Pina Colada song

[grayhank]

ABBA is great! Why is it whenever somebody doesn't like them they always mention "Dancing Queen". They had some very respectable songs IMHO: The Name of The Game; Knowing Me Knowing You, When All Is Said And Done, SOS. Try listening to the album cut of "Eagle". One of the best ABBA songs ever recorded and I consider it their masterpiece. They are a great Pop band, not in the ranks of some others, but they were ahead of their time as far as their sound goes. Their vocals and instrumentations were always masterfully produced and engineered. It's too bad that because of "Dancing Queen" they are usually catagorized as a "disco" band when they are actually pioneers of the more progressive "Euro-Sound". And they were also funny as heck going down on the Titantic in an SNL skit when they were the featured band.

What people fail to realize about the 70s radio is that there were NO basic formats to what they played. You would hear anything from a rock song to country to disco to soul to pop. It was all uniquely blended together. Now most radio stations will only play one style of music per station. It gets boring.

Some useless trivia:

The Starland Vocal Band: They started out as John Denver's backup singers on "Take Me Home Country Roads".

Rupert Holmes wrote for and worked with Barbara Streisand for many years before making his own album which contained 3 Top 40 hits. Escape, Him and Answering Machine.

One of Air Supply's biggest hits (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All) was written and produced by Jim Steinman the man who wrote all the songs on Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell album as well as many of his other albums. Meat Loaf's career dive bombed when he decided not to use Steinman for his 3rd album. Steinman released the album himself called "Bad For Good" and it yielded the hit "Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through" which Meat Loaf finally recorded years later when the two worked together again.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I remember seeing on a "One Hit Wonder" show that David Letterman actually worked on the short-lived Starland Vocal Band show. The fact that such a band with one hit could get a TV show in the 70s speaks volumes about what could get on TV back then. Of course, most reality TV is far worse...

I had to inform a co-worker what "Afternoon Delight" meant one day. She was totally clueless.

The "Escape" Pina Colada singer was a perfect example of a pre-MTV artist that had no chance once video took hold. I saw him on the same "One Hit Wonder" show, and that poor guy looked like such a dork. Catchy, if somewhat annoying song. I have trouble thinking the couple in the song would both laugh off the fact that they were about to commit adultery and make up.

Chris

[Cosmicman]

ABBA didn't perform "Afternoon Delight"

That was the Starlight Vocal band. I think they had their own show on television. Remembering seeing it as a kid. It was so horrifying. I can't decide which show was worse, that or Hee Haw.

[huedell]

I have just about everything ABBA ever released---big fan.

[Mikey]

ABBA Waterloo -- in German

Fantastic...... in any language

YouTube - ABBA - Waterloo [German Language Version]

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[huedell]

My wife has "Afternoon Delight" on her Zune. I like a lot of the soft rock stuff but not that one. ABBA too. Can't stand them. Dancing Queen makes me want to rip the heads off fuzzy bunnies. I am a huge Hall & Oates fan though. Saw them a few weeks ago for like the fourth time. Still as good as they were in the 80's.

Hall & Oates? They're "hard enough" lite-rock to almost be respectable to
serious rock dudes! (Compared to ABBA, SVB, Rupert Holmes, Air Supply etc.)

[monkey tennis]

ABBA is the best .........

If someone don't like ABBA, stay far away from me.

I like ABBA, but don't tell anybody.
(Wish I could do that backwards 'B')

[Brue]

The actual title is Escape

I sent my wife a few lines when we were mad at each other about 7 years ago.

It worked. Corny. But it remains one of songs to this day.

[Mikey]

ABBA is the best .........

If someone don't like ABBA, stay far away from me.

[megocrazy]

My wife has "Afternoon Delight" on her Zune. I like a lot of the soft rock stuff but not that one. ABBA too. Can't stand them. Dancing Queen makes me want to rip the heads off fuzzy bunnies. I am a huge Hall & Oates fan though. Saw them a few weeks ago for like the fourth time. Still as good as they were in the 80's.

[Cosmicman]

My brother and I had an X-rated lyric version of that song that we used to sing because we hated that song. I won't post the lyrics here for obvious reasons but if you want a laugh, hit me up and I will tell you about it. One of our friends got banned from a karaoke night for singing it like that. Funny in our little world I guess.

[Adam West]

I guess I'm the only one so far that hates the song... "Afternoon Delight" sucks too btw.

I had a neighbor who was the cousin to one of the singers in the Starland Vocal Band. Of course when I heard the song when I was young, I had no idea what the song was about but I always enjoyed the song.

I hadn't heard the song in years and one of my co-workers has an iPod that he occassionally listens to in a speaker docking station on low volume. Every Friday, as a joke, he would play "Afternoon Delight" and start singing along loud to the lyrics trying to get everyone to chime in to the last vocal of the song.

[monkey tennis]

Best SONG from the 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
youtube Joe Dolce

[monkey tennis]

I'd never heard it before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdhZwK7cS8
Now I love it...Thanks

[huedell]

I'm a sucker for alot of those "lite rock" songs from the 1970s, like the "Pina Colada Song". Much like Megos or classic tv commercials, those songs remind me of my childhood and I still like hearing them. I listen to the XM and AOL Radio stations alot while online and usually I'm either listening to '80s New Wave stuff or the 1970s classic rock or soft rock. Some metalhead I am

Guess it all depends on how you're "programmed"

I'm not into the REAL heavy bands like you are nvmb----but people are still
surprised that I like the real easy listening and poppy stuff --that is---
IF they've already heard my own bands' music---otherwise, I guess its pretty
believable I'd like lite-rock (Air Supply anyone?) cause I'm kinda "cheesey"
at first glance/meeting anyways

If I remember right nvmb--and with all respect--you have more of a
tough-guy look---so I can see where it'd be harder for people to believe
you like that kinda stuff at first glance

Anyways, I don't believe in the "guilty" part of the term "guilty pleasure"

If a certain thing makes ya happy for the reasons you listed---then its good
enough, eh? Kinda like Mego and alotta the other stuff we talk around here.

I kinda took the conversation and ran into a different direction with it---

as nvmb wasn't saying he felt weird about Pina Colada persay---

just thought I'd talk about the "guilty pleasure" aspect of this genre to
spark more conversation on a very closely related topic

Granted, for a huge sect of people lite-rock (70s, etc.) just makes them
vomit---but I thought I'd give a shout out positively anyways!

P.S. nvmb---I love 80s NEW WAVE too!