Shnootz - Reaction Video (ABBA - As Good as New)
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- What's cracking, folks! I'm back with another ABBA reaction, and this time we begin going through their 1979 album Voulez-Vous with the beautiful and multifaceted "As Good as New," a top song for both sonic and songwriting reasons. So join me for another great album-opener from this incredible quartet. Cheers!
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Abba is amazing. Pure genius. Their songs take you on a musical journey like no other. Thanks for your videos. You bring a different dimension to reactions.
The way Agnetha handles the lead here is extraordinary!She plays the game with 'machines in full speed' with the way she uses her voice.Bravo.
Definitely my most "feel good" song! I have not ever commented but ... respect to you SIR!
Never has there or ever will there be a band with so much MAGIC!
one of their many many lesser known gems!
Fab start to the Voulez-vous album 🎉😮
A great start to a great album.
I love this killer bass and Agnetha's 'Ma!ma!ma!ma!maaa life is here!/gooootta have you neeear" so funky and so sexy,not to mention the strings intro.I suspect Madonna adopted the idea for her 1986 'Papa don't preach' track strings intro too.Just thinking.
Agree with ur Madonna's Papa Don't Preach comment!
“My life is here, gotta have you near” says it all doesn’t it. Classical funk brought to you by the brilliant ABBA. You think you’ve heard everything they’ve got and here comes a song like this. Incredible band pure and simple. Thanks Matt. 👍
Minor nitpick, it's disco. Funk adjacent, but not funk.
Yes, it`s funky alright. Very strong vocals by Agnetha, too.
It's a disco classical but very fast pace song
THE MAGIC OF ABBA.
Great opening dance track to the album and some great vocals from Agnetha.
There are new statistics in the ABBA playlist
The self-titled album ABBA also exceeded 10,000 cumulative views,
it is the fourth behind “The Album”, “Voulez Vous” and “Arrival”
Two more songs exceeded 1000 views (33 in total)
and they are from the current album under review, “Super Trouper”
indicating that more new people are approaching and raises the starting floor
(and at the same time, when going through the ABBA playlist,
raises the counter in the first video "Ring Ring")
But the most outstanding fact for me is that,
after a long time, I change the Top3 of ABBA:
the fantastic "As good as new" reached third place,
surpassed "Knowing me knowing you"
and continues to rise
(that's why I leave the comment here)
And most likely in the next few days I'm talking about another big change
“The winner takes it all” is also flying, to enter the Top5
Within the Top20 of your entire channel there are three ABBA songs:
#13 Ring Ring
#19 S.O.S.
#20 As good as new
And in the Top20 of all your musical reactions there are 13 ABBA songs:
#1 RingRing
#4 S.O.S.
#5 As good as new
#6 Knowing me knowing you
#7 Eagle
#8 The winner takes it all
#12 Thank you for the music
#13 When I kissed the teacher
#14 Little
#16 Angel Eyes
#17 I've been waiting for you
#18 The name of the game
#19 Move on
to complete the Top20 on your ABBA playlist:
I'm a marionette
Gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)
one man one woman
money money money
That's me
voulez vous
Summer night city
The companion to this is Angel Eyes, one of their best.
I was waiting for the confirmation, to post
A new brand, but triple, on the same day
Yes, three ABBA songs reached 1000 views in the same day:
"Money money money"
"Thanks for the music"
"lAs good as new"
But the most notable is this last one, "As good as new",
it achieved it in only 7 days, in a phenomenon similar to that of "Eagle"
I am noticing a very interesting fact:
the opening songs of the ABBA albums are the most viewed
(the rare exception being the two ABBA mega hits:
Waterloo and Mamma Mia)
The Top10 of the most viewed ABBA now remains:
S.O.S.
Knowing me knowing you
Ring Ring
Eagle
When I kissed the teacher
That's me
I've been waiting for you
As good as new
Money money money
Thank you for the music
And within all your musical reactions, ABBA's positioning looks like this:
5) S.O.S.
7) Knowing me knowing you
8) ring ring
10) Eagle
16) When I kissed the teacher
20) That's me
(one in Top5, four in Top10, six in Top20,
and more growing from below)
Statistics updated on the ABBA playlist
yesterday
“As Good as new” also surpassed 2,000 views
And it ranks fourth in the total of your musical reactions
And very close to surpassing “S.O.S.”
and just today
“The winner takes it all” moved to fourth place on your ABBA playlist
And between your new reactions
"Lay all your love on me"
A much loved by fans
It comes sweeping from below
the Top10 of your ABBA playlist is now:
Ring Ring
S.O.S.
As good as new
The winner takes it all
Knowing me knowing you
Eagle
Thank you for the music
Chiquitita
When I kissed the teacher
Angeleyes
(the first one has almost 2500 views,
the next two exceeded 2000 views
and the remaining 7 of the Top10 exceeded 1500 views
and there are 27 more songs that exceeded 1000 views
And within the Top10 of your musical reactions:
#1 RingRing
#3 S.O.S.
