Best song on CHESS on Original Concept Recording

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Yea, the book to the musical is a clusterfuck that's never been nailed down, but the music is something else. a favorite of mine, one of the finest things to come from members of ABBA.

(No "Someone Else's Story", sorry, wasn't on original recording).

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Bangkok/One Night in Bangkok	9
Opening Ceremony	2
I Know Him So Well	2
Argument	1
Pity the Child	1
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility)	1
The Russian and Molokov/Where I Want to Be	1
Endgame	0
The Deal (No Deal)	0
Heaven Help My Heart	0
Merano	0
Anthem	0
Embassy Lament	0
Florence Quits	0
Mountain Duet	0
Chess	0
The American and Florence/Nobody's Side	0
Epilogue: You and I/The Story of Chess	0

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

for me it's Pity the Child without hesitation. Murray Head's version makes the hair on my neck stand on end.

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

Probably have to go with "I Know Him So Well", which I love, tho I haven't heard this in its entirety for years and years.

― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:32 (fifteen years ago)

that would have been somewhere in my top 5 I think.

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:36 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bY__xtl7yI&NR=1

Pascal (best known as the original Roger in Rent strains a bit on the high notes, and his version is no Murray Head, but to be fair, this one is live. I still like the concert recording from 2008.

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

was it Tom Ewing that made the comparison between One Night In Bangkok and West End Girls? it was a good spot whoever it was. anyway Where I Want to Be is a tuuune and it's the bit i recall most fondly from seeing it live in (gulp) 89 in Liverpool.

― piscesx, Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

Is this really worth checking out?

― the crap gig in the sky (MaresNest), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

hell yes

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

Cool, I've been curious about it for years and years.

― the crap gig in the sky (MaresNest), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:04 (fifteen years ago)

had a friend in jr high who was obsessed with electronic composition and was a huge webber-rice stan, so i heard quite a bit of this. found "pity the child" quite moving and LOVED "one night in bangkok". only the latter affection survives, a bit worse for wear.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:14 (fifteen years ago)

would've been better if they'd somehow been able to cast fischer and spassky in the lead roles.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

dunno that I'd want to hear Fischer sing "Pity the Jews"

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

I love "One Night in Bangkok", maybe it's time to get the CD!!!

― OMG, the Movie! (u s steel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

wouldn't say that song is really indicative of the music on the album as a whole, although I still like it a lot.

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:43 (fifteen years ago)

'I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine'

― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:47 (fifteen years ago)

I like the idea of subbing Fischer for Head ONLY if it's retroactive through all of Head's career – eg Fischer plays Judas in JCSS & shows up on the cover of a Smiths B-sides compilation. Head would be allowed to star in Searching for Bobby Fischer, however (with a little boy mask ala Strange Interlude?).

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, 1 May 2011 21:07 (fifteen years ago)

"Opening Ceremony", because it contains "The Arbiter", which is probably the best song in here.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 1 May 2011 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

'I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine'

― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Sunday, May 1, 2011 1:47 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

^ probably the reason language was invented probably

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 2 May 2011 06:52 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I've ended up on the wrong website!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

Chess >>>> Andrew Lloyd Webber.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Chess thread on MetaFilter, but the links at the top make it all worthwhile.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 November 2012 04:10 (thirteen years ago)

AWESOME!

― sarahell, Monday, 5 November 2012 04:11 (thirteen years ago)

the John Borrowman sings "I Know Him So Well" link is dead :/

― sarahell, Monday, 5 November 2012 04:25 (thirteen years ago)

here is a current one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_j3yHhYEo

― sarahell, Monday, 5 November 2012 04:34 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVJ4euCR2FE

― pplains, Monday, 5 November 2012 04:36 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

why didn't I listen to this whole thing years ago, "Quartet" is astonishing

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 21:47 (twelve years ago)

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