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Post by gary on Jan 25, 2017 12:07:49 GMT
And following on from my post (What makes the best album opening track?) of a few minutes ago, this seems like an obvious question.
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Jan 25, 2017 18:09:02 GMT
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 9:02:37 GMT
Another great set of songs which have all got their merits, with the exception of 'The Way Old Friends Do' which has got 'skip' written all over it. Even 'Rock'n'Roll Band' is a semi-guilty pleasure of mine. Absolutely love it. But I've gone for 'So Long'. It's joyous, seems to say "We're ABBA - and we're not going away!" and provides the perfect end-point for the first 'proper' ABBA album. Simple. Obvious. Brilliant. Those last 20 seconds in particular - quite magnificent. Did ABBA ever get much 'glammer' than 'So Long'? It's the track that out-Tiger Feets 'Tiger Feet'.
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Post by josef on Jan 26, 2017 16:11:37 GMT
I've chosen I'm A Marionette for a couple of reasons. One- I really love it and two- I think it's memorable, both lyrically and musically. It actually SAYS something about the nature of fame; it's dramatic and leaves you on a high.
The Way Old Friends Do seems an apt choice and I'm sure if I'd been there at Wembley I'd have been misty-eyed but I really don't much care for the track. It's too Auld Lang Syne-ish, and I hate that.
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Post by Zeebee on Jan 26, 2017 21:34:14 GMT
Waterloo isn't a closing track; in fact, if I remember correctly, it is the opening track and Suzy-Hang-Around is the closing track.
I like The Way Old Friends Do, but Ive never been wild about the version on the album. I like the version they performed at Wembley, which is on YouTube and was the first version I heard. There used to be a weekly music show called Soundstage on public television here in the USA. One week in the fall of 1980, they showed footage of ABBA from their 1979 tour. That's when I first heard the song (and Summer Night City and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme), before I had the Super Trouper album. Each week, Soundstage was simulcast on a local FM radio station and the simulcast was repeated a few nights later, and I tape recorded those three songs from the radio.
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Jan 26, 2017 22:21:07 GMT
Actually, Waterloo was the closing track on the original Swedish album.
So was ring ring in the uk.
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Post by gary on Jan 26, 2017 22:33:41 GMT
Waterloo isn't a closing track; in fact, if I remember correctly, it is the opening track and Suzy-Hang-Around is the closing track. I must admit, when I was inputting the titles for the poll, that I thought exactly as you say. But I checked, because I wasn't quite sure, and abbasite (http://www.abbasite.com/discography/album/waterloo/) and Wikipedia both say that the original Swedish LP, which should really be considered the definitive version, has Waterloo in Swedish as the opening track and Waterloo in English as the closing track. So I went with that. |
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Post by gary on Jan 26, 2017 22:36:32 GMT
Even 'Rock'n'Roll Band' is a semi-guilty pleasure of mine. Absolutely love it. Glad to hear there is someone else who feels this way! It's one of my favourites. |
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Post by wombat on Jan 27, 2017 14:24:58 GMT
Another great set of songs which have all got their merits, with the exception of 'The Way Old Friends Do' which has got 'skip' written all over it. Even 'Rock'n'Roll Band' is a semi-guilty pleasure of mine. Absolutely love it. But I've gone for 'So Long'. It's joyous, seems to say "We're ABBA - and we're not going away!" and provides the perfect end-point for the first 'proper' ABBA album. Simple. Obvious. Brilliant. Those last 20 seconds in particular - quite magnificent. Did ABBA ever get much 'glammer' than 'So Long'? It's the track that out-Tiger Feets 'Tiger Feet'. LOL I love The Way Old Friends Do, and I voted for it. Hahaha. I almost voted for So Long, which is probably in my top ten or twenty songs from them, but, to me, its an album opener ;-) that fabulous guitar riff, the obvious glam rock stylings, huge spector wall of sound, great stuff all around. However I do see the charm of the ending as well. Like An Angel Passing Thru My Room is my first or second least favorite thing they ever recorded. That one and the Day Before You Came. I'll probably never listen to either again. Never is a long time so maybe not... Just my opinions.... |
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Post by Fafner on Jan 27, 2017 14:55:40 GMT
