Greatest ABBA Song? [Archive] - Comic Book Resources Forums

TCJohnson

07-06-2005, 11:41 AM

Well, if ABBA is not really a form of deep fried kuskus and is actually a band (Not willing to accept that just yet) they can have a song that is the least worse, can't they?

TCJohnson

07-06-2005, 11:42 AM

PIP?!?!?!?

please turn in your gay card at the door.

Pip: Homosexual Renegade

Now there is a TV show waiting to happen!

the4thpip

07-06-2005, 11:43 AM

I know, I know. Worst gay person, ever. I can't dance either, but I used to play a pretty rough game of basketball...

CaptMagellan

07-06-2005, 11:45 AM

"Greatest ABBA Song?"
:eek:

And some people thought the incest thread was disturbing.

Abba... *shudder*

Adam Crocker

07-06-2005, 11:45 AM

... :eek:

surely you're heard ABBA.

I have and "Dancing Queen" still tops "Fernando" easily, and is the best of the bunch. (Though that said, where is "Waterloo"?)

And I agree that Pip should turn his gay card in at the door. Loving ABBA is a requirement for being gay as surely as loving Led Zeppelin is a requirement for being a heterosexual male. (Unless of course you are a communist...)

abbas.khan

07-06-2005, 11:50 AM

if pip cant dance and it turns out he cant dress either (or even give out a good toast), he'd be the worst online gay person i'll ever meet.

I know, I know. Worst gay person, ever. I can't dance either, but I used to play a pretty rough game of basketball...

Crowley

07-06-2005, 12:07 PM

I have and "Dancing Queen" still tops "Fernando" easily, and is the best of the bunch. (Though that said, where is "Waterloo"?)

And I agree that Pip should turn his gay card in at the door. Loving ABBA is a requirement for being gay as surely as loving Led Zeppelin is a requirement for being a heterosexual male. (Unless of course you are a communist...)
Waterloo is a great fucking song... can't believe I forgot it!

Space Poo

07-06-2005, 12:11 PM

My mom used to make us listen to them when we went on road trips. :rolleyes:

The only two songs I liked, "Take a Chance On Me" and "I'm a Marionette."

The Mirrorball Man

07-06-2005, 12:27 PM

It's so obviously Dancing Queen that it's not even funny. Go, Dancing Queen, crush the opposition! :evilsmile

Anyway. Really, you should have included at least Take a Chance on Me, Supertrooper, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Waterloo in your poll.

Mia

07-06-2005, 12:29 PM

"Winner takes it all."

And I agree that Pip should turn his gay card in at the door. Loving ABBA is a requirement for being gay as surely as loving Led Zeppelin is a requirement for being a heterosexual male. (Unless of course you are a communist...)

Are you gay? Just curious....

David O Burcham

07-06-2005, 12:34 PM

"Winner takes it all."

Emperor C, you need to turn in your HUMANITY card for relegating this as a "lesser" song!

Shame on you!

the4thpip

07-06-2005, 12:39 PM

I have and "Dancing Queen" still tops "Fernando" easily, and is the best of the bunch. (Though that said, where is "Waterloo"?)

And I agree that Pip should turn his gay card in at the door. Loving ABBA is a requirement for being gay as surely as loving Led Zeppelin is a requirement for being a heterosexual male. (Unless of course you are a communist...)
I used to like Led Zeppelin when I was younger... :(

abbas.khan

07-06-2005, 01:28 PM

What The @#$#@ Is Wrong With You People???

the4thpip

07-06-2005, 01:35 PM

I think "Winner takes it all" is one of the most horrible, cliché-laden lyrics I know.

Adam Crocker

07-06-2005, 02:12 PM

Are you gay? Just curious....

No, just facetious.

Adam Crocker

07-06-2005, 02:21 PM

I think "Winner takes it all" is one of the most horrible, cliché-laden lyrics I know.

It does doesn't...but you can sing-a-long to the ebullient chorus!!!

Personally I think that ABBA's a lot like Phil Spector: they've got more value in the music as opposed to the lyrics which are really just emotionally manipulative pap on which to hang on sing-a-long melodies and perfect arrangements.

matterconsumer

07-06-2005, 04:30 PM

Well it's well past time that someone show Pip...the Name of the Game :)

David O Burcham

07-06-2005, 04:38 PM

What The @#$#@ Is Wrong With You People???

Posted by ABBAs.khan

;)

Red Berens

07-06-2005, 04:45 PM

What The @#$#@ Is Wrong With You People???

How can you not like ABBA? You probably like pirates too - don't you? I think I'm going to make ABBA music the official soundtrack for ninjas.

Adam Crocker

07-06-2005, 04:49 PM

How can you not like ABBA? You probably like pirates too - don't you? I think I'm going to make ABBA music the official soundtrack for ninjas.

You sir, are a genius!

Pepsigirl

07-06-2005, 06:33 PM

ABBA has good songs? I have yet to hear them...

