Vote in the poll and discuss.

its got to be lay your love on me ,, but if i had to choose a wildcard id pick ( the visitors) a very underated track from a very underated album

Rich, did you mean to make the poll multi choice?

I had to vote for Super Trouper, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Money Money Money. What classics!

K x

Lay all your love on me is my choice, you bet me again Rich, u must be reading my posts, lol

But you have missed THE best abba songs off it.

Dancing Queen
Waterloo
Voulez-Vouz
Take a chance on me

Would be in anyones top 10 Abba songs

Oh well I shall add the Abba poll to my website, that will teach me to watch a film.

Originally posted by peter41
Lay all your love on me is my choice, you bet me again Rich, u must be reading my posts, lol

But you have missed THE best abba songs off it.

Dancing Queen
Waterloo
Voulez-Vouz
Take a chance on me

Would be in anyones top 10 Abba songs

Oh well I shall add the Abba poll to my website, that will teach me to watch a film.

Um, can't you read? I did put Take a chance on me in.. :P

Might get Kristian to edit the poll to add Waterloo and Dancing Queen though.

Originally posted by Kristian
Rich, did you mean to make the poll multi choice?

I had to vote for Super Trouper, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Money Money Money. What classics!

K x

Could you do us a favour and put your Mod hat on to edit the poll for me? I want to edit the poll options Fernando and Chiquicita to Dancing Queen and Waterloo.

Cheers Kris :thumbsup:

Changes made Rich! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Kristian
Changes made Rich! :thumbsup:

Thanks for that.

Looks like nobody's voted for either of the new entries yet though, pfft.. all that huffing and puffing cos I didn't include them originally :P

Well too late to add them now, I already voted, cannot vote again :P

Thank you for the Music ..... I reckon

Originally posted by Magneteer
Thank you for the Music ..... I reckon

D'oh! I forgot that one else I'd have added it to the poll! Damn the fact that you can only have 10 poll options :mad:

Dancing Queen...just has to be in my opinion!!

I love Abba!! My sister is dark haired and I am blonde I remember in the 70's miming to Abba songs with candle sticks and balls of wool as microphones...standing back to back etc etc

Oh those were the days....:P

Originally posted by Rich
D'oh! I forgot that one else I'd have added it to the poll! Damn the fact that you can only have 10 poll options :mad:

One more just for you Rich ;)

Originally posted by Siân
One more just for you Rich ;)

Cheers Prawn ;)

help !!! i don't know i can't decide !!!

i love them all the best depending on what mood i'm in.

sorry to be a pain but what about Fernando ?? reminds me of a holiday romance of the past......... :D

Originally posted by Lee1979
help !!! i don't know i can't decide !!!

i love them all the best depending on what mood i'm in.

sorry to be a pain but what about Fernando ?? reminds me of a holiday romance of the past......... :D

I did originally put Fernando in the poll.. But it was requested that I include Dancing Queen and Waterloo so I had the poll edited.

I picked Does your Mother Know...

But I think one of my favs is that one about an Eagle. I think it might be called Eagle but I know it's about being a bird.

Got to be the only Abba song that made the hit parade position lower than it's British cover. Get your British hit singles books out.

Blancmange covered it, 'The Day Before You Came'

I like them all apart from

the winner takes it all - thank you for the music- lay all your love on me.

Originally posted by samc
I picked Does your Mother Know...

But I think one of my favs is that one about an Eagle. I think it might be called Eagle but I know it's about being a bird.

Yup it was called 'Eagle' & was a tribute to The Eagles :)

Oh the shame of admitting to knowing that!:blush:

Reviving as i've just posted on the Mamma Mia post....

My favourites are The name of the game.... and I do like Fernando. :hihi:

But I love lots of Abba songs.

Straight Outta Compton.

The Winner takes it all:thumbsup:

lay your love on me .................but if im allowed a wildcard the visitors

Best ABBA song?
Has to be Gimme Gimme Gimme, but the cover version by Leather Nun
http://www.imeem.com/feriatus/music/aHfKcctG/leather_nun_gimme_gimme_gimme_7_version/

It has to be 'Take a Chance On Me', but they're all classics.

