I too remember when this came out. Abba was one of those bands that I listened to with the car windows rolled up. Didn't want anyone to know that I liked their songs. They weren't "cool" in my crowd. One of the nice things about growing up - you can listen to what you want. Thanks for the memories.
The health of the mort biz depends on the job outlook in this country. The bottom line is the vast majority of folks don´t get paid enough to live the life they think they are entitled to AND pay the taxes they are subjected to.
As many people go thru hard times in the years ahead, the expectations of what consitutes a ´good life´ will correct, but if it´s not followed by real wage gains and serious tax reform the US economy WILL tank.
Personally, I believe the time period from the early/mid 90´s to the early/mid 00´s will be looked upon much like the 1920´s economically.
There was no good music in the '70s. Well, Heart was okay, as long as nobody heard you listening to it. And David Bowie. And okay, Queen. And oh, all right, the Commodores (but not Lionel Ritchie solo).
But what else was there? Boston? Bachman Turner Overdrive? Ohio Players? And (gag) Disco?
On a lighter note, 87% of respondents in a survey of those planning to attend the Sping ABS Show said subprime woes will have some impact on the performance of the broader market for mortgages and MBS, and 75% expect median home prices to decline for the rest of the year.
If we're going back to the 70s then how about a song which rocks:
The Osmond Brothers made something like 5 albums in 2 years, and sold enormous number of records. My older sister loved them.
ABBA may have been the most successful (from a financial point of view) groups of all time. They were a huge in the US, but even larger elsewhere. They also did an excellent job with their business ventures, and investments and became fantastically wealthy.
I was at a beach resort in Morroco with my wife about 10 years ago. The pool guys had to tapes. ABBA and Michael Bolton. They played them over, end over and over and over again.
Dante's fourth circle.
Duane Allman, Randy Scruggs, Edgar Winter, Mimi Farina, Bernie Taupin, Paul Simon, Joan Baez, George Harrison, Graham Nash, Peter Gabriel, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and quite a few others will now not be your friends, BD.
Ah, yes, that ABBA music brings memories of stagflation to mind. Are we heading back into the 70s again. Seems like it: gas is high, but we're still driving those guzzlers. Hostages in Iran. History seems to by rhyming.
Extreme debt, huge diversion of mis-allocated capital on a national scale, totally absurd national gravy train of cycling through residential RE - selling it to one another as the financial engineers of the whole bizarre scam skim a huge chumk off the top of every transaction, digging a debt hole the country will need at least a generation to crawl out of. And of course, as with any greed driven financial mania, there's the expected rampant fraud and abuse.
Abba?!? What's the matter with you kids? What about Smokey, Marvin, Al Green, and the Isely Bros? Even the Jackson 5 beat Abba. Nothing worth listening to came out of Europe after Puccini kicked the bucket. And yes, Tanta, La Bohème is on the menu for the LA Opera's upcoming season. ;>)
Are we heading back into the 70s again. Seems like it: gas is high, but we're still driving those guzzlers. Hostages in Iran. History seems to by rhyming.
The seventies rocked! Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Bob Marley, um, um, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods and uhhh, Terry Jacks and ummmmm, Paper Lace and of course Peter Frampton and Kiss.
tanta...
you broughts me to ma neez babe! wherya fine distuff! iss heavenly chicka, hea-VEN-leeeeeeeeaaaaa
!
lookie ah wuz a bean brung up fahfah aways in de land of milkymasala in BOMBAY yea givvitup fer the CITY from HEAvenlyHELL, and know what? da government record company dey ONLY printed ABBA babe ABBA dis an ABBA dat!!! jus IMAGINE a whole DECADE of agroovin to dees lovelies...
you wunner why allem sofware types is from india babe tanta? well now ya know!
The good news is Donny and Marie still rock on. Just is smaller venues. Not to mention my personal favorite, Linda Rondstadt... ah those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...
