I won't argue against talent, but there is acutally a lot going on in the production behind. Usually they used a moog to aid strength to the voices, and there is an impressive work using reverb and other effects. But that would of course be nothing, if the singers was bad. And they are definitely not bad!
@@NAANsoft Yes, you are so correct, a good deal of vocal modification occurred within the studio, in ABBA's live recordings their accents are evident, though not within the highly polished studio productions, well other than Voyage. I'm not a vocal tech geek, though do know that many of their recordings had been sped up just a tad as well. I was disappointed they so often chose to lip sync, when instead hearing their live sound had a wonderful richness of its own.
@@birchleaf Yes, indeed most of the performances back them where lip synced to studio recordings, otherwise a lot of work and preparation to attempt to capture the richness of a polished recording. ABBA songs are so rich and layered, but some songs they had nailed live, others not so much, but still I love hearing the dynamics of a live performance! :)
55 year old who had a weird metal/new wave hybrid period in my tweens and early teens. I loved a few poppy 78-81 ABBA songs and have grown to appreciate much more of their catalog.
Even for an extreme metalhead like myself there is nothing to not love about this band. Their music is so often perfect, and has the ability to catapult me back to my youth and the glorious 70s.
I particularly like ths one because Anni Frid does the lead vocal in the verses. Everyone always focuses on Agnetha who is great but Anni never gets the attention she deserves. I love this German-Norweigian beauty's deep rich sultry voice and she seems like a really sweet person. In the early 80s she had a really big solo hit called "I Know There's Something Going On". You guys should react to that one!
Yes I love Agnetha voice, but people tend to give less price to Anni, I love her voice, I love both sing together but is nice to hear Anni taking the lead,
@@claudiameier9233 ~ Phil Collins did Not write "I Know There's Something Going On". He produced, sang back up, and played the drums. The lyricist for that song is Russ Ballard from Argent fame...
I love them both, but I completely agree. She is my personal favorite voice of the two. But again, they are both awesome! Still it is nice to see them react to one of her lead songs.
Love your ABBA shirt! Great song. Sad one, but some people really are better off as friends than lovers. It happens a lot. On another note...You guys really ought to hear "Fernando" - it's absolutely gorgeous. The harmonies are amazing, and it's about a person looking back on her past as a freedom fighter, with her friend Fernando. Very sweet and nostalgic.
While I’ve always been a rocker girl there’s something about ABBA that just draws me in. They have that special ability to draw in fans from every genre of music. Just amazing! I love this song!
As a rocker On and On and On from Dick Cavett must be one of yourABBA fav, and it's live and the last live show, a 1 000 000 000 usd reunion tour offer could not change that
David Grohl,Corey Taylor,Bono,even one of Korn's drummers totally agree with you.All are self confessed Abba fans and love the purity in Abba's pop majesty.
If you want to cry, listen to ABBA’s “Slipping Through My Fingers”! It’s about a parent’s child growing up and slowly pulling away to become an adult. I guarantee you won’t have dry eyes at the end! Also, “Waterloo”, “Fernando”, and “Thank You For the Music” are great hits of theirs. Also, you guys need to check out the movie “Mamma Mia”! It’s a musical with Meryl Streep featuring all Abba music. It’s hilarious and fun! ❤
"The Visitors", that last Abba album, with "Slipping through my fingers" on it is my definite favorite album. No huge hits, they broke up soon after the release, but the whole album feels like they grew up. And it's so melancholic.
This song is especially poignant because during the years ABBA were together, Anni-Frid was married to Benny, and Agnetha was married to Bjorn. Both couples ended up divorcing. So when they're singing to each other about breaking up, it foretold their own relationships ending.
It amazes me how ABBA creates serious songs and gives them such an upbeat. This touches me because this is what the members are truly going through. Just like, "The Winner Takes it All". One that gets me emotional is, "Dance While the Music Still Goes On ". (Please react) Thanks for being ABBA fans! There are still a hundred or more songs of theirs I love. Benny has more of a lead vocal on the track, "Move On " with the ladies providing backup.
I want to suggest the movie Mamma Mia ( the first one edpecially) for your movie channel. A movie musical with all Abba songs. ( it was on Broadway as a stage play first)
Going through these reactions, I hadn't noticed before how many relationship break up songs Abba have. It's so autobiographical of the band, with the ultimate break up song, the beautiful 'The winner takes it all'.