#4 As good as new
#6 The winner takes it all
#7 Knowing me knowing you
#8 Eagle
#9 Thank you for the music
As for the albums,
“Super Trouper” has been going up very strong
It is already third in accumulated views and very little behind the first two
the order of the seven albums by cumulative views is
Voulez vous
The Album
Super Trouper
Arrival
ABBA
Ring Ring
Waterloo
(but by average views
"The Album"
continue first)
Two new ABBA reactions coming this morning, Eduardo! See you in the comments, brother. :)
"As good as new" (1979)
is the opening track of the album "Voulez Vous"
and it is one of my favorites from the album (8pts)
it has a surprising opening
with strings reminiscent of classical music,
to move to a constant danceable rhythm,
Agnetha's voice fine and powerful
and that "Ma ma ma ma ma ma..." outstanding
(i believe is unique in ABBA songs)
and then a beautiful pre-choir and pure choir together with Frida
ABBA's trademark with their magical 'Third Voice'
and an ending as abrupt as it is great
a little more than three minutes of concrete music
prettier to listen than to dance
and that is what I value the most
(it seems that Agnetha's voice suits the disco rhythm very well
in fact at the current 'Voyage Concerts' in London
of the four songs in the 'disco section'
two are with Agnetha on lead vocals
even if they are not from this album)
"As good as new"
paradoxically it is one of the most underrated songs on the album "Voulez Vous"
It was only performed live on the 1979 tour of North America and Europe,
which ended in Japan in 1980.
It does not have an official video,
although a fan made one with images showing ABBA during the trip in the United States
and it was released as a single in very few countries,
but coincidentally one of them was Argentina
Thanks again for your fantastic reaction
I wish you a great week
see in the next track
my best regards from
Buenos Aires, Argentina
South America
Go away Eduardo
More news on the updated ABBA playlist statistics after the weekend
The main one is about this song
“As good as new” achieved two very important marks,
An internal: now surpassed "S.O.S." and it is the second ABBA song with the most views
And the other is general: it also becomes the second of all the musical reactions on your channel
As I said some time ago,
excluding “Ring Ring” and other songs by other artists that top your playlists,
now “As Good as new” is of all your musical reactions the one that has the most views
“without the help of those that top the playlists”
The Top15 of your ABBA playlist is now like this:
>2500 views:
Ring Ring
>2000 views:
As good as new
S.O.S.
The winner takes it all
Knowing me knowing you
>1500 views:
Eagle
Thank you for the music
Chiquitita
When I kissed the teacher
Angeleyes
Lay all your love on me
Gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)
The name of the game
Move on
I've been waiting for you
And within the Top10 of all your musical reactions:
#1 Ring Ring
#2 As good as new
#4 S.O.S.
#6 The winner takes it all
#7 Knowing me knowing you
#8 Eagle
#9 Thank you for the music
#10 Chiquitita
And within the total of all your videos on the channel
#10 Ring Ring
#16 As good as new
#18 S.O.S.
#20 The winner takes it all
#22 Knowing me knowing you
#23 Eagle
#24 Thank you for the music
#25 Chiquitita
As for the albums,
now “Super Trouper” surpassed “The Album”
and it is second of "Voulez Vous in accumulated views
while “The Album” is still the one with the highest average views
the current order is
Voulez vous
Super trouper
The Album
Arrival
ABBA
Ring Ring
Waterloo
The Visitors (with only three songs)
See you in the next videos
My best regards from
Buenos Aires , Argentina
South America
Interesting that the Super Trouper songs have gotten so many views already! Cheers as always for doing this, Eduardo. You are endlessly appreciated!
A really great opener on Voulez-Vous! And I really think this is one - of many - really great album tracks, that also could have been an A-side single and a big hit! ABBA had/have so many tracks, that have this high pop quality. Great production, great vocals from Agnetha ( Anietta ) and flawless harmonies from Frida! ( Anni-Frid )
This album includes both disco, ballads rock and funky songs - so again, a very diverse album. It was my very first vinyl album that I bought as a 14 year old! My parents gave me a record player in april 1979 at my confirmation - and I was over the moon and heard it over and over again! Now it is not one of my top favourite ABBA albums, but that is just because they made so many good ones - so still very good! But one thing I like about Voulez-Vous is that the sound and production is so clear and sharp.
Enjoy yet another great ABBA album, Matt!
Great opener,love the strings,the bass,with Agnetha in a very vibrant vocal performance and her solo delivery in full accelaration on the lead.I also like the cool lyrics,especially hearing her singing 'i'll never know,why i had to go,why i had to put up such a lousy rotten show'/ 'boy i was tough,packing all ma stuff,say i don't need you anymore,i've had enough'/Feel like a creep,never felt so cheap, never had a notion that ma love could be so deep/,how could i make,such a dumb mistake,now i know i'm not entitled to another break" and all the 'ma,ma,ma's ,ha!ha!that's it ma girl!
