# Humbled, I stand before you (or, Boy am I asking for it) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031 "2000-06-29T15:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/21 "2000-06-29T18:02:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > ABBA and Ace of Base are the two main reasons I would be ashamed to admit I am Swedish. I want absolutely nothing in common with them. I’m afraid I see a family intervention in your near future. > > I know Erasure did an album of ABBA covers; wasn’t “Dancing Queen” among them? > \*\* It’s ok, Struuter; I liked some of Abba’s stuff, and I like Ace of Base today. We can go into therapy together, if you like! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/22 "2000-06-29T18:07:05Z")
Blue, Weird, vague kismet today…I’m just listening to Joanie Mitchell’s Blue and now I get your offer. I’m up for tag-team therapy if you are. Thanks for the invite. 🙂 struuter ---
**Author:** ![Tally-Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/23 "2000-06-29T18:13:13Z")
Don’t worry about it, struuter. I like ABBA a lot. I used to listen to them pretty often until Mom made me give back her tapes. 😉 I also am a big fan of Ace of Base. I’ve never seen these “A-Teens” but they sound a little too teeny-bopper for my taste. chrisbar ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/24 "2000-06-29T18:16:37Z")
:Sticks head from closet door: Okay, damnit! I admit it! I probably know the words to almost every ABBA _and_ Air Supply song! I have two older sisters! The lyrics must have entered through osmosis! I have been humming ABBA tunes all morning thanks to this thread! I am NOT happy about it!!! :Heads back into closet singing “Take a Chance on Me”: ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/25 "2000-06-29T18:18:43Z")
Not only did I own ABBA Gold, but I owned MORE ABBA Gold. (both were stolen, along with the rest of my CDs. I have only replaced Gold.) I also know that there is a Spanish version. And I am not in the least ashamed to admit it. Hell, it sure as shit isn’t Verdi, but for what it is, happy pop music, it’s fantastic. Sure as hell beats any of the insipid little teenie groups running around today. And I can do the entire “Mamma Mia” sequence move-for-move from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. And I know all of their names. So struuter, never fear, I am WAY bigger dork then you are. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/26 "2000-06-29T18:20:25Z")
> [@](#): > > I hear David Hasselhoff is big over in Europe He’s big in GERMANY . Please don’t lump the rest of us Europeans into this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/27 "2000-06-29T18:27:06Z")
A THOUSAND apologies, yojimbo. Truly. I guess I should have just said “elsewhere.” ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/28 "2000-06-29T18:33:32Z")
I don’t care that much for ABBA. But I really like ELO. I even liked Xanadu because of the kick ass ELO soundtrack. And yeah, I do like Ace Of Base. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/29 "2000-06-29T18:56:50Z")
Have to admit I have Gold - only ABBA I have, and not played much, but I do… Trion - wasn’t “Angel Eyes” someone else - think it was a blind guy who played guitar sitting down… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/30 "2000-06-29T19:06:16Z")
I have ABBA Gold, but only on vinyl. I love that Eurovision, Pure Pop sound of their’s. Vapid, asexual, in one ear and out the other. Not art, but 24kt Top Forty. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/31 "2000-06-29T19:13:40Z")
I can hi-jack my own thread,can’t I? dropzone, ‘vapid’ has got to be one of the coolest words. Sounds like something made-up by Lewis Carroll for The Jabberwocky. I don’t hear that word often…but that’s a good thing, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/32 "2000-06-29T19:20:58Z")
Sorry, **lurkernomore** but that is indeed an ABBA song. **blahedo** remembers it as well. I suppose someone else could have covered it though. Just to be sure, I looked it up on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). It was off the Voulez-Vous album and is actually one word. “Angeleyes” Don’t you feel better for knowing? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/33 "2000-06-29T22:16:48Z")
> [@](#): > > **_I;m_ Swedish, Olentzero.** Är du?? Jag tänkte att du var judaisk. Wow, now you’re even cooler. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/34 "2000-06-29T23:16:01Z")
…it’s two words on the Jeff Healey band version. I know someone who went to a wedding, saw the hymn “Joy to the World” listed, and thought they were going to play 3 DOg Night… ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/35 "2000-06-30T02:06:38Z")
OMG, Air Supply! When I first heard them I was just entering puberty, which wasn’t very kind to me. I was overweight. Anyway, I was upset because I was convinced no man would ever want me. I’d listen to Air Supply and fantasize. I remember thinking, “Someday, someone is going to sing, ‘Girl you’re every woman in the world’ to me and mean it”. I’m still waiting. However, an old bf did sing “Cherry Pie” to me. Woohoo! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/36 "2000-06-30T02:37:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Shhhhhhh. > > Air Supply. > > My sister played them nearly constantly. I know all the words. Somewhere, deep inside, I dig 'em. > > I am ashamed. > \*\* No need to be ashamed, Chief, Air Supply rocks. Of course, my taste in music is pretty eclectic, and spans many generations. (My sister was eleven when I was born, so I was listening to REAL rock 'n roll in utero. Then there were two boys, so we moved on to the next generation of “good” music. Depending on who you talk to, I guess.) The thing about Air Supply, for me, is that they sang really good harmony. And I am a pushover for that, as you would see if I started listing all the "best of genre (IMHO) groups in my CD collection. Beach Boys ring a bell? My other favorite thing is songwriters who sing their own songs. Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Diamond (and I am not ashamed of it,) JD Souther, Don McLean…the list goes on and on. Scotti Groovin’ tonight to the “Best of the Everly Bros” ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/37 "2000-06-30T02:42:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I’d listen to Air Supply and fantasize. > > I remember thinking, “Someday, someone is going to sing, ‘Girl you’re every woman in the world’ to me and mean it”. > > I’m still waiting. > > \*\* Hey, MaryAnn- Maybe if you talk REAL sweet to the Chief, he’ll sing it to you. After all, he knows all the words—whether he’ll MEAN it or not is another question. Have you SEEN how that man flirts? Scotti ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031/38 "2000-07-01T02:04:13Z")
Yes, Scotticher, I know how he flirts! So… Oh, Cheiffie…please sing it to me? _batting big brown eyes_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humbled-i-stand-before-you-or-boy-am-i-asking-for-it/24031.md?page=1)