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

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.

see I was never confused by the ladies, I think I was born knowing which was which lol

beards? aye that works although less so SINCE Abba..

http://www.abbafan.dk/images/benny%20og%20bjorn%20stockholm.jpg

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00521/SNF02SPDA_682_521777a.jpg

Agnetha and Frida aren't really confusing at all, no. But, as was the case for most everyone from the 70s, some days you look amazing and others you...GODWHATWEREYOUTHINKING don't. There is plenty of photo and video evidence to document both extremes with those two.

we need to do an outfits poll one day. so many lols

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Take_a_Chance_on_Me_%28Abba_single%29_coverart.jpg
8. Take a Chance on Me
ABBA: The Album, 1977
(283 votes, 14 points)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0

YES

if you change your MIND
i'm the first in LINE

i covet frida's sweater in this video

ok gonna post one more and then lunch (doing this poll has made me so hungry)

http://991.com/NewGallery/Abba-Waterloo-284839.jpg
7. Waterloo
Waterloo, 1974
(289 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4

So many animated gif opportunities in the Take a Chance on Me video.