Shnootz - Reaction Video (ABBA - Lay All Your Love on Me)

[@mattsnider2667]

What's up, people! I just wanted to let you know I'm now aware I have access to the solo material of both Agnetha and Frida, so we'll have plenty to go through after the ABBA journey proper. And I'll look into any possibilities for the guys' material outside of ABBA. Cheers!

[@Urfinchannel]

Well,don’t miss Benny‘s Album with Josephine Nilsson ,, Shapes ‚, it has great songs in a more American style I would say

[@mattsnider2667]

@@Urfinchannel Hopefully it will already be available to me on amazing champion of the channel Adam's server. If not, we'll try to figure something else out. But I'm certainly up for that journey too!

[@eduardooscar309]

Oh, that Is a fantástic news I don't know much about solo carers of Frida & Agnetha, and I love to stay un these special journeys

[@JCWiley2300]

This is just feeding my addiction lol. I guested on a podcast once discussing the two post-ABBA top 40 hits in the US by Agnetha and Frida so, let's just say I'll be commenting! 😆

[@flemmingkristoffersen1896]

I bet you will be surprised, especially when hearing Frida´s two first english solo albums - the first one being a fairly big hit worldwide! They both diifer very much to the ABBA sound! But we´ll have to wait for that, after you have gone through the last of ABBA´s amazing cataloque! I can´t wait for your reactions to The Visitors and the comeback album after almost 40 years - Voyage!!! And what a voyage it has been with ABBA! ❤

[@MarkSatchwillArt]

This was released as a 12" only single in the UK in the summer of '81, quite a while after the album's release, because the clubs had picked it up on it's electro-disco vibe. It was the best-selling 12" single in the UK for a long time, until New Order's Blue Monday overtook it. What a tune - almost a religious experience, it's like a hymn to irrational jealousy. The way the beat hits at the beginning, the funky guitar, than that vocal fall and stop before the huge chorus, like being in a cathedral, the church of obsessive love. The way it builds, those keyboards at the end as the voices drift up to the heavens....it's easily in my Top Ten Abba tunes. My Dad loved it too. Amazing.

[@christianoazzuro6711]

It's almost impossible to ignore your fine commentary.I do relate.

[@MarkSatchwillArt]

@@christianoazzuro6711 Thank you Christiano 👍

[@frankvanoirschot9148]

A fantastic description of this funky song! A real hymn about irrational jealousy ! 🤩

[@pascal-Z]

This song is spectacular. The audience go wild when it gets played at the ABBA Voyage concert in London. The next track is a live concert recording. It became very meaningful when around 2016 (?) all four ABBA members got together at a private event and Agnetha and Frida performed the song to a small crowd live. It was back then that ABBA fans were hopeful this could be the beginning of a reunion (and it kinda was).

[@jamesbachmann7376]

I hope one day, they release a music video using the Voyage performance. I know it won't happen anytime soon, but it would make such a great music video.

[@riaanbehr7976]

What a banger! That guitar riff and choral chorus and beat.... Just epic 👌

[@flemmingkristoffersen1896]

This track is a real pearl of a disco-dance song, which is still a hit on almost any dancefloor! Love it! ♥

[@discogareth]

Perhaps the most mind blowing song performed at the ABBA Voayge live shows. I watch in absolute awe every single time (13 now) I’ve been.

[@petterhansson7312]

Wow! There we have a true fan! I am happy to have been there once, even to I have to fly from Scandinavia to be there.

[@discogareth]

@@petterhansson7312 it’s my happy, safe space and it’s highly addictive!

[@geordieboy8945]

They should give you a loyalty card free admission next time!😀

[@hahatoldyouso]

my favourite ABBA song!

[@radostdinkova7909]

top 5 all time best tracks from ABBA: Lay all your love on me, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Voules Voiz,Chiquitita,Dancing queen

[@richschmidt307]

OUTSTANDING!! Always in my top 5 ABBA tunes. The only thing I don't like is that it has to end. I want it to go on for an hour.

[@marcodebrabander5751]

A great track and I guess also ahead of its time!

