Thanks Dan, great summary, and you've mentioned at least 2 more that I do really like in that list (SOS and Knowing Me, Knowing You)! JSB

Agree.Those records plus, were blueprints of a whole era.Even many of their deep cuts became popular to newer Gens long after their break up.i.e,Slipping through ma fingers/Angeleyes.And btw 'Lay all your love on me' that was just a limited 12 inch release back then but is now a credible classic and acceptable dancefloor filler more than ever.

ABBA has so many supergems, hard to choose five but why not ”Knowing Me, Knowing You”, ”The Name Of The Game”, ”My Love, My Life”, ”One Of Us” and Eagle (long version)?

Love SOS - thanks for watching!

Well for starters we wouldn't have had to witness h in drag if it weren't for this lot! ;-)

@@Act0rJSB LOL yeah, but these days they don't need an excuse.

Haha, well in fairness you did put Abba at number 2 on the list, so I won't automatically discount any advice from you in future...probably! ;-)

Thanks for watching - think The Beatles and Bee Gees both have a claim for that title, but I'll concede history is proving very kind to our Swedish friends too! JSB

@@Act0rJSB Undoubtfully Both The Beatles and the Bee Gees(btw i also feel very close to the Gibbs), but personaly i can connect sentimentally to Abba in the deepest degree.It's a solid bond for an army of millions who grew up with them and have lived that era real time and that's a reason why their fan's tight,emotional longlasting devotion stood the test of time even after almost 4 whole decades of hiatus without any released recorded activity of the 4some (1983-Sept.2021)Abba is a legacy band and a crowned pop royalty still big deal and very powerful.Their VOYAGE gigs in London have overpassed 2 million tickets sold and btw i'm about to get there sooner or later.

Oh both 'The Visitors" and 'ABBA- THE ALBUM" from '77 are kinda far away from their earcandy catchy pop majesty.Both darker(esp,The Visitors) and sophisticated pieces of work.'The Album" was more prog-pop/rock American flavoured(Californian-sound) with great tracks and deep lyrics,while 'The Visitors" even dark,haunting and mature and positively acclaimed even by many of their 'sceptic' critics.

I'll check it out!

Thanks for watching Larry - SOS is on my shortlist of ones I like already and quite a few people have mentioned Eagle, so will have to check that one out! JSB

great choices...For me 'Eagle" is majestic,''Nights on Broadway" a fab track.Real music,real intruments(bass/guitar),real harmonization no autotune and Bee Gees fab live performers..

From one point and after 'everybody" 'didn't like" Abba but some squillions were listening to them behind closed doors.And we were wondering who the heck were buying those phenomenal amounts of records?They were a record sales phenomenon.Cult persona Malcom McLaren (also manager of punk bands i.e. Sex Pistols) kinda stated in an Abba docu that cool youngsters were supposedly buying Bowei albums and stuff and hid ABBA records in them, same way they hid porn-mags.Such was their guilty pleasure. Not to mention that both Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten apreciated Abba's honesty and songwritting skills.Btw J.Rotten also did a tribute live- cover of Abba's 'Fernando' in front of a live audience a couple of years ago.(video was in utube)

BTW ,'Hole in your soul" is a fab explosive rockage anthem and 'The Day before you came" an acknowledged 'non-chorused' masterpiece even by some critical non-Abba fans.As for 'i can be that woman"...What can i say...A real shot to the heart.I didn;t like it at all at first.Then i read the story about it.Within 48 hours i adored this track and i almost always end up teary.VOYAGE album is very special to me,i get very emotional everytime i listen to it.

Oh I know exactly what you mean...this particular strand on the channel is deliberately focussed on the big songs (and of artists I wouldn't normally talk about), but nearly everything else I cover tends towards the more obscure, either artists, songs, or both...and I'm forever telling people to ignore the 'popular' songs when trying (and usually failing...) to get them to check out the bands I tend to bang on about!! Will add your suggestions to the long list of things to get around to checking out one of these years!! Cheers, JSB.

Absolutely true.Today it sounds so old school 'rejecting' Abba.So uncool to overlook them.And i'ld also stick to the likes of R.Blackmoore,Ian Gillan who back then unbashefully admitted their Abba love long before David Grohl,Bil Corgan,Corey Taylor etc (who have all also confessed they love Abba and want the world to know and 'deal with this"!)btw Paul Mac Cartney had also said back then 'they deserve all the success they got"...And now i'm gonna put on my turbtable their prog rock anthem 'Eagle" and sooth in it.

All true and I love the passion - and I don't think they've been a joke in 30 years, but for a period in the 80s and early 90s that's how they were viewed (Not just them, but also The Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Bee Gees, ELO and others - all of whom have now also been deservedly re-evaluated)- didn't mean millions of people stopped loving them but it became 'unfashionable' (a ghastly word) to admit to liking them for a while. Funnily, enough, Muriel's Wedding (in which the main character's love for the group is presented as a joke - and they had considered changing her favourite band to The Village People if they couldn't get the rights to Abba's songs) played a huge part in returning them to 'acceptability' (another ghastly word!). End of the day nobody is ever wrong for loving ANY music (and equally it's perfectly okay to dislike something loads of other people love - we all hear things differently!). Cheers, JSB.

@@Act0rJSB All you say is true. But from my point of view, those people that were saying these things were a vocal minority. And history has proven them wrong. They and their silly views should be put in the dustbin of history. Again, even during that time, ABBA were selling millions of records. By any measurement, they were a success. Even if some did not take them seriously. All these years later. I do not think of the nay sayers.

@@Act0rJSB May i ask are you based in the US or the UK ?

@@Act0rJSB early '80s-mid '80s Abba was a 'prohibited" uncool word.Besides everyone had decided to permanently wave goodbyey to the '70s and Abba were part of this.But by late '80s Abba nostalgia started getting raised from the ashes around the time of the SAW movement.Then Aussie tribute band Bjorn again started filling venues then early '90s came Erasure with Abba-esque and the Abba revival took place ever after like a slow-motion repetitive explosion.Rest is history.

Hey, we all have biases one way or another but that's a pretty cool one to have! Thanks for the suggestions, will add them to the list!! Cheers, JSB.

Even though I knew it (and 3 of the others) I haven't heard it (outside of movie soundtracks and the like) in full in at least 15 years, quite probably longer.