Worst ABBA track EVAH?

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Perhaps there's a thread about it, I couldn't find one. But it must be 'Money Money Money', I think it's obvious.

― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

"money money money" is awesome. The answer is probably the stately and overplayed Dancing Queen or maybe Chicken Tikka.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Here 'Money, Money, Money' has been overplayed. It depends, where do you live. Also, it's a stupid song.

― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm from Herts, UK. The opening bars of Dancing Queen are enough to send me into a catatonic state of student cheese-night hell. "Money Money Money" is just hilarious and silly. Not many people have tackled the issue of dosh in quite this way before.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

'The Eagle' is pretty awful. 'Ring ring' likewise.

― Antony Holt (ant), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

"Dancing Queen" is the wrongest possible answer, dude.

I've never liked "Thank You for the Music", personally.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

yeh TYFTM, Mamma Mia etc. They really put me off ABBA.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the songs, it's the lol ironic students in your head.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

The, 'Thank You For The Music' could be a good answer, too.

― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the songs, it's the lol ironic students in your head.

maybe, but they're already etched onto my cortex like a hot pie or a pasty.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

ABBA might be the band whose work has been most spoiled by its "fans".

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

"Fernando."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Thank You for the Music, without a doubt.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Those of you naming Abba hits obviously have none of their studio albums, which tend to have 2-5 profoundly awful songs on them, often with "the men" singing. These tracks outdistance by leagues even the worst Abba chart hits in terms of sheer, frightful awfulness.

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

4 songs quickly grabbed from a couple of my Abba CDs that are worse than anything named so far:

Move On
I'm a Marionette
Sitting in the Palmtree
Gonna Sing You my Lovesong

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

"Dancing Queen" -- THERE, I SAID IT!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

(alex n'nyc so not 'onoring the dance, bah!)

― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a Marionette

i agree. that one did stink.

― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'M A MARIONETTE RULZ

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

There are enough terrible Abba songs to go 'round without quibbling over their particular lack of virtues, kids.

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm A Marionette is good, it's got a real edge to it.

"Mamma Mia" is probably the worst of the big ones, though I don't like "Summer Night City" much either.

Now I have a kid, maybe I will like "Slipping Through My Fingers" more, but up till now I've found it pretty sickly.

"He Is Your Brother" is pretty rub early ABBA.

I really like bits of "Thank You For The Music" (the "whoever it is, I'm a fan" bit especially) - "I Have A Dream" is worse, I think.

I went to see when very small a pre-Mamma Mia ABBA musical for kids, it was some awful panto-style thing where the music of ABBA saved a magical land, with new lyrics about this bogus plot. Anyway "The Piper" featured very very prominently, and I hated it, and have always hated it ever since, quite unjustly but so what.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

i like "I Have A Dream", although it can be a bit cloying. It's got good lyrics.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

There are enough terrible Abba songs to go 'round without quibbling over their particular lack of virtues, kids.

Yeah, about half of Gold hurts the ears (the other half is transcendent).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

"Arrival"

― everything (everything), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

The correct answer is their cover of "Jump Down Turn Around Pick a Bale of Cotton".

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Some of the early stuff, I guess. Most of the "Ring Ring" and "Waterloo" albums are rubbish.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

"Thank You For The Music" is great btw. In fact, the entire "Girl With The Golden Hair" mini musical is. ABBA doing Broadway in a great way!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

Mamma Mia isn't even close to worst anything

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

worst track on Gold: "I Have A Dream"

― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

"Crazy World"!! Who's that guy leaving her house! Oh no, she's cheating on me! Oh wait, she says that's her brother! Whew! (Does this guy not realize that she's cheating on him WITH HER BROTHER?!)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

"He Is Your Brother" is pretty rub early ABBA.

definitely up there, tho so many early ABBA tracks are bizarre that it's hard to choose just one as "worst" (and these days, my critical facility regarding ABBA is way off base). I actually don't mind the "bale of cotton" track, Drew!

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

'super trouper' is the only track i skip on 'gold', but even that has it's moments.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Monday, 22 January 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

No shit. Um re thread I guess I don't find "Dum Dum Diddle" all that great except in the abstract, nice little trill tho, um the guy suggesting "Arrival" is nuts!

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Monday, 22 January 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

"On top of old Smokey" right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Admittedly, it's been years since I last heard the entire "Girl With The Golden Hair" thing, which mighta been a contender. But as of right now, the only disagreeable thing I can think of is the utterly irrelevent "Rock Me".

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

another vote for 'rock me'. nothing going on in that song. i am, however, basing this on one of their compilations. i never did listen to the studio records in much depth

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

"rock me" is hilarious. how can you say any song called "rock me" but ends up sounding kind of like the three's company theme is bad??

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I said it was disagreeable!

Now, if it had instead ended up sounding like the Electric Company theme...

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

tie between "Fernandno," "Money Money Money" and "Thank You for the Music"

really ABBA only have a handful of great songs

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

If you have GIANT HANDS THAT COULD ENCOMPASS etc

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

I mean once I accepted at 16 or whatever dumb age I was at the time that ABBA had at least a couple of great songs most of their catalogue ended up sounding great. Listen more maybe! Or list which songs you like, that'd be v interesting.

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

One of the reasons ABBA are my favourite band (some days) is that I find something to enjoy about pretty much everything they did.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

That's good.

