You can POLL, you can jive, having the time of your life -- ILM Artist Poll #20 -- ABBA (RESULTS THREAD)

triple-layered bellbottoms!

Every time I've listened to My Mama Said since submitting my ballot, I think I should've at least made it my #2.

one last one and i'm out for today. take it away, b&b:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Doesyourmotherknow.jpg
16. Does Your Mother Know
Voulez-Vous, 1979
(157 points, 8 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkL7Fkigfn8

recap:

16 Does Your Mother Know - 8 votes, 157 points
17 Mamma Mia - 8 votes, 152 points
18 If It Wasn't for the Nights - 5 votes, 151 points
18 Under Attack - 7 votes, 151 points
20 Chiquitita - 7 votes, 150 points
21 Eagle - 7 votes, 148 points
22 As Good as New - 6 votes, 142 points
23 Bang-a-Boomerang - 5 votes, 128 points, 2 #1 votes
24 My Mama Said - 5 votes, 116 points
25 Money, Money, Money - 6 votes, 112 points
25 One of Us - 4 votes, 112 points, 1 #1 vote
27 Angeleyes - 6 votes, 111 points
28 Slipping Through My Fingers - 5 votes, 108 points
29 Head Over Heels - 5 votes, 102 points
30 Like an Angel Passing Through My Room - 5 votes, 96 points
31 On and On and On - 5 votes, 94 points
32 I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do - 5 votes, 93 points
33 When All Is Said and Done - 5 votes, 86 points
34 Tiger - 4 votes, 81 points
35 Arrival - 3 votes, 82 points, 1 #1 vote
36 Ring Ring - 4 votes, 81 points
37 Should I Laugh or Cry - 4 votes, 79 points
38 Super Trouper - 4 votes, 75 points
39 Me and I - 3 votes, 71 points
40 Thank You for the Music - 4 votes, 66 points
41 So Long - 3 votes, 64 points
42 I've Been Waiting for You - 3 votes, 63 points
42 That's Me - 3 votes, 63 points
42 Two for the Price of One - 3 votes, 63 points
45 Honey Honey - 3 votes, 59 points
45 Soldiers - 3 votes, 59 points

and i'll be wrapping it up tomorrow!

My Mama Said madee it! I thought for sure it wouldn't!!! My #5!

Yeah, I figured it would based on how many people talked about it in the voting thread, but 24 isn't high enough for it. humbug.

Agreed. Boo.

do not shoot the messenger he is too busy twisting in his office chair to "if it wasn't for the nights" right now

I really should have voted for Eagle.

Really surprised Bang-a-Boomerang is so high, I had it low down on my list. Even though lyrically it isn't a masterpiece that chorus is so great. I always put that one and Dum Dum Diddle togther, wonder if that will place too.

If It Wasn't for the Night is such a great song. I always thought the album tracks on Voulez-Vous are way better than the singles.

There is no mystery with If It Wasn't For The Nights imo, the few people that voted for it scored it highly. Two less voters than the song it tied with, but I was actually surprised it was so low. Was my #2.

delighted 'if it wasn't for the nights' placed so high, genuinely kinda shocked 'chiquitita' didn't place higher, smh if 'fernando' places higher than it (which surely it is but still).

i was sick and tired everythiiiiiing when you called me last night from glaaaas-gow/all i do is eat and sleep and siiiiiiiiiiing...

i haven't been able to stop singing super trouper for days now.

Didn't vote for it, but echoing the "If It Wasn't for the Nights" fandom. Good work ILM!

do not shoot the messenger he is too busy twisting in his office chair to "if it wasn't for the nights" right now

― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:48 PM (5 hours ago)

I thought you were a lady!

"Super Trouper" seems surprisingly low.

I was just thinking that. Perhaos I shouldve voted for it.

I thought you were a lady!

I did for a long time until he posted a photo in a wdyll thread a while back.

I somehow missed "Eagle" off my ballot too. :(

I have given up on "King Kong Song" making it now - I should have repped for it.

Otherwise, no complaints so far!

I don't think Hey Hey Helen is gonna make it, which is really sad. But this has been great thus far.

haha yeah i am a fella. my DN is from an italo disco song. (one that, coincidentally, i think would sound pretty good mixed out of "summer night city" in case anyone's DJing anytime soon)

ok, gonna wrap things up today! this has been super fun tho

you might want to avert your eyes, balls

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Fernando_Hey_Hey_Helen.jpg
15. Fernando
“Fernando” b/w “Hey Hey Helen” single, 1976
(196 points, 9 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4

IN THE FIRELIGHT FERNANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/278/470/278470694_640.jpg
14. When I Kissed the Teacher
Arrival, 1976
(203 points, 9 votes, 2 #1 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4LJjCBWE0

god I love this song

and I love how Agnetha's accent is really pronounced, it's so much fun to sing along to

ONE OF THIS DAYS

the background vocals on this song are so perfect

SOS at number 2?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Gimme_Gimme_Gimme.jpg
13. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” b/w “The King Has Lost His Crown” single, 1979
(205 points, 10 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLtU7aOnp2U

When I Kissed The Teacher was my #1. Hoped it would have been higher.

I do love Gimme Gimme Gimme - but it's undeniably faded for me a bit since Hung Up came out, because that's even better.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/VoulezVous.jpg
12. Voulez-Vous
Voulez-Vous, 1979
(212 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote)

There's my no.1. A hard-hitting disco classic.

not that none of you know what it sounds like but forgot to include the video link on that one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za05HBtGsgU

er. not that none of you DON'T know. hi triple negatives

and keep your dancin' shoes on for:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/ABBA_-_Summer_Night_City.jpg
11. Summer Night City
“Summer Night City” b/w “Medley” single, 1979
(218 points, 11 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5dPYHi17k

Cor, for a moment I was wondering if Summer Night City wouldn't place. #11 seems quite high (though I like it and voted for it).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/ABBA_-_The_Name_of_the_Game.jpg
10. The Name of the Game
ABBA: The Album, 1977
(274 points, 10 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ90ZqH0PWI

Didn't vote for it, but this is a great way to kick off the top 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ABBA_-_The_Visitors_(US).jpg
9. The Visitors
The Visitors, 1981
(281 points, 10 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hkcS5wr9k

i think i had this at #2

I always assumed this was really about paranoid schizophrenia, but it seems to be a straight cold war story. My #5 anyway.

i know their names but not sure which one is which; but blondie is completely smokin' on that summer night city pic sleeve!

agnetha = blonde (lighter voice)
frida = redhead (huskier voice)

everytime I look at Frida now I see the dude from Erasure (when they dressed in drag for the Take A Chance On Me vid)

while we're at it

benny = beard
bjorn = no beard

bjeard
no bjeard

thanks for that. I always forget which guy is which.

Following their post-ABBA careers a little bit helps keep Agnetha and Frida distinct, though.