Posts relating to highly popular topics aren't allowed outside of the relevant megathreads. Opinions that are constantly posted here are not allowed. Rule 3: Do not post opinions that are heavily posted/have been on the front page recently. Please try and elaborate on your opinion and justify your position.Īny opinion that is not well thought out, incoherent, internally contradictory or otherwise nonsensical is subject to removal. If your post is just one sentence it will be removed. We get it, you all think this sub is garbage and is just for popular opinions, and you want to be funny and post "going to be downvoted to oblivion here, but I think racism is bad." We enjoy the memes, but please keep them off the sub. Rule 2: Do not post low effort/satirical/troll posts. Be specific as to where you believe your opinion is unpopular. Please have a clear, self contained opinion as your post title, and use the text field to elaborate and expand on why you think/feel this way. A subjective statement about your position on some topic. Rule 1: Your post must be an unpopular opinion. If you see a post that breaks one or more of these rules, please report it so the moderators can take action.Porn, Fat/Skinny/Body Weight, Pedophilia or Related topics, Posts about Sexual Assault, Nazi and related content, Banned Topics.Downvote: Opinions that you Agree with.Upvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.A few decades later, they would become unstoppable.DARK MODE NORMAL THEME How This Place Works Swedes had discovered their power to raid our pop-radio stations like viking berserkers. No ooga-chakas.) But the damage had been done. The band would land exactly one more American top-10 hit, a version of the Association’s 1967 tune “ Never My Love” that peaked at #7 later in 1974. Blue Swede took a half-decent American pop song, one that would’ve probably otherwise been forgotten by now, and turned it into a fucking wrecking ball, the kind of thing that drunk yahoos in karaoke bars are going to be gang-shouting for as long as there are drunk yahoos and karaoke bars.īlue Swede were not built to last. Skifs howls over all of it with Tom Jones levels of brio, making B. Everything about their arrangement seems scientifically calibrated to stick with you: the blaring horn riff, the high-cheese guitar line, the perfectly timed drum hits during the “IIIIIIII’m” of the chorus. Blue Swede’s version of “Hooked On A Feeling” cranks up the catchiness of the original further than it should be allowed to go. (In any case, Blue Swede took out even the most harmless drug references, turning “I’ll just stay addicted and hope I can endure” into the even-more-meaningless “I just stay a victim, if I can for sure.”) And yet that chant just bulldozes its way into your skull and stays there forever.Īnd it’s not just the ooga-chakas. The ooga-chakas mean nothing, and they don’t have anything to do with the whole love-as-drug metaphor. With their version of “Hooked On A Feeling,” Blue Swede took that dinky fake war chant from the Jonathan King version and weaponized it, transforming it into a loud-as-hell brain-destroyer. (“Blue Suede.” I know.)Ĭredit the ooga-chakas - or, if you prefer, blame the ooga-chakas. So it got an American release, and Blåblus got an English-language stupid-pun name. (Blue Swede’s arrangement was supposedly based on “ Do You Like Worms?,” an unfinished and widely bootlegged Beach Boys song, but the only real similarity I hear is in the deeper chanting.) Blue Swede recorded their version, and it became a big Scandinavian hit. Skifs, who’d started out in the excellently named Swedish rock band Slam Creepers, started Blue Swede as a cover band called Blåblus, which is some kind of Swedish pun involving the word “blues.” That same year, they recorded their big, ridiculous version of “Hooked On A Feeling.” Blåblus had started covering the Jonathan King version of “Hooked On A Feeling” live. Blue Swede started in 1974, as a vehicle for the Swedish pop singer Björn Skifs. Blue Swede weren’t even a band when the Jonathan King version of “Hooked On A Feeling” came out.
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