Special mention for 'Dancing Queen', as the piano bit in which inspired Elvis Costello's 'Oliver's Army' and from there Green Day's 'Church on Sunday' :D .

Of all their songs, I probably rate the over-played Dancing Queen as their least interesting song. However, if that's as bad as Abba became then that speaks volume for their magnificent catalogue.

My favourites would be (possibly in no particular order):

SOS

From the piano and synth intro, to the lonely vocal. The way the piano 'searches' on the line: "Where are those happy days they seem so hard to find?" Beautifully sung and produced and of course, a cracking chorus. It's a sad song (surprising how many Abba songs were sad), it does what it says on the tin.

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

It's a classical composition. The tumbling piano intro giving way to another lonely vocal (and acoustic guitar). Featuring arguably the finest vocal on any Abba record, it's another case really of Abba hanging out their dirty washing (each couple splitting up and then making a song about it!). The best feature is the middle eight which actually isn't. It's just a slightly altered melody over another verse. Songwriting at its finest.

THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

Haunting, it's a track which stops me wherever I am. It conjures up images of fog and drizzle and more loneliness. The diminished chords of the synthesisers really grab you in the guts. It's so darn emotional, the drumming almost like a tapping sensation. Over the diminished chords, an Orbisonesque wail - this should be miserable listening but it isn't; it's gripping.

ONE OF US

The Winner Takes It All Part II? This song is so painful I'm amazed they released it. Another operatic vocal opens the scene - the lyrics are so deep: "I saw myself as a concealed attraction." Beautiful complex harmonies, it just so very good. I listen to the words and as one of their final releases, understand why they called it a day a year later (although IIRC, they never officially did so). The mandolins turn it into a pretty song but although it has an inherent beauty, it's akin to colourful flowers around some grave.

There are more, too many to list here including album tracks. Super Trouper would be on this list as would many more....

" The Winner Takes It All " :thumbsup:

My favourite isnt on the list, but it is "knowing me knowing you".

My favourite isnt on the list, but it is "knowing me knowing you".

ah-haah???

Of all their songs, I probably rate the over-played Dancing Queen as their least interesting song. However, if that's as bad as Abba became then that speaks volume for their magnificent catalogue.

My favourites would be (possibly in no particular order):

SOS

From the piano and synth intro, to the lonely vocal. The way the piano 'searches' on the line: "Where are those happy days they seem so hard to find?" Beautifully sung and produced and of course, a cracking chorus. It's a sad song (surprising how many Abba songs were sad), it does what it says on the tin.

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

It's a classical composition. The tumbling piano intro giving way to another lonely vocal (and acoustic guitar). Featuring arguably the finest vocal on any Abba record, it's another case really of Abba hanging out their dirty washing (each couple splitting up and then making a song about it!). The best feature is the middle eight which actually isn't. It's just a slightly altered melody over another verse. Songwriting at its finest.

THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

Haunting, it's a track which stops me wherever I am. It conjures up images of fog and drizzle and more loneliness. The diminished chords of the synthesisers really grab you in the guts. It's so darn emotional, the drumming almost like a tapping sensation. Over the diminished chords, an Orbisonesque wail - this should be miserable listening but it isn't; it's gripping.

ONE OF US

The Winner Takes It All Part II? This song is so painful I'm amazed they released it. Another operatic vocal opens the scene - the lyrics are so deep: "I saw myself as a concealed attraction." Beautiful complex harmonies, it just so very good. I listen to the words and as one of their final releases, understand why they called it a day a year later (although IIRC, they never officially did so). The mandolins turn it into a pretty song but although it has an inherent beauty, it's akin to colourful flowers around some grave.

There are more, too many to list here including album tracks. Super Trouper would be on this list as would many more....

Indeed - it's a shame that Abba's legacy has been remarketed as party music for idiots as some of their best work is as bleak and emotional as anything some of the more celebrated "classic" artists ever came up with.