"For us, as frontline originators, there isn't a direct correlation between loan performance and compensation, so we're disconnected from these failures -- so long as there's no fraud. In a way, we really don't care that much," says Christopher Cruise, who trains brokers and loan officers.
Subprime lending woes: How a borrower lost his shirt
Ken Youngerman, 64, must start over now. He's that leathery swashbuckler type, with a cigarette and a saying for every situation. ("The tree that don't bend with the wind is the one that breaks.") He's always taken a lot of risks. Because of that, every year of his life now comes with a good story. Also because of that, he's in massive debt, he lost his old home, and, after several hours of conversation on a recent sunny afternoon, he can't stop muttering about his stupidity.
He rents his current house -- just a mile from his old home, the one he never wanted to leave -- for $725 a month. He lives there with his wife, Hilda. They don't take vacations; they don't buy new appliances; they survived last winter with a space heater, not a furnace. Those credit cards? Scissored to pieces.
Thanks a whole heckavu lot, CR. I was a young Scandanavian-American at the time this music and this band-that-must-not-be-named beaome popular. Can you imagine the havoc this played with the formation of my identity?
Fortunately, shortly thereafter I discovered Sweden's enduring cultural treasure, Ingmar Bergman. And I was saved.
P.S. - I am also living proof that not all Swedes (or 1/4 Swedes, anyway) are such wretched dancers.
I still can't believe that with all this whining no one has yet mentioned the single greatest LP to have been produced in the 70s. (OK, the very very early 70s. Greatness is often before its time.)
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll . . .
Yeah, winjr, I love Moondance. I can't help it. I sing "Into the Mystic" in the shower. I am convinced that I understand the lyrics of "Glad Tidings." I used to hum "These Dreams of You" in certain long meetings at the bank. And, well, "Moondance" is OK too.
But I still maintain that "Brown-Eyed Girl" is the greatest rock 'n roll single of all time. It has everything that rock 'n roll is about, and I can dance to it (even now).
Which is another way of saying that claims of "the greatest" are almost always utter nonsense. But nonsense is entertaining. That's one reason why I love Van Morrison's lyrics (and Leo Kottke's tune titles).
Remember the music
Remember the group
Don't remember what I was doing
Most likely drifting and dreaming
Dated a young lady who wore that kind of blouse
Don't think it was you
I would have remembered
Madison, eh Tanta? I, too, enjoyed the view from Bascom Hill, and water-skiing on Lake Mendota. But your years were apparently more fun than mine, as the Harvest Fest was swarmed by police during my time, and the people seemed more infatuated with the football team.
I went there thinking I was a radical, but actually found out the 'radical' mindset was incoherent and mostly purely anti-authoritarian (neo-punk anarchists who beat you up if you don't agree with them, and aging jaded hippies who carry disdain for the non-Vegan and computer-savvy). Not a bad approach, in many ways, but inconsistent philosophically.
I guess I'm just a run-of-the-mill communist.
And now Tommy Thompson is running for pres, oh boy.
At least we had The Onion during my time. Before anyone else knew about it.
Were you there during the Kentucky Fried Theater days? Just read about it in the alumni bulletin. I didn't know they came out of Mad-town.
As for ABBA, Benny Anderssen has written some great folk music since they disbanded. Look for some of his work with Triakel.
I was there after they dredged Lady Liberty out of Lake Mendota, while you got change back for a dollar when purchasing a beer in the Rathskeller, and before Tommy Thompson quit working at his car dealership to become governor.
Oh... now I'm listening to ABBA. You got me in the mood. I loved that group. They still sound good. The first cassette tape I bought was Frank Sinatra... go figure. I am unique Hmmmm and the Tijuana Brass... hehehehehe
Tijuana Brass? OMG, what a blast from the past! TJB Music had a studio, actually an old silent picture studio, on La Brea, just south of Hollywood Blvd and not far from the Hughes "bunker". I was working for an LA bank at the time (1972) and lived on Sycamore Ave, just off Hollywood and around the corner from Grauman's Chinese. The neighborhood was just beginning to go to Hell then, but the rent was cheap ($110/ month for a studio with pool access).