Another great set of songs which have all got their merits, with the exception of 'The Way Old Friends Do' which has got 'skip' written all over it. Even 'Rock'n'Roll Band' is a semi-guilty pleasure of mine. Absolutely love it. But I've gone for 'So Long'. It's joyous, seems to say "We're ABBA - and we're not going away!" and provides the perfect end-point for the first 'proper' ABBA album. Simple. Obvious. Brilliant. Those last 20 seconds in particular - quite magnificent. Did ABBA ever get much 'glammer' than 'So Long'? It's the track that out-Tiger Feets 'Tiger Feet'. LOL I love The Way Old Friends Do, and I voted for it. Hahaha. I almost voted for So Long, which is probably in my top ten or twenty songs from them, but, to me, its an album opener ;-) that fabulous guitar riff, the obvious glam rock stylings, huge spector wall of sound, great stuff all around. However I do see the charm of the ending as well. Like An Angel Passing Thru My Room is my first or second least favorite thing they ever recorded. That one and the Day Before You Came. I'll probably never listen to either again. Never is a long time so maybe not... Just my opinions.... "The Way Old Friends Do" was my choice as well... and "Arrival" would be a second place. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 9:08:25 GMT
LOL I love The Way Old Friends Do, and I voted for it. Hahaha. Excellent. Mind you, isn't voting as a concept pretty much discredited these days?! No good'll come of it.  |
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Post by wombat on Jan 30, 2017 18:06:28 GMT
^^^^^
In our country, yeah, you might begin to wonder... altho that gets political and I wont go there
A more interesting situation for final song would have been The Way Old Friends Do at the end of the Visitors.. and then maybe the last song on the Late Breakfast Show TV thing (their last public performance)... they sing about how wonderful of friends they all are, then the cameras stop, the fake smiles drop, and they all drive off into the dark to not ever do anything together ever again... and in the girls' case, rarely see each other ever again.
The irony of that...
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Post by Zeebee on Jan 30, 2017 21:48:05 GMT
I checked my cassette of the Waterloo album. I was mistake about Suzy-Hang-Around being the closing track. Ring Ring is the closing track. I should've remembered that, because when I found out about the Ring Ring album, I wondered why the same song was on two albums. But on the Waterloo disc in the Complete Studio Recordings boxed set, Suzy-Hang-Around is the last track before the bonus tracks. I was correct about Waterloo being the opening track.
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Post by foreverfan on Jan 31, 2017 8:38:27 GMT
Even though KOF is a firm Favourite, I actually have to go with LAAPTMR, as it's a fitting finale in more ways than one, might even have it at my funeral !!!  |
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Post by josef on Jan 31, 2017 17:31:22 GMT
I actually have to go with LAAPTMR, as it's a fitting finale in more ways than one, might even have it at my funeral !!! I'm having So Long at mine! |
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Post by wombat on Feb 1, 2017 18:17:01 GMT
I actually have to go with LAAPTMR, as it's a fitting finale in more ways than one, might even have it at my funeral !!! I'm having So Long at mine! LOL! thats funny, in a very dark humor sort of way... I'm having Somewhere Over the Rainbow at mine. Probably an instrumental version. But thats another thread, I guess.. |
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Feb 1, 2017 20:07:47 GMT
My funeral song would be the demo version of Two For The Price Of One ("There's no romance in my life, Sometimes I wish I had a knife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ) |
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Post by gary on Feb 2, 2017 16:36:03 GMT
Even though KOF is a firm Favourite, I actually have to go with LAAPTMR, as it's a fitting finale in more ways than one, might even have it at my funeral !!! Kisses Of Fire is easily my favourite song in this poll, but it's always seemed to me like an odd choice as an album closing track. I notice no-one has voted for it, so perhaps that says something. Actually, I have wondered if sides one and two of the original vinyl album were swapped at the last minute! No proof of that though. I had LAAPTMR played as the finale at my partner's funeral. It worked well, I think. |
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Post by josef on Feb 6, 2017 17:29:54 GMT
Incidentally, I'm NOT having 'So Long' at my funeral.. I was joking. I haven't planned anything so I guess it's up to whoever is around to do what they want. I just hope nothing clichéd like Dancing Queen is played. Not that I don't think it's wonderful but it's too obvious. Likewise, I wouldn't be too happy if something like Like An Angel Passing Through My Room was chosen- it's a beautiful song but way too sad, I don't want people crying and stuff. Ultimately, I guess it doesn't matter but you know how it is- when people know you're an ABBA fan they choose the most famous songs- I'd prefer the lesser known gems.