"Knowing me knowing you" (1976) is one of ABBA's most famous heartthrob songs The lyrics are strong and raw (some say there is a preview of the couple conflicts between the blonde singer Agnetha & guitarist Björn) And it has a powerful chorus on Agnetha & Frida, and a nice melody These is an excellent official video, it shows the four of them in separation situations, and plays with the images of the trios The part that stands out the most is the appearance of the image of Agnetha almost whispering as a reflection of Frida's main voice "Knowing me knowing you" was five weeks in a row at #1 in the UK, and one of them coincided with the #1 of "Dancing Queen" on the Billboard. (Just this week of April 9, 1977, 46 years ago, ABBA was #1 in the U.S. and U.K. with two different songs from the same album) "Knowing me knowing you" is one of their hits that ABBA recorded in spanish at 1980, with the tittle: "Conociéndome, Conociéndote", part of their album in spanish language "Gracias por la música" (1980) ABBA recorded in spanish after the colossal success of "Chiquitita" (1979) in Latin American countries For a new suggestion, the first heartbroken ABBA song that was worldwide hit: "S.O.S." (1975) the second worldwide hit to ABBA since their victory at Eurovision with "Waterloo" I hope to see you in next reaction to ABBA My best regards to You from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 South América
My favorite ABBA song. This is true magic in music. When you can take a sad subject, in this case breaking up and put it behind the façade of an upbeat tune. They were also good actors, the expressions in this video is top notch
Only ABBA could make a Break Up Song so Catchy and Up Beat. They were ahead of the times for music and are considered one of the Best or Best ever Pop group Ever, depending on who you or how others think of them. One of my Favorite songs and Take a Chance. So many more to hear it will take a year to hear them all. They were also a decade ahead with their music videos well before MTV which also helped propel them to global success.
I love ABBA!! I saw their ABBA Voyage concert in London last October. It was awesome!! They have a theater designed just for this show and use avatars of their 1977 selves. It's unreal. You'd think it was them on stage and on the big screens. They did all their hits including "Chiquitita", "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "SOS", "Mamma Mia" and more, as well as some of their songs from their latest album.
One of my very fav ABBA songs, pure perfection ! Always liked the photo of them that's on your new t-shirt, taken of the group when they visited LA in mid-seventies
Erasure released a 4-track EP called "Abba-esque" in 1992 covering the songs Voulez Vous, S.O.S., Take a Chance on Me & Lay All Your Love on Me. All became top 10 hits in their own right. The music video's are hilarious too :)) ABBA music is forever addictive.
Born in 68,;sneered at disco and became a metal head in the early 80s, but loved a lot of disco, Europop and techno songs from that era then and as time went by.
It has been really fun to watch the two of you discover ABBA. For your next song, I highly recommend "The Name of the Game", "Super Trouper", and "Slipping Through My Fingers".
When polls are taken on the fans most loved ABBA songs, inevitably DANCING QUEEN is almost always in the top spot. You must feature it asap, absolute classic.
There isn't much I don't know about Abba. Been a fan since 1976. My favorite band ever. The couples were still together at this time, 1976. They released a new album in 2021. They all still respect each other and get on well
"Don't intermingle with your band members"... seriously? Have you not noticed what AWESOME music comes out of those relationships? Some of the greatest songs in history!
Yeah, but in the long run, it tends to end poorly. It might be great for making music, but the artists wind up miserable, and sometimes the band doesn't survive the inevitable break-up.
This was the first ABBA song that I ever heard back in 1977. It's from their Arrival album--the same one that has Dancing Queen. For some reason, the station I listened to played this more. I was immediately hooked on their voices and melodies. I bought the album and have been a fan ever since. I was lucky enough to see them in concert in Boston in 1979 for their Voulez-Vous tour--amazing show!
Growing up an Army Brat in Cold war Germany, even as the Rocker that I am, I had no choice but to become an ABBA fan. They were everywhere! Fairs, Volk fest, carnivals.....
@@ericmorrison9747 Do you still live there or are you in the US now and where? I was born and grew up as kid listening to ABBA in Australia. Now live in Europe , I'm glad I left Australia after what happened in the last 3 years. I've heard Australia has become an authoritarian police state now ! Very very frightening!
I lost my wife a month and a half ago to leukemia after 45 years of marriage and I can't sleep. We found out Thursday morning and she was gone Sunday shortly after midnight. I am going out to set a post for my new mailbox (yes, at 3:30 am) and I decided to take time to drink a cup of coffee and relax a bit for a bit. Love songs and breakup songs and sad songs all seem to help. I hope you guys are together as many years and more than we were. thanks for showing me what i had. Cancer sucks. Peace kids.
Much heart to you, kk. Lost my husband to leukemia in 1996 and ABBA was one of his two favorite groups. So many memories flood back whenever I hear them. Take care of yourself for her.
Love ABBA’s harmonies!❤️❤️❤️ “Fernando” next, please!👍👍👍 If you haven’t already, you should check out the Movie “Mamma Mia”, a musical with all ABBA songs! It’s fun!👍👍
I never listened to Abba until the 90s & thought how have I never heard this music. I swear I heard every song & loved them. Boy what I would've paid to hear them in my childhood. One of the best bands of all time & I had never heard of them.
