Me and the missus are having a discussion. My view:

1. Lay All Your Love On Me
2. Super Trouper
3. The Winner Takes It All
4. Voulez-Vous
5. Money, Money, Money
6. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
7. Chiquitita
8. Does Your Mother Know
9. Knowing Me, Knowing You
10. Waterloo
11. The Name Of The Game
12. Take A Chance On Me
13. Fernando
14. S.O.S.
15. Dancing Queen
16. Mamma Mia
17. One Of Us
18. I Have A Dream & Thank You For The Music (both awful)

Thoughts?

Shirley Wiki is the best place for information like this, No?

I think you need to get out more….. 😉

Dancing Queen is basically the best pop song ever. Plus you need to get out more. Says me commenting on an ABBA thread on a Friday night.

Hell no.

Summer Night City needs to be there and near the top!

Gimme Gimme Gimme covered by a strange band called Leather Nun was ‘interesting’…

🙂

You’re both clearly mad.

The best:

S.O.S
Ring Ring
Dancing Queen
Mamma Mia
Waterloo
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Take A Chance On Me
The Winner Takes It All
Bang A Boomerang
The Name of the Game
Does your Mother Know
So Long

Not sure about the worst but Fernando and Chiquitita are awful.

2. Super Trouper

On and On and On is surely the best track from that album.

*cough* er, I imagine.

Does your mother know.
If there’s anything else in first place, your wrong.

thankyou for the music has to be last

mainly on the grounds that I was forced to perform that against my will when I was in cubs, on stage, in the cubscout jamboree thing

just the sound of it brings back nightmares

The blond singer in Abba name starting with an A yes the girl put me off my o grades back in the seventies, she is 60’s now and still gorgeous
I also put a wee bit blame on Purdy from the New Avengers too

Come on Waterloo has to be higher. Top 3 for me.

@benz I still have the Leather Nun Gimme, Gimme, Gimme cover 12” great record

The blond singer in Abba name starting with an A

They both start with an A. You mean Agnetha. Abject fear of flying, trivia fans.

I love ‘em all 🙂

Fernando is a comedy song isn’t it 😉

Favourite probably Winner Takes it All, so sadly serious

Waterloo was the first single I ever bought

I think it’s all shite ..but each to their own ..

I agree pretty rubbish songs but i have an lp where they are singing in a strange language maybe one of the baltic ones could be latvia and its ok
The song about the puff pastry filled with mushroom paste delicacy from the ’70s voulevant is good

I think it’s all shite ..but each to their own

Agreed, dreadful stuff.

Pop song for pop song Abba are better than the beatles, surely.

Nothing to bring the snobs out like an ABBA thread.
😀

stavaigan, don’t worry, someone will be along to demonstrate their cutting edge credentials in a minute by telling us how much they dislike The Beatles.

I wonder if Dez has gone to bed yet?

Nope..! I can only start at the rubbish end and work down, so I thought I’d post a pic of Agneta’s arse instead

Where’s that ‘like’ button again?

😀

Top contribution @Dez

Here’s another sexy one

That’s not ABBA. It’s Voulez-Vous I think.

I know – the real Abba has 2 women.

And doesn’t feature Paul Calf.

The best ABBA songs came near the end of their recording career, these four songs are on my phone, and I never get tired of listening to them:
The Day Before You Came
Our Last Summer
Cassandra
When All Is Said And Done
All can be found on the More Gold collection, and are possibly the finest songs they ever wrote.
And they stand up alongside anything the Beatles recorded, just in a different decade.

The best ABBA songs in my opinion are:

None
Of
Them

Favourite probably Winner Takes it All, so sadly serious

Waterloo was the first single I ever bought

Remarkable things, ABBA songs. Supremely adapted to their environment, and impossible to eradicate, a bit like ebola.

As a teenager gigging at the Cambridge Junction, they always signalled the end of the night by putting the lights on and playing Dancing Queen.

So I **** hate Dancing Queen.

Wot no The Visitors?!?

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Bookmarking thread for future reference.

Anyone who says they are not great has no idea of music. Yes its bubblegum pop not deep introspective rock but the songs are beautifully crafted and good musicianship and the number of hits they had is outstanding

Anyone who doesn’t understand that music is purely subjective has no idea of music.

You can say you don’t like it yes but to say all ABBA is crap shows a lack of understanding

Cougar – Moderator
2. Super Trouper
On and On and On is surely the best track from that album.

*cough* er, I imagine.

100% this.

I didn’t mind em when I was a kid. Saw ‘The Movie’ twice you know.

TJ – on listening to the lyrics I find they really are pretty moving. Well, the good ones at least.

Knowing me knowing you for example, which is my favourite. A simple story told with simple words tons of feeling and sensitivity. Also Fernando is brilliant. Writing a pop song about the Mexican war of independence that’s a pretty remarkable thing to do. Such a rich story with so much context contained in so few lines, it really is superb and I love it.

I really don’t like Does your Mother Know though.