K'Nort

07-06-2005, 07:05 PM

Off the top of my head, Take A Chance on Me. Particularly the Erasure cover.

Karl J. Barnes

07-06-2005, 07:07 PM

Pip: Homosexual Renegade

Now there is a TV show waiting to happen!

Starring Lorenzo Lamas!!

Karl J. Barnes

07-06-2005, 07:11 PM

ABBA has good songs? I have yet to hear them...

AN insult! A palatable hit! Now! Go to your room and listen to ABBA's Greatest Hits for at least, three hours!

If you can't reason with the little ankle biters....threaten them with ABBA!

DLFerguson

07-06-2005, 07:56 PM

I can't believe you left out "Super Trooper". It gets my vote with "Waterloo" a close second

steeler80

07-06-2005, 08:45 PM

Knowing that I'll bring the ire of all Abba haters down on my head, like I posted before, one of my guilty, guilty pleasures is that I like several of Abba's songs. I'd have to go with "Dancing Queen" as the best although I really like "Does Your Mother Know"

Tad Sivana

07-06-2005, 10:00 PM

Gack! Choke! Gasp!
ABBA songs...omigod...
What, was the Bay City Rollers site full up?
There ARE no great ABBA songs....just a bunch of Scandi's singing phoenetic English to disco tracks! I say this despite the fact that a good friend was in the Broadway production!
Chess is the only musical I have ever walked out on...why?
The ...urp... Songs!

David O Burcham

07-06-2005, 10:07 PM

...just a bunch of Scandi's singing phoenetic English to disco tracks!

Nah, that's Ace of Bass.

Chess is the only musical I have ever walked out on...why?
The ...urp... Songs!

That was just Bjorn and Benny. That doesn't count. :p

And that Murry Head is a GENIUS, I say!

matterconsumer

07-06-2005, 10:11 PM

What, was the Bay City Rollers site full up?

I only want to be with you... :p

Tad Sivana

07-06-2005, 10:12 PM

Okay, you got me on Chess....and anyway, it was the London production, not the New York one....
I acknowledge that there do seem to be many people who like ABBA for some indescernible reason, but I lump them in with the many folks who like lima beans....there's just something wrong with them!
Give me Yello any day.

matterconsumer

07-06-2005, 10:17 PM

Oh yeah...lima beans...love 'em...

Crowley

07-06-2005, 10:20 PM

Posted by ABBAs.khan

;)
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!

the4thpip

07-06-2005, 11:41 PM

Starring Lorenzo Lamas!!

http://img281.echo.cx/img281/7720/nooooooooooooo3bm.gif

kipster

07-07-2005, 02:58 AM

Mama Mia!

Every time I hear Abba, it reminds me of the movie "Muriel's Wedding"!!!

traxler

07-07-2005, 03:11 AM

Poor Pepsigirl.
And there I thought she might know something about music.
Well I'm not sure about your list,
but you do have my number 1 ABBA song,
Dancing Queen.

Having the time of her life.

blackcanary_416

07-07-2005, 08:59 AM

Dancing Queens Z-Best! You can dance you can jive...

Cam63

07-07-2005, 09:09 AM

I loved ABBA's cover of " You Better, You Better, You Bet " by The Who.

I may be joking.

Lunar Daydreamer

07-07-2005, 01:00 PM

I used to go to this after school acting class ansd the woman who ran it made us 'warm up' to money money money by Abba ... and every time i hear the bloody song it mades me think of those arm windmills she made us do for what seemed like forever... ever decreasing slowly...hurting more and more. Meep! :(

Michael P

07-07-2005, 01:57 PM

How can you not like ABBA? You probably like pirates too - don't you? I think I'm going to make ABBA music the official soundtrack for ninjas.
Kinda gonna ruin the stealth thing when people start clutching their ears and screaming in pain whenever you approach.

Kirayoshi

07-08-2005, 01:34 AM

Eh, they're the best 'guilty pleasure' band out there. The musical Mamma Mia is going to tour my neck of the woods later this year. I'm curious, I'll admit...

And for the record, either Mamma Mia or Take a Chance. Can't break the tie.

the4thpip

07-08-2005, 01:56 AM

I just realized that I kind of like the song "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" in the version by Anne Sofie Von Otter with Elvis Costello. I've never heard the original ABBA version though, so I don't know how much Anne and Elvis improved on it.

abbas.khan

07-08-2005, 02:43 AM

my grandmother named me okay...

she was too old to like abba in 1977.

my parents however - loved the monkey manure to death.

for years, my parents played that crap, choking me on an abba/boney M super cocktail..

it got worse, whem my older brother discovered wham and my sister shoved in new kids on the block.

i used to hide in the closet with my guns n roses and skid row tapes...numbing out the painful effects of new kids, abba, boneyM, and wham....

'appetite for destruction' was my saviour.

Posted by ABBAs.khan

;)

Crowley

07-08-2005, 07:25 AM

Mama Mia!

Every time I hear Abba, it reminds me of the movie "Muriel's Wedding"!!!
me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crowley

07-08-2005, 01:01 PM

Nah, that's Ace of Bass.

