The Winner's Gonna Take It All: The final...
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They are my faves.
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Your taste is never anything other than stellar.
I feel bad for my spate of zeroes at the moment but I only gave about 5 or 6 in total to over 100 songs. I hold ABBA to such a high standard that when they are bad (as they only were on Ring Ring and occasionally Waterloo) it hurts. Luckily we are nearly over the worst of it now.
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Gonna Sing You My Lovesong is lovely, even if it is an inferior I've BEEN Waiting For You (which almost got my 11).
I've Been Waiting For You is nearly my favourite discovery of the whole rate, it's so lovely.
Nice to know our rate host can give sympathetic 10's to some right old bollocks!
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It's 99.6% perfect. That "thought I would no more manage to hit the ceiling" line though...
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A lot of their songs remind me of simpler times, because my mother (who hated the dreary ballads), my aunt (who hated the gloomy years) and my grandmother (who loved their earlier schlager songs) played a lot of them in their respective houdes.
I was born at the end of August 1983, just when the wheels of the band had totally fallen apart.
That's why I am so proud to be given the chance to run this rate from our first loss at the beginning of this week to the winner in a couple of weeks and all the suspense that had been built up during the weeks prior to it starting.
A big fat fucking THANK YOU to everyone who took part in this and sent me novels of commentary.
Next one falling tonight!
I was born at the end of August 1983, just when the wheels of the band had totally fallen apart.
That's why I am so proud to be given the chance to run this rate from our first loss at the beginning of this week to the winner in a couple of weeks and all the suspense that had been built up during the weeks prior to it starting.
A big fat fucking THANK YOU to everyone who took part in this and sent me novels of commentary.
Next one falling tonight!
As I said earlier it's been an absolute pleasure and a musical education for me having never investigated beyond Gold and More Gold before.
I now bitterly regret all the wasted years spent not listening to The Visitors.
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A life without You Owe me One and Should I Laugh Or Cry is a wasted one. Thank goodness you have discovered them!
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It's funny because I remember as a child ABBA being the only pop band where the tastes of my mum (Celine, Tina, Michael Bolton, Curtis Stigers), dad (Bruce Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Bryan Adams) and Grandma (err....Jive Bunny) converged. My dad had the first greatest hits on vinyl, my grandma volume 2 and my mum The Visitors with Super Trouper on a recorded cassette.
I distinctly recall a Sunday evening coming home from my dad's (I was probably 5 or 6) to my auntie and uncle's (where we were living at the time) to find my mum listening to Winner with a glass of "orange" in hand (I've since established there was a significant amount of gin mixed in with said orange), and trying not to cry as the tosser ex-BF of hers we had lived with for three years had gotten back with his ex-wife. Clearly there's an ABBA for every occasion...
I want that heart shaped dress.
There has certainly been so many fantastic gems I've discovered doing this rate. Am so pleased I've taken part.
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¿Porque no los dos?
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I heard there's a modern reproduction of that:
I love Very by Pet shop Boys.
King Kong Song is a terrible song but actually a rather great record.
I underscored it.
I underscored it.