Anyway, most evenings I'd walk to the local Copper Penny (eatery chain) on La Brea for supper. One evening, Herb Alpert was pulling out of the studio gate and we made eye contact, probably because of my 3-piece suit, which didn't fit in with the local scene very well. I lifted my right hand in recognition, and he waved back. Anyway, we would occasionally exchange waves and, after a few months, his curiosity got the better of him. He stopped his car just outside the studio gate and across the sidewalk. The driver's window came down and he asked me why I always wore a 3-piece suit and what I did for a living. Anyway, that's how I met Herb. He'd always wave after that. Is he still alive? He seemed like a decent guy.
I was at a beach resort in Morroco with my wife about 10 years ago. The pool guys had to tapes. ABBA and Michael Bolton. They played them over, end over and over and over again.
Dante's fourth circle.
I remember spending a month with a buddy in the 70's holidaying in Queensland (Australia, where I live), and we had 2 cassette double albums for music-while-you-drive. We rapidly got tired of one, so spent most of the time listening to the 'American Graffitti' sound track.
By the end of the trip we were both word perfect on every song and sang along, but we never actually got sick of it.
And 'All Summer Long' still gives me the chills, even though I don't like the Beach Boys all that much (except for 'Good Vibrations'). I suppose it's a linkage thing; I subconsciously associate that song with the end of good things (excellent film, great holiday, carefree youth...).
Other people might presumably get similar associations from other songs.
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yeeowwwwwww! what color is the sky on that planet?
rt
Okay, I give up. Which one are you?
Well, if it is any comfort, I was in my 10th year of programming when that came out and you were having much more fun than me.
Sorry, way before my time. But I empathise. Is it cocktail hour yet?
I too remember when this came out. Abba was one of those bands that I listened to with the car windows rolled up. Didn't want anyone to know that I liked their songs. They weren't "cool" in my crowd. One of the nice things about growing up - you can listen to what you want. Thanks for the memories.
The 70's were so much fun... and if you had toooo much fun, a DUI was only $35!
Good Lord,
What kind of tripe is this?
God we're old. How did that happen?
Average Citizen, I went to school in Madison. In those days, possession of less than an ounce of weed got you a ticket.
There were, of course, no staple-marks on my driver's license.
I remember the Erasure version a lot more clearly.
Remember that time (late 80s) when they added little raps into every song to try and mainstream it?
At the time Abba was a noticeable percentage of Sweden's net exports and tax collections. How the hell do you get that into your macro model?
More of a Heart man myself, actually.
Ah, Heart. Those were the days.
It could have been "Dancing Queen," you know.
That is truly subprime.
Orleans - You're Still the One !
The windows on my dad's Dodge Dart just fogged up.
Meanwhile, they're getting a bit testy in Mos Eisely. They need some rock 'n Roll.
Best line of the day: "Once the investment bankers forgive us they will start handing the money back out again."
Mortgage Grapevine: Debate: Is the subprime meltdown a market overreaction or has the industry changed permanently?
In 78 I was more Iggy and Velvet Underground.
But the hash; oh, how I miss the Penn State hash. And on Gentle Thursday, the purple trails...
Well, I had the Chipmunks version of this song on LP, so I guess you all know which generation I belong to.
rock on, nod your head
...
YouTube -
"Once the investment bankers forgive us they will start handing the money back out again."
Much like those outfits, it will be awhile before it comes back around again.
I skipped right over this regrettable period in music.
And the regrettable fashions too, for the most part.
Thank god.
"In 78 I was more Iggy and Velvet Underground"
Now you're talki
As long as we're trading favorites, here's some Queen for your listening pleasure. Radio ga ga.
YouTube -
Hmmm... currently have ABBA Gold in the SUV changer. Of course, I also have Linkin Park, Garbage, etc.
Music's like movies... if it entertains you, the hell with what other people think.
Buncha economics and finance geeks pretendin' to some street cred by claiming to be Iggy fans. Uh huh. I bet you all watched Donny and Marie.
