{"id":782,"date":"2007-08-10T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-12T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T13:47:51","slug":"will-somebody-please-call-bullshit-on-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/will-somebody-please-call-bullshit-on-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Somebody Please Call Bullshit On ABBA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgyq0adAIhE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><em>One of the Three Good Ones<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the hit-and-run, but I got shit to do today. I just want to go on record as saying that the <strong>ABBA revisionism<\/strong> of the last couple of decades &#8212; this notion that Bjorn and Benny (or whatever their names were) were flawless practitioners of high pop craftsmanship &#8212; is <strong>utter horseshit<\/strong>. Most of their stuff was aggravating, stupid, overproduced, and a blight on AM pop radio when it was released, and nothing has changed in the last 30 years as far as I can see. It still sucks!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I take that back. <strong>It doesn&#8217;t all suck.<\/strong> ABBA did in fact deliver two Great Pop Songs in <strong>&#8220;Waterloo&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;Dancing Queen&#8221;<\/strong>, and one pretty good one in <strong>&#8220;Does Your Mother Know&#8221;<\/strong>. But the rest of the catalog? Absolute crap. &#8220;Fernando&#8221;? CRAP. &#8220;Money, Money Money&#8221;? TOTAL CRAP. &#8220;Take a Chance On Me&#8221;? UNBELIEVABLE CRAP. &#8220;The Winner Takes It All&#8221;? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK &#8212; WHAT KIND OF RIGHT-THINKING ADULT STILL LISTENS TO THIS SHIT?!<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Three Good Ones Sorry for the hit-and-run, but I got shit to do today. I just want to go on record as saying that the ABBA revisionism of the last couple of decades &#8212; this notion that Bjorn and Benny (or whatever their names were) were flawless practitioners of high pop craftsmanship <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/will-somebody-please-call-bullshit-on-ab\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}