Super Trouper Poll

This is indeed rather easy for me. The title track, "The Winner Takes It All", "The Piper" and "Andante, Andante" are all great songs. But "Lay All Your Love On Me" is my all time favourite ABBA moment, so it has to be that one.

The magnificent title track utterly dominates the rest of this puerile festering pabulum, no contest!

Alex?

"Suppah-pah Troupah-pah." Better overall albums towards the end but less high points.

Andante Andante is the big clunker here. Right guys?

Someone please tell me why Agnetha shoves one arm in the air during the chorus of that song.

I always thought that she was pointing at the titular spotlight?
Anyway, "On And On And On", because it's a return to their rockier early stuff. But it's the same thing with the later albums, three-or-four-ish great songs surrounded by sludge.

"the later albums"?

Everything up to and possibly including "Arrival" sounds much more like "a band making an album" in that the music sounds a lot more like a collaboration between the four members and also the backing musicians, however much that may or may not have been the case in reality. Later albums sound like two songwriters locked in a shed, with enough ideas for three/four great songs, but then almost recycling older ideas to fill out the space on the album.

if it had been on there, i'd have said "under attack", but that's a bonus really. I've gone for "Winner Takes It All" - fucking heartbreaking, even for this album!

woops, got mixed up between this and visitors :-(

Later albums sound like two songwriters locked in a shed, with enough ideas for three/four great songs, but then almost recycling older ideas to fill out the space on the album.

Disagree in the case of "Super Trouper". Strongly disagree in the case of "The Visitors".

And the girls never contributed much other than vocals and beautiful vocal harmonies anyway. Stikkan Andersson may have contributed less and less musically throughout their career though.

The Winner Takes It All x 3

i'm not gonna lie, 'mamma mia' is my sex in the city for the summer movie

Later albums sound like two songwriters locked in a shed, with enough ideas for three/four great songs, but then almost recycling older ideas to fill out the space on the album.

The Visitors >>> ABBA GOLD

A close call between "The Winner Takes It All" and "Lay All Your Love On Me," but went with "Lay."

The Visitors >>> ABBA GOLD

If you replace >>> with >, then I might actually agree with you.

the snozberries taste like snozberries

The Visitors >>> ABBA GOLD

I'm not counting "ABBA Gold" as it is a compilation album.

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Awesome, thanks snoball.

Lay All Your Love On Me is a great song, but I have had to go for the saddest of all songs.

Lay All Your Love On Me

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Right 1, 2 in the right order.

Really? I'd take 3 over 2. Surprised you'd diss the slamming electro disco for a power ballad.

That's a great power ballad though. I suppose 2 and 3 are arguable. Either way 1 is the best.

I am surprised the title track has done so well... I mean, it's grand, but there are much better tunes on the album. Maybe plurality voting has let a less preferred candidate win again.

I really like "Me and I" even if the lyrics are kind of o_O

And god damn, the chorus of "Lay All Your Love on Me". If you don't feel compelled to sing along to this you are a weirdo.

i always hear the chorus as being sung by undead zombies.

Shit, no votes for 'Me and I'?

'Me and I' is so great

I completely agree, so many great moments in that song: the synthesizer intro, the "OH NO, OH NO!" part, the killer chorus and the vocodered bits at the end, the sustained, harmonised "IIIIIII" and the way it descends over the chord change... and the rhythm section superbly strong throughout.

Portishead should have covered Super Trooper.

no votes for "Our Last Summer" = fuck u ILM