ABBA Megarate - Three tracks from each album

That is fine, Alan. It is an extremely hard task as there are so many good songs from an impressive back catalogue and new album.

RING RING
1. Disillusion
2. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
3. Ring Ring

WATERLOO
1. Waterloo
2. Hasta Manana
3. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)

ABBA
1. SOS
2. I've Been Waiting For You
3. So Long

ARRIVAL
1. Dancing Queen
2. Knowing Me, Knowing You
3. My Love, My Life

THE ALBUM
1. The Name Of The Game
2. One Man, One Woman
3. Eagle

VOULEZ-VOUS
1. If It Wasn't For The Nights
2. Chiquitita
3. Angeleyes (but could be Kisses Of Fire on another day)

SUPER TROUPER
1. Lay All Your Love On Me
2. The Winner Takes It All
3. Happy New Year

THE VISITORS
1. One Of Us
2. Head Over Heels
3. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

NON-ALBUM SINGLES
1. The Day Before You Came
2. Fernando
3. Under Attack

B-SIDES AND RARITIES
1. Just Like That
2. Dream World
3. Should I Laugh Or Cry

VOYAGE
1. Don't Shut Me Down
2. When You Danced With Me
3. Ode To Freedom

This poll has made me re visit the older albums and appreciate some of the songs I had not played in a long time....He is your brother, ATAT,My Mamma Said, Suzy hang around, GSYML,DWTMSGO,Ring Ring. Getting to appreciate them all over again. I have even grown to like Man in the middle. The music in particular. Intermezzo got me thinking too. Could they have ever put words to it? Was it their intention to have an instrumental on Abba and then the Arrival albums? Two very different instrumentals. One all guns blazing and the other very haunting. Music really doe make you reconnect with your past. Hearing these songs take me right back to carefree days. Days when I only had the albums Abba, Waterloo and GH. The beginning of my Abba journey. And what a ride it has been. And here I am today...listening to the old and the new still with the same passion.

Thanks to all for taking part in The ABBA Megarate. Unfortunately, due to feeling a little poorly I will have to postpone the results until a later date.

Thanks Alib, I will try to post the results soon.

Hope you get well soon Genius.

At last I have the results of The ABBAchat Song Megarate. I have awarded 3 points to song number 1, 2 points to song number 2 and 1 point to song number 3.
Let's proceed, ( in rank of highest scoring from each album and in chronological album order ) ( well sort of )
RING RING
Ring Ring ( 31 points )
Nina Pretty Ballerina ( 15 points )
Another Town Another Train ( 14 points )
He Is Your Brother ( 14 points )
Disillusion ( 11 points )
Rock 'n' Roll Band ( 3 points )
Love Isn't Easy ( But It Sure Is Hard Enough ) ( 2 points )
People Need Love ( 1 point )
Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother ( 1 point )
I Am Just A Girl ( 1 point )
I Saw It In The Mirror ( 0 points )
She's My Kind Of Girl ( 0 points )
WATERLOO
Dance ( While The Music Still Goes On ) ( 22 points )
Waterloo ( 20 points )
Gonna Sing You My Lovesong ( 17 points )
Honey Honey ( 12 points )
Hasta Manana ( 9 points )
My Mama Said ( 5 points )
Suzy-Hang-Around ( 4 points )
What About Livingstone ( 1 point )
Sitting In The Palmtree ( 0 points )
King Kong Song ( 0 points )
Watch Out ( 0 points )
ABBA
SOS ( 32 points )
I've Been Waiting For You ( 18 points )
Mamma Mia ( 12 points )
Hey Hey Helen ( 10 points )
Bang-A-Boomerang ( 6 points )
So Long ( 4 points )
I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do ( 3 points )
Intermezzo No 1 ( 3 points )
Tropical Loveland ( 0 points )
Man In The Middle ( 0 points )
Rock Me ( 0 points )
ARRIVAL
Knowing Me Knowing You ( 33 points )
Dancing Queen ( 25 points )
My Love My Life ( 11 points )
Money Money Money ( 7 points )
When I Kissed The Teacher ( 5 points )
That's Me ( 4 points )
Tiger ( 3 points )
Why Did It Have To Be Me ( 1 point )
Arrival ( 1 point )
Dum Dum Diddle ( 0 points )
THE ALBUM
The Name Of The Game ( 24 points )
Eagle ( 23 points )
Take A Chance On Me ( 18 points )
Move On ( 8 points )
Hole In Your Soul ( 6 points )
One Man One Woman ( 5 points )
I Wonder ( Departure ) ( 3 points )
I'm A Marionette ( 3 points )
Thank You For The Music ( 0 points )
VOULEZ-VOUS
If It Wasn't For The Nights ( 22 points )
Angeleyes ( 18 points )
Voulez-Vous ( 13 points )
Kisses Of Fire ( 11 points )
Chiquitita ( 10 points )
As Good As New ( 9 points )
The King Has Lost His Crown ( 4 points )
Does Your Mother Know ( 2 points )
Lovers ( Live A Little Longer ) ( 1 point )
I Have A Dream ( 0 points )
SUPER TROUPER
The Winner Takes It All ( 36 points )
Lay All Your Love On Me ( 22 points )
Super Trouper ( 11 points )
Our Last Summer ( 8 points )
The Piper ( 5 points )
Me And I ( 3 points )
Andante Andante ( 2 points )
Happy New Year ( 2 points )
On And On And On ( 1 point )
The Way Old Friends Do ( 0 points )
THE VISITORS
One Of Us ( 27 points )
The Visitors ( Crackin' Up ) ( 22 points )
When All Is Said And Done ( 10 points )
Soldiers ( 10 points )
Slipping Through My Fingers ( 8 points )
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room ( 6 points )
I Let The Music Speak ( 4 points )
Head Over Heels ( 3 points )
Two For The Price Of One ( 0 points )
NON ALBUM SINGLES AND B-SIDES
Gimme Gimme Gimme ( A Man After Midnight ) ( 23 points )
The Day Before You Came ( 20 points )
Summer Night City ( 16 points )
Elaine ( 12 points )
Lovelight ( 11 points )
Should I Laugh Or Cry ( 10 points )
Cassandra ( 10 points )
Fernando ( 9 points )
Dream World ( 6 points )
I Am The City ( 6 points )
Happy Hawaii ( 3 points )
Just Like That ( 3 points )
Under Attack ( 1 point )
Merry-Go-Round ( 0 points )
Santa Rosa ( 0 points )
Crazy World ( 0 points )
Medley ( Pick A Bale Of Cotton/On Top Of Old Smokey/Midnight Special ) ( 0 points )
Put On Your White Sombrero ( 0 points )
You Owe Me One ( 0 points )
VOYAGE
Don't Shut Me Down ( 40 points )
I Still Have Faith In You ( 12 points )
Keep An Eye On Dan ( 9 points )
Just A Notion ( 8 points )
No Doubt About It ( 8 points )
Ode To Freedom ( 6 points )
When You Danced With Me ( 5 points )
I Can Be That Woman ( 2 points )
Little Things ( 0 points )
Bumblebee ( 0 points )