I had actually considered some Bizet for 4shzl but I thought more people would be offended by ABBA.
If you aint offending, aint nobody listening.
Tanta,
You're the best.
jb
I'm old enough to remember "hearing" the 70's but really did not pay much attention to what was on the radio, until the early 1980s.
Remember this?
I don' know...
I don' know...
I don'know, where I'm a gonna go, when the volcano blow...
Tanta, you are Ichi Ban.
have you seen this:
The health of the mort biz depends on the job outlook in this country. The bottom line is the vast majority of folks don´t get paid enough to live the life they think they are entitled to AND pay the taxes they are subjected to.
As many people go thru hard times in the years ahead, the expectations of what consitutes a ´good life´ will correct, but if it´s not followed by real wage gains and serious tax reform the US economy WILL tank.
Personally, I believe the time period from the early/mid 90´s to the early/mid 00´s will be looked upon much like the 1920´s economically.
by "W. Buffett" March 30, 2007
There was no good music in the '70s. Well, Heart was okay, as long as nobody heard you listening to it. And David Bowie. And okay, Queen. And oh, all right, the Commodores (but not Lionel Ritchie solo).
But what else was there? Boston? Bachman Turner Overdrive? Ohio Players? And (gag) Disco?
more my speed for a Saturday evening:
http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/concertdetail.aspx?id=582|9960
For your listening pleasure....
On a lighter note, 87% of respondents in a survey of those planning to attend the Sping ABS Show said subprime woes will have some impact on the performance of the broader market for mortgages and MBS, and 75% expect median home prices to decline for the rest of the year.
If we're going back to the 70s then how about a song which rocks:
YouTube -
tanta, c'mon, you know everyone acknowledged the 5foot1 guy was the KING!!!
Tiny Tim?
Tanta:
The Osmond Brothers made something like 5 albums in 2 years, and sold enormous number of records. My older sister loved them.
ABBA may have been the most successful (from a financial point of view) groups of all time. They were a huge in the US, but even larger elsewhere. They also did an excellent job with their business ventures, and investments and became fantastically wealthy.
I was at a beach resort in Morroco with my wife about 10 years ago. The pool guys had to tapes. ABBA and Michael Bolton. They played them over, end over and over and over again.
Dante's fourth circle.
No good music in the 70s?
Duane Allman, Randy Scruggs, Edgar Winter, Mimi Farina, Bernie Taupin, Paul Simon, Joan Baez, George Harrison, Graham Nash, Peter Gabriel, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and quite a few others will now not be your friends, BD.
Except you were kidding, surely?
Ah, yes, that ABBA music brings memories of stagflation to mind. Are we heading back into the 70s again. Seems like it: gas is high, but we're still driving those guzzlers. Hostages in Iran. History seems to by rhyming.
Extreme debt, huge diversion of mis-allocated capital on a national scale, totally absurd national gravy train of cycling through residential RE - selling it to one another as the financial engineers of the whole bizarre scam skim a huge chumk off the top of every transaction, digging a debt hole the country will need at least a generation to crawl out of. And of course, as with any greed driven financial mania, there's the expected rampant fraud and abuse.
Welcome to the 21st century bust.
Abba?!? What's the matter with you kids? What about Smokey, Marvin, Al Green, and the Isely Bros? Even the Jackson 5 beat Abba. Nothing worth listening to came out of Europe after Puccini kicked the bucket. And yes, Tanta, La Bohème is on the menu for the LA Opera's upcoming season. ;>)
Third carrier group sails Monday for the Persian Gulf
Are we heading back into the 70s again. Seems like it: gas is high, but we're still driving those guzzlers. Hostages in Iran. History seems to by rhyming.
YouTube - Eve Of Destruction Video
Bob Dobbs,
The seventies rocked! Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Bob Marley, um, um, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods and uhhh, Terry Jacks and ummmmm, Paper Lace and of course Peter Frampton and Kiss.
OK, so Springsteen and Meat Loaf and Marley.
