Top 6@6 Week #21 Supplemental Poll: Do You Dare Post Your 6 Favorite Tracks By Abba?

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I dared do it! But don’t tell anyone who knows me…They wouldn’t believe you anyway

First: The Who’s, What’s, Where’s & Why’s of a Supplemental Poll

As per Dragon Phoenix’s request in Week 20’s Bananarama Supplemental Poll and in an attempt to squeeze as many bands in the shortest amount of time possible, The Monday 6 @ 6 Poll, is once again featuring a supplemental poll. This supplemental poll, like the regular ** Better Than Ezra** thread will be closed and tallied 6 days from today, Monday September 10, 2002 at 6PM EDT. Results from both polls will be posted a few minutes later on that same day in Week #22’s regularly scheduled James Brown 6 @ 6 Poll.

Second: The Poll & How it Works

It’s simple enough, post your 6 favorite songs by the artist. Personal observations, opinions, liner notes, comments and the like are always welcome but are in no means required.

Third: The Supplemental Poll Artist’s Discography(Reader’s Digest Version)

If your memory of the featured artist isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to their discography with 30 second cuts of some of their tracks when you drill down through the albums: Waterloo  Voulez-Vous  Vistors  Super Trouper  Ring Ring  Arrival  Album  Abba  Mas Oro  Thank You For The Music  Oro-Grandes Exitos

**Lastly: The Supplemental Poll Artist of the Week **

Without further ado, those Swedes from the 70’s, the pop superstars known as:
Abba.

Feel free to post any works from their Solo projects: You know: Frida, Benny Andersson, Andersson & Ulvaeus or Agnetha Faltskog.

Here are my 6 ABBA picks:

  1. Mamma Mia (No, this doesn’t mean you’ll be seeing me coming out of the Winter Garden Theater any time soon…I’m much too uncultured for that type of venue)
  2. Money, Money, Money (Something I’m quite certain none of the band members are lacking)
  3. Take A Chance On Me (Not a bad song…still kinda holds up)
  4. S O S (Thanks to Edelweiss for lifting it and sampling it on their late 80’s club track
  5. King Kong Song (Dedicated to Lyn Samuels)
  6. I Know There’s Something Going On – Frida Solo (I know Phil {Yuck!} Collins produced the percussion track – But I can’t resist playing it on a jukebox every time I come across it

OK, any takers? I Double dare you!
(Dragon Phoenix, you asked for it, you got it. Will there be more Abba votes than Better Than Ezra votes? My guess is yes, but I could be way off on that prediction

So tell us…What are your 6 favorite tracks by Abba?

Thanking you all in advance. Have a great week.

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Oh boy! Memories of “Muriel’s Wedding!”

I’ve loved ABBA since I was a kid.

My favorite 6 in no particular order:

Dancing Queen

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Fernando

Money, Money, Money

Take a Chance on Me

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  1. Dancing Queen
  2. Take a Chance on Me
  3. Super Trouper
  4. Waterloo
  5. Thank You for the Music
  6. Knowing Me, Knowing You
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  1. Dancing Queen
  2. Take a Chance on Me
  3. Super Trouper
  4. Waterloo
  5. Thank You for the Music
  6. Knowing Me, Knowing You
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Good call Dragon Phoenix.

  1. Voulez Vous
  2. Angel Eyes
  3. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
  4. Waterloo
  5. Dancing Queen
  6. The Name of the Game

2 to 6 will probably change after another spin of Abba Gold. But ‘The Name of the Game’ will remain THE No. 1 for me…

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ABBA was my favorite all-time group in the mid 70’s. Until I discovered ELO.

  1. SOS (only palindromic Top 40 song by a palindromic group, also, great acoustic guitar)

  2. The Name of the Game (again, great acoustic work by Bjorn)

  3. Waterloo

  4. Bang-a-Boomerang (go ahead, laugh)

  5. Fernando

  6. I Am the City (really like the overlapping vocals)

Hardcore fans should run out RIGHT NOW and get the ABBA - The Definitive Collection DVD.

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  1. Fernando
  2. SOS
  3. Knowing You, Knowing Me
  4. Dancing Queen
  5. Waterloo
  6. Take a Chance On Me
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  1. Kisses of Fire
  2. S.O.S.
  3. Fernando
  4. Dancing Queen
  5. Does Your Mother Know
  6. Chiquitita. I still don’t know what the words mean.
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Not big on ABBA but the songs I know I like. . .

1 Fernando
2 SOS (I think the 80s “Edelweiss” thing was an Austrian band called the Bingo Boys. . . maybe)
3 Take a chance on me
4 Dancing Queen

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  1. The Way Old Friends Do
  2. SOS
  3. Angel Eyes
  4. The Winner Takes It All
  5. Knowing Me, Knowing You
  6. Thank You For The Music
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Well, since I only liked one song by ABBA, this will be easy:

  1. “Knowing Me, Knowing You”
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Once saw top-notch ABBA tribute act Bjorn Again on the same bill as Nick Cave and Nirvana. They blew the place apart when they did a straight cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. anyway, to business.

  1. Take a chance on me
  2. Winner takes it all
  3. Gimme Gimme Gimme, but the Sisters of Mercy’s version is better!
  4. Fernando
  5. Dancing Queen
  6. One of Us, their most poignant song, from when the marriages were breaking up.
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  1. “Dancing Queen”
  2. “Waterloo”
  3. “I Know There’s Something Going On” (Frida solo)
  4. “SOS”
  5. “Take A Chance On Me”
  6. “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)”
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(closet ABBA fan for 25 years…)

6.The Day Before You Came
5.One Of Us
4.When I Kissed The Teacher (seriously)
3.The Winner Takes It All
2.SOS
1.Mamma Mia

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  1. Lay all your love on me
  2. Super Trouper
  3. S.O.S.
  4. Mama Mia
  5. Take a chance on me
  6. Does your mother know

Happy

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I’ve always liked “Cassandra,” especially the part that goes “Packing your bags, being slow and thorough.” The sound there just gives me shivers.

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Here we go…

  1. Lay all your love on me
  2. Does your mother know
  3. Our last summer
  4. SOS
  5. Eagle
  6. The winner takes it all
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  1. The Day Before You Came
  2. The Way Old Friends Do
  3. Tank om uder jarden ung (or however it’s spelled). Early ABBA Swedish song.
  4. The Winner Takes It All (& Louise Petrie’s French Version “Bravo! Tu as gagne.”)
  5. Waterloo (& ABBA’s French. Swedish & German versions)
  6. Fernando (& Frida’s Swedish version)

And a special nod to “Time,” the song from ABBACADBRA that uses the melody to “Knowing Me, Knowing You.” Excellent version.

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  1. Waterloo
  2. Take a Chance On Me
  3. Does Your Mother Know
  4. S.O.S.
  5. Lay All Your Love on Me
  6. Fernando
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  1. Take a Chance on Me
  2. Fernando
  3. S.O.S.
  4. The Name of the Game
  5. Waterloo
  6. Knowing Me, Knowing You