ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

[GinAg (39)]

I know this will likely be straight 10's and it's barely worth asking what you think, because the answer is always YES PLEASE. But it needed it's own topic.

 

[GinAg (39)]

That last video GGG being dropped into a DJ set and crowd losing their pilled out minds and is SHEER JOY

 

[GinAg (39)]

It's also their second most streamed song. I presume the Madonna sample helped cement it's legacy. That and the fact that it's an absolute banger.

 

[Devil]

What can you say. One of the best examples of an immaculate pop song in every sense of the word.

 

[jyxz]

Anyone know what songs kept it from going higher than #3 in the UK?

 

[Ill Advised]

Anyone know what songs kept it from going higher than #3 in the UK?

 

[jyxz]

No idea what that Lena Martell song is.

 

[jyxz]

Sweet Jesus

 

[Rita]

MAJESTIC

 

[GinAg (39)]

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Really makes you think

 

[GinAg (39)]

Sweet Jesus

She's now 82 and that never charted before or after. Apparently she had a Saturday night TV show for 10 years. @lolly to confirm.

 

[Ill Advised]

Sweet Jesus

She’s 39 here!?

 

[lolly]

I don't remember the TV show, but I do remember that song. My gran loved it. I think I bought it, and certainly didn't buy Gimme.

 

[Sheena]

It’s MAGNIFICENT. TRANSCENDENT. And a euphoric JOY in the chorus.

 

[Christian]

One of the ABBA songs I rarely heard as a child, as it wasn't on any of the albums and my parents didn't have the single. That made it all the more special.

Of course I always found it an utter rush and utterly compelling and vaguely ILLICIT. And I ALWAYS used to try and hold that long note whenever I heard it (see also Barbra's Woman In Love)

 

[octophone]

When even a grumpy indie snob like me is on board, you know it's a nailed on BANGER.

 

[LTZ]

I vaguely remember people dismissing it as cheap disco and not up to Abba’s standards of ‘serious’ proper pop songs made with ‘proper instruments’ like Chiquitita and Does your mother know .. I always suspected that people were just worried that liking a song so obviously about WANTING A MAN ( after midnight) wasn’t maybe the right thing to do … but yes it’s brilliant and transcendental and everything else everyone has said here..utterly perfect.

 

[GinAg (39)]

It's THE DRAMA, but make it FUN.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I vaguely remember people dismissing it as cheap disco and not up to Abba’s standards of ‘serious’ proper pop songs made with ‘proper instruments’ like Chiquitita and Does your mother know .. I always suspected that people were just worried that liking a song so obviously about WANTING A MAN ( after midnight) wasn’t maybe the right thing to do … but yes it’s brilliant and transcendental and everything else everyone has said here..utterly perfect.

And yet as seen in that video above and others I've seen, straight guys now wail along to it, like it's Mr Brightside.

 

[lolly]

If only they streamed it like Mr Brightside.

 

[GinAg (39)]

If only they streamed it like Mr Brightside.

To be fair Brightside is on 1.7 billion and GGG is on 0.5 billion, which considering it was released pre digital is great.

But a comparison with Fleetwood Mac is probably more relevant. I think GGG picked up a lot of streams on NYE.

 

[Sheena]

It's THE DRAMA, but make it FUN.

The intro just screams SLEAZY BACKSTREET FUCK CLUB.

Well, as close as they ever got to one, anyway…

 

[GinAg (39)]

I hope Agnetha got her pussy pounded THAT NIGHT back in 79.

 

[Vicky the Vole]

It's an easy 10 and it's not even one of my favourite ABBA songs!

 

[GinAg (39)]

It's an easy 10 and it's not even one of my favourite ABBA songs!

I assume your fave is Dum Dum Diddle.

 

[Inner Smile]

Now THIS is where its at! I'm not a big Abba fan at all but this is their best for me. I just love the build up