Absolutely Best 99 songs of ABBA

in other words every tune

among the more or less 99 songs they've made

and recorded between 1972 -1982

....trying to compare how much I appreciate each piece

which no one else on earth would put in same order?!?!

so here is my most recent list

now after four decades of devoted listening

1

MAMMA MIA

2

HONEY HONEY

3

ME AND I

4

THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME

5

THE VISITORS

6

SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS

7

SUZY-HANG-AROUND

8

SITTING IN THE PALMTREE

9

LOVE ISN'T EASY (BUT IT SURE IS HARD ENOUGH)

10

CHIQUITITA

11

ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN

 

12

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU

13

RING RING

14

ANGEL EYES

15

WHEN I KISSED THE TEACHER

16

WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE

17

DISILLUSION

[written by Fältskog]

18

ANDANTE, ANDANTE

19

EAGLE

20

MOVE ON

21

PEOPLE NEED LOVE

22

DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW 

 

 

23

ME AND BOBBY AND BOBBY'S BROTHER

24

OUR LAST SUMMER

25

HASTA MANANA

26

FERNANDO

27

LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME

28

HEAD OVER HEELS

29

THE KING HAS LOST HIS CROWN

30

WATERLOO

31

I AM THE CITY

[last among these recorded

and my most recent discovery]

32

WHAT ABOUT LIVINGSTONE?

33

ANOTHER TOWN, ANOTHER TRAIN 

 

 

34

THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC

(including "Doris Day version")

35

I AM JUST A GIRL

36

SHOULD I LAUGH OR CRY

37

KING KONG SONG

38

NINA, PRETTY BALLERINA

39

INTERMEZZO NO. 1

40

"ABBA UNDELEATED"

mix of working versions or unfinished songs

41

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

42

ONE OF US

43

THAT'S ME

44

HOLE IN YOUR SOUL 

 

 

 

 

45

I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO

46

MY LOVE, MY LIFE

47

S.O.S.

48

BANG-A-BOOMERANG

49

MERRY-GO-ROUND

50

MONEY MONEY MONEY

51

I'M A MARIONETTE

52

I LET THE MUSIC SPEAK

53

THE PIPER

54

DANCE (WHILE THE MUSIC STILL GOES ON)

55

TAKE A CHANCE ON ME

 

 

56

ROCK ME

57

AS GOOD AS NEW

58

TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

59

GONNA SING YOU MY LOVE SONG

60

KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU

61

WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ME?

including single version HAPPY HAWAII

62

TROPICAL LOVELAND

63

I WONDER (DEPARTURE)

64

ROCK'N'ROLL BAND

65

WATCH OUT

66

HEY, HEY HELEN 

 

 

67

SHE'S MY KIND OF GIRL

68

CRAZY WORLD

69

I HAVE A DREAM

70

LIKE AN ANGEL PASSING THROUGH MY ROOM

71

ELAINE

72

DANCING QUEEN

73

GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT)

74

KISSES OF FIRE

75

SO LONG

76

SANTA ROSA

77

SUPER TROUPER

 

 

78

SUMMER NIGHT CITY

79

DREAM WORLD

80

THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO

81

HAPPY NEW YEAR

82

SOLDIERS

83

LOVELIGHT

84

DUM DUM DIDDLE

85

MAN IN THE MIDDLE

86

HE IS YOUR BROTHER

87

YOU OWE ME ONE

88

I SAW IT IN THE MIRROR

 

 

89

THE NAME OF THE GAME

90

PUT ON YOUR WHITE SOMBRERO

91

ARRIVAL

92

LOVERS (LIVE A LITTLE LONGER)

93

TIGER

94

ON AND ON AND ON

95

UNDER ATTACK

96

CASSANDRA

97

IF IT WASN'T FOR THE NIGHTS

98

VOULEZ-VOUS

99

MY MAMA SAID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

= from Mamma to Mama

 

....though some singles and tracks on Voulez-Vous was

not discovered until 2004 when I completed every gap.

