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I liked early ABBA -- "Waterloo". It was all downhill from there.
As far Swedish bands go, I'll take the one-hit wonders, Blue Swede, with its "Ooga Chaka" version of B.J. Thomas's "Hooked on a Feeling", or Golden Earing and "Radar Love" over any other ABBA pablum.
As for the musical philistine slamming Bob Dylan's earlier material, you probably think all of Woody Guthrie's oeuvre suck too. No wonder your love of ABBA has no bounds. Bob Dylan has more talent in his long-dessicated foreskin than ABBA has in its collective body.
People, you wanna like a sucky group and see a sucky movie? Fine, but don't try defending your bad taste to the discerning among us.