For me, it wasn't until I saw an Abba Tribute band (who were very good), I realised I actually find most of their stuff boring.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

"Enjoyability" on a vvvv basic (I don't mean that in a bad way at all) level was always their basic value, kinda. They have plenty of songs that're bad on some AESTHETIC level but, I dare to suggest, NONE that're fullon bad/unenjoyable (even if it's in a sillyish jokey type way; I think their transparent/fun intentions while writing/recording end up coming out as that kindof silliness years later, if we're talking about their "bad" stuff) on every level. Tho tbh "Fernando"/"Chiciquita", that shit's aged badly, tho it's time may yet come

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

man I've always loved "Fernando", but I also think I'm in Tom's boat

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Enjoyability" on a vvvv basic (I don't mean that in a bad way at all) level was always their basic value

Compared to whom, Mahler?

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

One Man, One Woman

― OutdoorFish, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:44 (twelve years ago)

more like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRnNOu5IiXw

― OutdoorFish, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:45 (twelve years ago)

So much wrong in this thread.

― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:46 (twelve years ago)

the correct answer to this thread is "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother."

― katherine, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:26 (twelve years ago)

Tom Scharpling holds the opinion that ABBA never recorded a bad song, except for one which is terrible. But now I can't remember which one he thinks is terrible.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:29 (twelve years ago)

what type of idiot would pick Dancing Queen for this

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 13 January 2014 09:46 (twelve years ago)

i never used to like Dancing Queen, mostly cos of its ubiquity. I like it now I don't have to go to dodgy student discos any more.

― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2014 09:47 (twelve years ago)

Tom Scharpling holds the opinion that ABBA never recorded a bad song, except for one which is terrible. But now I can't remember which one he thinks is terrible.

Let's hope it's the "The Piper"

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 13 January 2014 09:49 (twelve years ago)

'Me and I' isn't a great song. Neither is 'Two For The Price Of One'

― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2014 10:54 (twelve years ago)

Yep, it's gotta be Two For the Price of One if only because it fucks up an otherwise perfect album.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 11:03 (twelve years ago)

I don't HATE either song, but yeah Two For The Price is extraneous-FD as far as that album's concerned.

― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:08 (twelve years ago)

I love 'Me and I'!

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:16 (twelve years ago)

^^^^

― fit for one who twerks and cries (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:21 (twelve years ago)

'Dum Dum Diddle' really has me tasting sick in the back of my throat, though.

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:22 (twelve years ago)

I kind of love Two For The Price Of One. The twist makes it sound more perverse rather than more innocent.

The only song i routinely skip is Thank You For The Music, though i'd struggle to call it "bad".

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:24 (twelve years ago)

I've just decided that "King Kong Song" might be the only Abba song I HATE.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 11:25 (twelve years ago)

― fit for one who twerks and cries (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:28 (twelve years ago)

Didn't know its working title was "Mr Sex".

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 11:29 (twelve years ago)

Yeah I'm trying to think of songs I actively dislike. Not as familiar with their earlier work, but even saccharine stuff like I Had A Dream, Thank You For The Music, are just affecting enough to be redeemed.

― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:29 (twelve years ago)

xpost:
Obviously Dancing Queen is overplayed but its just...magisterial. Transcendental. Went to the pub with some friends the other week, smoked a few joitns and then we tried to think of "like, man, what must be, like...the most...popular...like, well...loved song...like ever"? We came up with three, we immediately forgot the other two, then put Dancing Queen on at full whack and I swear each of was trying not to literally cry over how perfect it is.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 13 January 2014 11:41 (twelve years ago)

Been doing some research, and this is definitely the objectively worst Abba song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0ISwSa7dU

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 13:36 (twelve years ago)

Warned u

― fit for one who twerks and cries (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 January 2014 14:54 (twelve years ago)

You like that one?

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:03 (twelve years ago)

That is so awful it calls into question their masterpieces.

― intimately bellowing (staggerlee), Monday, 13 January 2014 16:00 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

I've just listened to the otherwise great "ABBA - the Album" and I loathe the mawkish Lloyd Webberisms of "I Wonder (Departure)". Ugh, horrible.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 14:14 (ten years ago)

can something be a lloyd webberism if it came out before lloyd webber's tenure

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:36 (ten years ago)

"Evita" was '76.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:41 (ten years ago)

But, fair comment.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:42 (ten years ago)

But, fair comment.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:42 (ten years ago)

Twice in fact.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:42 (ten years ago)

Either 'Dum Dum Diddle' or 'Bang-A-Boomerang'

― Turrican, Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:49 (ten years ago)

Just remembered that Agnetha was in the first Swedish production of Jesus Christ Superstar, doh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3czi5MXck

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:52 (ten years ago)

Either 'Dum Dum Diddle' or 'Bang-A-Boomerang'

― Turrican, Saturday, October 3, 2015 1:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these are both great! well, the conceit of "dum dum diddle" is stuuuupid but it's a nice spritely abba song.

― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:13 (ten years ago)

got the boxset cheap a few months ago, still not given it the time it requires.

mainly due to the overplayed aspect of the big tracks.

i need to fix this.

which album should i start with to help revise my attitude ?

― mark e, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:59 (ten years ago)

ok ...

random click and play : 'on and on and on' : fucking brilliant. glam excess perfection.

i need to seriously give the boxset some love ..

― mark e, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:01 (ten years ago)

for once i have to agree with alex in nyc. dancing queen, obviously. it's the song which was played everywhere everyday when i grew up in the second half of the seventies. i never liked it and the constant play did not help. you could not escape it, you could not escape the mediocrity of that song when you went out. it stands for the mediocrity of the 70s. in a way it destroyed my youth.

― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:24 (ten years ago)

Great live version of On & On & On from their final concert:

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

― everything, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:34 (ten years ago)

Sorry! Wrong one. This is the live version that rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5129BMoXg

― everything, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:35 (ten years ago)

On fire!

― niels, Sunday, 4 October 2015 16:21 (ten years ago)

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