Bizarre decade.
By all rights, Steely Dan and Minnie Ripperton in proximity should have triggered an event in the time/space continuum.
BD, you win.
Yal,
Do you have a link to the Buffett quote?
tanta...
you broughts me to ma neez babe! wherya fine distuff! iss heavenly chicka, hea-VEN-leeeeeeeeaaaaa
!
lookie ah wuz a bean brung up fahfah aways in de land of milkymasala in BOMBAY yea givvitup fer the CITY from HEAvenlyHELL, and know what? da government record company dey ONLY printed ABBA babe ABBA dis an ABBA dat!!! jus IMAGINE a whole DECADE of agroovin to dees lovelies...
you wunner why allem sofware types is from india babe tanta? well now ya know!
W
"Yes, I remember what I was doing when this song came out.
Yes, I used to have a bat-winged blouse that tied at the hip just like that."
Mom is that you?
The good news is Donny and Marie still rock on. Just is smaller venues. Not to mention my personal favorite, Linda Rondstadt... ah those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...
Early Linda for your enjoyment.
YouTube -
Maybe someone is still fogging windows in the parents Dodge Dart.
More people from the inside are talking: Yahoo! Message Boards -
Bob - no good music in the 70s?
This is what I listened to while cruising in my mom's Buick Skylark:
YouTube -
Google this once ina while:
"Reverse wealth effect" - Google Search
"For us, as frontline originators, there isn't a direct correlation between loan performance and compensation, so we're disconnected from these failures -- so long as there's no fraud. In a way, we really don't care that much," says Christopher Cruise, who trains brokers and loan officers.
Analysts say Alt-A mortgages could be next to show trouble - Orlando Sentinel
Subprime lending woes: How a borrower lost his shirt
Ken Youngerman, 64, must start over now. He's that leathery swashbuckler type, with a cigarette and a saying for every situation. ("The tree that don't bend with the wind is the one that breaks.") He's always taken a lot of risks. Because of that, every year of his life now comes with a good story. Also because of that, he's in massive debt, he lost his old home, and, after several hours of conversation on a recent sunny afternoon, he can't stop muttering about his stupidity.
He rents his current house -- just a mile from his old home, the one he never wanted to leave -- for $725 a month. He lives there with his wife, Hilda. They don't take vacations; they don't buy new appliances; they survived last winter with a space heater, not a furnace. Those credit cards? Scissored to pieces.
Subprime lending woes: How a borrower lost his shirt
France/UK - no subprime yet:
We have a serious property bubble in this country and everyone is in denial; it's worse than in the US
don´t be fooled....
April Fool - The Simpsons
immobilienblasen: April Fool - The Simpsons
I don't understand what's happening in this video.
"don´t be fooled.... :-)"
I won't get fooled again.
That's the musical credo I rebelled to. Zep, Floyd and the Who wrote most of their best material in the 70's.
Thanks a whole heckavu lot, CR. I was a young Scandanavian-American at the time this music and this band-that-must-not-be-named beaome popular. Can you imagine the havoc this played with the formation of my identity?
Fortunately, shortly thereafter I discovered Sweden's enduring cultural treasure, Ingmar Bergman. And I was saved.
P.S. - I am also living proof that not all Swedes (or 1/4 Swedes, anyway) are such wretched dancers.
I still can't believe that with all this whining no one has yet mentioned the single greatest LP to have been produced in the 70s. (OK, the very very early 70s. Greatness is often before its time.)
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll . . .
Moondance. The Greatest? Maybe among the greatest?
I always liked him because he's Irish.
Yeah, winjr, I love Moondance. I can't help it. I sing "Into the Mystic" in the shower. I am convinced that I understand the lyrics of "Glad Tidings." I used to hum "These Dreams of You" in certain long meetings at the bank. And, well, "Moondance" is OK too.
But I still maintain that "Brown-Eyed Girl" is the greatest rock 'n roll single of all time. It has everything that rock 'n roll is about, and I can dance to it (even now).