[@richardtaylor1905]

The production on this track and Gimme Gimme Gimme from the previous year is so ahead of its time. The 4 of them got so much criticism for being cheesy, lightweight pop. Thankfully I stuck by them and the music world has finally started to give them the recognition they always deserved.

[@alejandrosantanaborquez917]

ABBA paving the road for 80's music😅... Love❤it! See ya, Matt & Lucca ❤️🇨🇱👍

[@NarekCL]

As a devoted fan of Vivaldi (I haven’t forgotten your comment in the “As Good As New” reaction which was awesome), the Baroque era, and ABBA, it’s only fair that this is my favorite song of theirs. It’s a combination of everything I love. The opening of the song, the arpeggios leading up to the chorus, and the harmonies along with the bass during the chorus just speak to me. It gets even better at the very end of the final chorus when that Bach-like synth comes in and fades out with the song. I’ve been enjoying the ABBA reactions and the analysis you provide before and after the songs. Always impatiently waiting for the next one. Keep up the great work!

[@Mingus8]

This is one of their majors. Some would say its like a Bach tune, with a disco beat. But there really is something sacred and psalm-like about the chorus.. and sometimes its like art and science coming together when listen to them, in a way.

[@Bjorn9284]

I read the other day, ABBA has had a number one hit record in every country on Earth. That bites! 😎 Got the Disconet 12 inch for 55 bucks in 1988 for my birthday. ✌

[@WIlfredWibbles]

That's unlikely. North Korea ?

[@nikolanikolic1366]

Oh so infectious, love this one and it will be stuck in my head all day :D

[@rcmorl6390]

This is the one...such memories . This was playing the first time I ventured timidly into my first dance club...lights spinning shadows dancing....loud and rhythmic, an atmospheric wonderland....

[@rodney9409]

Abba's syth work are very tastefully done, especially on the 1982 track The Day Before You Came, I also love Depeche Mode and some German bands and artists' incorporation of it in their music.

[@philipmcfarlane]

This was the first album I was given on vinyl as a birthday present when I was 9. This was my favourite song and it's still so good. It's definitely a 'gets stuck in your head' tune.

[@jenscee7679]

Late to the party but this is a banger. Will look for “the way old friends do”. It’s such a reflection of my parent’s tumultuous relationship. They married and divorced each other twice. Both sadly departed, which makes it even more bittersweet. I love your enthusiasm in this and the Ultravox series.

[@christopheralbon5224]

Almost a disco/gospel crossover. Genius yet again.

[@jerrycote659]

Well, for me, this is THE track of the Super Trouper album. I can’t believe how it still sounds ahead of it’s time even though it’s over 40 years old. Benny was the boss on this track and he had an absolute field day with every element and just indulged himself with the huge layers and various sounds from the driving synths. This was a major club hit in the U.S. and it sounds amazing being pumped out through a big sound system in a club. You seemed a little surprised actually that this would have come out of ABBA and you wouldn’t be too far off base because I think a lot of us ABBA fans who remember this track when it first came out, especially hearing it in dance clubs, were actually surprised and in a very good way for sure. The 12” Club Mix of this track is an absolute banger and you should seriously have a reaction video for it. There are some amazing sonics which are in the 12” mix of this banger you really would appreciate.

[@caleidoscopioliterario9851]

Amazing Masterpiece!🏅🏆🎉🎇🎨🎹🎸🎤🎧🎼🎬

[@5334235]

Like a Lutheran chorale set to a dance beat

[@petterhansson7312]

He, he heard you had read my comment on rhymes in my comment the other day. Thanks! Now, for the next one, there will be a folksy anthem of true friendship to wait for. And Benny on his very favourite instrument, even more so than synths and pianos.

[@imntojj]

Like I stated in your former reaction video this song is one of the greatest dance/disco tracks ever written. When you began this song it’s almost impossible not to listen all the way through. The beat of this song is relentless. I’m looking forward to your next reaction of The Way Old Friends Do. When you hear those 4 voices on that first stanza a capella accompanied only by Benny’s accordion playing to a packed Wembley Stadium it is pure magic. Goosebumps anticipation for this next reaction Matt👍👍

[@karstenkristensen4718]

Born in 1971, my grandad introduced me to ABBA, always on full blast when driving his Volvo 240 wagon, (Huge Fasten seatbelt red light flashing as we went) ABBA is amasing. Most of their songs are hits.

