Best/saddest ABBA songs

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Help me out. I've always liked ABBA but had only ever listened to ABBA gold, so all the cheesy classics.

Today I listened to The Day Before You Came and it blew my mind. I'm looking for some recommendations of other great, lesser known ABBA songs that are similarly emotional, beautiful, melancholic...

Thanks in advance

Without doubt it has to be Slipping through my Fingers.
I’ve sung with several choirs now,, all of us women with daughters and every time it can be hard to sing it without choking back the tears.
I think it’s these lines
‘What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go’ ‘
Well, some of that we did but most we didn't
And why, I just don't know’
They sum up how fleeting childhood is, and how we are so busy we forget to be in the moment.

Winner Takes It all reminds me of my first boyfriend. For no other reason than it was in the charts at the time.

Angel Eyes - nice song, reminds me of a near miss I once had.

The Day Before You came is very evocative. I've heard a version of this song by a male vocalist Orange Juice Jones or something. Fantastic.

@ufucoffee That's a bit like me and Take That. It was social suicide to admit to being a Take That fan in 1992. Reunite in the mid-2000s and suddenly everyone is a fan!

Slipping through my fingers

also sobbing song when I listen as lost my lovely old Ma a few years ago and know she felt like that and I think if the last years she was still alive. It’s all a big circle. Whew Blimey.

When my lad finished year 11 two other mums sent Slipping through my fingers link to me and I didn't share the sentiment. I absolutely relish seeing him grow and fly.

But growing and flying are at the heart of it.

@CornishGem1975 tbh we weren't all fans in the 2000s either!

Yes but he's not flipping through my fingers @HeronLanyon. He was never mine to hold on to in the first place

^slipping

Saddest for me is Super Trouper as it was played at my sisters funeral 12 yrs ago (she was 38 - suicide). I chose it because it was the first song I can remember her listening to (I was probably about 3/4 yrs old) & the lyrics also resonated. I became an Abba fan because of her listening to ABBA all those years ago.

My other faves are Chiquita and Ring, Ring and Winner takes it all.

@Rufus27 I was going to say 'Move On' too. There's something that just tugs at the heartstrings.

That's true of so many ABBA songs though, I think it's the harmonies.

Here's a lovely version of I Have a Dream

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxkfRD9nns

And their voices and harmonies are still incredible 40 years on
I Still Have Faith In You

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzEY1MfXrQ

Thank you for the music is my ultimate fave!!!

@user1471428785

I agree with AnyFucker - so sad to listen to as my dd goes away to uni this weekend.

Crikey I feel your pain. My daughter went 6 years ago and this song still brings back the desolation as I drove down the M6.

Lots of luck to your DD

@PepsiHoover

I love the Day Before You Came. It's so sad, but optimistic because things obviously got better I'm presuming.

I've always loved Super Trouper but I didn't realise until recently it was written about missing their kids. Which does make me feel quite emotional now as a mum who kisses her kids when they're not here. So much of their later stuff is so sad. Especially when you think they are singing songs written by their exes about them.

Oh that’s really sweet if that’s the case. It being about their children. I can’t see any reference to that online though, interviews seem to suggest it was about a significant other?

[quote CornishGem1975]@ufucoffee That's a bit like me and Take That. It was social suicide to admit to being a Take That fan in 1992. Reunite in the mid-2000s and suddenly everyone is a fan! [/quote]
And because suddenly you'd do all of them, even the 'uman potato Gary Barlow

@onlyreadingneverposting8

Saddest for me is Super Trouper as it was played at my sisters funeral 12 yrs ago (she was 38 - suicide). I chose it because it was the first song I can remember her listening to (I was probably about 3/4 yrs old) & the lyrics also resonated. I became an Abba fan because of her listening to ABBA all those years ago.

My other faves are Chiquita and Ring, Ring and Winner takes it all.

My elderly mum loves Dancing Queen. I know it will remind me of her all my life.

I have a few free minutes before I start a meeting and I’ve gone down the rabbit hole that is YouTube.

Quite like their new singles as well.

@mommybear1

When I kissed the teacher? Not sure if that's a well known one 😁

It is if you've seen Mama Mia 2-I'd never heard it till then. I also love Lily James singing Andante, Andante in the film.

It is very well known but The Winner Takes It All is one of the most beautiful best written songs ever imo. The line "somewhere deep inside you must know I miss you" really cuts. I love ABBA!

@Rufus27 I have already told my family I want that song at my funeral. I thought nobody but me knew it!

The Day Before You Came has also been sung by Meryl Streep and it's almost as haunting as the Agnetha version

@ToffeeNotCoffee - it was the much underrated Blancmange who covered it in 1984 but think it flew under the radar a bit at the time

Agree with the likes of The Winner Takes It All, Move On, Eagle, The Way Old Friends Do.

One of the lesser mentioned ABBA tracks I particularly like is I'm A Marionette, there's a fair bit of pithiness in those lyrics

fuzzy I could not agree more. It’s a true masterpiece. As so many. Their ultimate in my view.

I am a good ABBA age having lived through their emergence, Eurovision etc as a child. Through all my disco, punk, two tone, northern soul, new romantic, electric, acoustic, hip hop, garage, d and b, etc etc loves (which all continue) I stayed true. No matter that they were deeply unfashionable at times. Absolute stellar music.