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I was never the biggest ABBA fan. Their supper-sunny Swede pop was played around the house alot when I was growing up, and I was pretty sick of them by the time I hit my teens. So maybe it was my sadistic side that wanted to hear this 24 song "definitive tribute to ABBA" put out by harsh noise label Nihilist Records...the lineup on compilation features names like Sockeye, Guilty Connector, Sudden Infant, and Viki, so one would expect an orgy of power electronics and high-impact noise pulverizing the living crap out of ABBA's hits, no? Well, you definitely get some of that, but theres alot more here as well. All of your fave ABBA anthems are distorted, cut up, and rebirthed by a wide variety of modern noise/psyche/damaged pop artists. Some of the "covers" are really cool and pretty re-imaginings of the original songs - the best track on here is the rendition of "Eagle" by I & Makoto (Cotton Casino and Kawabata Makoto of ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE) , which layers Cotton's heavenly singing over a sublime guitar drone from Kawabata. Awesome! The irr. app. (ext.) cover of "Knowing Me Knowing You" is a beautiful drifting morass of in-key/out-of-key vocals and psychedelic guitar strum, very nice.

Guilty Connector and Sudden Infant deliver devestating harsh noise ABBA "covers". Sockeye does an expectedly retardo,noisy garage-pop cover of "Take A Chance On Me". There's some ridiculously great beat-driven noise-fests from Canned Hamm,Kazumoto Endo's atonal electro/plunderphonic/noise rendition of "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)", and Evil Moisture's spastic cut-up of "One Night In Bankok". Other artists featured are Vertonen, Ungrateful Deadbeats (aka Strangulated Beatoffs), Ski-Mask And The Bucketmen, Absorb, Waldchengarten, Brain Transplant, Foamula (aka Metalux / Magic Is K�ntmaster), Spider Compass Good Crime Band (aka CAROLINER !), Body Tong, The Rib, Wounded Head, Gunshop, Viki, Julia Sets, and Methypnox. Altogether, this is a fascinating and highly listenable translation of ABBA's pop sweetness, enough to make me want to check out the original music! Limited to 500 copies.