[@supastah68]

Super! When you get to Frida’s solo stuff, do Aven en Blomma.

[@Urfinchannel]

Or the duet with the Roxette singer Marie F.

[@mattsnider2667]

@@Urfinchannel Oh my god, I LOVE Marie's voice. She was amazing, and now I definitely need to hear that.

[@mattsnider2667]

I do have access to Marie's solo stuff too but am still going through Roxette proper.

[@Urfinchannel]

@@mattsnider2667 I don’t like Per Gessels Songwriting ,but I am a huge fan of Marie’s Swedish Solo Albums ,so strong and mysterious

[@stuartwho]

And so having been on the slow path for the original songs, I have had fun listening to your 79 reactions speedily over the last few weeks. Now I’ve caught up it’s back to the slow Lane again and I wait in anticipation for maybe my favourite album The Visitors. This has almost as many bonus tracks as original tracks on the 1981 album. Hope you get to play the ABBA Live album released in 1986 which includes many tracks from their world tour in 1979 and was recorded at Wembley in London just a few days before I saw them in Stafford (UK).

[@alipiusmuller3715]

Man, you put out these great reactions faster than I can comment on them! As NarekCL already mentioned, I always thought that this is ABBA's most baroque and sacral tune. It feels to me like this song demands you to stop doing whatever you're doing and pay full attention, otherwise the God of music will be very, very, very unamused. Keep up the great work!

[@walterw9829]

I go back to this song again and again over the decades. Its just beautiful.

[@paulecrosby2006]

I remember this being a huge record in the night clubs back in the day.

[@adamlewis3729]

this one is in my TOP 5 ABBA tracks for sure.... 4 on the 4 floor disco beat, hooky synth bass, arpeggiator synth stabs, a building and rising melody which leads into an EPIC chorus.... THIS right here is CLASSIC ABBA!!!!!!

[@robwhite5925]

Ive never been able to choose between this and Winner Takrs It All ...both complete polar opposites. Both absolutely brilliant.

[@robwhite5925]

Honestly Matt I was mirroring your smiles and got goosebumps yet again. I cant wait for you to hear The Day Before You Came from The Visitors. If you think Winner Takes It All was sad... and the keyboards are sublime.

[@stephintheatre6335]

Love this harmony between the girls with that disco/techno sound.

[@lo_souza]

"Lay All Your Love on Me" is one of only four ABBA songs to get to #1 outside the Billboard Hot 100 (sales + radio plays). "Fernando" and "The Winner Takes It All" - #1 Billboard Adult Contemporary (US adult contemporary radio stations). "Super Trouper" and "Lay All Your Love on Me" - #1 Billboard Dance Club Songs (popular songs in US nightclubs). ✌

[@francismedina4547]

This should have been a big hit for ABBA especially here in the U.S.. The next track, The Way Old Friends Do is a live recording performed in Wembley Arena. Matt, I hope that you will react to the two bonus tracks Elaine and Put On Your White Sobrero. The later is a must!!! A breakup song with western cowboy with Mexican overtones.

[@Urfinchannel]

Don’t spoil to much 🤫

[@nickchristoforou7850]

I love 'Elaine' ! Didn't make the album, but was the b-side to "The Winner Takes It All".

[@sasapejcin3568]

The best melody makers in any genre!

[@izzyworld8068]

ABBA embraced disco but gave the genre better lyrical content. Also the production is ahead of most of their contemporaries... truly pioneers of giving dance music a mix of real instruments and synths. Also with tracks like this and the song "Voulez Voux", Benny and Bjorn ( along with Giorgo Morodor Stateside) provided the imprint for Hi-NrG music

[@stevehulse4005]

One of my favourite ABBA songs. A great synth dance track and the instrumentation alone is good enough even without the surperb vocals from Agnetha and the multi layering vocal effect in the chorus.

[@rdwulf6289]

Great. Simple as that. The applause at the end is actually the final track.