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Post by foreverfan on Feb 6, 2017 17:39:26 GMT
^^^^ we must be on a similar wave length...lol... at some point i wanted Pricilla Queen Of The Desert' s melodic Dancing Queen, which I still think could be apprioate... and being lowered to the Winner Takes It All , I actually wanted people laughing or smiling at the cliche's... hopefully a long way off and time to change my mind...... better get back to topic.... mind you I do like the diversions....  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 10:33:13 GMT
TBH, I think TKHLHC would have made a terrible final track - one of ABBA's weaker moments, in my view. KOF is fine as an album closer - the best candidate on the album (especially as it has such a great last 60 seconds and nice fade). Perhaps it would sound even better with a slightly stronger track just in front of it - L(LALL) is another weak-ish track that needs a bit of hiding in the running order; it's kind of out of harm's way where it is, but as a downside may just take the edge of KOF. It leaves KOF to do too much of the heavy lifting on its own. |
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Post by chron on Feb 7, 2017 12:34:43 GMT
LAAPTMR would seem a shoo-in, being not just a final-sounding album closer, but basically ABBA's farewell to their life as a working band (yes, they carried on for a short while afterwards, but without the same sense of purpose or spark), and by extension, to life itself (the intimations of mortality are fairly blatant). But after thinking about it, I'm not going to go for this. I find I appreciate more the novelty of ending an album (Arrival, obviously!) with an instrumental (what vocals there are on it are used as instrumental texture). I like the way Arrival the track leads you away from the main body of the album and somehow makes you feel nostalgic for what you've only just been listening to; been in the middle of. It's the same band who've been wistfully watching dancing queens and recounting walks through empty houses, but here they come across as curiously self-contained and distant. I like its stateliness; after pushing some of the more basic emotional buttons, ABBA bow out with a bit of ceremonial restraint; faces stoically fixed as they say goodbye for now (are they leaving us - in that helicopter, growing smaller in the sky - or are we leaving them? After the arrival - and despite its title! - it certainly feels like a departure, at any rate). Arrival turns out to be ABBA's best closing track.
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Post by gary on Feb 8, 2017 10:38:05 GMT
TBH, I think TKHLHC would have made a terrible final track - one of ABBA's weaker moments, in my view. KOF is fine as an album closer - the best candidate on the album (especially as it has such a great last 60 seconds and nice fade). Perhaps it would sound even better with a slightly stronger track just in front of it - L(LALL) is another weak-ish track that needs a bit of hiding in the running order; it's kind of out of harm's way where it is, but as a downside may just take the edge of KOF. It leaves KOF to do too much of the heavy lifting on its own. Even though my quote has gone astray, I know which one you're referring to, i.e., the one about the two sides of Voulez-Vous being swapped. I think TKHLHC sounds as if it could close an album but, more importantly, I think Does Your Mother Know sounds like a strong album opener. Although DYMK is not a favourite of mine, an album starting with DYMK, If It Wasn't For The Nights and Chiquitita sounds more 'right' to me than an album starting with As Good As New, Voulez-Vous and I Have A Dream. |
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Post by highwaystar on Jul 20, 2017 12:23:43 GMT
For me it is Arrival.
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Post by madonnabba on Aug 29, 2017 7:53:17 GMT
Arrival. After an album full of powerful , up tempo songs and vocals this is an interesting choice to finish with. Beautiful and haunting melody. Sounds Scottish. Perfect finish for an almost perfect album. Dum Dum Diddle lets down the album. Good tune. Just those lyrics. Arrival has Dum Dum Diddle and The Visitors Two for the Price of One. To think at one point Two for the Price of one was being considered for single release!
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