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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 21:58:48 GMT
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Post by Zeebee on Aug 29, 2017 22:08:11 GMT
It says they recorded a Swedish version of Chiquitita, but I've never heard anything about that. It also seems to be saying ABBA as a group recorded a Swedish version of Fernando, but I'm not aware of that, although I'm well aware of Frida's solo Swedish version.
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Post by shoshin on Aug 29, 2017 23:08:29 GMT
Let us count the errors in this article, some large and some small.
1. 'ABBA photographed in 1970'
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 9:37:02 GMT
I love a list. But the weasel word is (of course - as ever) 'best'. For me, my list of ABBA's 'best' songs would differ significantly from a list of 'my favourite' ABBA songs - and indeed from my list of 'ABBA songs I listen to most frequently'. Three different lists.
For instance, I'd happily place TWTIA in the first of those three lists, but certainly wouldn't include it in the second or third. It's clearly a great song, but not one that I'm especially mad about or that I listen to very often. It's ABBA's 'Stairway to Heaven', perhaps. Undeniably epic, accomplished and 'influential', but give me a straight choice right now and I'd much rather listen to 'In the Evening'.
To be fair to the Billboard list, I'd support the inclusion of around half of those songs cited as valid claimants to a place in a 'best' of ABBA selection.
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Post by shoshin on Aug 30, 2017 11:40:20 GMT
2. KMKY "uh huh"  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 15:50:10 GMT
2. KMKY "uh huh" Kind of gives the song a rather different meaning, doesn't it? |
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Post by shoshin on Sept 1, 2017 23:07:18 GMT
3. 'European-inspired' ?
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Post by Liebezeit on Sept 2, 2017 9:21:09 GMT
Waterloo: "An early song in ABBA's career, the 1974 single incorporated rock and jazz elements"
I don't hear any jazz elements like unusual time signatures or some sort like that. The only thing jazzy about Waterloo is the brass/woodwinds sections. Otherwise, it sounds more like 1950s "rock and roll" with synthesizers and borderline bluesy to me. One time I read somewhere that ABBA was allegedly inspired by Wizzard's "See My Baby Jive", which isn't "jazz", but more like a Spector-like rock kind...
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Post by Liebezeit on Sept 2, 2017 9:35:47 GMT
4. Take a Chance on Me: "The opening a cappella of this 1981 single" While in actuality... it was first released on 1978 under Atlantic Records! |
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Post by shoshin on Sept 3, 2017 21:57:30 GMT
Waterloo: "An early song in ABBA's career, the 1974 single incorporated rock and jazz elements" I don't hear any jazz elements... 5. Nor me. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 23:14:20 GMT
I don't understand any Abba song list withouwt Eagle, The Day Before You Came and The Winner Takes it All
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Post by shoshin on Dec 9, 2017 13:54:18 GMT
They even left out King Kong Song  |
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Post by angela on Dec 14, 2017 5:25:35 GMT
I'm glad they included "Does Your Mother know" its one of my favourite ABBA songs.
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Post by harpospoke on Jan 9, 2018 7:10:01 GMT
I guess my top 15 would look like this some days:
1-S.O.S
2-Dancing Queen
3-The Name of the Game
4-Knowing Me, Knowing You
5-Our Last Summer
6-Take a Chance on Me
7-Slipping Through My Fingers
8-Eagle
9-Waterloo
10-The Day Before You Came
11-Ring Ring
12-One of Us
13-Mama Mia
14-Happy New Year
15-The Winner Takes it All
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Post by shoshin on Jan 9, 2018 14:40:43 GMT
^^ That's a good selection. On this forum, and its predecessors/competitors, we have done 'favourites' lists to death, sometimes literally spending hours compiling top 100s. So I thought a quicker and easier way to keep this thread alive would be to accept the songs on your list, but reorder them according to personal taste. Plus maybe cite just one song that should 'definitely' have been somewhere in your list, at the expense of the revised 15th place. My essential insertion would be If It Wasn't For The Nights. As for the rest, here goes
1 (7)-Slipping Through My Fingers
2 (1)-S.O.S
3 (2)-Dancing Queen
4 (3)-The Name of the Game
5 (12)-One of Us
6 (15)-The Winner Takes it All 7 (10)-The Day Before You Came
8 (4)-Knowing Me, Knowing You
9 (14)-Happy New Year
10 (6)-Take a Chance on Me
11 (11)-Ring Ring
12 (9)-Waterloo
13 (8)-Eagle
14 (5)-Our Last Summer
15 (13)-Mamma Mia |
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Post by harpospoke on Jan 10, 2018 6:03:47 GMT
So many great ABBA songs. With some artists, the 15th place song would be considered an insult. With them, it's just the cream of a great crop.
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