- Audio CD (20 Jan 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B00004HYS0
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 135,894 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I first came across some of these cover versions of Abba songs - specifically "Dancing Queen" - when presenting Caroline Rocks' Breakfast Show in Bristol a few years ago, and had been hunting for the full album ever since. I was not disappointed - this album ROCKS. The blending of Abba's pop with some of the very best rock tunes/styles of the past 20-30 years works well, especially so because the band are craftsmen. It's difficult at times to tell that this isn't Pearl Jam or Van Halen, or whoever, doing the songs. If you're a rocker, no matter how disdainful you may be about Abba's tunes, check it out. You could well be pleasantly surprised.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It is a mark of a good tune that you can make it sound good in a variety of styles. Some of the best tunes in pop music came from Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the song-writing partnership behind ABBA. The Black Sweden, formed from a bunch of seasoned Scandinavian sessioneers, is one of the many groups whose aim is to create a Tribute to ABBA in their own particular idiom -- in this case Heavy Metal. It works, and it's hilarious. Thrill as the intro to 'Smoke On The Water' segues into 'Mamma Mia', or Kiss's 'God of Thunder' gives way to 'SOS'. It doesn't always work -- 'Ballroom Blitz' tries hard to become 'Dancing Queen' but doesn't quite succeed -- but the general effect is great. The thing that comes through most of all is that Black Sweden is there to rock, not to mock. They clearly love and respect Sweden's greatest export (other than Volvo), evidenced by the fact that they do straight versions of 'Winner Takes it All' -- not once but twice, the second being an 'unplugged' version. If you liked Spinal Tap, you'd like this, too.
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I came across this simply because I like weird cover records and artists - Senopr Coconut, Me First & The Gimme Gimme's, Pat Boone's 'In a Metal Mood', Richard Cheese, Hayseed Dixie, Dread Zeppelin - all genius. Unfortunately, Black Sweden just aren't in the company of such dangerously brilliant minds. Yes, the ABBA songs sound good rocked up (but not as good as, say, The Wondermints version of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You') but the rock stylings are a little too bad hair metal (think all those B-list 80's metal bands that make you cringe rather than the ones you like to remember). They just lack the inventiveness of those other mentioned artists. Each track starts with a classic rock/metal riff but then just forgets about it as it moves off into a keyed in hair metal ABBA cover but they are all pretty straight interpretations. I wanted to love it, but laughed for the wrong reasons and then just felt kinda sad.
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