 

 

 

 

ZYZ 

Seven Favourite Music Pieces by Traffic

1. in Crown chakra

PAPER SUN

[Capaldi, Winwood]

single -67

2. in Eye chakra

EMPTY PAGES

[Capaldi, Winwood]

from John Barleycorn Must Die -70

3. in Throat chakra

HOUSE FOR EVERYONE

[Mason]

from Mr. Fantasy -67

4. in Heart chakra

(I'm looking for a girl who has)

NO FACE, NO NAME, NO NUMBER

[Capaldi, Wood, Winwood]

from Mr. Fantasy -67

5. in Gut chakra

COLOURED RAIN

[Capaldi, Wood, Winwood]

from Mr Fantasy -67

6. in Sex chakra

VAGABOND VIRGIN

[Capaldi, Mason]

from Traffic -68

7. in Root chakra

WALKING IN THE WIND

[Capaldi, Winwood]

from When The Eagle Flies -74

+ two Bonus illusions

hard to decide whether they shine Above

and/or Below many others

RAINMAKER

[Capaldi, Winwood]

from The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys -71

WITHERING TREE (bearing no fruit)

[Capaldi, Winwood]

from Traffic -68

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Tomiros Diary : Friday 62:nd of Maybe 2050

more personal fiction with maybe real undertones
another double sequence built by 100 words each




Your intermedical status regularly change from green to yellow and back to safe. Never during decades you've turned really red, but today the test suddenly showed white. What does that mean?! We suspect you're so stuffed with colours, that the nail don't know where to point. Exactly like Beatles mega-artful double album, over eighty years old! By next corner you asked a human robot made in Xianyang. He reported he almost should've been your supervisor, but you've got some strange immunity. We watch over you, Tomiro! How good amount of pie or truffles you'll ever taste, your organs won't explode.








We stopped your heart for half a minute - then pushed you back to this ordinary future. You try to remember when Sweden became a colony under rulership of Ruschina. First steps must have been taken during the corona virus pandemy in 2020. By then Russia and China were separate empires, but co-operated non-officially. They already controled world economy, orchestrated sollutions based on peoples fear. Through satanic laboratories with angelic patience, Ruschina transformed human DNA-sequences. Was that how you became a vaettir or were you born this creature?? Parallell effects were implanted via vaccine. However we wish you wonderful vacation work!








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Records much Higher than Two Stars

Among Albums which AllMusic gives only 2 stars (out of 5) or even lower

here's some I rather estimate very high. Well, even if just some here are complete master pieces, everyone still is far from drowning.

To narrow the field I pick only albums released between 1965-95. Also put these in list order of how much I adore them. From the highest worth five clearly shining stars, to the bottom at least three.

This however is music I like to listen to many times, which would've been crazy to skip in respective artist's discography.

in my world 5 stars :

0. NUMBERS

by Cat Stevens -75

1. TIME

by Electric Light Orchestra -81

2. TORMATO

by Yes -78

3. SONG OF SEVEN

by Jon Anderson -80

4. BLOODY TOURISTS

by 10cc -78

in my world 4 1/2 stars :

5. ET SI JE M'EN VAIS AVANT TOI

by Francoise Hardy -72

6. REACH OUT

by Burt Bacharach -67

7. EMPTY SKY

by Elton John -69

8. THE BREATHTAKING BLUE

by Alphaville -89

9. PEARLS OF PASSION

by Roxette -86

10. BRIGADE

by Heart -90

11. WHEN YOU'RE A BOY

by Susanna Hoffs -91

12. VULTURE CULTURE

by Alan Parsons Project -85

13. TRESPASS

by Genesis -70

14. WATCH

by Manfred Mann's Earth Band -78

in my world 4 stars :

15. FAREWELL ANDROMEDA

by John Denver -73

16. COSMIC WHEELS

by Donovan -73

17. WINGS AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

by Wings (McCartney and more) -76

18. STORM FRONT

by Billy Joel -89

19. QUIET PLACES

by Buffy Sainte-Marie -73

20. ENDLESS WIRE

by Gordon Lightfoot -78

21. SUPERTRAMP

by Supertramp -70

22. STAY ON THESE ROADS

by A-ha -88

23. DREAMLAND

by Stranglers -86

24. NOBODY'S FOOLS

by Slade -76

25. NEVER SAY DIE!

by Black Sabbath -78

26. FLESH + BLOOD

by Roxy Music -80

27. ANIMATION

by Jon Anderson -83

28. TIME AND A WORD

by Yes -70

29. FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION

by Genesis -69

30. STORMWATCH

by Jethro Tull -79

in my world 3 1/2 stars :

