ABBA Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2021
- Joe finally wore us down and got us to do the ABBA discography. We definitely didn't all see eye to eye on this one...
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ABBA (/ˈæbə/ AB-ə, Swedish: [ˈâbːa]) are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1983. In 1974 ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Waterloo", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the contest.
During the band's main active years, it consisted of two married couples: Fältskog and Ulvaeus, and Lyngstad and Andersson. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered, which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with latter compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics. After ABBA disbanded, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage, while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers.
Ten years after their disbanding, a compilation, ABBA Gold was released, which became a worldwide bestseller. In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. A sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was released in 2018. That same year it was announced that the band had recorded two new songs after 35 years of being inactive.
They are one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with record sales estimated to be between 150 million and over 380 million records worldwide. ABBA were the first group from a non-English-speaking country to achieve consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They are the best-selling Swedish band of all tim] and one of the best-selling bands originating in continental Europe. ABBA had eight consecutive number-one albums in the UK. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin America, and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2015, their song "Dancing Queen" was inducted into the Recording Academy's Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Give us your thoughts on ABBA down in the comments and let us know how you rank their albums. Thanks for watching!
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I'm with Joe. All the Abba albums are masterpieces!
Let's face it, we're all going to listen to a bit of ABBA after this video.
At their worst, the songwriting is banal and cheesy. At their best, Benny and Bjorn's craft rivals Lennon & McCartney.
Meryl Streep and Piers Brosan should not be allowed anywhere near a microphone
I'm totally on Joe's side. How can you not hear the sadness in the lyrics and in the awesom blending vocal harmonies of Agnetha and Frida? How can you not hear the excellent melodies and arrangments of Benny and Bjorn? My favourite album is Super Trouper and then the four other later albums follow straight behind. Their third is indeed their transitional record and the first two are the ones you don't need in your collection if you have a decent singles compilation. Favourite songs: Dancing Queen, The WInner Takes It All, Knowing Me Knowing You, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Our Last Summer.
ABBA were great but The Visitors is on another level, simply awesome & woefully underrated.
When he said his worst was Arrival I paused this and almost fainted.. ? But let’s see ..
For what it’s worth: Dancing Queen is the greatest pop song ever.
"The Winner takes it all" is one of the most emotional songs ever written and performed! How can the naysayers Kramzer and Joseph knock the emotional content of their music !!!
ABBA songs are deceptively simple
ABBA The Album for me-my parents played it all the time when I was young. Cannot even begin to tell you how huge Abba were here in the UK from 1974-1982.
I truly cannot comprehend anybody not liking ABBA's music, but if it doesn't click, it doesn't click I guess. Thank you for this video, it was fun!
Björn and Benny are some pretty amazing songwriters, and I've always respected ABBA for that. Growing up in Norway (Anni-Frid is from Arctic Norway) they were kind of "our" band too and played to death on radio and TV in the 70s and 80s. So I've grown pretty tired of their hits, but when I "rediscovered" them as an adult I fell in love with some of their deep cuts. I love their use of synths, and Led Zeppelin did too which is one of the reasons they recorded their last album in their studio in Stockholm!
voulez vous has my jam " if it wasnt for the nights"
Abba is a gift to mankind period!!!
Just discovered your videos. Loving them so far. I'm a big ABBA fan, so this was right up my street. The Visitors will always be my number one but of course, that might change if and when this new album/ material arrives.
100% onboard with Joe. The emotions are the core of ABBA - a great band.
I didn't think I will ever see so much hate for ABBA. It would be interesting to know what kind of music those two guys are into. I mean ABBA kinda has everything for everyone: their lyrics cover all emotional spectrum, their vocals are super vibrant, melodic and unique, same could be said about their instrumental parts. I don't know how anyone can call their music not emotional, when songs like Winner Takes it All or When All Is Said And Done or Happy New Year are emotional masterpieces. ABBA is one of those bands that are in the league of their own, their music doesn't sound like any other band that ever existed before or after.
Looking forward to this one guys. I tried to do an ABBA rankings video at new year, and after much agonising I finally gave up. I like them all, that's it.
This is a lot of fun and highly interesting - thanks. Especially your discussions of the girls' singing. I heard a Danish podcast a couple of years ago analyzing Anni-Frid's and Agnetha's vocals, exploring their singing in the light of the Scandinavian folk music traditions. There was also a section on the differences between how European and American singers tend to express emotions etc: Very simplisticly put they talked about a more minimalistic respectively a more maximalistic approach, which may be one of the reasons why two of you have a hard time hearing what for me appears as soaring emotions and loads of melancholy in A+A's vocals.