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Rip It Up, Issue 217, 1 September 1995, Page 18

Abbasalutely Fabulous Abbasalutely Fabulous

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win nave - r.— ABBA adoration, u Knowing our class party. I ;i remember Standard in^ s . and abba;l says and there was Bay y. t he ABBA canip.' Greta, who pitched h tgb(es an(j , ;W<.d play that ge P g had prepared . /dance, and;eat » pon e S ,.and • My mother prepared jam and cream scon

we danced to ABBA. I guess that went on until I J says Jane Sinnott of Heads ■When I Kis?ed "th Jhe. words on. and having aso g boo _ w^ usjc That was the big • singing along to a * j 0 much hype you ?oXy m :,i":, d sing along and pre‘endThyeO y U :re On o e oc'e ß n to represent i anything 4 Th y ont for being a huge conglomeration, naSty ’X fnthe end S For me, they were just a huge band that « re gnuery clothe ed the Andrew Brough of B ,o . MvLife’ jumped on “soppy love song My ° ’ • as at jntermedithe ABBA bandwagon while he was at mt ate -As Ch as I could tell, everyone was talking f

bUII, JUfJUI , a - about ABBA. I bought an ABBA record (The Best ABBA) because everyone tn> y class had one. of ABBA) because everyone in. y j It was kind of exciting, I suppose, it sort of a fervour about lat e< with'the punk " |tWa d ’am that the backlash happened . S 6 «BA a Then then them s Xm the la"few years, where gets UP -n"s d alwa C ys S « new'generation to be thrust into tJe bowels of an oldl generation s pop

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Jeremy Eade of Garageland, who picked the definitive ABBA song. 'Dancing Que , f contribution to Abbasaluteiy. The fl.p, sia.. . . gems still are pretty kinda coo ABBA an - A , ot of people Who wer ™ get the chan^X as Cre outside of the f the ™T enn be rean( sickening •• says aging a limn heries Able Tasmans got first Graeme Humphenes. n kg. for their pick of the much co Qf t h e ir Abbasalutely track. »S reajl . shine l think sornTofme tunes’ on the ABBA compilation do nXXTpX'G-me selects the ShXe and ti« 95 taka Shayne Carter ? the Fiona Spooky' ue_ he . says breat hiessly. Game k s P°° ky ft s’just beautiful. They’ve XgX U chord into a minor, and it - just... it makes you poo your, pants. . J . o„r howel control - you can t ask aus

m sunrender much more than that. MsggjsOs with fun in mind, so n y X e nkXl'Xwf^ XsX. Believe me. it's not that hard “"vs good party album," vouches Natasha Griffiths. "You can dance m.t s really groovy. It s not . ,, £ e * JL e anyone it’A not going to maKe ai>yy =Si=SE

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