ABBA's 'Eagle' is so obviously about drugs i can't believe i didn't see it before!

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The Tall Dwarfs covered "On and On and On." It is sublimely weird in its evocation of rock-star decadance without anything ever actually happening. (And Chris Knox is equally sublime in the way he sings "Over in the corner I could see this other guy/He was kinda flirty, he was giving me the eye/So I took advantage of the fact that I'm a star/Shook my hair and took a casual stroll up to the bar."

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I do have problems seeing ABBA as a drugs band, but...

Anyway, great song. One of their best. Particularly pre-"The Visitors"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean what else could it BE about?

it's even called e-AGLE. i mean...

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

E-mdmA-Ghb-Lsd-E, you mean.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topstory/sports/edwards_eddie880228getty.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Good suggestion, but I don't think Eddie The Eagle had started his ski jumping career yet in 1977 ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, it could be an allegory on how Nazi Germany started.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

eddie the eagle is a cock.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

so was nazi germany

― tiit (tiit), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://usmbooks.com/images/POSTERS/aEaglePO.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

how does 'fernando' rank in the pecking order of great abba tracks?

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

very very very high

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

well depends who's doing teh measurin'

― tiit (tiit), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

IMO the most boring of their nine UK number ones.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never really liked the "candles round the campfire" version of Abba.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

'm w/ Marcello on this, definitely.

― tiit (tiit), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Fernando was balls.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

alan partidge named hi son after it, that's the only thing that's
good about abba's FERNANDO.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Some days I think "Fernando" sucks, but some days misguided nostalgia makes me like it. I think it actually has nice, warm moments in amongst the suck.

― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not so hot on fernando.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Fernando! There was totally something in the air that night.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

eddie the eagle is a cock.

Why? I mean, I am sure he has one, but....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

drugs. i tell thee.

― pisces, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link

What's weird about 'Summernight City'?

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 12 July 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

"the day before you came" is actually about the coronavirus

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 17 October 2020 07:41 (three years ago) link

:-O

― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Saturday, 17 October 2020 08:07 (three years ago) link

Napoleon actually surrendered in Rochefort. Song was originally called "Bellerophon" but Benny pointed out to Stig that this didn't have quite the same ring (ring).

― Jeff W, Saturday, 17 October 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link

In 'ABBA The Movie', 'Eagle' is played when Ashley the DJ is interviewing the band in a hotel elevator. So maybe it's about hotboxing?

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link

Less said about *him* the better :/

― piscesx, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link

Jesus Christ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(Australian_actor)

In May 2014, he was convicted of sexual offences against children and sentenced to 10 years and 9 months' imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 6 years.

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link

innit.

― piscesx, Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link

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