record sales don't count. If it did Pat Boone, being <span style="text-decoration: underline">still</span> one of the top ten sellers of all time, would have been one of the first inducted.</span>)

Now, pick out the eligible artist who did <span style="text-decoration: underline">that</span> the least:

Lou Reed
Todd Rundgren
Alice Cooper
Cheap Trick
Yes
Linda Ronstadt
Chicago
Deep Purple
T Rex
Iggy Pop
Neil Diamond
Jimmy Reed
The Replacements
Dick Dale

Abba

Now pick out the one that got in first.

If I had more time I'd probably have a better list to pick from.

 

[Andrew Mace]

Can't figure out who would be "sheet rock."

It would have to be the - The Satins -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI

Ah, now you're talkin' music! :wink: (Yes, my musical tastes are even older than I am; this song came out when I was two!) Getting very hard to find Doo-Wop and other 1950s music on broadcast radio nowadays....

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Can't figure out who would be "sheet rock."

It would have to be the - The Satins -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI

Ah, now you're talkin' music! :wink: (Yes, my musical tastes are even older than I am; this song came out when I was two!) Getting very hard to find Doo-Wop and other 1950s music on broadcast radio nowadays....

That's why this is one of my favorite sites for music. 50's by years, as well as Doo-Wop, Instrumentals, Bluegrass - you name it!

Radio has left us Boomers in the lurch!

 

[tony barnhill]

Our PBS station is always having DOO-WOP concerts, 60's or 50's concerts, etc. on at 6pm Saturdays.

 

[aerog]

Radio has left us Boomers in the lurch!

Thats why they invented XM.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Radio has left us Boomers in the lurch!

Thats why they invented XM.

Well, maybe.

Boomers have lost their perceived buying power, according to the marketing gurus.

Besides, there's just something wrong with having to pay for radio broadcasts...

...maybe it's just me. I pay for TV reception, but somehow that's different. I suppose it's a matter of time before the internet broadcasts are pay-to-play as well. I'll enjoy in the meantime.

And, yes, I do donate to the websites I listen to.

 

[aerog]

Boomers have lost their perceived buying power, according to the marketing gurus.

In some areas it's nothing to do with "boomers", it's just the "market" in general. What we thought was a very popular 'oldies' station changed to an absolutely horrible hispanic language station overnight. Another fairly popular "pop" (I'd say it was a mix of different rock styles, but all fairly new stuff) also changed to a hispanic-oriented station overnight (that one wasn't quite as bad as the first).

In an area loaded with retirees I'd say there's no shortage of reasons to have something oriented to the older generations, but I only know of a couple of holdouts - and they're low-power AM stations.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]
Besides, there's just something wrong with having to pay for radio broadcasts...[/QUOTE]

You pay for every broadcast you listen to. Every one. Your payment is in the form of listening to advertising. On NPR stations your payment is in the form of taxes. On XM you pay for the format you want to listen to, and in the process you don't have to endure listening to someone scream at you to buy a new or used car, or an ad for the huge sale on "sunday sunday sunday".

But...I have to agree, I don't like the idea of having to pay for it either - so I just plug my iPod into the radio and let it rip through the 4000 tracks I have loaded up on it (which I also had to pay for but...well, nevermind). If I had a significant commute every day, or if I drove cross-country a lot I'd probably spring for it. I have XM off direct-TV and listen to it quite a bit. I just can't see bothering with it for my 12 minute drive I make a couple times a week.

 

[PC]

...Anyway, whatever you want to call ABBA's music, who wouldn't like old ~Agnetha~ singing this? :wink:
(even with the sound turned "off" )

I was going to suggest you reword that to "Agnetha of old." But ya'know, she's still lookin' good today.

Back then though, <span style="font-style: italic">mamma mia</span>. That was one viking I'd have liked to come pillage my village.


pc.

 

[drooartz]

Re: ABBA to be Inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame

:lol:

You owe me a keyboard for that one!

 

[TRDejaVu]

Besides, there's just something wrong with having to pay for radio broadcasts...

That's one I have trouble with as well.

 

[DaveatMoon]

Boomers have lost their perceived buying power, according to the marketing gurus.

The boomer generation has never lost it's marketing power. It's just too old.

Old people simply aren't as susceptible to advertising as your average 18 to 25 year old. I'm 51 years old. Every time I hear an ad for some stupid razor that's supposed to better because it has 4 blades I think back to the Saturday Night Live fake ad for the Triple Header. "<span style="font-style: italic">The Triple Header, because you'll believe anything!</span>"

Younger people don't have that perspective. They hear that Scions are the greatest cars ever, and without 30 years of Buick or Honda ownership to look back on they go out and buy one right away. People my age hear that and it rolls off our collective back like water on a duck. That's not to say that new products are bad, they're just different and different frightens us old folks. :smirk:

That's why all TV, movies, and radio are focused on that generation. That's why the evening news is basically one long ad for old people medications, and why your grandson never recognizes any of the ads for cars and investment portfolios on the NFL & PGA broadcasts. Those are the programs that are left to us.

 

[Basil]

There are so many comments that are bursting inside me, but I shall be a good boy and bite my tongue!

 

[DrEntropy]

yeah, I've simply elected to make no comment. Remarkable self-restraint (for me), huh?