In this episode (ABBAsode) we invited @renatasnacks to rank the contents of the 1992 greatest hits release ABBA Gold with us, discussing the relative merits of each track and sharing our personal histories with ABBA. Spoiler: We totally went to Sweden about it.
Links
ABBA Greatest Hits
ABBA Gold
Columbia House
Hannah Montana
Kesha
Lady Gaga: Poker Face
Ace of Base
Gravity Falls/Babba’s Disco Girl/Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons
ABBA Gold, ranked:
Track | Song | Renata | Alene | Anna | Score |
1 | Dancing Queen | 10 | 6 | 3 | 19 |
2 | Knowing Me, Knowing You | 13 | 8 | 6 | 27 |
3 | Take A Chance On Me | 5 | 7 | 13 | 25 |
4 | Mamma Mia | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
5 | Lay All Your Love On Me | 4 | 9 | 10 | 23 |
6 | Super Trouper | 8 | 18 | 7 | 33 |
7 | I Have A Dream | 18 | 15 | 18 | 51 |
8 | The Winner Takes It All | 17 | 14 | 17 | 48 |
9 | Money, Money, Money | 14 | 12 | 5 | 31 |
10 | S.O.S. | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 |
11 | Chiquitita | 19 | 5 | 19 | 43 |
12 | Fernando | 15 | 3 | 9 | 27 |
13 | Voulez-Vous | 2 | 10 | 4 | 16 |
14 | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) |
1 | 13 | 11 | 25 |
15 | Does Your Mother Know | 7 | 17 | 16 | 40 |
16 | One Of Us | 16 | 19 | 14 | 49 |
17 | The Name Of The Game | 11 | 16 | 12 | 39 |
18 | Thank You For The Music | 12 | 11 | 15 | 38 |
19 | Waterloo | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
Our winners take it all: Waterloo, S.O.S., Mamma Mia
Erasure: Take a Chance on Me, Abba-Esque
Episode 54: Song Covers
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Jukebox musicals
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
ABBA Oro
ABBA Mania
Nina Pretty Ballerina
Under Attack
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Hey Hey Helen
When I Kissed The Teacher
Ring Ring
Angel Eyes
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Mamma Mia
The Martian: Waterloo
Miss Congeniality: Dancing Queen
Chess: One Night in Bangkok, Anthem, Embassy Lament
Musical Obsessions
Renata: Dolly Parton’s America podcast: “Mule Skinner Blues”
Anna: Şeftali ağaçları (Turkish folk song)
Alene: “Love Me Like That” by The Knocks feat. Carly Rae Jepsen
Obsessions
Renata: Sarah J. Maas and her horny fairies (Worst Bestsellers episode 99)
Anna: Headliners by Lucy Parker
Alene: They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
That was fun. Would you do a podcast on More ABBA Gold?
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Oh I’ve just realised you did touch upon it. Ignore me then!
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Excellent idea!
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I did go to Sweden last summer and went to the ABBA museum, it is so much fun. You must go if you have the chance
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