31. TAKE ME HIGH

by Cliff Richard -73

32. LOVE ME, PLEASE LOVE ME

by Sandie Shaw -67

33. GILBERTO WITH TURRENTINE

by Astrud Gilberto -71

34. RINGO THE 4:TH

by Ringo Starr -77

35. THERE IS ONLY ONE ROY ORBISON

by Roy Orbison -65

36. MOODY BLUE

by Elvis Presley -77

37. SEPTEMBER MORN

by Neil Diamond -79

38. HORIZON

by Carpenters -75

39. HIGH CIVILIZATION

by Bee Gees -91

40. CRASH! BOOM! BANG!

by Roxette -94

41. MONDO BONGO

by Boomtown Rats -81

42. SCHOOL BOYS IN DISGRACE

by Kinks -75

43. WILD FRONTIER

by Gary Moore -87

44. BALANCE OF POWER

by Electric Light Orchestra -86

45. TANGO IN THE NIGHT

by Fleetwood Mac -87

46. LOVE HURTS

by Cher -91

47. FATE FOR BREAKFAST

by Art Garfunkel -79

48. REG STRIKES BACK

by Elton John -88

49. BIG GENERATOR

by Yes -87

50. BACK TO THE EGG

by Wings (McCartney and more) -79

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McCartney Compositions I Love Most

among every song Paul has ever created
(not included the purely instrumental)
in an attempt to order
how much I appreciate each piece now



1. PENNY LANE
single -67
then from Magical Mystery Tour (Retrospective)


2. GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE
from Revolver -66


3. MAYBE I'M AMAZED
from McCartney -70


4. THE FOOL ON THE HILL
from Magical Mystery Tour -67


5. ROCKY RACCOON
from White Album -68


6. LITTLE LAMB DRAGONFLY
from Red Rose Speedway -73

 
7. HEATHER (..to the moon..)
from Driving Rain -01


8. MOTHER NATURE'S SON
from White Album -68


9. GOLDEN SLUMBERS (Once there was a way)
from Abbey Road -69

 
10. I SAW HER STANDING THERE
[maybe co-written by Lennon]
from Please Please Me -63


11. ELEANOR RIGBY
from Revolver -66


12. YOU WON'T SEE ME
from Rubber Soul -65


13. TAKE IT AWAY
from Tug of War -82


14. MONKBERRY MOON DELIGHT
from Ram -71


15. MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER
from Abbey Road -69


16. HOUSE OF WAX
from Memory Almost Full -07


17. EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
[maybe co-written by Lennon]
from Beatles For Sale -64


18. THAT DAY IS DONE
[maybe co-written by Costello]
from Flowers in The Dirt -89


19. LADY MADONNA
single -68


20. NOBODY KNOWS
from McCartney II -80


21.  KEEP UNDER COVER
from Pipes of Peace -83


22. WE ALL STAND TOGETHER
single -83


23. VENUS AND MARS
(+REPRISE)
from Venus And Mars -75


24. SIX O'CLOCK
for Ringo Starr on Ringo -73


25. UNCLE ALBERT - ADMIRAL HALSEY
from Ram -71


26. ENGLISH TEA
from Chaos and Creation in The Backyard -05


27. SUMMER'S DAY SONG
(Someone's sleeping through a bad dream)
from McCartney II -80


28. DISTRACTIONS
from Flowers in The Dirt -89


29. SOMEDAYS
from Flaming Pie -97


30. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE
from Band On The Run -73


31. THINGS WE SAID TODAY
from A Hard Day's Night -64


32. HELLO GOODBYE
single -67
then from Magical Mystery Tour (Retrospective)


33. BIP BOP
from Wings Wild Life -71


34. MARTHA MY DEAR
from White Album -68


35. MICHELLE
from Rubber Soul -65


36. SOUVENIR
from Flaming Pie -97


37. GOOD DAY SUNSHINE
from Revolver -66


38. LONDON TOWN
from London Town -78


39. YELLOW SUBMARINE
for Ringo to sing
from Revolver -66 and Yellow Submarine -69


40. HONEY PIE
from White Album -68


41. THIS ONE
from Flowers in The Dirt -89


42. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
for Ringo to sing
from Sgt. Pepper -67


43. AVERAGE PERSON
from Pipes of Peace -83


44. PAPERBACK WRITER
single -66


45. ON MY WAY TO WORK
from NEW -13


46. ANOTHER DAY
single or bonus track to Ram -71


47. SALLY G
single -76


48. LET 'EM IN
from Wings at The Speed of Sound -76


49. FOR NO ONE
from Revolver -66


50. FIXING A HOLE
from Sgt. Pepper -67


51. FRIENDS TO GO
from Chaos and Creation in The Backyard -05


52. FEET IN THE CLOUDS
from Memory Almost Full -07


53. I'M CARRYING
from London Town -78


54. WINTER ROSE
from Back to The Egg -79


55. LONG-HAIRED LADY
from Ram -71


56. SOME PEOPLE NEVER KNOW
from Wings Wild Life -71


57. I DON'T KNOW
from Egypt Station -18


58. YOU GAVE ME THE ANSWER
from Venus And Mars -75


59. WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR
from Sgt. Pepper -67


60. THE SONGS WE WERE SINGING
from Flaming Pie -97


61. HERE TODAY
from Tug of War -82


62. THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
from Let it Be -70



....at first I was heading for 44 songs
but some seemed impossible to let out





my biggest periods of discovering McCartney was in :

