Abba were brilliant on record, but were they capable of performing as a truly great live ... more
band...? This is the long-awaited independent critical review of Abba in performance, drawing on the surviving footage of he band in concert from around the world,...
Music / Performing Arts, Comedy - Director: Trevor Nunn, Geoffrey Posner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, Parental Guidance - Starring: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, Jim Broadbent
Advantages: Strong production, vocals, melodies and musical ability Disadvantages: "Crazy World" - nuff said
- to give him his due he does try to tell a story but it's all a bit of a mess overall. Frankly it has no place on this album and is easily one of the worst songs Abba ever recorded. It should have remained a forgotten B-side really.
The CD ends with a medley of "Pick a Bale of Cotton/On Top of Old Smokey/Midnight Special" which is an improvement on "Crazy World", and while it lacks the sophistication of the production on the original album tracks, the performance makes up for that. There are tight vocals sung by all band members, but in particular Frida shines on this little oddity.
Overall
"Abba" is marvellous at revealing the talents of the four band members when inside a studio. Benny and Bjorn's production deserves a nod here too - it was on this album that their ability to use technical advances to improve the band's sound ...
rosebud2001 20.07.2009
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Advantages: The performances of the two leads and some excellent direction. Disadvantages: An ending that betrays the early convictions of the film.
Whilst Training Day failed to make a significant impact at the UK Box Office, the acclaim induced by an Oscar winning performance by Denzel Washington ensured that it?s DVD sales have been much more impressive. I figured that it was about time that I found out what all the fuss was about and recently acquired a copy for a very reasonable £12.97 from Tescos.
The Film
Training Day is a cop movie, although it is a far cry from the succession of buddy movies that have flooded onto our screen lead by the genre defining Lethal Weapon. This is a hard-hitting story of the ugly, and no doubt infinitely more realistic, side of police life with corruption, brutality and betrayal taking the place of heroism, action and camaraderie. Director Alonzo Fuqua introduces us to a myriad of complex moral issues that face undercover police officers ...
be perfect and just enough to change everything.
Alas, the sole remainings we have nowadays of those ancient times of happiness are some old disks and a few overworn tapes. But high technology is a true luck in life, for the definite solution to our problem has been created for more than fifteen years now : a black cover with golden writings on it, and the four magic letters with their legendary mirror effect. ABBA. More than a compilation : a bar. You just have to open the little box of plastic to release in the air some smell of patchouli, to have the walls covered with some kind of geomatric wallpaper with vivid colours? You're back in the spirit of the seventies.
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