Wednesday, May 16, 2007

It's Official -- It's Swedish Appreciation Day at PowerPop!

Here's a charmingly nutty clip of ABBA and their heartrending classic of suburban infidelity and weird beards "Knowing Me Knowing You".



Cracks me up every time -- it's like a Monkees video directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Actually, that's not as far-fetched as it sounds. If memory serves, there's a longform ABBA video directed by My Life as a Dog and Chocolat
auteur Lasse Hellstrom. Come to think of it, this may actually be from it.

Update: As usual, Wikipedia is our friend; the above was indeed directed by Hellstrom.
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5 comments:

  1. Hecate5/16/2007 3:08 PM

    Yeah, Swedes!

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  2. billy b5/16/2007 3:09 PM

    Knowing me knowing you was my favorite ABBA toon.

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  3. steve simels5/16/2007 3:32 PM

    My 80s skinny-tie band did an absolutely killer rocked out version of S.O.S.

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  4. CyFlorist5/17/2007 1:14 AM

    I love ABBA, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Though I probably should be.

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  5. dave5/17/2007 8:09 PM

    ABBA was a staple on the pioneering underground FM rocker, KSAN in San Francisco.

    "Name of the Game" was a big fave of theirs...

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