AᗺBA Voyage: SURVIVOR - ROUND TWO

Vote out the song that does not belong:

  • I Still Have Faith in You

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • When You Danced with Me

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Don't Shut Me Down

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Just a Notion

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • I Can Be That Woman

    Votes: 4 20.0%

  • Keep an Eye on Dan

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bumblebee

    Votes: 13 65.0%

  • No Doubt About It

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ode to Freedom

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Just Like That

    Votes: 4 20.0%
  • Total voters
    20
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AFTER A LITTLE MORE THAN AN HOUR, 'LITTLE THINGS' HAS BEEN EXPUNGED

...from its place as the third track on the album. Hopefully this will give a hint to the powers that be not to release it as the albums fourth single.


With such stellar reviews as:
It wouldn’t be an authentic Abba album without some stomach-churning filler, so beware before you brave the Christmas ditty “Little Things.” But otherwise, Voyage reflects how far these four have traveled, musically and emotionally.
- Rolling Stone
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Then comes the album’s big crime against sense, sentimentality and sequencing, Little Things, a Christmas song shoved in at track three. All about the delights of the season, it includes a children’s choir singing about their grandma (the St Winifred’s school singers would sound like rebel punks in comparison), but also, in a jolting juxtaposition, intimations about mum and dad’s sex life. Particularly weird is the implication of a grim transactional quality behind a romantic gesture. “You’d consider bringing me a breakfast tray, but there’s a price,” Lyngstad sings, having noticed her partner’s “naughty eyes”. You hope if she’s presented with a breakfast sausage, she’ll impale it then bin it.
- The Guardian
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...as soon as "it's a lovely Christmas morning", it all goes to cock. Christmas morning is never lovely. It's cold, it often comes with a hangover and it's either far too quiet or far too loud. The entire premise is flawed.
- Octophone
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...very much like a twee Like An Angel Passing Through but in a diabetic coma.
- HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid
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The lyrics lean toward holiday cheer, so there’s a reason for this sap. But the children’s choir that arrives at the song’s end is a bit cloying even for the most forgiving fan.
- USA Today
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A twinkly Christmas song that’s sickly-sweet even before they bring in a children’s choir. Frankly, it would feel even more mawkish if it weren’t for the poignancy in Fältskog and Lyngstad’s beautifully mature voices.
- New Musical Express
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Oh I like Little Things :(
- Star, Homo Secretary (OB)
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FUCK OFF CHILDREN'S CHOIR STILL
- Iguana
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NO WONDER!
With over 90% of the vote there really was no question. Little Things, you didn't serve us well, goodbye forever (or hopefully at least for three weeks until Christmas season kicks in high gear :().

 
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Vote out the SONGS that does NOT BELONG:


1. "I Still Have Faith in You"



2. "When You Danced with Me"



4. "Don't Shut Me Down"



5. "Just a Notion"



6. "I Can Be That Woman"



7. "Keep an Eye on Dan"



8. "Bumblebee”



9. "No Doubt About It"



10. "Ode to Freedom”
 
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Bumblebee is the only one I cannot recall a thing about
 
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I like Bumblebee. Mind you, it would probably still have been my eighth favourite on the album.
 
I regret my vote now. I'll go for No Doubt About It next time. there's a rough quality to it and an awful vocal take on one of the verses that I can't FUCK WITH
 
Bumblebee has clicked with me tonight. Still the worst of that lot though.
 
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