After spending some time regrouping, the band began playing more shows as the year drew to a close. was canceled due to the passing of Dee Dee's mother. Rose left the band in June of 2010 and was replaced by a drummer named Sandra Vu, who was with the band when its fall tour of the U.S. Before the album's release, Dee Dee teamed up with guitarist Jules, bassist Bambi, and drummer Frankie Rose (formerly of like-minded groups Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls) to form a live band. Both recordings were mostly done by Dee Dee at home (with some help from Nick Zinner and Crocodiles' Brandon Welchez) and then expertly produced in the studio by Richard Gottehrer, who had formerly worked with the Go-Go's and Blondie. Thanks to the high level of buzz surrounding Dee Dee (and, of course, the quality of the records), Sub Pop signed Dum Dum Girls in 2009.ĭum Dum Girls' first Sub Pop single, "Jail La La," was released in early 2010, with the debut album I Will Be following soon after. In 2008, lead singer Kristin Gundred (aka Dee Dee) began making solo recordings as Dum Dum Girls, deriving the name both from the Vaselines' album Dum-Dum and from the Iggy Pop song "Dum Dum Boys." Over the course of the next year, Dee Dee released a couple singles (a 7" single on Hozac, a four-way split single on Art Fag), a 12" EP (Yours Alone, released via Captured Tracks), and a compilation disc appearance (on Art Fag's Blissed Out cassette comp). ISBN 9780823083176.Since they emerged at a time when C-86-inspired acts like Vivian Girls and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart were in vogue, it's little wonder that California's Dum Dum Girls - a group whose '60s-inflected lo-fi pop brings to mind acts like Black Tambourine and Dolly Mixture - became something of a sensation on the indie circuit soon after the release of their first single. From Abba to Mamma Mia!: The Official Book. ^ Palm, Carl Magnus Hanser, Anders ()."POP MUSIC DISC DERBY: WE'RE GONNA GET LETTERS". Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba. The complete New Zealand music charts, 1966-2006: Singles, albums, DVDs, compilations. "CD: Abba, The Complete Studio Recordings | Music". Fairfield Gardens, Qld.: Christopher J N Patrick. ABBA : let the music speak : an armchair guide to the musical soundscape of the Swedish supergroup (1st ed.).
^ Tesch, Christopher Patrick editor: Matthew (2008).Helen Sjöholm has performed "Dum Dum Diddle", accompanied by Orsa Spelman's Kalle Moraeus on the fiddle. The Scotsman implied that "Dum Dum Diddle" was a bad song by saying: "LIFE – to quote Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding – can be 'as good as an Abba song' but the clunky transfer of Mamma Mia! from stage to screen proves that it can be just as awful as 'Dum Dum Diddle' too." Covers The Los Angeles Times described the song as "cheery nonsense". Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba implied that Eagle was more lyrically ambitious than "the 'dum dum diddles' of ABBA's earlier work". The complete New Zealand music charts, 1966-2006 describes the song as "rather silly but fun". seemed like a reversion to Eurovision-style thinking". Abba - Uncensored on the Record said the "unfortunately titled song. Critical reception Ībba's Abba Gold suggests that ABBA criticised the song, but adds that the writers of the book like it. The Guardian described it as "a song about a woman who feels sexually threatened by her partner's violin". The song is about a woman who quietly longs for the affections of a sad, lonely man who derives his only pleasure from constantly playing and practicing on his violin. The lead vocals are shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. It contains a "stream of strong melodies and instrumentation". The song has a fiddle-style refrain (simulated by a synthesiser), which serves as its hook. Benny plays piano during the breaks between the girls' "woh-woh" vocals. The song has Lasse Wellander's acoustic guitar in the verses. "Dum Dum Diddle" is a folk-inspired pop song. A line like 'Dum Dum Diddle, to be your fiddle' doesn't really make a great deal of sense, but it still works because it's something you can sing along to and enjoy". They could put ridiculous lyrics into a song, and because they were fundamentally great songwriters they could make it work. When asked "how did manage to make such a ridiculous and quite banal song come alive", Björn Again founder Rod Leissle said "I think ABBA had a special quality about them.
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