Very interesting results,
The Top 5 ( in reverse order )
5. Ring Ring ( 31 )
4. SOS ( 32 )
3. Knowing Me Knowing You ( 33 )
2. The Winner Takes It All ( 36 )
1. Don't Shut Me Down ( 40 )

Very surprised TYFTM and TWOFD scored 0 points and RR in 5th place with 31. Let me know your comments. A very big thank you to all who took part. The more the merrier.
I will collate A Top 50 of The ABBA Megarate in due course. Happy reading !

Great job done, genius, thank you!
I guess RR scoring 31 (as well as DSMD topping the list) is because of separated voting for each album, and the albums as someone has mentioned are not equal, so RR could have been No.10 be it the song from Arrival, for example.

Thanks Genius. I know it was easier picking tracks from the first two albums. Not so easy from Abba on. From Voyage, Bumblebee is actually my 4th favourite but would have featured above Ring Ring. When I was young I loved TYFTM but I have grown tired of it. Not dated well.

Maybe the phenomenon of TYFTM is related to its very quirky and unique mood of music and theme. It is neither festive nor melancholic (or rather both!), it is different. But if it hits the current spirits of the listener it works like magic.

Thanks for your input, JeniLP, gamleman and madonnabba. JeniLP, I couldn't agree more with your comment about TYFTM. I like your analysis of the song. It is exactly that. I appreciate your kind words.

I completely agree. I have already pointed out that choosing three favourites from each studio album hardly creates one's Top 30. Personally I would probably place all songs from the albums Arrival - The Visitors above any song from Ring Ring. Maybe to make the results more realistic, everybody, who voted for the songs should also rate the albums they're taken from. And then the points awarded to each song would be multiplied by a coefficient (e.g. 1 for the most favourite album, 0,9 for the second most favourite, 0,8 for the third and so on).

I had a quick look at a list I completed prior to this poll. 13 of the Top 20 appeared in my top 20 although not in the positions here. From the first 3 albums only SOS and Mamma Mia made my top 20. Ring Ring was not in my Top 40. That said I love it. Just so much competition from their impressive catalogue.

@genius, that wasn't criticism I can imagine you must have spent so much time interpreting the results and hats off to you for that. I just think that we would all agree that Ring Ring is hardly the fifth most popular ABBA song among the fans...