Oh can you hear me darling, won't you save me...

[dotinthesky]

I saw a wonderful movie yesterday. The rarest of things happened afterwards: I wanted to go to HMV immediatly and buy the soundtrack. Lost in Translation had The Jesus and Mary Chain, Death in Vegas, and a whole lot of indie bands on the soundtrack. Not just thrown into the movie aswell - it made perfect sense where each song was placed.

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I feel like watching the Oscars this year. I boycott it every February/March, but I've got a feeling about this one. Something is going to happen. Spectacle, for God's sake!

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Before we went to the movies, Kevin and I went for a coffee and snacks in a cafe in Soho. There was the usual gay dating going on around us, and an ABBA tape on the deck. Kevin got a latte and a smoked salmon paninni. I drank a cappucino (damn, i don't know how to spell that.) They played ABBA's S.O.S. and it made me think of knitted sweaters. And chanel haircuts. Even though S.O.S. fitted so well in another favourite movie of mine (the Swedish movie "Together") it could have just as easily been part of the soundtrack for "Lost in Translation". When we got home, I turned on the radio and S.O.S. was playing again.

I think every child born in the 70s has a place in their heart for ABBA. You might never buy a tape or cd by them, or attend a musical inspired by them, but when you hear ABBA you are thrust back into your mom's car as she drove you to kindergarden. ABBA were kitsch, but they recorded all their songs and were professional musicians. That makes them slightly better than your abismal pop idols today. When I hear an ABBA song, I can sense the pain behind their wife-swapping lives. When I hear Liberty X, I can hear the toilet flushing afterwards.

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

they aren't the crappiest, but they are close. I think the worse has to be Westlife, for sure. The problem with Liberty X is that they are so generic, boring pop. Who will care about them in 2 years time? And I hear their record label is dropping them, so I'm not the only one that thinks they stink.

I don't mind pop, as long as the people who are doing them are interesting (and know what they are doing.) Bands that are put together through tv shows are nothing more than marketing projects -- and I've heard the french popstar winners! They were --- ugh!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Je vais commencer a ecrire an francais, et tu veras que je fais plus des erreurs quand j'ecrit.

;)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Mais le probleme c'est exactement sa! They are not "entertaining", they are actually boring me! If they were more than an assembly of pretty faces and tacky clothes, then I'd accept their relevance...

And meanwhile, there are so many great bands and singers who don't even sell 1000 copies of their albums. The radios won't play them because they have to play the latest from Pop Idol over and over again.


And don't get me started on R&B. :D

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I try... :P

[4q.livejournal.com]

ew the oscars! I hate awards shows! I hate them so damn much. I want to see lost in translation, I just watched 24 hour party people, you might be kind of interested in that one. it was about the manager of joy division, and new order, and blah blah, not bad, I fell asleep at the end though because we watched it at like midnight...

I like ABBA...they wore terrible clothes though

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

i want to see 24 hour party people... maybe i'll rent it soon. ABBA remind me of childhood.

[4q.livejournal.com]

me too, because I had a mini pops album that they did covers of ABBA on, and I used to dance around my living room to that.. :)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

HAHA! Mini pops was weird. I never knew of them until a friend from Montreal showed me one of their records.

[4q.livejournal.com]

it was weird now that I think about it, but I still have one of the records, it's the one with the ABBA songs on them, and there is a madness medly as well. It's great! and creepy at the same time :) I think I even went to see them perform

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You are kidding...

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

you did spell cappucino right,

and I too, have fond ABBA memories...they always remind me of my daddy

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

ABBA 4EVA!

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

viva la ABBA!

oh, and i am in a better mood now, sweety!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

good good.

;)

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

I stand contrary to your idea about abba and 70's babies.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Maybe your parents were too busy playing Carpenters to you?

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

My parents were more into Beatles/Led Zeppelin and other more rockin' stuff. Not shite like Abba.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

My mom loves Adult contemporary... so I will always have a soft spot for ABBA and that woman from the Supremes.

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

That woman?!?!?! Diana Ross!

Man, don't be daft around a man who was also weaned on the early years of Motown! (Y'know everything they released prior to moving to LA.

*grumble*

[jellyfishfur.livejournal.com]

have you seen "Mamma Mia"? it's pretty cute. my sisters took my mom to see it for her birthday.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any musicals... I'm not very into them.

:)