http://cherryouth.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/imagens-da-abba.jpg?w=600&h=40037. Should I Laugh or Cry"One of Us" b-side (1981)79 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uiKm7wsmI
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
super-happy this one placed, i put it in my top ten. such a devastating song.
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
btw between all the ballots 75 songs received votes. at the end of this i'd like to tally up the ones nobody voted for
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
received at least one vote, i mean
ok been trying to get some work done but here's more
http://www.covershut.com/covers/ABBA-Ring-Ring-1973-Front-Cover-34314.jpg36. Ring RingRing Ring, 1973(81 points, 4 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL0EoXdpOqg
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
man i should've just saved these covers somewhere
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Ring_Ring.jpg
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
do you guys think ABBA were swingers?
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
next level outfits in the 'ring ring' video btw
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
astonished that So Long is here! a song i've loved for 30 years. and yeah rocky Abba is indeed a mixed bag but So Long proves that they could do it right. i wish they'd gone further with that sound.
also stoked that Arrival is the no.1 album voting wise.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
well then i expect you'll be really pleased at the next entry
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/ABBA_-_Arrival_%28France%29.jpg35. ArrivalArrival, 1976(82 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqfI3PtF5ao
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
dope! I thought this was just a throwaway vote, but I'm glad I got it in the countdown.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
hurrah! bafflingly high though.
anyone on here read Bright Lights, Dark Shadows btw? just bought it last week for a fiver.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
i bought it for a friend for her bday but not yet read it myself
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.penguin99.com/00_images/tiger.jpg34. TigerArrival, 1976(83 points, 4 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWQ7wrPyUe0
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
whoops, boldening for scrollers
34. TigerArrival, 1976(83 points, 4 votes)
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
stockholm at night<3
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
another fave. is this going to be the only poll ever where EVERY song off one album gets a decent placing?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
(keeps shtum for now)
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
I had thought this was a poll of all-new discovery for me, but I've just remembered that I did once own a cassette of Abba Gold. I found it under the bed in this filthy dive where I spent a night in Pigalle. It was with a little collection of ebony porn.
I've led a pretty wholesome life in all, but that was definitely one of its sleazier moments I've found myself in. The cassette seems weirdly incongruous now that I think about it.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't vote but <3 every song so far
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Tiger is rad, it was my favorite song off Arrival to dance to. Like I wouldn't even listen to Side B, just skip right over to Tiger
it seems a little more repetitive than I remember as a kid but I still like how rockin' it is
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
hah, there is a pretty significant quality shift between the two sides of that record imo
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'd say it's a mood shift rather than quality shift, because the whole thing is quality.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://members.multimania.nl/abbadfs/hpbimg/ABBA%20whennallissaidanddone1981.jpg33. When All Is Said and DoneThe Visitors, 1981(86 points, 5 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUh4u-lYEhM
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
Had to cut this one at the last minute. Glad it's here for me to enjoy!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
it's a beautiful song, and it's what i always imagined/hoped being an adult would be like
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
ok two more and then done for today slash i need to eat lunch
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://nikkigsblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/abba-i-do.jpg32. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I DoABBA, 1975(93 points, 5 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW3HN_pvbE4
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
which reminds me of the only vaguely sordid ABBA story i have:
i've still never all of 'muriel's wedding' to this day because when a friend of mine came to visit me in nyc we decided to watch it while drinking some wine. i was 19 and had only recently started drinking/not yet really developed a tolerance for the stuff so when my roommate pointed out that we'd both drank a lot of wine i turned to face him and realized the room was kind of spinning. i spent the entire second half of the film hugging my toilet.
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
so i mentally associate this song with feeling queasy which is maybe why i've never considered it a big fave
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
hahah oh dear
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
>37. Should I Laugh or Cry>35. Arrival
awesome you guys
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.musicchartheaven.com/Abba/on%20and%20on.jpg31. On and On and OnSuper Trouper, 1980(94 points, 5 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxBYbfu6k8
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
31. On and On and OnSuper Trouper, 1980(94 points, 5 votes)
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
ok that is all for today, 30-16 tomorrow
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
thanks Donna!!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Great beginning!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
We have now completed the "Eurovision song contest" portion of the results
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
They really loved repetition in their song titles, didn't they?
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
they did, they did, they did, they did, they did
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Thus far, only "Tiger" and "Soliders" placed off my ballot -- but agreed. I love the synth bagpipes on "Arrival."
"Two for the Price of One" was kind of a late cut for me -- it's def. one of my favorite songs w the guys singing (seems to suggest everything on The Visitors may well place).
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Glad Two For The Price of One placed, I ended up putting it in my top three. Happy to see Honey Honey and I've Been Waiting For You make it too. Seems like almost everything off Arrival and The Visitors will make it which is cool as they are my two favourite albums.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Stoked that On and On and On placed
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't vote because I don't know enough besides the big hits, but I'm enjoying this. Coincidentally, I was just reading Joe Boyd's (very entertaining) book White Bicycles this weekend and came across the part where he meets pre-Abba Abba in 1970. Not gonna transcribe the whole thing, but I like this bit:
After a friendly chat, Benny and Bjorn invited me to stick around: their girlfriends were starring in a turn-of-the-century revue in a hotel lounge, complete with top hats, high-kicking routines and old Swedish music hall songs. After the show, the five of us (yes, the dancers were Agnetha and Frida) went back to Benny's flat. We spent half the night talking, drinking, and playing records, mostly by obscure American soul singers. I told them they should go back to writing in English. We joked about whether or not they could ever write a song as successful as "Daydream."
(He means the Lovin' Spoonful tune, btw. Boyd got to know Benny through John Sebastian's ex-wife. The punchline to the chapter is that he takes a Hollywood job with Warner Bros and misses a chance at Abba's UK/US publishing rights.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
ok, continuing on and on and on...
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
first, just a recap:
31 On and On and On - 5 votes, 94 points32 I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do - 5 votes, 93 points33 When All Is Said and Done - 5 votes, 86 points34 Tiger - 4 votes, 81 points35 Arrival - 3 votes, 82 points, 1 #1 vote36 Ring Ring - 4 votes, 81 points37 Should I Laugh or Cry - 4 votes, 79 points38 Super Trouper - 4 votes, 75 points39 Me and I - 3 votes, 71 points40 Thank You for the Music - 4 votes, 66 points41 So Long - 3 votes, 64 points42 I've Been Waiting for You - 3 votes, 63 points42 That's Me - 3 votes, 63 points42 Two for the Price of One - 3 votes, 63 points45 Honey Honey - 3 votes, 59 points45 Soldiers - 3 votes, 59 points
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/08/20/abba460.jpg30. Like an Angel Passing Through My RoomThe Visitors, 1981(96 points, 5 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiUO39kOadw
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
This song has what seems to be a bridge coming in very late in the composition and it gets cut off and turned into the coda. Quite nice.
― timellison, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://members.multimania.nl/abbadfs/hpbimg/ABBA%20-%20Head%20Over%20Heels%20(UK).jpg29. Head over HeelsThe Visitors, 1981(102 points, 5 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL2_PZwKDPg
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link