Very well said Amber. Most excellent analogy of their music. Good catch on the videos J. I thank my mom for listening to ABBA always playing in the background. Know every song every album. Such a emotional rollercoaster. Kudos for playing this one. Made my day made me smile.❤👏👏👏🦂
Bjorn & Benny were very good at writing very depressing lyrics to serious life situations but they were cleverly masked by upbeat and catchy music with absolutely beautiful harmonies.
This was one of their later songs when Agnetha and Bjorn's marriage was ending. Benny and Bjorn are incredible songwriters and composers who have worked together since the 1960s and their ABBA days are now recaptured holographically in the UK at a purpose built venue that has performances by the group's avatars. All of the songs were re-recorded by them specifically for the venue along with a whole new album.
Nobody can even come up with how many albums they sold, I've read estimates as high as half a billion, only behind Elvis and The Beatles, seems legit, they were HUGE, the impact they had can not be understated, there's no such thing as a bad ABBA song, for a good 10 years they were THE biggest band on the planet bar none. They make the happiest break up songs ever, it took me decades to realize just how amazing they were, the lyrics are deep and meaningful and good God they're drop dead gorgeous and they have the voice of angels and you're correct, Bjorn and Benny are master craftsmen and created the pulse of the music, just all around amazing and will never be seen again.
Best memories I have with my dad because he really loved ABBA and would always stop wrenching on cars so he could just listen to the songs that would come on the radio. My fav hands down is Fernando
One of my favorite songs of all time. It has such a unique, dramatic sound to it that I've never heard anywhere else, and yet you can just sing along to it as well. From the same album as Dancing Queen. Two perfect songs from a great album: Arrival.
An upbeat song with a lonely meaning...😊 Love this song...❤ Hope you react to more of their songs like Voulez-Vous, Ring Ring, Honey Honey, their most popular songs, Fernando and Dancing Queen and so many more..
Abba's videos are only deceptively simple...It's almost always on-point and their video editing is top-notch, catches the mood and tone of every damn song.
And it’s important to remember that most of them predate MTV and the real explosion of music videos in the 80s. Having them at all (and so many of them) was pretty unusual at the time.
Love ABBA. I was just checking your database. I'm shocked. Perhaps the signature song was not there! 'Dancing Queen' give it a chance. 'Fernando' is awesome too. Cheers.
ABBA are my favourite band of all and Frida is my favourite, I'm glad you're playing more of Frida's lead vocals as I feel she's so underrated, I Have A Dream, Lovers(Live A Little Longer), The King Has Lost His Crown all Frida's lead vocals. Bjorn does sing vocals as well, Does Your Mother Know, Why Does It Have To Be Me, Rock Me, Suzy Hang Around, Two For The Price of One and Sitting In The Palm Tree.
I wish some more reactors would react to 'Our Last Summer', 'Andante Andante' or 'I Let The Music Speak'. These great Frida leads are ignored by most of the music reactors. Most of them only react to her five ABBA Gold lead songs, 'The Visitors' and 'When All Is Said And Done' and nothing more... Oh and by the way it's Benny who sings Suzy-Hang-Around. It's his only lead song.
When I Kissed The Teacher and Dum Dum Diddle are two of my favourites. Abba Arrival was the first record I owned - I was so happy, excited and proud to have my very own record, lol - oh and when you opened the cover up it had all the words to the songs - I was in heaven.
Arrival is an amazing album to me as well. I had "discovered" them just a year or so earlier (after hearing "Greatest Hits Vol. 1" I was hooked) so I had a few albums, but "Arrival" was my first new one, so I experienced all the anticipation when you know a new album is coming for the first time and then, as you mentioned, the lyrics were right there - which was a new thing. When Voyage came out I first heard the songs watching the lyric videos. So the technology has changed but the experience (a new album, following along with the words while listening at first) was remarkably similar to when I was a kid. I appreciated Voyage and really like it, but Arrival is special to me. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is #2 on my list of favourite ABBA songs and "Money, Money, Money" is in my top ten. Those two songs alone make it an amazing album but then there is the matter of that other song. The one that was a monster hit at the time, endures as a fan favourite to this day and appears in every thread as a suggestion when there is an ABBA reaction. It will be interesting when Jay and Amber react to Dancing Queen. I'm guessing that even if they haven't realized who sings it, they will have heard it.
Remember, this was recorded at a time when there was no pitch correction or Autotune! This was absolutely pure talent.