Which is another way of saying that claims of "the greatest" are almost always utter nonsense. But nonsense is entertaining. That's one reason why I love Van Morrison's lyrics (and Leo Kottke's tune titles).
Always late to the party.
Read April Fool's Day
Remember the music
Remember the group
Don't remember what I was doing
Most likely drifting and dreaming
Dated a young lady who wore that kind of blouse
Don't think it was you
I would have remembered
Thanks for the diversion
Mike R.
Madison, eh Tanta? I, too, enjoyed the view from Bascom Hill, and water-skiing on Lake Mendota. But your years were apparently more fun than mine, as the Harvest Fest was swarmed by police during my time, and the people seemed more infatuated with the football team.
I went there thinking I was a radical, but actually found out the 'radical' mindset was incoherent and mostly purely anti-authoritarian (neo-punk anarchists who beat you up if you don't agree with them, and aging jaded hippies who carry disdain for the non-Vegan and computer-savvy). Not a bad approach, in many ways, but inconsistent philosophically.
I guess I'm just a run-of-the-mill communist.
And now Tommy Thompson is running for pres, oh boy.
At least we had The Onion during my time. Before anyone else knew about it.
Were you there during the Kentucky Fried Theater days? Just read about it in the alumni bulletin. I didn't know they came out of Mad-town.
As for ABBA, Benny Anderssen has written some great folk music since they disbanded. Look for some of his work with Triakel.
Frank Zappa 'nuf said (I posted some of his lyrics here yesterday!)
I was there after they dredged Lady Liberty out of Lake Mendota, while you got change back for a dollar when purchasing a beer in the Rathskeller, and before Tommy Thompson quit working at his car dealership to become governor.
Oh... now I'm listening to ABBA. You got me in the mood. I loved that group. They still sound good. The first cassette tape I bought was Frank Sinatra... go figure. I am unique
Hmmmm and the Tijuana Brass... hehehehehe
Tijuana Brass? OMG, what a blast from the past! TJB Music had a studio, actually an old silent picture studio, on La Brea, just south of Hollywood Blvd and not far from the Hughes "bunker". I was working for an LA bank at the time (1972) and lived on Sycamore Ave, just off Hollywood and around the corner from Grauman's Chinese. The neighborhood was just beginning to go to Hell then, but the rent was cheap ($110/ month for a studio with pool access).
Anyway, most evenings I'd walk to the local Copper Penny (eatery chain) on La Brea for supper. One evening, Herb Alpert was pulling out of the studio gate and we made eye contact, probably because of my 3-piece suit, which didn't fit in with the local scene very well. I lifted my right hand in recognition, and he waved back. Anyway, we would occasionally exchange waves and, after a few months, his curiosity got the better of him. He stopped his car just outside the studio gate and across the sidewalk. The driver's window came down and he asked me why I always wore a 3-piece suit and what I did for a living. Anyway, that's how I met Herb. He'd always wave after that. Is he still alive? He seemed like a decent guy.
Jesus, I shouldn't have posted that. It might make him feel bad if he read it. "Is he still alive?"
Herb, if you're out there, I've still got a lot of your eight-tracks, but no way to play them.
edhopper says:
I was at a beach resort in Morroco with my wife about 10 years ago. The pool guys had to tapes. ABBA and Michael Bolton. They played them over, end over and over and over again.
Dante's fourth circle.
I remember spending a month with a buddy in the 70's holidaying in Queensland (Australia, where I live), and we had 2 cassette double albums for music-while-you-drive. We rapidly got tired of one, so spent most of the time listening to the 'American Graffitti' sound track.
By the end of the trip we were both word perfect on every song and sang along, but we never actually got sick of it.
And 'All Summer Long' still gives me the chills, even though I don't like the Beach Boys all that much (except for 'Good Vibrations'). I suppose it's a linkage thing; I subconsciously associate that song with the end of good things (excellent film, great holiday, carefree youth...).
Other people might presumably get similar associations from other songs.