1982 while six years old
1990 while fourteen years old
1993 while seventeen years old
1997 while twenty-one years old
2003 while twenty-seven years old
2013 while thirty-seven years old
2017 while fourty-one years old



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Top Twelve Elton John Songs

if inside a space ship I could bring only twelve
among Elton's own tunes to Taupin's lyrics

I would choose these now, after recent repetitions
(only allowed to take one song from each album)


1
ROCKET MAN
(I think it's gonna be a long long time)
from Honky Château -72

2
COUNTRY COMFORT
from Tumbleweed Connection -70

3
SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT
from Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy -75

4
WESTERN FORD GATEWAY
from Empty Sky -69

5
SIXTY YEARS ON
from Elton John -70

6
ISLAND GIRL
from Rock of The Westies -75

7
SOLAR PRESTIGE A GAMMON
from Caribou -74

8
JAPANESE HANDS
from Reg Strikes Back -88

9
LITTLE JEANNIE
from 21 at 33 -80

10
GREY SEAL
(How does it feel to be so wise?)
from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -73

11
SONG FOR GUY
from A Single Man -78

12
COLD AS CHRISTMAS (in the middle of the year)
from Too Low For Zero -83




Bonus mixing themes from his/their story :
THE CAPTAIN & THE KID
from The Captain & The Kid -06



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Long Before Corona, Quartet 2

HUMAN HORIZON : from Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, Paris

from Tomiro's Diary : Friday 1:st of Sarsaparillo 2050

what could have been the 32:nd of Maredream



Today you found this unbelievably old quarantine, a basement where some humans have hide during thirty years, since turbulent 2020. They still think peculiar corona virus covid-19 fills Earth's lungs. While actually that collective monster disappeared after only three months. Tomiro, we made you give them our retroactive map (from Milano and Marseille, upto Gothenburg, between Putingrad and Trumptown) showing how many//few died everywhere. Extremely surprised these hairy androids became, 'cause they could've survived anyway!?!? Without dwelling under their house (more or less willingly imprisoned), this future would've reached them earlier.... maybe. Many food-chains collapsed by socio-economical, pure distrust.







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Seven Albums Never Discovered Until Now

strangely enough, since they seem commonly connected to other music I've loved long times

for example Mike Rutherford's compositions I've heard much with Genesis, and Billy Joel I've listened to everything else by, while Lloyd Cole is completely new to me (since LeMarc mentioned this record)

as my Spring Spiral # 20:1

through white crown chakra

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH

by John Denver 1972

favourite tune : Mother Nature's Son
(in most out-spaced, energetic version I've heard)

though lilac eye chakra

FIRST BAND ON THE MOON

by The Cardigans 1996

favourite tune : Choke
(including sax, trumpet, trombone & flute in harsh synch to nice stomp)

through blue throat chakra

STORM FRONT

by Billy Joel 1989

favourite tune : (Don't Know Why) I Go To Extremes

through green heart chakra

DON'T GET WEIRD ON ME, BABE!

by Lloyd Cole 1991

favourite tune : There For Her

through yellow gut chakra

THE RIVER

by Bruce Springsteen 1980

favourite tune : Point Blank

through orange sex chakra

LACQUER

by Popcicle 1992

favourite tune : Hey Princess!

through red root chakra

THE LIVING YEARS

by Mike & The Mechanics 1988

favourite tune : Why Me?
"High on the mountains, across seven seas"

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Fantastically Fascinating : NUITS ROUGES

Film made in France 1973-74 aka SHADOWMAN

with direction as well as music score by Georges Franju
written by Jacques Champreux
 
A quite cartoonish creation for being real actors
filling some space between comedy and thriller
feeling extremely much as time spirit before my birth 

At first the intrigue threads seemed impossible to get grip of
until their logic became simple enough after more than two rounds



Characters seen through dwarfs :

Snowwhite Role [Beauty]
LA FEMME AU MASQUE (Gayle Hunnicutt)

Bashful Role [Mystery]
L'HOMME SANS VISAGE (Jacques Champreux)especiallly as Madame in boutique antique

Dopey Role [Fun]
SÉRAPHIN BEAUMINON (Patrick Préjean)

Doc Role [Idea]
LE PROFESSEUR PÉTRI (Henry Soskin)

Sneezy Role [Excitement]
LE ACHETEUR (Raymond Bussières)