💯💯💯💯💯
I won't argue against talent, but there is acutally a lot going on in the production behind. Usually they used a moog to aid strength to the voices, and there is an impressive work using reverb and other effects. But that would of course be nothing, if the singers was bad. And they are definitely not bad!
@@NAANsoft Yes, you are so correct, a good deal of vocal modification occurred within the studio, in ABBA's live recordings their accents are evident, though not within the highly polished studio productions, well other than Voyage. I'm not a vocal tech geek, though do know that many of their recordings had been sped up just a tad as well. I was disappointed they so often chose to lip sync, when instead hearing their live sound had a wonderful richness of its own.
@@TRguy64TV shows back then usually wanted the bands to lip synch, as that was cheaper and easier to produce.
@@birchleaf Yes, indeed most of the performances back them where lip synced to studio recordings, otherwise a lot of work and preparation to attempt to capture the richness of a polished recording. ABBA songs are so rich and layered, but some songs they had nailed live, others not so much, but still I love hearing the dynamics of a live performance! :)
60 yr old classic rock fan here. Not afraid to admit, ABBA is awesome , good music is good music.
Brightest most upbeat heartbreak song of all time? Abba were monster pop hit makers!
I compare this with Go your own way.
55 year old who had a weird metal/new wave hybrid period in my tweens and early teens. I loved a few poppy 78-81 ABBA songs and have grown to appreciate much more of their catalog.
"Does your mother know?" is one of my favorites of theirs and it has one of the guys taking lead vocals.
I love that song, I like the one on the B side of the 45, Kisses of Fire too
Bjorn singing ‘Rock Me’ is one that I like too..
Yep! Make that me too!!
Yes, please do “does your mother know” for Bjorn in the lead!
Lots of bass in that track too!
EVERYONE loves ABBA...whether they admit it or not. LOVE your reactions!
You still haven’t hit one of their biggest hits, Dancing Queen! That song gets you moving. It’s 🔥
Not only that, but "Dancing Queen" is the song that introduced ABBA to the world.
A must.
@@sydneym4340no that was Waterloo. But Dancing Queen made them super stars.
I thought they already did that one but got deleted.
@@sydneym4340not really, Waterloo, S.O.S, Mamma Mia and Fernando all came out before and were hits. Fernando was huge
Angel Eyes great song by Abba
You REALLY should do their breakout hit "Waterloo" from the European Song Contest.
Agreed!
Yep Eurovision Song Contest, definitely one to react too.
ABSOLUTELY!!👍
When they won Eurovision, we in UK gave them nil points for "Waterloo"!
Right! That's the one that introduced the U.S. to the joy of ABBA. It was a great choice. It was catchy, bouncy, and had your parents digging it! 👍😎
Even for an extreme metalhead like myself there is nothing to not love about this band. Their music is so often perfect, and has the ability to catapult me back to my youth and the glorious 70s.
My ABBA favourite. Frida voice is like velvet. Thanks for reacting to this beautiful song
I particularly like ths one because Anni Frid does the lead vocal in the verses. Everyone always focuses on Agnetha who is great but Anni never gets the attention she deserves. I love this German-Norweigian beauty's deep rich sultry voice and she seems like a really sweet person. In the early 80s she had a really big solo hit called "I Know There's Something Going On". You guys should react to that one!
Yes I love Agnetha voice, but people tend to give less price to Anni, I love her voice, I love both sing together but is nice to hear Anni taking the lead,
You're right there. And Frida has such a good rich alto vocal...
I know there's something going on by Phil Collins. He wrote it for Frida .
@@claudiameier9233 ~ Phil Collins did Not write "I Know There's Something Going On". He produced, sang back up, and played the drums. The lyricist for that song is Russ Ballard from Argent fame...
I love them both, but I completely agree. She is my personal favorite voice of the two. But again, they are both awesome! Still it is nice to see them react to one of her lead songs.
ABBA is another level... I don't care what type of style of music you are into too...
Love your ABBA shirt! Great song. Sad one, but some people really are better off as friends than lovers. It happens a lot. On another note...You guys really ought to hear "Fernando" - it's absolutely gorgeous. The harmonies are amazing, and it's about a person looking back on her past as a freedom fighter, with her friend Fernando. Very sweet and nostalgic.
ABBA is such a great group. This is a fantastic song. One of my favorite songs by this group.
Who else clicked immediately? 😂
I did!!
I did too..LOVE this one 💕
Me!
Me, then I realised what I'd done 🤣🤣🤣
Yep!❤
While I’ve always been a rocker girl there’s something about ABBA that just draws me in. They have that special ability to draw in fans from every genre of music. Just amazing! I love this song!
As a rocker
On and On and On from Dick Cavett must be one of yourABBA fav,
and it's live and the last live show, a 1 000 000 000 usd reunion tour offer could not change that
Perfectly said! ❤
The Sex Pistols rated ABBA, albeit in private, so you are not alone...
dude, I am an industrial Ministry Metal head and I like Abba...
