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

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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.





 
That last video GGG being dropped into a DJ set and crowd losing their pilled out minds and is SHEER JOY
 
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.
 
What can you say. One of the best examples of an immaculate pop song in every sense of the word.
 
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jyxz said:
Anyone know what songs kept it from going higher than #3 in the UK?
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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.
 
It’s MAGNIFICENT. TRANSCENDENT. And a euphoric JOY in the chorus.
 
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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) :disco:
 
When even a grumpy indie snob like me is on board, you know it's a nailed on BANGER.
 
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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.
 
lvtz said:
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.
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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.
 
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lolly said:
If only they streamed it like Mr Brightside.
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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.
 
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It's an easy 10 and it's not even one of my favourite ABBA songs!
 
I see this on its Wikipedia page, which I don't think I'd heard before

The song came about after Benny and Bjorn heard Donna Summer's hit Hot Stuff, and upon hearing it, it inspired the riffs, melody and sentiment of the song with Agnetha yearning for 'a man after midnight' whilst Donna was in need of some 'hot stuff'

I mean, you can hear it, but I'm wary of the lack of citation.
 
So rare to see ABBA on the Spotify charts. I guess they're universal generation breaching party music, which is generally the theme for NYE.

Of course Spotify playlists are the ultimate decider.
 
I’ll always have a soft spot for this one - first track on the first ABBA album I ever bought (Greatest Hits Vol.2), so it always got played a lot by me. And that guitar intro was always such a distinctive, memorable start to the album.

The fact that it’s an absolute banger, which has only improved over time, is an additional bonus.
 
In my brain all of their stuff went to Number 1 - I'm genuinely shocked I have misremembered that Gimmie wasn't a No.1 in the UK - it feels staggering that it wasn't.
 
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In my brain all of their stuff went to Number 1 - I'm genuinely shocked I have misremembered that Gimmie wasn't a No.1 in the UK - it feels staggering that it wasn't.
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It sort of was - via Madonna!
 
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