I'd agree with Ousetunes that the 4 songs he lists are among their best, but would also add "Knowing Me Knowing You" to the list of classic sad "dirty washing in public" songs. Damn Steve Coogan for trivialising its memory and forever associating it with Alan Partridge!

You can also throw in "When All Is Said And Done" from "The Visitors", their final and best LP. Although it has a magnificent air of resignation and impending loss, it also contains the following unwittingly memorable couplet that never fails to bring a smile to the lips;

"In our lives we have walked some strange and lonely treks
Slightly worn but dignified, and not too old for sex"

For me it has to be The winner takes it all as it was the last song they did together and showed their emotions really well

Agree with Ousetunes;

"One of Us" is out there on a different level for Abba. An amazing song, very painful. But then so much of their last album was great: "Slipping through my fingers" and "The Visitors"... simply brilliant.

My current favourite isn't on your list; "Name of the Game".

So I voted for "Super Trouper" based mostly on the funky and unexpected opening lines:

"I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow
All I do is eat and sleep and sing
Wishing every show was the last show"

Long live ABBA!

I would say Waterloo but I have a sneaking liking for Ring Ring and Honey Honey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeGtaSWzFRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEbZqnC2oN4

There are too many good ones. I can't possibly vote for just one!

Although this poll's a good idea I still can't understand how you've come to pick these eleven hits. What happened to Knowing Me, Knowing You, I Have A Dream, SOS, Chiquitita, Fernando, Angel Eyes/Voulez-Vous, One Of Us, The Name Of The Game & Summer Night City. They were all top tenners & bigger hits than some of those in the poll.

Take a listen to this track from the 1975 Abba album 'cos ballad's do not come any better than this. A beautiful production & it has to be Agnetha's finest Abba moment. Don't let the video distract you from the song. A perfect vocal if ever I've heard one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcEY25pBvO8

its got to be lay your love on me ,, but if i had to choose a wildcard id pick ( the visitors) a very underated track from a very underated album

A brilliant (and actually very dark) album.

Of the singles, I think Fernando is my fave. :)

1,Winner Takes It All
2,That's Me
3,Under Attack
4,Supertrouper
5,S.O.S.
6,Knowing Me Knowing You
7,Bang A Boomerang
8,Dancing Queen
9,Lay All Your Love On Me
10,Honey Honey
11,Fernando
12,One Of Us.:headbang:

I chose Waterloo, just because it always puts a smile on my face and makes me want to dance, dancing queen would be my second.

I love winner takes it all, one of us and Under Attack...I love most of the others too - and all Abba songs are guarenteed to get me wriggling and singing along:D

Angel Eyes is my favourite but as that wasn't an option I voted for Does your Mother Know.:D

One thing I've always found interesting is that no one admits to liking Abba yet everyone seems to know the words to their songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgLuIqz_es

Try this

Sos..........

'Dancing Queen' and 'The winner takes it all' :)

I have all but 6 of all the ABBA songs (No, I'm not that sad but I once did an ABBA night at a local boozer). I like their version of "I will survive"

What a hilarious thread.... I haven't laughed so much in a long time..... Ooooh! I could crush a grape! :hihi:

dancing queen ;). waterloo, gimm gimme gimme & thank you for the music ohhhhhhh & mammia mia. :)

Found a more appropriate thread :D .

I liked Super Trouper, Waterloo and Gimme Gimme, and Does your Mother know...

Planning on a Cineworld double bill next week of Wall-E and Mamma Mia.

1,Winner Takes It All
2,That's Me
3,Under Attack
4,Supertrouper
5,S.O.S.
6,Knowing Me Knowing You
7,Bang A Boomerang
8,Dancing Queen
9,Lay All Your Love On Me
10,Honey Honey
11,Fernando
12,One Of Us.:headbang: then there's Take A Chance On Me;Eagle;When I Kissed The Teacher;My Love,My Life;Summernight City;Waterloo...