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.

[Spunky]

I haven't head all of their songs, but the ones I have heard I do like.

Loved the movie.

[pissant]

Unless they moved the Rio Grande to Spain, I think the song is about the mexi-american war.

[Republic_Venom]

Uh, what’s wrong with the bong? The anti-marijuana fixation is fascinating.

[xp38]

I saw them in concert in 1979 when they did their only North American tour. It was a gift from a client one terrifying summer when I was a driving instructor. They put on a good show but were they the greatest live group I had ever seen? Basically no.

[morphing libertarian]

It was a joke, chillax

[nomorelurker]

Actually Anna and Annie were the “front men” of the group if you are focusing on the guys you have your own issues. Anna and Annie run something close to the Gilligan’s Island Mary Ann or Ginger debate.

[Republic_Venom]

I know, I know...I was just talking out loud to nobody in particular.

[Fiji Hill]

There’s a Rio Grande in southern Spain. However, I figured “Fernando” could be about supporters of the Mexican emperor Maximilian fleeing to Texas to escape the Juarezistas in the 1860’s—or maybe Confederate partisans fleeing in the opposite direction.

[KevinB]

I never understood the appeal of ABBA. I have 67k songs on my computer and not one of them is an ABBA song. I’m not saying that it’s unreasonable to like them, only that I don’t understand it.

[Fiji Hill]

Our old friend John McCain once said that his favorite song is “Dancing Queen.”

[TigersEye]

ABBA dabba doo!

[caver]

Geez, you must really be bored or stoned or something....

Just kidding, I like ABBA but not 8 albums worth...

[dfwgator]

You guys are cracking me up. Surely, of all the vanities in the world, this is the vanitiest.

[JohnnyP]

Have you listened to Frida’s “Come to Me (I am Woman)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4gVoyp0Jm4

[T-Bone Texan]

Wait: There’s something wrong with bongs?

[dfwgator]

These guys are Swedish, too.

[Eccl 10:2]

“I recently listened to all eight of ABBA’s albums for the first time.”

Are you a prisoner in Guantanomo?

[CTyank]

“Please not ABBA!! Waterboard me pleeeeease... pull out my toenails, put me on the rack...anything but ABBA!!!”

[Third Person]

Excellent Vice documentary on Gorgoroth - “True Norwegian Black Metal”

https://vimeo.com/40485665

[Gene Eric]

Blue pill... I’m not there yet...