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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

Originally Posted by Nom ->
Abba by far more accomplished.
Plus the girls were hot.
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14-11-2017, 09:21 PM
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

ABBA would be my choice too.
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yep.ABBA for me to
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14-11-2017, 09:41 PM
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

I wouldn't be able to chose loved them all, abba when I'm in the mood to have a bop but Karen was absolutely perfect. Another I love is Mama Cass such a lovely voice, so sad her life too.
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14-11-2017, 09:44 PM
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

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I never liked Karen Carpenter's voice. I found it slightly odd, cloying and peculiar. Perhaps here well reported personal problems plus suggestions of other, unreported travails, added to the disquiet she always engendered in me.
Whereas Abba were never anything less than an extremely good pop band wit the added interest that their career was really their private lives writ large. The emotion in their later songs was real.
At Last! A kindred spirit. I detest the Carpenters with a passion that's bordering on the obsessive. Karen Carpenter's sickly voice could easily make me vomit.

There you go look, even typing their name has made me nauseous.

Give me ABBA every time.
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14-11-2017, 10:33 PM
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

Have to love ABBA but also love the carpenters

Think my first ever time of really wanting to buy a single was with Calling Occupants (of interplanetary craft)

However ABBA is the back drop of my teens
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

Carpenters every time. I have everything ever recorded by them.
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15-11-2017, 04:41 AM
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

This is really deja vu for me....I saw this question on a music forum yesterday hmmmmm..

Anyway, I'll give my same reply. Abba wrote much better songs and were slightly less sugary, plus the production was absolutely brilliant. Have you ever heard a better constructed pop single than The Winner Takes It All?
Yes, it's Abba for me☺
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15-11-2017, 11:08 AM
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Re: Carpenters or Abba..?

It doesn't help they came from different times and were very different audiences, so comparing is perhaps not so fair. As I said impossible to really judge.
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I love both the Carpenters and Abba but it would always be Abba that won out.
 
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