The Arrival Poll

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Dancing Queen	7
When I Kissed the Teacher	4
Knowing Me, Knowing You	3
Tiger	1
Money, Money, Money	1
My Love, My Life	1
Arrival	1
Dum Dum Diddle	0
That's Me	0
Why Did It Have to Be Me?	0

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 June 2008 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

There may be several classic singles here, but my vote is still for "My Love, My Life", followed by "That's Me".

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 June 2008 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

So, no opinions on this not exactly unknown ABBA album?

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)

I love the look on Bjorn's face - you know he just wants to take that mother for a spin.

― snoball, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:26 (seventeen years ago)

Given that "Knowing Me, Knowing You" should do just fine in the voting, I picked "When I Kissed the Teacher."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:07 (seventeen years ago)

I blame James Brown for the album

― X-101, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, strip off the singles and this gets really interesting ("Tiger" versus "When I Kissed The Teacher")... but "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is probably the greatest or second-greatest thing they ever recorded, so...

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

knowing me, knowing you just edging out Tiger

― Dominique, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 14:26 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 7 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Either "When I Kissed the Teacher" or "Knowing Me, Knowing You"

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 7 June 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

arrival itself. absolutely exquisite, and an enormous influence on many of my own songwriting attempts (many times i'd end up back at that melody, wondering how i got there.)

this was a big, big favourite of mine when i was very young. i'd have to get my dad to put it on because i couldn't reach the record player (and wasn't allowed to fuck with his records, either). actually: i think i borrowed it off him many years ago and never gave it back. whoops.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 8 June 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 8 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

grimly, nice story about your kidhood.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 8 June 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

HOW THE FUCK DID THAT'S ME GET NO VOTES

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 9 June 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

I'd have voted for My Life, My Love but I missed the poll

― the next grozart, Monday, 9 June 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

HOW THE FUCK DID THAT'S ME GET NO VOTES

Carrie not-the-kind-of-girl-you'd-vote-for, that's her.

Just listened to this again (I had bought it maybe a week before the poll) and boy is it good, way more consistently excellent than I expected for such a "singles band." Like I said before, the competition is really thrown off by the singles - but I'm impressed to see that "When I Kissed The Teacher" beat "Knowing Me, Knowing You." Someone in the Popular comments box at some point wrote some really nice things about WIKTT but I can't remember where or who it was...

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2008 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

trash can sinatras did WIKTT live once, it was EXCELLENT

― winston, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:41 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

The more i think about it the more That's Me is one of my all time favourite songs by any band. Such an atmosphere! Incredibly produced.
Arrival really is the best pop album ever. Why the 33 and a 1/3rd book wasn't about this instead of Gold i'll never know.

― piscesx, Monday, 11 January 2010 18:53 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

closing title track is like church

― afrika spambotaa and the hulu nation (m bison), Friday, 28 May 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

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