ABBA. pick only ten, destroy only ten.

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your favorite and least favorite abba songs.

amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 28 August 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

this was like performing triage.

my favorite 10, i think:

Suzy-Hang-Around
S.O.S.
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Angeleyes
Super Trouper
The Winner Takes It All
Happy New Year
The Visitors
One of Us


i'll come up with least-favorites soon.

amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

predictable faves:
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
S.O.S.
Does Your Mother Know
Fernando
Waterloo
Super Trouper
Take a Chance on Me
Mamma Mia
The Name of the Game

gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ya know am, 2 of your ballads would easily make my destroy list... yikerz.

gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

which ones?

destroy:

He Is Your Brother
I Am Just a Girl
King Kong Song
Sitting in the Palmtree
Tropical Loveland
Intermezzo No. 1
That's Me
I Wonder (Depature)
I'm a Marionette
The King Has Lost His Crown

amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

love lizt (ten):
Lay All Your Love On Me
Visitors
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
The Piper
On And On And On
Andante Andante
Rock & Roll Band
I Saw It In The Mirror
Two For The Price Of One
Summer Night City

Hate lizt (hateteen ...sorry, thirteen only)
Kisses Of Fire
Angeleyes
The King Has Lost His Crown
One Of Us
Waterloo
So Long
One Man, One Woman
Watch Out
Bang-A-Boomerang
Rock Me
I Have A Dream
If It Wasn't For The Nights
Tiger

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

OOOooohhh..h..h.h.

Erm, Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) & Me And Bobby and Bobby's Brother are piss poor also

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Tiger ROCKS!
Here's my faves:
Tiger
My Mama Said
Hole in Your Soul
Summer Night City
Does Your Mother Know
Suzy Hang Around
The Name of the Game
SOS
Take a Chance on Me
When I Kissed the Teacher

Zoot, Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite 10 is these:

1. Lay All Your Love On Me
2. Head Over Heels
3. Eagle
4. Soldiers
5. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
6. Two For The Price Of One
7. Under Attack
8. The Day Before You Came
9. That's Me
10. My Love My Life

As for the worst 10, I will have to listen more to figure out, but there is a lot of dreadful stuff on "Waterloo" and "Voulez-Vous"

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy:
I have a Dream
Fernando
Thank You For The Music
Chiciquita
Rock Me
Tropical Loveland
One of Us
Super Trouper
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Slipping Through My Fingers

Works of Astonishing Greatness:
The Day Before You Came
Dancing Queen
Eagle
S.O.S
Knowing Me Knowing You
The Visitors
Head Over Heels
Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
Angel Eyes
Lovers (Live a Little Longer)

Myron Kosloff, Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Pick:
"Nina Pretty Ballerina"
"S.O.S."
"Take A Chance on Me"
"The Name of the Game"
"Fernando"
"Does Your Mother Know"
"Elaine"
"Head Over Heels"
"The Visitors"

Destroy:
"He Is Your Brother"
"King Kong Song"
"Watch Out Livingstone"
"Sitting in the Palm Tree"
"Man in the Middle"
"Hey Hey Helen"
"That's Me"
"If it Wasn't for the Nights"
"Lovers (Live a Little Longer)"
"The Piper"

"I Am Just A Girl" goes on both lists: my reasoning for both is that is extremely creepy.

dleone (dleone), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Watch Out Livingstone"

This some proto bootleg, right??
;-)

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha - basically I hate the whole record except for Waterloo and Honey Honey.

dleone (dleone), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm, I can - I think, I do - sympathise.
In the unconditional-love stakes, Waterloo draws a near-blank, as far as I'm concerned. And Ring Ring fares rather better.

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 28 August 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

pick

Under Attack
The Visitors
Two For The Price Of One
The Day Before You Came
Cassandra
Summer Night City
Take A Chance On Me
As Good As New (very silly I know)
The Winner Takes It All
Arrival
bonus problem: I Am Just A Girl

destroy
Thank You For The Music
Slipping Through My Fingers
Me And I
The Piper
If It Wasn't For The Nights
Lovers (Live A Little Longer)
Kisses of Fire
Hole In Your Soul
Intermezzo No. 1
Rock Me

The first record's not enough there yet to really pick on. But Waterloo doesn't bug me as much as it does some, it's too outrageous/hilarious to bother destroying.

jl (Jon L), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I won't pick least favorites but I wanted to offer my best.
1. Our Last Summer
2. Suzy Hang Around
3. The Name of the Game
4.

theodore fogelsanger, Sunday, 12 October 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

uh oh. Let's try that again

1. our last summer
2. Suzy hang around
3. The Name of the Game
4. Knowing Me, Knowing You
5. Just My Kind of Girl
6. Super Troupers
7. When All is Said and Done
8. Two for the Price of One
9. S.O.S
10. Under Attack

theodore fogelsnger, Sunday, 12 October 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
loves:

1 sos
2 the name of the gane (album version)
3 dum dum diddle
4 tiger
5 knowing me knowing you
6 ring ring
7 mama mia
8 my love life
9 if it wasn't for the nights
10 the winner takes it all

destroyers:

um...

piscesboy, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

favourites:

1) The Day Before You Came
2) I Am the City
3) The Name of the Game
4) Watch Out
5) So Long
6) SOS
7) Mamma Mia
8) Happy Hawaii
9) On and On and On
10) Arrival

least favourites:

1) Honey Honey
2) Rock Me
3) Two for the Price of One
4) Our Last Summer
5) The King Has Lost His Crown
6) One Man, One Woman
7) Move On
8) Kisses of Fire
9) I Wonder
10) If it Wasn't For the Nights

Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Can someone please tell me why "Slipping Through My Fingers" is on anyone's "Destroy" list? It's easily one of Abba's best later works -- a brilliant, aching melody and a lyric inspired by Benny looking at his seven year-old daughter and realizing that one day, she'd be out of his life.

Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

destroy
Thank You For The Music

WOBBLY HOW COULD YOU???

Dominique, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

XP Certainly not on mine, but some people have this unexplainable general dislike about all of ABBA's MOR ballads, in spite of the fact that ABBA did that genre better than anyone else earlier or later in pop history.

Geir Hongro, Monday, 16 July 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, I didn't actually remember having posted on this thread. To the extent that, when I noticed a certain love & hate "lizt"s appearing - in bold, too - yet not seeing whose lizt it was, the first thingum to came to my head was: "Some dude here seems pretty passionate 'bout his Abba choices, or wot's all that boldness there for anyway? ...Hm, quite nice selection of faves as well", I thought to my'elf. "...And the hates I'd almost agree with..." Then - "Blimey!" :)

t**t, Monday, 16 July 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)


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