Comments on: ABBA - “Dancing Queen”

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:43:40 +0000

don’t try it

By: Erithian

Erithian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:10:05 +0000

No Royal connection, but I’d fancy trying “Can Can” by Bad Manners.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:02:13 +0000

Not a DJ yet… ;-)

“I Want You” by the Inspiral Carpets and Mark E Smith.

By: Lena

Lena — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:06:48 +0000

I’m not a DJ but I would pick “In The Navy” or “Macho Man” as I’ve just begun to appreciate the New Poppishness of the Village People. To see if Her Majesty wants to actually get down, “I Love Music” would be good.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:11:18 +0000

“I Hate The White Man” by Roy Harper.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:55:43 +0000

‘The Crown’ by Gary Byrd?

She’s not really the intended audience, but the chorus (”You wear the crown!”) would fit.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:52:11 +0000

I’d go with “Honky Tonk Woman”, with high hopes of a Betty/Camilla dance-off during the first verse.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:32:51 +0000

There was a story last week that the Queen - that’s THE Queen - was seen dancing to this at Peter Phillips’ wedding reception on Cup Final day. A few awkward glances at the “you’re a teaser, you turn them on” line, I guess. (Who the hell gets married on Cup Final day? - apart from my mate who asked me to be best man and made me miss the Coventry-Spurs classic in 1987. But I digress.)

I know a number of us on this site are or have been DJs. So here’s a challenge. You’re behind the decks at a Royal bash, you’re playing “Dancing Queen” and you spot Queenie strutting her stuff on the dancefloor. What do you cue up next to see whether she stays out there or sits it out? (A certain controversial Number 2 hit is not allowed on the grounds that (a) it’s too obvious and (b) it could earn you a spell in the Tower.)

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:05:57 +0000

“Probe” of course more often than not preceded by “shock horror youth cult.”

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:16:11 +0000

I’m pretty sure I have used the word “romp” in real life (never referring to sexual doings though), but that could just be part of my suave-Brit-in-America persona, I also use “groovy” a lot.

By: crag

crag — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:58:04 +0000

re#201-Oops! had to read the list again twice before i saw it- must be going blind in my old age…

By: intothefireuk

intothefireuk — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:07:22 +0000

Maybe that’s where I’m going wrong - I obviously need a gay friend.

By: Caledonianne

Caledonianne — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:01:05 +0000

I don’t dance, can’t dance, get panicky at the thought of dancing. But need to be welded to my seat when this ccomes on. It’s just so life-affirming.

Surely at some stage in her life every right-thinking girl has a gay best friend who’s ever-keen to prime her with lavish G&Ts, all the better to share the spotlight when DQ grabs the floor?

Must be a 10.

(BTW I played I Want You from youtube just before I went to bed the other night. Big mistake. Kept me awake and not because of my usual aversion to Mr Costello’s voice - OA apart). Powerful stuff.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:55:20 +0000

Not necessarily the case with Top Tory Drummer Bev “Bev” Bevan, of course…

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:38:14 +0000

Oh here’s a useful rule of thumb: If ever a headline is about the doings of a ‘TOP TORY’ then the story will be about a politician that you’ve never heard of.

If they really were a top Tory, then their name would have been used, because the reader would have recognised it.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:30:34 +0000

“a checklist of all those words and expressions used in newspapers and never IRL”-suprised no one has mentioned my favorite- the classic ‘bedded’ as in “Theakston bedded the 21 year old stunner”…

I think you’ll find that DJ Punctum mentioned it in post #185.

By: Waldo

Waldo — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:09:32 +0000

For my five cents’ worth, how ’bout “tubbed”, meaning pregnant (as in: “CARAVAN MOTHER OF TWELVE TUBBED AGAIN!”)

By: richard thompson

richard thompson — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:04:05 +0000

when Dancing Queen was number one,it was a wednesday when the chart was announced because of the bank holiday, Agnetha was known as Anna then, my 14 year old self found her attractive as well, if it had been 2000 it would have come straight in at no.1.
The last time I saw Crackerjack Peter Glaze was singing Arts for Arts sake, Ed Stewart was dressed up as Harpo Marx, no idea why.

By: crag

crag — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:03:09 +0000

By: Waldo

Waldo — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:32:54 +0000

Rosie # 181 - Thanks for that. My family went shopping in Brixton too, particularly the “Arcade”, which was an amazing place and two department stores, Morleys and Bon Marche, which was anything but!

By: intothefireuk

intothefireuk — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:08:41 +0000

Nearly 200 comments on this and I’m only registering my first - fashionably late as always. So, ABBA, good looking blonde and her mate and a couple of dodgy looking geezers. Yes they can write a decent tune and yes I fancied the blonde. Unfortunately I don’t fancy this song much. It just doesn’t move me in the right areas. I can’t dance to it (and I don’t want to), the lyrics aren’t particularly interesting (I haven’t personally felt the beat of a tambourine), I don’t like the lead synth sound, piano flourishes or dodgy vocal phrasing & I just can’t relate to the general upbeat nature of it. At this stage of their career it didn’t really matter - if you didn’t like this one then you didn’t have to wait too long until another one came along. Of course this just happened to be Money, Money, Money which I did like (a lot better than this). The fact that it is now totally over-played and IMHO over-hyped has not helped me to like it any better in the intervening years. 4

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:19:28 +0000

In the summer of 1997 The Sun had what I still think of as the greatest of these cover stories; “RUNAWAY PERVERT LEERED AT MY TOTS”

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:33:40 +0000

NOW TOT PROBE PAL RAPS ROMP FURY FANS

is there a tabloid-hed fridge-magnet poetry set? i absolutely adore the energy of the compression to this kind of stuff, it is a weird semi-evil artform

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:15:51 +0000

probe (usually precedes a “rap”)
Kop (as shorthand for Liverpool FC so the headline can be bigger)
Now (in the context of: the Mail gets even more aerated then previously at what the PC brigade is doing “now”)

By: lex

lex — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:09:12 +0000

pal

(i hate all these words, i could never work on a tabloid)