David Grohl,Corey Taylor,Bono,even one of Korn's drummers totally agree with you.All are self confessed Abba fans and love the purity in Abba's pop majesty.
If you want to cry, listen to ABBA’s “Slipping Through My Fingers”! It’s about a parent’s child growing up and slowly pulling away to become an adult. I guarantee you won’t have dry eyes at the end!
Also, “Waterloo”, “Fernando”, and “Thank You For the Music” are great hits of theirs.
Also, you guys need to check out the movie “Mamma Mia”! It’s a musical with Meryl Streep featuring all Abba music. It’s hilarious and fun! ❤
Mama Mia film is crap
I’ve literally this moment suggested ‘ Slipping through my fingers.’
@@alliswell2114yes I didnt like that either cringe esp meryl streep bad move.
"The Visitors", that last Abba album, with "Slipping through my fingers" on it is my definite favorite album. No huge hits, they broke up soon after the release, but the whole album feels like they grew up. And it's so melancholic.
A way better movie that features Abba tunes front and center is Muriel's Wedding starring a young Toni Collette. It's fire!
Great melodies, great voices, great arrangements and a unique sound made countless classics from ABBA. What a great band.
I used to have Dancing Queen on a 45 record. I would lip sync in my bedroom and used a hairbrush for a microphone 😂 I love ABBA so much! ❤
I love that part when Frida is singing and Agnetha appears whispering the backing voice like a dream. She has always been my dream by the way
This song is especially poignant because during the years ABBA were together, Anni-Frid was married to Benny, and Agnetha was married to Bjorn. Both couples ended up divorcing. So when they're singing to each other about breaking up, it foretold their own relationships ending.
It amazes me how ABBA creates serious songs and gives them such an upbeat. This touches me because this is what the members are truly going through. Just like, "The Winner Takes it All". One that gets me emotional is, "Dance While the Music Still Goes On ". (Please react) Thanks for being ABBA fans! There are still a hundred or more songs of theirs I love. Benny has more of a lead vocal on the track, "Move On " with the ladies providing backup.
I want to suggest the movie Mamma Mia ( the first one edpecially) for your movie channel. A movie musical with all Abba songs. ( it was on Broadway as a stage play first)
@@malalaz66 And Muriel's Wedding! Full of great ABBA songs and awesome acting too.
@@davidhuggan6315 I haven’t seen that one. I’ll put it on my watch list. 👍
@@malalaz66 Awesome, I hope you enjoy it, classic Australian comedy.
Going through these reactions, I hadn't noticed before how many relationship break up songs Abba have. It's so autobiographical of the band, with the ultimate break up song, the beautiful 'The winner takes it all'.
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Dancing Queen", "Waterloo" and "Fernando" !!!
I love Fernando, it was a favorite of my mom's when I was growing up in the 70s
DANCING QUEEN!!!!
If they haven't done Dancing Queen yet it definitely needs to be top priority. :)
Dancing Queen!
My fave three. Can't believe they haven't done any of them
The "Ahh Haaa" is what makes this song for me. A perfect little flourish that ties it all together. ABBA were musical geniuses.
absolutely- it draws you in further- their songs grab you!
@@markcourson3151 That and Lasse's guitar riff!
The way they sing their harmonies is awesome!
"Knowing me knowing you" (1976)
is one of ABBA's most famous heartthrob songs
The lyrics are strong and raw
(some say there is a preview of the couple conflicts between the blonde singer Agnetha & guitarist Björn)
And it has a powerful chorus on Agnetha & Frida, and a nice melody
These is an excellent official video,
it shows the four of them in separation situations, and plays with the images of the trios
The part that stands out the most
is the appearance of the image of Agnetha almost whispering
as a reflection of Frida's main voice
"Knowing me knowing you"
was five weeks in a row at #1 in the UK,
and one of them coincided with the #1 of "Dancing Queen" on the Billboard.
(Just this week of April 9, 1977, 46 years ago, ABBA was #1 in the U.S. and U.K.
with two different songs from the same album)
"Knowing me knowing you"
is one of their hits that ABBA recorded in spanish at 1980,
with the tittle: "Conociéndome, Conociéndote",
part of their album in spanish language
"Gracias por la música" (1980)
ABBA recorded in spanish after the colossal success of "Chiquitita" (1979)
in Latin American countries
For a new suggestion,
the first heartbroken ABBA song that was worldwide hit: "S.O.S." (1975)
the second worldwide hit to ABBA since their victory at Eurovision with "Waterloo"
I hope to see you in next reaction to ABBA
My best regards to You from
Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷
South América
My favorite ABBA song. This is true magic in music. When you can take a sad subject, in this case breaking up and put it behind the façade of an upbeat tune. They were also good actors, the expressions in this video is top notch
I don't think they were acting. They are showing, with the anguish in their faces, while hugging their real-life exes.
