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| Some folks worship GOD almighty and some worship that most vile Sugar Daddy, | Some folks worship GOD almighty and some worship that most vile Sugar Daddy, | ||
| Lucifer, but me ... I worship Agnetha Faltskog. That bombastic blonde | Lucifer, but me ... I worship Agnetha Faltskog. That bombastic blonde | ||
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| - | (1968) JAG VAR SA KAR | + | |
| + | JAG VAR SA KAR (1968) | ||
| Here we foist a peek at the svelte young crooner posing with her Uncle | Here we foist a peek at the svelte young crooner posing with her Uncle | ||
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| - | (1968) UTAN DIG | + | UTAN DIG (1968) |
| Christ I'd like to take that gaudy Brady Bunch watch off her wrist and | Christ I'd like to take that gaudy Brady Bunch watch off her wrist and | ||
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| - | (1969) FRAM FOR SVENSKA | + | FRAM FOR SVENSKA (1969) |
| As you can see, the casting couch soundings have done little to atrophy | As you can see, the casting couch soundings have done little to atrophy | ||
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| - | (1970) OM TARAR VORE GULD | + | |
| + | OM TARAR VORE GULD (1970) | ||
| The big Seven-Oh was a transitional year for Aggie. This was the year | The big Seven-Oh was a transitional year for Aggie. This was the year | ||
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| - | (1971) MANGA GANGER | + | MANGA GANGER (1971) |
| Here we have the full-blown Colonel Klink's secretary-meets-Heidi look. | Here we have the full-blown Colonel Klink's secretary-meets-Heidi look. | ||
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| - | (1972) VART SKALL MIN KARLEFORA | + | VART SKALL MIN KARLEFORA (1972) |
| No shit. Our Aggie was Mary Magadelena in "Jesus Christ Superstar" this | No shit. Our Aggie was Mary Magadelena in "Jesus Christ Superstar" this | ||
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| - | Shooting Star should also go into a new Lyrics category: Pretentiously worded: "Johnny was a schoolboy when he heard his first Beatles song / Love Me Do, I think it was / and it . . ." --Why it's pretentious: it's a fictional situation, presented by the singer. The narrator/voice/storyteller is omnipotent and //knows// it was Love Me Do, rather than some other Beatles song, that was so influential in the protagonist's life. The clumsy writer incorporates the "I think it was" conceit without really understanding or thinking about how such a device is properly used. | + | Shooting Star should also go into a new Lyrics category: Pretentiously worded: "Johnny was a schoolboy when he heard his first Beatles song / Love Me Do, I think it was / and it . . ." --Why it's pretentious: it's a fictional situation, presented by the singer. The narrator/voice/storyteller is omnipotent and //knows// it was Love Me Do, rather than some other Beatles song, that was so influential in the protagonist's life. The "I think it was" conceit was added without really understanding or thinking about how such a device is properly used. |
| - | + | This reminds me of the Deep Blue Something situation. About how switching Roman Holliday to Breakfast at Tiffany's by the songwriter, to use a "more well-known Audry Hepburn movie" pulls the rug out from under the following two lines: "and I said, I think, I remember the film" "as I recall, we both kinda liked it" -- as if you'd only dimly remember having seen Breakfast at Tiffany's and as if a couple having that kind of ho hum response to it doesn't brand both of them as complete idiots. | |
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| - | This reminds me of the Deep Blue Something situation. About how switching Roman Holliday to Breakfast at Tiffany's by the songwriter, to use a "more well-known Audry Hepburn movie" pulls the rug out from under the following two lines: "and I said, I think, I remember the film" "as I recall, we both kinda liked it" -- as if you'd only dimly remember having seen Breakfast at Tiffany's and as if a couple having that kind of ho hum response to it wouldn't brand the two of them both as complete idiots. | + | |
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| - | Why are there two different Buffalo Soldier songs, one by Bob Marle | + | Why are there two different Buffalo Soldier songs, one by Bob Marley; the other one I have is by the Persuasions, on their Street Corner Serenade album |
| - | y; the other one I have is by the Persuasions, on their Street Corner Serenade album | + | |
