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

[grundle]

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.

[max americana]

nah dude. I know a guy here in L.A who teaches this stuff. LOl it’s not gargling but close to it...

[CTyank]

https://youtu.be/TdbtZqEyE7U

[SamAdams76]

Aside from Air Supply, Abba is the greatest band ever.

[lbtbell]

That’s right...that, and the fact that this was how ALL the glam-rock groups were dressing back then.

dfwgator, Fernando was originally a straight-forward love song in its original Swedish. It was Stig Anderson who changed it, when he rewrote it in English for ABBA.

As for the handful of whiners on this thread...ABBA is simply the best pop group since The Beatles, and their continuing record sales reflect this. I’d hate to be such a sad and miserable person, that I couldn’t enjoy such perfect pop music.

[Gargantua]

About halfway through the second album, I'd have stuck my head in the oven...

LOL!

[JohnnyP]

I got hooked on them a couple years ago, listening to now defunct waterlooradio.net.

It was all ABBA, all the time, including after ABBA.

[MrEdd]

Well, there you have the connection between the Arizona Douchebag and Rahm Emanuel .

[UnwashedPeasant]

Is that Meryl Streep or a drag queen?

[jobim]

ABBA recipe:

*1 cup skim milk, 1 tbl margarine, 1 block tofu, 1 mountain apple,
6 oz coconut jello, handful pine nuts, 4 oz turkey breast

*blend at high speed until smooth

*pour over steaming white rice

***afterwards, enjoy with an ice cold Billy Beer and a True Menthol cigarette

[central_va]

Where did you get my picture?

[central_va]

I’m a Uriah Heep fan myself.

[aspasia]

Interesting. Didn't know it was from a musical or that it was written by Andersson and Ulvaeus. It's totaly 80s pop and I got a flashback of White Nights, which carried even a few hits. One that is really done quite nicely is sung by Roberta Flack: People on a String

[minnesota_bound]

Where are the great singers and songs today?

I like this, watch the end where the woman do a jig at about the 3 min mark.
The blonde Agnetha Fältskog is a great singer. The other cannot dance... looks funny.

ABBA : So Long (Austrian TV 1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxdMBuorMg

ABBA Interview 10th year anniversary - see 9 min mark
Abba - Thank You For The Music - Agnetha Fältskog sings great with no studio production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFN9KHsRyw

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

[grundle]

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.

I didn't understand it either, until I listened to a bunch of their non-hit songs. My list is very, very different than any of their greatest hits compilations.

[grundle]

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.

My list includes a lot of songs from the earlier albums with Bjorn as the lead singer. They weren't hits but they are fantastic songs.

[grundle]

I like ABBA but not 8 albums worth...

Listening to the albums was the only way for me to find out that I liked them so much. Before that, all I knew were the hits, most of which I don't like.

[grundle]

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

I have now. What a pretty song. Thanks for the link.

[grundle]

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

That's what I used to think, before I had heard their non-hits. My list is very different from any of their greatest hits compilations.

[grundle]

About halfway through the second album, I'd have stuck my head in the oven...

LOL!

Actually, 17 of the 31 songs on my list are from the first two albums.

[ZagFan]

Your list is missing two of their best songs. “Knowing Me Knowing You” and “Name of the Game.”

I haven’t heard most of the songs on your list, but I would rather hear these 2 than “Waterloo”, “Mamma Mia” and even their biggest hit “Dancing Queen.”

I don’t understand it when people make lists and leave out obvious choices. You could say, “Just because they’re hits doesn’t make the them great”, but I would say, “That’s why they’re hits, they’re great.”