ABBA Vs. 1975-87 Fleetwood Mac

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Two boys, two girls. Light melodic pop with MOR elements. But who is better?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Fleetwood Mac22
ABBA 19


Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

Not in doubt personally. I mean, I like Fleetwood Mac, and "Tango In The Night" in particular. But ABBA are still in a league of their own here.

Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:12 (seventeen years ago)

In basically every Fleetwood Mac Versus X poll, I always vote for Fleetwood Mac. From 10th-12th grade I listened to Rumours about 7 times a week.

Mordy, Sunday, 17 August 2008 10:15 (seventeen years ago)

Puh-leeze! Fleetwood Mac.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 17 August 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

puhleeze nothing soto

I know, right?, Sunday, 17 August 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac are going to win this comfortably and rightly so.

Brilliant Geir wrongness in picking Tango in the night as the standout album from a period that includes Rumors and Tusk.

jim, Sunday, 17 August 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

I find that their 70s material is a little too country influenced. Which is something ABBA were not. No pop act has ever been better than ABBA at keeping their music strictly European with as few American influences as possible. Which is what was so great about them.

Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

But I still like "Tango In The Night", particularly because of such nice melodic pop songs as "Little Lies", "Seven Wonders" and "Everywhere".

Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

the European canon is here
http://mywebsite.bigpond.com/roger.griffin/GoldenYears/GYjpegs/76/7605victoria.jpg

Euler, Sunday, 17 August 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

btw I voted for the Mac

Euler, Sunday, 17 August 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

Two boys, two girls.

Which Mac member are you conveniently overlooking, Geir?

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

I hope he's overlooking Mick Fleetwood. Cause that would be so funny!

Mordy, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

Which Mac member are you conveniently overlooking, Geir?

Hmmm.. Seems like there was one more male, yes.

Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

Abba sound way more country than FM to me

I know, right?, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

Chiquitita is borderline appalachian

I know, right?, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

"Chiquitita" and "Fernando" first and foremost sound Spanish

Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

Volebeats did a country-fried cover of "Knowing Me Knowing You", and in the process revealed its true leanings.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 August 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

^^that Volebeats cover, wow, didn't realize that was an Abba tune. Volebeats version >> the original.

that's not my post, Monday, 18 August 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

No pop act has ever been better than ABBA at keeping their music strictly European with as few American influences as possible. Which is what was so great about them

First statement is plausible, second is bullshit. And wouldn't it make more sense to confine the two to the same timeframe, since ABBA broke up before '87?

Anyways, both were fab while they existed so I refuse to vote. Plus I'm getting a little sick of these two-options-only polls. Isn't that what the TS: x vs. y threads are for?

Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 18 August 2008 10:54 (seventeen years ago)

Well, this is the modern day equivalent.

Mark G, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:02 (seventeen years ago)

This was tough but it came down to the ballads. FM are one of the few bands whose ballads I enjoy and the ABBA ballads are almost always skipped at my house.

Steve Shasta, Monday, 18 August 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, ABBA's ballads are typically the weak link in their catalogue.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

I've never really cared about much post-Rumours Mac (give or take "Tusk" the song), so I'm going with ABBA, even though 75-77 Mac means more to me than anything ABBA have ever done. (If the Mac cutoff was a decade earlier, my vote might switch.)

xhuxk, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

And ABBA's ballads (as in "The Day Before You Came") are better than some people seem to think.

xhuxk, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

I love ABBAs ballads. They are the cleanest, most melodic out of all their work. The only stuff I like better is the synthpop influenced songs on their last two albums.

Geir Hongro, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

You're totally in denial about their '70s countrypolitan influence, though, Geir. (But I don't have time to argue about it. And yeah, they were still the most Yurropean of all bands regardless.)

xhuxk, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

I don't see any direct influence (other than their cover of "Pick a Bale Of Cotton"). But of course country, like ABBA, is clean and diatonic and very much based on traditional non-modal harmonies. But as opposed to country music (and a lot of 70s Mac), ABBA never limited themselves to only a very few chords.

Geir Hongro, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Sunday, 24 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Sorta apples n' oranges, no?

In any case, Abba wins EVERY. DAMN. TIME.

Alex in NYC, Monday, 25 August 2008 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

Unless it's a "who can hoover the most coke up their nose (arse in the case of Nicks) in 30 seconds" competition. Although ABBA would probably win a drinking contest.

snoball, Monday, 25 August 2008 12:11 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Monday, 25 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

This is absurd!

daavid, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

The only absurd thing here is that ABBA are not on top. It's tighter than I thought though.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

Where is the Fleetwood Mac musical?

ian, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 02:56 (seventeen years ago)

The only absurd thing here is that ABBA are not on top.

That's what I meant

daavid, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

Close result, just like I woulda hoped.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)


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