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We hit 1k without me noticing!!

A GOAT!!

Aww.

I am probably one of the only people who didn't like the original film. And I love Abba. I got the Super Trouper album for my 8th birthday, and wrote all the lyrics out - and illustrated them. .

I don't know why I didn't like it- I think I just didn't like the whole mass hysteria 'girlie' thing. My sister saw it dozens of times.

But dh bought it me on dvd for Valentine's day the year after it came out (because he thought I liked it). So I made him watch it. It was pay back for 'Solaris'.

Actually, I only made it half way through, before I gave up

But I'll watch the new one- if there's a goat. Does it sing?

Raahh
I think I'm the only person who didn't see Mama Mia and probably a long list of similar stuff
Tomorrow I think I will go and find a goat, and maybe a beach

raahh I didn't like it either. Agree about the "girlie" thing...but I was also a bit surprised that no-one felt in the least judgemental (not like me then) about a woman who had unprotected sex with three different men in (presumably) about a week.

And the annoying "young marrieds" (Wasn't the chap Willoughby-the-cad from that Jane Austen adaptation on the telly?). I wanted them to grow up a lot before they even thought of getting married..

And so much of the singing was embarrassingly awful too.

Oh dear...I have rather too much to say on the matter, don't I?

I must admit, I wanted to like Mamma Mia, in the same way I did like the Full Monty- but I found the whole 'screaming women cinema experience' at the time a bit annoying .

(see also- 'Sex in the City).

I love crap films- and watch allsorts of crap tv (obviously)- but I have to draw the line somewhere).

I think it's because I have always loved proper old musicals, it's taken me a long time to get into the 'new' musicals- that basically take a famous bands back catalogue and stick a storyline onto it. Mamma Mia was probably the first one that did that , really.

But I'd pay to see a singing goat .

The Visitors is probably my favourite Abba album. It seemed a lot 'darker' and more grown up than their other ones.

I can still sing all the words. I remember buying it for my mum the Christmas it came out. (1981!). I was 10.

It was never very trendy to like Abba when I did.

10 years later, at university, the Abba gold compilation was one of the biggest albums ever, Erasure released the Abbaesque ep (reminds me of a bbq on the beach in Swansea), and suddenly, Abba was massive.

Goat songs...
"Should I stay or should I Goat"
"Goat Now"
"Billy, don't be a hero"

Anything by Kid Creole

Fuzzy you forgot the most famous one
"High on a hill stood a lonely goatherd"
I'll get me gcoat

Raahh I used to listen to my friend's ABBA album back in the seventies. Like a Roller in the Ocean , stands out as a favourite that you never hear played much on the radio.

I also love The Day Before You Came.
I've not watched the first ABBA film either, but I have been to see the live show in London. It was lovely.
Everyone was up and dancing in the aisles at the finale.

Fuzzy

Told
I think I would have liked to see the stage version of it, rather than the film.

I remember having the 'Arrival' album - with the helicopter on the front. It was the one I used to listen to at my grandparents house.

Ahh,, Abba were great.

And 'The day before you came' is definitely one of the most underrated songs ever.

One of my favourite songs is an album track, from the 'The Visitors'- Like an Angel passing through my room. The vocals are beautiful.

It makes me cry. And reminds me of my final year at university.

I saw the stage show in London too in the long ago days when I worked in London and went to quite a few shows

My favourite Abba tracks are probably "SOS"...it reminds me of being a sixth former and "One of us" because it is just so full of regret.

'One of us' is one of my favourite misheard lyrics- for years I was sure it said 'on a bus, had to go'- and I never questioned it. I mean, English -wise, it sounded a bit clunky,- but they were Swedish, after all .

( And this is this is turning into one of the most de-railed off season Doctors threads ever - which is great )

I have nothing Abba related to add.

But going off on a tangent is one of my specialist subjects

If we are talking musicals I love Wicked. (seen it 3 times) I didn't expect to love it...first time I went was for DD2's hen do (another tangent, why to lots of people write "hen doo", like "doggy doo"? Is it because it is often shit?) but it was excellent.

Least favourite, Les Mis perhaps. Too long and gloomy!

More music-related randomness...on the radio now is Anne Marie singing "Ciao adios, I'm gone". It sounds like "Shower de horse, I'm gone". Well, we all like a nice clean horse, don't we?

Done not gone. But it doesn't really matter does it?

They have an outdoor horse shower at my daughter's place. It's warm water, too. So yeah everyone does love a clean horse. Fuzzy
However, the dogs lie in the muddy puddle water run off.

My DS2 wanted to see Wicked, it's really easy to get to from where we are as just opposite Victoria railway station.
But I've never been keen. Might have a rethink fuzzy.

Raahh and redshoe this thread is amazing for the breadth of it's topics.

its' not it's. Stupid autocorrect.

I went to see Les Mis years ago - it's one of my mums favourites.

I hated it. I don't like the ones where they sing everything. I'm more a 'Singing in the rain' kind of musical person .

didn't even get to the end of the film.

Dh and I saw the stage version of the Wedding Singer, because it's one of our favourite films . Sadly, it was terrible. .

Did you see Les mis at the cinema or was it a stage show Raahh? Excuse my ignorance, but I've seen neither as I'm not sure I could bare it either.
Yes The Sound of Music is more my kind of musical.

I've actually seen a stage version of Singing in the Rain, just remembered. My mum took me when I was in my late teens. I was fascinated by how it rained on stage!
Hmm, not even heard of the wedding singer. But I love the Neil Diamond Jazz Singer film.