ABBA vs Boney M

[Jockice]

She's crazy like a fool
What about it, Daddy Cool?
I'm crazy like a fool
What about it, Daddy Cool?
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool

Mental illness and learning disabilities are of course totally different things.

New page Baloney M more like.

[Jockice]

He really summed up what we were all thinking at that point of the Cold War.

ABBA have some nice ditties but the never so incisively commented on contemporary geopolitics.

Lest we forget they also stopped The Troubles in Northern Ireland.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgSuSj-6_C4

[dr beat]

Boney M were quite unusual, in that they were considered inoffensive enough to be allowed to tour behind the Iron Curtain, by communist regimes prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I can't think of another band who benefited in this way. Whether that's a tick in the plus or minus column, is a whole different question. It certainly helped them establish a solid fanbase in those parts.

As Chart Music Podcast pop-crazed youngsters all know, the Dooleys played in the Soviet Union...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAAIs4L49VA

[SteK]

Took this in the Titanic 2000 restaurant in Chelyabinsk, Russia.....

[gilbertharding]

There's a peculiar link between Boney M and freak beat faves The Smoke, and The Creation - they covered My Friend Jack and Painter Man as well as Still I'm Sad by the Yardbirds.

What WAS the deal with that?