Two were really breaking up at this time.
@@AgentJamesLeeno they were all very much together here
@@chrisa2310
They were 3 and 5 years away from becoming exes when this was recorded. Recorded 1976 and divorces came in ‘79 and ‘81.
@@Paladin70 Yes. Benny and Frida weren`t even married yet.
Only ABBA could make a Break Up Song so Catchy and Up Beat. They were ahead of the times for music and are considered one of the Best or Best ever Pop group Ever, depending on who you or how others think of them. One of my Favorite songs and Take a Chance. So many more to hear it will take a year to hear them all. They were also a decade ahead with their music videos well before MTV which also helped propel them to global success.
All their singles are wonderful. So musically terrific, great melodies, clear vocals, layered. Really fantastic song crafters.
You have to do, The day before you came, it's a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece ❤
I love ABBA!! I saw their ABBA Voyage concert in London last October. It was awesome!! They have a theater designed just for this show and use avatars of their 1977 selves. It's unreal. You'd think it was them on stage and on the big screens. They did all their hits including "Chiquitita", "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "SOS", "Mamma Mia" and more, as well as some of their songs from their latest album.
I would LOVE to have seen that. Not quite as good as the real thing, but pretty damn close!
Ahaaaa
@@GillDawe It is still playing in London.
Australia is looking likely to get the second Abba theatre, if we do it will sell out for years, Abba massively popular here.
ABBAtars..
One of my very fav ABBA songs, pure perfection ! Always liked the photo of them that's on your new t-shirt, taken of the group when they visited LA in mid-seventies
Erasure released a 4-track EP called "Abba-esque" in 1992 covering the songs Voulez Vous, S.O.S., Take a Chance on Me & Lay All Your Love on Me.
All became top 10 hits in their own right. The music video's are hilarious too :))
ABBA music is forever addictive.
When ABBA was popular a lot of us rockers would talk them down but secretly I really liked them.
i am also a closet ABBA fan
Born in 68,;sneered at disco and became a metal head in the early 80s, but loved a lot of disco, Europop and techno songs from that era then and as time went by.
It has been really fun to watch the two of you discover ABBA. For your next song, I highly recommend "The Name of the Game", "Super Trouper", and "Slipping Through My Fingers".
Name of the Game is probably my all time fave. I love the vid because both couples are still together and it catches so great playful visual moments
love abba, one of my favourites is "does your mother know " sung by bjon
There is no bad ABBA song it would be impossible. This was my mother’s favorite and to me one of their most personal.
My favorite Abba song!
Abba absolutely dominated the charts with their amazing lineup of non stop hits.
Thanks for the memories.
The winner takes it All is a hauntingly beautiful song
"The Visitors" is my ABBA fav❣️ "Summer Night City", "The Day Before You Came", & "Does Your Mother Know" are definitely worth checking out too!
Beautiful melancholy. My fave ABBA song.
An absolutely unique band. Worldclass!!!
Abba is perfection in melodies, Arangements and voices. There music is beautyfull and unice. Therefore there music never dye. ❤
There is a song of this group that is unfairly underrated called EAGLE....you should check it out.
Many people won't know this but ABBA made all their hits in an album in spanish called GRACIAS POR LA MUSICA wich means THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC.
Crazy I love Abba so much I memorized every lyric 2 every ABBA song
‘Eagle’ is a must. As with all their songs absolutely perfect, yet different to all the others … very ambient. Full length version please 🙏
For a different vibe from ABBA try "The Day Before You Came", one of the last songs they released before the current era. Very haunting and beautiful.
When polls are taken on the fans most loved ABBA songs, inevitably DANCING QUEEN is almost always in the top spot. You must feature it asap, absolute classic.
I say it every time - Benny and Bjorn are brilliant songwriters! They turn their heartbreaking breakups into an unbelievable hit.
Love Abba!! This one is one of their great reflective songs. As always, I recommend "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do," which is pure joy!
There isn't much I don't know about Abba. Been a fan since 1976. My favorite band ever. The couples were still together at this time, 1976. They released a new album in 2021. They all still respect each other and get on well
"The name of the game " with Abba has a soo different sound. Think you will LOVE it
"Don't intermingle with your band members"... seriously? Have you not noticed what AWESOME music comes out of those relationships? Some of the greatest songs in history!
Yeah, but in the long run, it tends to end poorly. It might be great for making music, but the artists wind up miserable, and sometimes the band doesn't survive the inevitable break-up.
