Worst ABBA track EVAH?

I've never liked "Thank You for the Music", personally.

maybe, but they're already etched onto my cortex like a hot pie or a pasty.

Move On
I'm a Marionette
Sitting in the Palmtree
Gonna Sing You my Lovesong

i agree. that one did stink.

"Mamma Mia" is probably the worst of the big ones, though I don't like "Summer Night City" much either.

Now I have a kid, maybe I will like "Slipping Through My Fingers" more, but up till now I've found it pretty sickly.

"He Is Your Brother" is pretty rub early ABBA.

I really like bits of "Thank You For The Music" (the "whoever it is, I'm a fan" bit especially) - "I Have A Dream" is worse, I think.

I went to see when very small a pre-Mamma Mia ABBA musical for kids, it was some awful panto-style thing where the music of ABBA saved a magical land, with new lyrics about this bogus plot. Anyway "The Piper" featured very very prominently, and I hated it, and have always hated it ever since, quite unjustly but so what.

Yeah, about half of Gold hurts the ears (the other half is transcendent).

definitely up there, tho so many early ABBA tracks are bizarre that it's hard to choose just one as "worst" (and these days, my critical facility regarding ABBA is way off base). I actually don't mind the "bale of cotton" track, Drew!

Now, if it had instead ended up sounding like the Electric Company theme...

really ABBA only have a handful of great songs

For me, it wasn't until I saw an Abba Tribute band (who were very good), I realised I actually find most of their stuff boring.

Compared to whom, Mahler?

One Man, One Woman

more like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRnNOu5IiXw

So much wrong in this thread.

the correct answer to this thread is "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother."

Tom Scharpling holds the opinion that ABBA never recorded a bad song, except for one which is terrible. But now I can't remember which one he thinks is terrible.

what type of idiot would pick Dancing Queen for this

i never used to like Dancing Queen, mostly cos of its ubiquity. I like it now I don't have to go to dodgy student discos any more.

Tom Scharpling holds the opinion that ABBA never recorded a bad song, except for one which is terrible. But now I can't remember which one he thinks is terrible.

Let's hope it's the "The Piper"

'Me and I' isn't a great song. Neither is 'Two For The Price Of One'

Yep, it's gotta be Two For the Price of One if only because it fucks up an otherwise perfect album.

I don't HATE either song, but yeah Two For The Price is extraneous-FD as far as that album's concerned.

I love 'Me and I'!

^^^^

'Dum Dum Diddle' really has me tasting sick in the back of my throat, though.

I kind of love Two For The Price Of One. The twist makes it sound more perverse rather than more innocent.

The only song i routinely skip is Thank You For The Music, though i'd struggle to call it "bad".

I've just decided that "King Kong Song" might be the only Abba song I HATE.

Fp

Didn't know its working title was "Mr Sex".

Yeah I'm trying to think of songs I actively dislike. Not as familiar with their earlier work, but even saccharine stuff like I Had A Dream, Thank You For The Music, are just affecting enough to be redeemed.

xpost:
Obviously Dancing Queen is overplayed but its just...magisterial. Transcendental. Went to the pub with some friends the other week, smoked a few joitns and then we tried to think of "like, man, what must be, like...the most...popular...like, well...loved song...like ever"? We came up with three, we immediately forgot the other two, then put Dancing Queen on at full whack and I swear each of was trying not to literally cry over how perfect it is.

Been doing some research, and this is definitely the objectively worst Abba song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0ISwSa7dU

Warned u

You like that one?

That is so awful it calls into question their masterpieces.

I've just listened to the otherwise great "ABBA - the Album" and I loathe the mawkish Lloyd Webberisms of "I Wonder (Departure)". Ugh, horrible.

can something be a lloyd webberism if it came out before lloyd webber's tenure

"Evita" was '76.

But, fair comment.

But, fair comment.

Twice in fact.

Either 'Dum Dum Diddle' or 'Bang-A-Boomerang'

Just remembered that Agnetha was in the first Swedish production of Jesus Christ Superstar, doh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3czi5MXck

Either 'Dum Dum Diddle' or 'Bang-A-Boomerang'

― Turrican, Saturday, October 3, 2015 1:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these are both great! well, the conceit of "dum dum diddle" is stuuuupid but it's a nice spritely abba song.

got the boxset cheap a few months ago, still not given it the time it requires.

mainly due to the overplayed aspect of the big tracks.

i need to fix this.

which album should i start with to help revise my attitude ?

ok ...

random click and play : 'on and on and on' : fucking brilliant. glam excess perfection.

i need to seriously give the boxset some love ..

for once i have to agree with alex in nyc. dancing queen, obviously. it's the song which was played everywhere everyday when i grew up in the second half of the seventies. i never liked it and the constant play did not help. you could not escape it, you could not escape the mediocrity of that song when you went out. it stands for the mediocrity of the 70s. in a way it destroyed my youth.

Great live version of On & On & On from their final concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKClIgUEPSI

Sorry! Wrong one. This is the live version that rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5129BMoXg

On fire!