[@Bandido894]

Almost a hymn with disco background. Always like haunting one key synth in 2.verse(also 3. verse). Streching a voice before chorus is made by circulate the voice (maybe also vocoder), which again new fascinating effect.

[@eduardooscar309]

Hello , have a good day, so nice to see you return with more ABBA songs "Lay all your love on me" (1980) It is part of the album "Super Trouper" and it was their third single in 1981, the first in 12" format, it was #7 in UK Charts and #1 in US Dance Charts "Lay all your love on me" takes up in an isolated way the disco style left by his previous album "Voulez Vous" It has an extraordinary production, especially for voices and choirs It's pretty good (7pts), but it doesn't appeal to me as much as other ABBA songs. I admit that personally I don't like 'disco sound' that much Still, in this disco genre, I like them a little more: "If it wasn't for the nights" (ABBA's best disco track) Summer Night City As good as new Voulez Vous Gimme gimme gimme This is the one I like the least (with "I have a dream") of the 20 Top10 that ABBA has in the UK This explain highly of sublime quality of ABBA's most successful singles (between 7.5pts / 10pts) In your time ABBA did not have an official video (like for "The winner takes all", "Super trouper" and "Happy new year", this last one in Spanish too) But in this historic return of ABBA it became more important, because it is included (with shocking futuristic images) in the setlist of the new Voyage concerts, and was also chosen for the new official lyric videos that ABBA is launching this year, that is the new lyrics videos with more views (more than 15 million views now) Thanks again for bringing ABBA's music and hope to continue with more ABBA Kind regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 South America

[@Urfinchannel]

And it’s important to say that no sequencer was used especially for the baseline ,all was played by real musicians 👏🏻

[@user-ir5qz8yz4h]

Really enjoy your sincerity, insight, and approach to appreciating music. My wife took me to see the ABBA Voyage concert in London last month, and like many, I knew of ABBA mainly through movies like Muriel's Wedding or what I would overhear playing at grocery stores. The concert was so incredible that I started my own ABBA deep dive starting with Ring Ring and was happy to discover your channel in parallel. Anyway, thank YOU for the music. And looking forward to your future videos.

[@abbagus1]

You played the original mix of the album which joined the final tack which was live and the skip wasn’t noticeable . When they released it as a single or added to a hits compilation , the took the applauses out and more additional synth notes are appreciated hidden beneath those ,which for me personally are one of the best parts of the song. That happens also with Dancing Queen which some albums lowered the track before the great Benny’s synth ending and which Benny also used to finish the song abruptly at concerts

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

I am interested in all variants of ABBA songs. Do you have a list of others you have found, please?

[@abbagus1]

@@andrewjenkinson7052 there are some , the first ones that come to mind are ring ring us remix and others with sax or without it, a Voulez vous official remix made by ABBA, summer night city with and without sung intro, lovelight with larger intro, some versions in spanish used different backing tracks, on and on and on with lost verse , same goes for I do ido i do I do i do and dancing queen, why did it have to be me is the same as happy Hawaii, different arrangement and lyrics, rock’n’roll band with slight different arrangements. The holy grail Just like that, with three different arrangements , this song was stolen when they were working on it and ABBA have been reluctant to release it , I personally asked Benny if we would get it some day in front of many fans reunited at ABBA The Museum in 2016 , he said never , although fans we do have them with not excellent sound .There are also working demos but I just wrote the ones ended and released.

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

@@abbagus1 Great! That is exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much indeed.

[@txxredtache]

Looks like most of what i came here to say has already been said! ABBA are often called (dismissed as?) a '70s disco outfit but they didn't get any serious club kudos until late '79 (Gimmie!), with this and then another you've yet to listen to. Yes, Dancing Queen is a staple of wedding discos but that's really not the same thing, as I'm sure i don't have to tell you ;)

[@davidwilding7405]

Anyone who says ABBA are a disco band, has never really listened to them.

