The Winner's Gonna Take It All: The final...
- Thread starter Remorque
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Oh!!! I had hoped this would have clung on more. One of their best bops!!! There I said it!
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Deleted member 312
Ring Ring's alright. About the correct time for it to go.
Y'all are deaf!
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Hmm I am really surprised how well liked this song is. There are much better songs even on Ring, Ring to me. But there are two more songs that I don't like and I know most people are crazy about (well at least ABBA-Fans). So hopefully someone joins me in disliking them 'cause I don't like being the one giving the least points!
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Nina is the best song on Ring Ring, obvs.
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8 - Ring Ring - 1973
Average: 4.8820
#37 (tie): Ring Ring
#75: Disillusion
#79: Another Town, Another Train
#80: People Need Love
#83: Nina, Pretty Ballerina
#85: Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
#86 (tie): He Is Your Brother
#89: Rock'n Roll Band
#90 (tie): I Am Just a Girl
#95: Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother
#96 (tie): Santa Rosa
#98: Merry-Go-Round
#99: She's My Kind of Girl
#100: I Saw It In The Mirror
Highest scorers:
@Sprockrooster - 7.1786
@tylerc904 - 6.6071
Lowest scorers:
@VivaForever - 2.2857
@CasperFan - 2.4286
@idratherjack - 2.5714
My average: 6.1071
@idratherjack - 2.5714
My average: 6.1071
Our first album to fall is the much maligned Ring Ring. The fact that most of these songs fell before we even reached the top 80 should have given you a fair warning that this would be the album with the lowest average here.
I have repeated time and time again when we were cutting these songs that this is an album recorded by a group of four people who were or had had success, be it as part of a group or solo. Björn had been part of a group called The Hootenanny Singers, Benny was part of the band Hep Stars and Agnetha and Frida had been recording music from a young age with varying degrees of success.
Benny and Björn decided to form a duo and had already released a couple of singles (among them She's My Kind Of Girl, En Karusell, which was the Swedish version of Merry-Go-Round and Rock'n Roll Band, yet that version was a bit different to the one we're used to), but it wasn't until they decided to record People Need Love that their manager Stig Anderson suggested the boys could enlist the vocal help from both of their fiancées.
ABBA as we know them were not even considered a thing at the time.
Yet, the rest is history...
The album was only officially released in 1973 in Scandinavia and several parts of Europe such as Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Belgium, where it was their first chart-topper too.
Australia and New Zealand got it in 1975, but it wasn't until 1992 that it was released in the United Kingdom and it took up until 1995 to be leashed upon the American public...
You do have to keep in mind that the musical climate was very different at the time. Schlager music was the thing back then and was largely considered pop music. Hence the light and sometimes childish nature of some of these songs, which is a big part of why some of you couldn't give out a lot of high scores. Their later songs were very complex and in stark contrast with some of the songs on display here.
Pair that with the fact that the general focus was not on the girls' voices, as Benny and Björn were very much trying to be the stars of this project, with the girls playing second fiddle and most of you aren't here even for male pop stars with good voices, let alone those with awful voices...
Is it their worst album? Yes.
Is it a bad album per sé? Certain opinions beg to differ.
I'd strongly suggest you all listen to it with new ears and maybe go back into our countdown to follow along. Who knows... Maybe you'll find a hidden gem somewhere or a song you would never have given the light of day after hearing it for the first time when scoring these songs.
Scream. Y'all have put my 4.5 Ring Ring average to shame.
I will never be subjecting myself to the Ring Ring album ever again, thank you very much!
Worst album artwork of their career:
Frida and Benny, take half a step back. Frida, hand on hip.
Meanwhile, on the back...
Queen of first-gen photo-bombing.
That is awkward! My least favorite album cover would probably be the warpy Ring Ring, but overall I think their album covers still hold up 50+ years later. My favorite would have to be a toss-up between The Visitors and self-titled (complete with its own creepy photobomb).
Their single covers, however...
and
are the worst offenses that immediately come to mind.
I sometimes think I was too generous.
That is awkward! My least favorite album cover would probably be the warpy Ring Ring, but overall I think their album covers still hold up 50+ years later. My favorite would have to be a toss-up between The Visitors and self-titled (complete with its own creepy photobomb).
Their single covers, however...
and
are the worst offenses that immediately come to mind.
I had the self-titled on cassette first and the cover was reduced in size, so I thought the photo-bomb girl was Agnetha waiting to get into the car for awhile.
The boiler suits didn't offend me, but that outdated One of Us artwork is upsetting.
That 'One Of Us' cover is hilarious.
Dear Lordt. Not only did the girls' tanning beds explode, but the aliens are clearly about to beam Agnetha up to the mothership. Harsh overhead lighting anyone? Who sat down and thought "Well, that's a decent cover"???*
*But at least they got the copyright symbol in there!
What a legend.Worst album artwork of their career:
Frida and Benny, take half a step back. Frida, hand on hip.
Meanwhile, on the back...
Queen of first-gen photo-bombing.
He/Him
I have the picture disc of this....it's....not on display.
