I recently listened to all eight of ABBA’s albums for the first time. Here are my 31 favorite songs.

wordpress ^ | March 29, 2017 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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I recently listened to all eight of ABBA’s albums for the first time. Here are my 31 favorite songs.

I recently listened to all eight of ABBA’s albums for the first time. Here are my 31 favorite songs. I am listing these in chronological order:

“Ring Ring” from their Ring Ring album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL0EoXdpOqg

“Another Town, Another Train” from their Ring Ring album:

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

“People Need Love” form their Ring Ring album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7ubf4h8sk

“Nina, Pretty Ballerina” from their Ring Ring album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnz-qwt8hE4

“Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)” from their Ring Ring album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9weyisphc

“Me and Bobby and Bobby’s Brother” from their Ring Ring album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM5xO1qtmZE

“He Is Your Brother” form their Ring Ring album:

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

“She’s My Kind Of Girl” from their Ring Ring album:

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

“I Am Just a Girl” from their Ring Ring album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpQFeXwO6M

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” from their Ring Ring album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrkyBa0j7s

“Waterloo” from their Waterloo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4

“Sitting in the Palmtree” from their Waterloo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCGw-OfdMpA

“Hasta Mañana” from their Waterloo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrQSJ8z3dZg

“My Mama Said” from their Waterloo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12dzPEm9J6A

“Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)” from their Waterloo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFBlbcT1VKU

“Gonna Sing You My Love Song” from their Waterloo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvVngDm7IG8

“Suzy-Hang-Around” from their Waterloo album:

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

“Mamma Mia” from their ABBA album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfzfe8f9NI

“Tropical Loveland” from their ABBA album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XVDhTKi-4

“SOS” from their ABBA album:

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

“I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do” from their ABBA album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW3HN_pvbE4

“Intermezzo No. 1” from their ABBA album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6kShipYwCk

“Dancing Queen” from their Arrival album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

“My Love, My Life” from their Arrival album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIaN-HRR92A

“Why did it have to be me” from their Arrival album. I think this is my favorite ABBA song. I’m including three versions here. First is the studio version that was was released on their Arrival album. Second is a live version from 1976. Third is a very early, and very different, version of the song, which was called “Happy Hawaii” at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljjQXIAa2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZtlLW19uM&list=RDdNZtlLW19uM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8foKUo6g02U

“Take A Chance On Me” from their ABBA: The Album album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0

“One Man, One Woman” from their ABBA: The Album album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_fuu9jIOc

“Thank You for the Music” from their ABBA: The Album album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dcbw4IEY5w

“I Wonder (Departure)” from their ABBA: The Album album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKKSNaRbaU

“Does Your Mother Know” from their Voulez-Vous album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkL7Fkigfn8

“Andante, Andante” from their Super Trouper album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwbARWt8is

I’m not including any songs from The Visitors, which was their last album.

[Bodleian_Girl]

But you didn’t rate them!

[Vic S]

No capes, and that includes Raiders fans. Although I think they’ll go over good in Vegas (it’s the whole Elvis thing.)

[Bodleian_Girl]

Must tag Edna!

[max americana]

Mostly black and death metal. trust me...

[ArmstedFragg]

Impressive! Now you can start on Agnetha’s solo albums and Bjorn and Benny’s theatrical endeavors.

[dfwgator]

Mostly black and death metal. trust me...

Finland has to be the Death Metal capital of the world.

[Fiji Hill]

I wonder what kind of music is being played in Sweden these days.

Ya Habibi Taala Alhaani (My Love, Come to Me)--Asmahan

[IndispensableDestiny]

I wasn't much into ABBA until I saw Mama Mia on Broadway. I now have longish playlist that I listen too while driving. I especially like the French language versions they've done, better than the Swedish.

[Charles Martel]

We have nothing to fear, but Zamfir itself.

[max americana]

I saw Amon Amarth with Entombed. Try listening to Bathory. It’s wicked. And these guys are Swedish.

[dfwgator]

I always thought I could get a gig as a Death Metal Singer. All you have to go is gargle in the microphone.

[Interesting Times]

You found 31 more than I did.

[dfwgator]

The one I really can’t stand is “Fernando” that ode to the Communists who were trying to destroy Spain. Thank God for Franco.

[Steely Tom]

Melody sounds a bit like Bananarama's Cruel Summer.

[miss marmelstein]

You forgot “Chess”. I realize it was only written by two of them but the score is absolutely beautiful and did turn out one hit song “One Night in Bangkok.”

[fishtank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u49TWDMxfA4

Winter Sonata Scene - “Dancing Queen”

[fishtank]

[Charles Martel]

Actually I like Frida’s “I Know There’s Something Going On” a lot more than any ABBA song.

I always liked that tune. That was one of Phil Collins' collaborations, I believe. Much different sound than the '70s ABBA stuff.

[dfwgator]

Yep. Definitely didn’t sound like ABBA.

Frida actually isn’t Swedish. She was born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German Wehrmacht soldier during the Nazi occupation, that’s why they had to flee Norway after the war.

[Sooner Gal]

Don’t listen to the nay-sayers. Thanks for the post - I love ABBA!!