Breakup Rage (and maybe drugs) was the fuel that made Fleetwood Mac produce one of their best albums
Lindsey and Stevie turned Fleetwood Mac on its head with their drama.
@@screwyootube1 Lots of couples end up miserable. At least, the artists get a good tune out of it.
Better to have loved and lost....something like that!
This was one of my favorite Abba songs along with Dancing Queen.
This was the first ABBA song that I ever heard back in 1977. It's from their Arrival album--the same one that has Dancing Queen. For some reason, the station I listened to played this more. I was immediately hooked on their voices and melodies. I bought the album and have been a fan ever since. I was lucky enough to see them in concert in Boston in 1979 for their Voulez-Vous tour--amazing show!
Each of us has our favourite ABBA song. Mine is their breakout hit, which won them Eurovision 1974, Waterloo.
Growing up an Army Brat in Cold war Germany, even as the Rocker that I am, I had no choice but to become an ABBA fan. They were everywhere! Fairs, Volk fest, carnivals.....
Agreed. I was an air force brat and first heard them in Germany also.
@@ericmorrison9747Where exactly in Germany ?
I have my sister she lives in Munich .
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Near Kaiserslautern.
@@ericmorrison9747 Do you still live there or are you in the US now and where?
I was born and grew up as kid listening to ABBA in Australia.
Now live in Europe , I'm glad I left Australia after what happened in the last 3 years. I've heard Australia has become an authoritarian police state now !
Very very frightening!
I lost my wife a month and a half ago to leukemia after 45 years of marriage and I can't sleep. We found out Thursday morning and she was gone Sunday shortly after midnight. I am going out to set a post for my new mailbox (yes, at 3:30 am) and I decided to take time to drink a cup of coffee and relax a bit for a bit. Love songs and breakup songs and sad songs all seem to help. I hope you guys are together as many years and more than we were. thanks for showing me what i had. Cancer sucks. Peace kids.
my sympathies for your loss! i lost my dad to cancer back in 2008 and i miss him every day!
Much heart to you, kk. Lost my husband to leukemia in 1996 and ABBA was one of his two favorite groups. So many memories flood back whenever I hear them. Take care of yourself for her.
Just know your loving wife is watching over you and is with you every minute of the day. ❤ You will be together again someday.
Love ABBA’s harmonies!❤️❤️❤️ “Fernando” next, please!👍👍👍 If you haven’t already, you should check out the Movie “Mamma Mia”, a musical with all ABBA songs! It’s fun!👍👍
I envy you hearing ABBA songs for the first time. My favorite has been Take A Chance since I woke up to it in the middle of the night in 1976
I never listened to Abba until the 90s & thought how have I never heard this music. I swear I heard every song & loved them. Boy what I would've paid to hear them in my childhood. One of the best bands of all time & I had never heard of them.
My favourite ABBA song. Frida’s voice is so smooth with such beautiful timber.
Very well said Amber. Most excellent analogy of their music. Good catch on the videos J. I thank my mom for listening to ABBA always playing in the background. Know every song every album. Such a emotional rollercoaster. Kudos for playing this one. Made my day made me smile.❤👏👏👏🦂
What a beautiful bass work
Bjorn & Benny were very good at writing very depressing lyrics to serious life situations but they were cleverly masked by upbeat and catchy music with absolutely beautiful harmonies.
Bingo. 100%
Very very depressing lyrics uplifting harmonies ,as a kid listening to Abba loved their songs but made me very very depressed afterwards !
This was one of their later songs when Agnetha and Bjorn's marriage was ending. Benny and Bjorn are incredible songwriters and composers who have worked together since the 1960s and their ABBA days are now recaptured holographically in the UK at a purpose built venue that has performances by the group's avatars. All of the songs were re-recorded by them specifically for the venue along with a whole new album.
Really good song, one of my favs from them. Harmonies, lyrics, instrumentation, production, top notch
How is Dancing Queen not a favorite?! You've missed out if you haven't heard this iconic song ❤
One of my favourite ABBA songs, the layers of the voices in the chorus doing all the various harmonies are just sublime.
Nobody can even come up with how many albums they sold, I've read estimates as high as half a billion, only behind Elvis and The Beatles, seems legit, they were HUGE, the impact they had can not be understated, there's no such thing as a bad ABBA song, for a good 10 years they were THE biggest band on the planet bar none. They make the happiest break up songs ever, it took me decades to realize just how amazing they were, the lyrics are deep and meaningful and good God they're drop dead gorgeous and they have the voice of angels and you're correct, Bjorn and Benny are master craftsmen and created the pulse of the music, just all around amazing and will never be seen again.
