For ABBA fans: an informal poll

Cafe Society
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No ABBA-bashers, please!

Really simple poll:

Favorite and least favorite song, album, and video.

My favorites:

Song: “The Name of the Game” - has a very Beatlesque arrangement

Album: ABBA: features “SOS”

Video: Eeek! All their videos were pretty, um, odd. I’ll say “Ring, RIng” since it’s one of the few times you see them with their backing musicians. Oh, yeah, Agnetha’s red hot pants are nice, too. :smiley:

Least favorites:

Song: “Head Over Heels”

Album: The Visitors: the title track and “When All is Said and Done” are good, but the rest sounds like filler from Super Trouper.

Video: “That’s Me”: re-uses bits from previous videos. Also, could Frida be more stoned?

Odds and Ends:

Like them or not, Agnetha has one helluva voice. Check out the second time she sings “No one to hear my prayers” on “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”. She nails that note to wall.

The acoustic guitar work in “SOS”.

The overlapping vocals in “I Am the City” and “Under Attack”.

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Songs
[ul]
[li]On And On And On[/li][li]I Am The City[/li][li]Hi Opal! Like ABBA? :slight_smile: [/li][li]Tiger[/li][li]The Way That Old Friends Do (wrong title?)[/li][/ul]

Oh, how I wish they’d do one more album! :frowning:

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I haven’t seen my parents old ABBA albums in years, so I have no idea which album is my favorite (I have both ABBA Gold’s instead)
And I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video…

But my absolute favorite song is Rock Me. Haven’t heard it since I was a kid - but it was always my favorite.
I also like One of Us.

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link–

http://www.abbasite.com/start/
enjoy :slight_smile:

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My favorites:

Song: SOS, definitely. One of their better tunes that did not become One Of The Classic Tunes Of The Seventies. That, and “Waterloo,” which I rather liked for some reason.

Album: Voulez-Vous, the Abba contribution to World Disco. I also liked Abba: The Album, which came out around the time of Abba: The Movie.

Video: I have never seen any of their videos. For that matter, I’ve never seen their movie, either…

Least favorites:

Song: “King Kong Song” may have been the worst thing they ever did… like a novelty hit that just didn’t jell. I have also learned to hate “Dancing Queen” after hearing it on a million compilation tapes.

Album: The Visitors, I think. Title track was okay, but, yeah, the rest of it did sound pretty homogenized.

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Favourite song: “The Winner Takes It All”. By a landslide.
Least favourite song: “Honey Honey”. Puke puke.

Can’t really answer the album questions as I only have a few compilations, and I haven’t seen any videos since I was about 10 years old.

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I know this is going to brand me as some kind of a “faux” ABBA fan, but my favorite ABBA song has always been, and always will be, “Dancing Queen”.

(Although “Thank You For the Music” holds a soft spot in my heart.)

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Oh – and I still blubber like a baby every time I hear “Our Last Summer.”

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Favorite - Take A Chance On Me
Least Liked - Fernando

Fernando always reminded me of that slow song thrown into a Disney movie, I hated as a kid. I’d glance over at my Grandma and she’d be digging it while the rest of us squirmed and called for, “More little things hitting each other!”

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I’m not going to pass up an ABBA poll!

Favorite Song: I’ve Been Waiting for You. The earliest example of ABBA excellence.

Favorite Album: Super Trooper. There is not a bad song on it. And i love "Put On Your White Sombrero, which was cut for the title song.

Video: Take a Chance on Me. I just like it.

Worst Song: Now there’s a tough one! Probably “I Am Just A Girl” for its insipidness.

Worst Album: The Visitors. They should have quit one album earlier.

Worst Video: Voulez-Vous.

All four musicals done of their work are great! Kristina fran Duvemala is worth getting, and I hope it gets to Broadway.

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Favorite song: Angel Eyes
Least Fave: Honey Honey