[@craigh5709]

Sheer Pop genius.❤️ Many, many years before it’s time. It manages to pack the dance still years after it’s release. Totally love your deep dive and the work that goes into this 🙏👍 Love your reactions Mike. Long Long before Auto tune was the norm ( sheer vocal talent) sublime lyrics from Bjorn and Benny. A suggestion is for a future reaction “ Should I Laugh Or Cry” with the Swedish count in. 😊 Can’t until you to do “The Visitors.”Next level iis the current album Voyage. Peace to you and Lucca. Regards Craig from Australia 🇦🇺

[@Pulsar77]

Love the vocal effects on this one, and of course it was another hit. Anyway, this is great, but wait until you hear the next one 🙂 I'm not even kidding. The Way Old Friends Do is something really special, it might even make you emotional.

[@mattsnider2667]

Haha, see, it happens every time! But cheers, that's just an indication of the consistency of ABBA's quality, clearly. Big thanks for the comments as always.

[@christopheralbon5224]

Benny's keyboards on this song are stunning.

[@addersdewinter7495]

I loved this song, and to me its on par with Gimme Gimme Gimme. Love the chanting parts though. I have danced to this soo many times, but its not the best track on the Super trouper album, that honour belongs to the Winner Takes it all 🙃 IMO Btw the drums on this track are real not computer generated.

[@Urfinchannel]

Also the bass

[@elisabet-ms6ck]

I suspect that The Baroque is Benny Andersson's favourite era.

[@SebaZero]

This song was covered by Erasure too in their ABBAesque album

[@mattsnider2667]

Oh wow! I didn't realize (or forgot). I'm going to react to that soon, then. Cheers for that!

[@wolfgangbauer3096]

Admire all of your Abba reactions! Please also comment to the "bonus track" of this album "Put on your white Sombrero", recorded during the Souper Trouper recording sessions!!

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

Thank you for not just doing "Great, I like it!" reactions to ABBA's music. When you have finished reacting to this Album may I request you react to ABBA's lesser known songs which have NOT been reacted to by others? (select a song and search for existing reactions). BTW ABBA fans tend to be mature so you are ALLOWED not to like a song 😁 P.S. I recommend you try Agnetha's, Frida's and Benny's (BAO) post ABBA Albums, if only for your own pleasure.

[@geordieboy8945]

Not sure if you know, but Matt is reacting to all ABBA tracks in order. He started with the Ring Ring album. Not seen anyone else do that, so hat's off to Matt.😀

[@jakehoule8105]

Great song. Thanks, Matt. You’d get a kick out of Erasure’s cover on their album, ‘Abba-esque’ (1992).

[@mattsnider2667]

Nice, I still need to go through the remaining tracks on that EP, but I figured I'd wait to finish it off until after experiencing more ABBA proper.

[@nigeljames5622]

Leave it to Abba to use the word incomprehensible in a lyric line, just the best ever!

[@marcodebrabander5751]

I am curious about your opinion of Elaine!

[@martinhumble]

Wait until you get to The Day Before You Came 😊

[@mattsnider2667]

Absolute gothic masterpiece, that one! One of my favorites in their larger catalog, for sure.

[@fredrikmoller629]

You can hear Bennys love for swedish folk music and church music. The chorus could be a church hymn. Very typical for him

[@margaretafarkasova3576]

❤❤❤

[@discogareth]

As we reach the end apart from the last ‘live’ track and a couple of bonus tracks, we leave behind the pure perfect production of this album to the troublesome ‘The Visitors’. From brand new digital recording equipment in the studio causing a headache as they sounded so different to the handful of analogue tracks already recorded, to a newly divorced Benny and Frida to ABBA just not really enjoying the recording sessions anymore. One track in particular took months to finish as they just couldn’t get it right. You’re in for a real treat as we get into ABBA in their ‘we’ve done it all, where do we go from here, mature phase’. Prepare for HiNRG Cold War disco drama!

[@toddlandry5736]

I think this is a perfect album side, speaking in vinyl terms. Not a bad note amongst the five tracks. I'm torn between this and the next album for best album, though they are quite different.

[@williambeardshaw9492]

You should listen to the Disconnet version of Lay all your love on me

[@geordieboy8945]

I will grit my teeth for the next reaction, it's the only Abba track I actively dislike.😬😀

[@nickchristoforou7850]

It's esoteric, about their friendships as 4 band members, but also any friendship. But yeah, I'm never in the mood for it.