Best memories I have with my dad because he really loved ABBA and would always stop wrenching on cars so he could just listen to the songs that would come on the radio. My fav hands down is Fernando
This is one of my favorite songs from them. And my favorite video. I love how they choreographed it.
There's so much more ABBA that you all will love even more,one of my favourite group.
You've finally hit it. This IS their best song.
PERFECT SONG !!!!!
and now it´s time for Dancing Queen, Waterloo, When all is said and done and we can not wait many weeks for your next great ABBA-reaction :)
ABBA is the soundtrack of my childhood!!! 🩷 This song still gives me goosebumps.
One of my favorite songs of all time. It has such a unique, dramatic sound to it that I've never heard anywhere else, and yet you can just sing along to it as well. From the same album as Dancing Queen. Two perfect songs from a great album: Arrival.
Who ever ABBA's bass player was was fire! He always played really great and interesting bass parts.
Rutger Gunnarsson was ABBA's bassist. Superb musician.
"The Day Before You Came" is also one of my favorites from ABBA.
What an amazing song 😍
An upbeat song with a lonely meaning...😊 Love this song...❤ Hope you react to more of their songs like Voulez-Vous, Ring Ring, Honey Honey, their most popular songs, Fernando and Dancing Queen and so many more..
my number one song from abba.
love this song so so much.
you must react to the day before you came, waterloo, mamma mia and the day before you came.
Abba's videos are only deceptively simple...It's almost always on-point and their video editing is top-notch, catches the mood and tone of every damn song.
And it’s important to remember that most of them predate MTV and the real explosion of music videos in the 80s. Having them at all (and so many of them) was pretty unusual at the time.
Guys, you must watch the music video to Name of the Game …. Probably my favourite ABBA song ever
One of my mom's favorite songs when I was growing up!
The cinematic stuff is the art of.Lasse hallström also the direktor of The cider house rules.
Best band ever!!!
One of my favorite Abba songs, though so many of them are amazing. But the music and imagery of the words of this song are so rich
Unparalleled hit makers of the 1970s!!! ABBA's glorious singles are masterpieces that still sound just as fresh all these years later. :-)
To Ambers' point about the background lyrics, the complexity, both in lyrics and rhythm, add so much to their songs. Great choice today.
My favourite ABBA song ❤❤
One of my all time Favorites!
Love ABBA. I was just checking your database. I'm shocked. Perhaps the signature song was not there! 'Dancing Queen' give it a chance. 'Fernando' is awesome too. Cheers.
DANCING QUEEN!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Did you do 'Super Trouper'.....check it out Guys! One of their best IMV.
This was always my favorite ABBA song, which is a pretty fiercely competitive category in its own right
ABBA are my favourite band of all and Frida is my favourite, I'm glad you're playing more of Frida's lead vocals as I feel she's so underrated, I Have A Dream, Lovers(Live A Little Longer), The King Has Lost His Crown all Frida's lead vocals. Bjorn does sing vocals as well, Does Your Mother Know, Why Does It Have To Be Me, Rock Me, Suzy Hang Around, Two For The Price of One and Sitting In The Palm Tree.
I wish some more reactors would react to 'Our Last Summer', 'Andante Andante' or 'I Let The Music Speak'. These great Frida leads are ignored by most of the music reactors. Most of them only react to her five ABBA Gold lead songs, 'The Visitors' and 'When All Is Said And Done' and nothing more... Oh and by the way it's Benny who sings Suzy-Hang-Around. It's his only lead song.
Agnetha actually penned Disillusion....
Never recognized the sorrow and sadness in this song until I watched Amber's reaction to it....every verse is a kick in the gutt
When I Kissed The Teacher and Dum Dum Diddle are two of my favourites. Abba Arrival was the first record I owned - I was so happy, excited and proud to have my very own record, lol - oh and when you opened the cover up it had all the words to the songs - I was in heaven.
Arrival is an amazing album to me as well. I had "discovered" them just a year or so earlier (after hearing "Greatest Hits Vol. 1" I was hooked) so I had a few albums, but "Arrival" was my first new one, so I experienced all the anticipation when you know a new album is coming for the first time and then, as you mentioned, the lyrics were right there - which was a new thing. When Voyage came out I first heard the songs watching the lyric videos. So the technology has changed but the experience (a new album, following along with the words while listening at first) was remarkably similar to when I was a kid. I appreciated Voyage and really like it, but Arrival is special to me. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is #2 on my list of favourite ABBA songs and "Money, Money, Money" is in my top ten. Those two songs alone make it an amazing album but then there is the matter of that other song. The one that was a monster hit at the time, endures as a fan favourite to this day and appears in every thread as a suggestion when there is an ABBA reaction. It will be interesting when Jay and Amber react to Dancing Queen. I'm guessing that even if they haven't realized who sings it, they will have heard it.