Oh about leaving Björn and he wrote the lyric ,strange
@@Urfinchannel lol.seems he's such an unsuspicious sweet avenger.
I don't know another song like this. It starts with classical music, goes into funk, then goes ABBA pop. It somehow all works.
ABBA knows how to open any of their album with a great track! I believe her name is pronounced “un yet tah”.
Yes Agnetha on lead (ag nyet ta)
It took me forever to get Agnetha's name somewhat right, our American soft palates simply resist it! Here is the lady herself.
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Arn-yetta
Yes,nice that is.And i've got another one i think from Japanese tv 1978
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This track gets you in the right vibe for the rest of the album. Don't worry about Agnetha's name, I say Ann-yeta, it's not correct, but a little closer. At the end of the day it's about the music and your reaction to it -and I, for one, am enjoying it!
'An(g)yeta'.I love her vocals here being in full power,sounding more 'demanding','confident' and her voice possibly more stretched than ever since that high note in 'Hole in your soul' 2 years back.
There are probably dozens of attempts of transliteration, but I'd say: 'Ang', like in angle, and then 'neta' somewhat like in 'feta' (the cheese).
Matt, it's pronounced as Annyetta.
A fabulous disco-tinged pop track. That classical intro leading into the funky disco bass is genius. Strings were of course a massive part of the disco sound. It's such a strong, vibrant and dynamic song, amazing vocals from Agnetha, wonderful harmonies from Frida. She's packed up and left, realises she still loves him and it has renewed their feelings and relationship. There area couple of Abba songs with this theme of leaving and wondering if they did the right thing. At least this one has a happy ending. Great start to the album. I must confess at the time I didn't buy this album. My musical tastes had started to change and most of the singles released from the album were not very exciting compared to Lene Lovich, Blondie, Gary Numan and X-Ray Spex. Now of course I love (most of) it.
🙂
this song (and album) would have made Nile Rodgers proud. I am surprised they never worked with him. It would have been magic.
Nile apreciated Abba and has appeared in an Abba documentary praising the way they crafted 'Dancing Queen''s production.He also made some podcasts recently with Bjorn.
The best track by Agnetha Faltskog on Voulez Vous Album.
now yes, officially welcome to "Voulez Vous", ABBA's sixth studio album
Released in 1979, I was 21 years old,
it was the album that I lived the most from ABBA,
because for the first time I put faces to them since I saw them at the Concert for UNICEF,
and later at ABBA's presentation for the 300 Million television program Spanish for Latin America
All this happened due to the extraordinary success of ABBA's new single,
"Chiquitita" in Argentina and all of Latin America.
(here in Argentina, South America, at that time,
records from Europe and the United States took almost a year to reach the record stores,
in addition to the fact that we were governed by a bloody Military Dictatorship,
which, among other things,
curtailed the access to foreign music by the radios)
the album "Voulez Vous" in retrospect of my life is one of my least favorite ABBA albums,
because basically I don't like disco music 'today'
but in those times of my 20 years I did like it and I listened to it a lot,
although I wasn't going to dance,
I went to see the movies "Saturday night fever" and "Grease",
and I bought the Bee Gees albums,
which in those years they were my favorite group
(today it is ABBA)
This is my personal experience of my memory of those distant years of 1979,
and how I live that music today
Go away Eduardo
Along with I Have A Dream, As Good As New came near the very end of the Voulez Vous studio sessions. Finished off 3 weeks before the Album's release. The song had two passes in the studio with the strings being added in the second pass.
It seems this was not too complicated for them to do in the studio. It wasn't like some other tracks that go through a multitude of changes from inception to finished track.
It was all finished off from start to finish within one month at the end of the sessions.
A good track, but I wouldn't put it in my top 20 Abba tracks. Without the strings, I think it would have been somewhat average.
It’s one of my favourite ABBA songs. I could listen to it again and again.
@@pascal-ZSame here. It lifts you and put's you in a good mood. A great opening track.
@@geordieboy8945 yeah it's so uplifting and Aggy's voice in perfect shape.She rocks in this lead.That was a domestic hit single release in some Latin American country.
@@pascal-Z it gets you straight in the mood of the album which is totally different to 'The Album'.Abba's vocals could kinda 'magnetize' you and can even take a 'so-so' melody and blast it into something sounding big .They got a transforming 'stardust touch'.
I mean no disrespect but you are so damn cute, there, I said it!!!
Haha, cheers, it's always nice to hear a compliment like that. Thanks for checking out the reaction!
It’s too fast to be a real disco song and too much ABCD Parts ,Disco was very simple and repetitive,the only real disco song they made was Gimme Gimme Gimme
I love that track, can't wait to get to "Gimme Gimme Gimme."