Sleepy Role [Patience]  PAUL DE BORREGO (Ugo Pagliai)
nephew to first murdered Researcher of Templiers

Grumpy Role [Struggle] 
ALBERT (Yvonne Sarray)
a link between Maxime de Borrego and "L'homme sans visage"

Happy Role [Satisfaction]
MARTINE LEDUC (Josephine Chaplin)



my experience of whole movie 

6 Characters
5 Scenery
4 Camerawork

6 Thrill
3 Conflict
6 Humour

2 Psychology
1 Philosophy
7 Fantasy

5 Storyline
6 Music
7 Concept

= 58

I now give from 1 to 7 stars, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 x 12 = 84 never exist(?)




as discovery I should've made long time ago # 20:1

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20+20 Albums from 1980

Released fourty years ago

those I appreciate most now

1. GET HAPPY!!

Elvis Costello

2. GLASS HOUSES

Billy Joel

3. SONG OF SEVEN

Jon Anderson

4. VIENNA

Ultravox

5. THE AGE OF PLASTIC

Buggles

6. SUPER TROUPER

ABBA

7. THE RIVER

Bruce Springsteen

8. DREAM STREET ROSE

Gordon Lightfoot

9. DUKE

Genesis

10. DUMB WAITERS

Korgis

 

11. MCCARTNEY II

Paul McCartney

12. THE TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD

Alan Parsons Project

13. SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS)

David Bowie

14. BLIZZARD OF OZZ

Ozzy Osbourne

15. PRETENDERS

The Pretenders

16. SECONDS OF PLEASURE

Rockpile [Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds]

17. GYLLENE TIDER

Gyllene Tider

18. DEN LJUSNANDE FRAMTID ÄR VÅR

Magnus Uggla

19. NEVER FOR EVER

Kate Bush

20. XANADU

Olivia Newton John + Electric Light Orchestra

21. DOUBLE FANTASY

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

22. 21 AT 33

Elton John

23. KALEIDOSCOPE

Siouxie & The Banshees

24. HYPNOTISED

The Undertones

25. SOUND AFFECTS

The Jam

26. SMALLCREEP'S DAY

Mike Rutherford

27. SILENT KNIGHT

Saga

28. SEPTEMBER

Dan Hylander & Raj Montana Band

29. LÄNGRE INÅT LANDET

Ulf Lundell

30. MITT LAND

Alf Robertson

[country covers]

 

 

31. ROSES IN THE SNOW

Emmylou Harris

32. ONE TRICK PONY

Paul Simon

33. TRAVELOGUE

Human League

34. DEPARTURE

Journey

35. THE GAME

Queen

36. DRAMA

Yes

37. LIVE AT SHEFFIELD

Jon Anderson

38. I JUST CAN'T STOP IT

The English Beat

39. REMAIN IN LIGHT

Talking Heads

40. FLESH AND BLOOD

Roxy Music

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from Tomiro's Diary : Yanu 2050

We continue this unhuman ghostwriting
still with good intentions, about his
potential remembering of tomorrow


Sunday 2:nd of Yanu 2050

Another decade arrives already, Tomiro! Last night you watched twenty humans shot themselves up to space, in a private swedish capsule unapproved by Ruschina. Soon every ten-fingered creature has left this planet. Most have gone to moons like Titan or Triton. However biggest news is that small moon around Venus, which never existed until humans built it. We know you hid whole night in your cave-room, avoiding violent flames. Then snoozing away year's first day.... We let you dream about a woman holding her stone-sculptured owl. Still it flew down on your shoulder,  wanted to be kissed rather than photographed.


Twenty years ago this city was crazy crowded, extremely tight between each life and each death. Tomiro, you feared many seconds getting your breath stolen, while next wagon became stuck. From a broken double record, almost seventy years old, Springsteen sings "Two hearts are better than one"!! More true than true?? Well, since you never really have found another vaettir to love or live with, you walk around with two hearts in the shape of one splitted. It seems unable to be mended by anyone among your vaettir people. Maybe a human heart would be the strange but only solution?!




= two short story chapters built by 100 words each + one more :



Saturday 22:nd of Yanu 2050

Today you spoke to a classic robot, one invisible model, obviously living inside other machines. Its womanish voice listened to the name Oki-Googli. Her repertoire framed the world like we still live in 2020, using words like "environmental issues". Oki-Googli really tried to answer every question you created, though got confused two-out-of-five times. What exactly do you mean with "Why do humans sometimes avoid eye-contact?!"?! Laughing at her excuses, next second you felt ashamed for showing such lack of compassion. You suspected Oki-Googli hid inside that loudspeaker, or was hidden inside those microphones. We would rather say : no particular position.









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