The Swedish Freaks called ABBA

As I sit here in my computer chair looking like a freak with my amazingly bulky headphones inches above my ear, I think hard about the songs I am listening to. Then I start to hope that no one breaks into my house because I won't be able to hear them what with the volume of "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" by ABBA jacked through the roof and me being here, in my dining room, home alone and defenseless. Then I wonder how many people have really ever heard of ABBA. Then, I feel ashamed of myself as I take a sip of Pepsi and shout to myself, "YOU ARE ON A DIET!" But, fact of the matter is, this music is awesome...and REALLY loud. Who are ABBA, all you people who don't know real, classic music ask? They happen to be four totally awesome Swedish singer/songwriters from the seventy's. Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Bjorn's wife, Agnetha Faltskog, and Benny's friend, Anni-Frid 'Frida'Lyngstad made up the famous band. They were all Swedish rockstars who got their start in a Eurovision Song Contest where they entered their song "Waterloo" in 1974, winning, and putting them on the U.S. Top Ten Charts. Over the course of the seventy's and into the early eighty's the band pumped out songs like Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, Money, Money, Money, Voulez Vous, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), and, what is the main title of the recent Meryl Streep picture, Momma Mia. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote most of their songs with the occasional help of Stig Anderson. Their songs truly are amazing...go out and Google them...listen for yourself.