Only 10-15 good ABBA songs?

Good point about him being the one who should know! But I think he is being overly modest. He and Bjorn had very high standards when it came to putting together an ABBA album.

I'm probably brainwashed, but there's only a couple of ABBA songs I actively dislike (I Am Just A Girl and Two For The Price Of One, the latter mainly because it's so out of place on The Visitors). But obviously not all the other songs are of Knowing Me Knowing You/Dancing Queen standard. I could easily live without I Saw It In The Mirror or Sitting In The Palmtree, for example. But from the time B&B had perfected their art with the Arrival album, I think there are almost no weak songs that they let slip through.

 Just because Benny & Bjorn wrote the ABBA Songs, does not mean that they know which ABBA Songs were good.

 That Myth was destroyed when they released 3 Singles off 'ABBA' & had no intentions of releasing 'Mamma Mia'.
They were clueless that it would be a huge International Hit. RCA Records persuaded them to make it a Single.

 I feel that Benny & Bjorn don't have enough confidence in the old ABBA Songs. It is usually people who are not
that impressed by ABBA, who say that they only made a small number of decent Songs. Usually 15 to 20, is the
number given by those people. How sad that Benny agrees with them!

Benny & Bjorn should be less critical of ABBA Music. I bet they have rejected loads of catchy ABBA Songs, for the
2nd 'Mamma Mia!' Film, due to being over-critical. In fact, the 'General Public' care very little about Benny & Bjorn's
taste in these matters. All that the bulk of 'Mamma Mia! 2' Audiences want, are fun filled ABBA Songs, that they can
sing-along to. The truth is that 'Nina Pretty Ballerina' & 'Dum Dum Diddle' could be in the Film & the Audiences would
soon learn to sing-a-long with them. It is all about the ABBA Songs being fun & whether Benny & Bjorn think they
are 'perfect' enough, to be included, is 100% irrelevant.

I recall in 1993 when 'More ABBA Gold' was released. The BBC Reviewed it & said that it had no right to exist.
That 'ABBA Gold' had 'All the Hits' on it, & there were 'No Hits' on 'More ABBA Gold'. That it was '2nd Rate ABBA'
and that it should never have been released. So that person felt that only a few ABBA Songs were any good. 

I also recall the 'Thank You For The Music' Box Set getting released in 1994. More than one Reviewer said that there
was 'Too much ABBA' in it. That 4 Disks of ABBA Tracks was 'Too many'. Other Reviewers said that the 'Set' contained
'Everything that ABBA ever recorded', when many of their Album Tracks were not even included! (I've never seen any
'Critic' saying that any Box Set of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen or the Bee Gees, has 'Too much' of those Groups
in them. It has only been said about ABBA. As if ABBA are just not as good as the rest...).

Benny should realise that he's siding with those over-critical people, when he says that ABBA only had 10 to 15 good
Songs. With ABBA still having quite a lot of detractors, it really is not wise for any of the Group to be just as critical...

Most bands can only envy Abba’s Back catatalogue and success worldwide. Not bad for a group whose first language is not English. Doubt if most bands could have had their success writing in a language which was not their first language and that includes Queen and possibly the Beatles. All bands have weaker songs. Thankfully Abba had very few and mostly confined to the early days. After the Waterloo album very few songs did not meet their usual high standard.... Dum Dum Diddle and Two for the price of one....the lyrics let them down. I do like the music to Dum dum diddle. And can’t believe that TFTPOO was being considered for single release from an album containing more obvious choices. I consider it at best B side and not an album track post Abba album. Should I laugh or cry with a bit more work on the lyrics would have been better on the album. I would have preferred one of the other versions of LAAPTMR on The Visitors. But on the whole I love the Abba catalogue. Some bands would have released more of Abba’s album tracks as singles had they had their catalogue.

Probably the weakest song on the Abba album but kind of funky as is Lovers. On that album I thought TKHLHC was the weakest song. Think the title is rather clumsy . Maybe a slightly different chorus on TKHLHC could have helped as I like the verses. Back to Man in the Middle. An attempt at a more meaningful lyric rather than a catchy Bang a boomerang. Was it the inspiration for Money money money....the rich man’ s world full of lobster and caviar?Think it was the inspiration for the album cover... limousine, champagne lifestyle.