ACE of Bass is excellent!

*ahem*

as she walks away... feel the pain getting strong... people in her life don't know what's going on... too proud to turn around

She's GONE!

TCJohnson

07-08-2005, 01:03 PM

By the way, yes I have heard of ABBA but the only song I know by them is Dancing Queen. I think I should know Waterloo too but can't think of the toon off the top of me head.

Cayman

07-08-2005, 01:06 PM

The Winner Takes It All is majestic and heartbreaking and true.

"BIG ONES! SMALL ONES!"

Cay

JeffreyWKramer

07-08-2005, 01:12 PM

"Greatest ABBA song" is one of those "faint-praise" titles. Along the lines of "most intelligent flat-earther", "smartest Anna Nicole Smith moment" or "most honorable pedophile."

Cayman

07-08-2005, 01:52 PM

ABBA aren't a guilty pleasure, they are genuinely good. There is no shame in liking ABBA.

Cay

Cam63

07-08-2005, 01:56 PM

ACE of Bass is excellent!

*ahem*

as she walks away... feel the pain getting strong... people in her life don't know what's going on... too proud to turn around

She's GONE!

I remember them. Wonder why they didn't get a lead singer who could actually sing ?

Indigo Al

07-08-2005, 02:01 PM

I can't believe you left out "Super Trooper". It gets my vote with "Waterloo" a close second

Am I the only one who thinks "Super Trouper" is really a song about a lone astronaut who crash lands on a planet populated by Swedish Amazon super trouper warriors, all with Farrah Fawcett hair, roller skates, and laser rifles?

PatrickG

07-09-2005, 01:27 PM

I knew "Abba" meant father in Hebrew. Never really heard of the band before this thread.

I had to consult Wikipedia.

They broke up about the time I turned two.

I think I've heard about a five second clip of "Dancing Queen" in the background in several movies and TV shows. Oh! And I heard "Voulez-Vous" maybe twice on the radio after Christina Aguilera's version came out.

My parents were into "Simon & Garfunkel", "John Denver". I grew up on nothing but folk until the age of eight. Then I got into classic motown. I have an uncle who recorded me an album with all the standards. From there I went to cinematic scores, which is just GREAT to drive to, IMO, or walk around listening to with headphones. It's like having musical underscoring for your LIFE! I loved trying to synch up the tracks with things going on around me.

Found my way to punk, straight-up rock and 90s pop alternative.

But these Abba people represent something totally alien to me.

The Mirrorball Man

07-09-2005, 01:31 PM

I knew "Abba" meant father in Hebrew. Never really heard of the band before this thread.

I had to consult Wikipedia.

They broke up about the time I turned two.
In that case, let me be the first one to introduce you to other obscure pop culture phenomenon, such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin! :D

PatrickG

07-09-2005, 01:39 PM

Dude. I know the Beatles.

Never listened to Pink Floyd of my own free will and while I know of Led Zeppelin, don't think I've ever heard their stuff.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to the 70s and 80s music.

I know my cousin was into White Snake. A few people I went to school with liked KISS. Most of my friends were into rap and mid 1990s alternative.

I dig the Beatles a bit though.

Gingold

07-09-2005, 02:33 PM

S.O.S. is my favorite ABBA song on your list. I could never admit liking them until I got dragged to see Mama Mia with my wife and mother in law. I gave in. (Bjorn again, I guess : ) ) I now think that there are two types of people: those who openly like ABBA and those who pretend not to like ABBA.

Tien Long

07-09-2005, 07:48 PM

Dancing Queen. Hands down. I remember the day in Bryant Park when the cast from "Mama Mia!" was giving a preview with "Dancing Queen." The whole park erupted in applause and called for an encore. Behold the power of "THe Dancing Queen."

Brack360

07-09-2005, 08:56 PM

What about Mama Mia?

Red Berens

07-09-2005, 09:33 PM

Take a Chance On Me. Does it get any better than that?

Jack Flash

07-10-2005, 06:56 AM

Gimme a Man after Midnight.

the best Abba song ever.

followed by Super Trooper and Mamma Mia.

Karl J. Barnes

07-10-2005, 07:08 AM

Gimme a Man after Midnight.

.

Your theme song, I take it?

David O Burcham

07-10-2005, 01:22 PM

Cam63

07-10-2005, 11:39 PM

" Baby, You Can Drive My Volvo. "

Karl J. Barnes

07-11-2005, 10:45 AM

My LEAST favorite ABBA song is "Does Your Mother Know"...

Hits a little too close to home, being a 30-something single male student surrounded by 17-19 year old female college students everyday.

:( WHY MUST GOD TORMENT ME SO!??! :(

Ace O' Bass ain't nuthin' but "ABBA Light."

God has nothing to do with it. It's the females. They have this coterie called The Bathroom Squad, which picks out males to be tormented. So when you see a gaggle of females head to the bathroom, pray that you won't be their selected target.