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The ABBA-geddon comes to an end this week in part two of our ABBA mixtape. If you missed part one, listen here. We listened to everything ABBA ever wrote in order to devise a comprehensive list of the best, most unsung ABBA songs and yes, it was a complete joy, before you ask.

Over the course of 8 albums, ABBA explored pretty much every facet of 70s pop music. They swung from stomping glam rock to disco floor fillers, and from mad prog rock excursions into weird baroque pop. They even experimented by pan pipes and shit. In the 80s the began to incorporate synth pop into their sound, and their final album (to date?) The Visitors is truly ahead of its time. It seemed to predict the sound of pop music in the 80s before the decade had truly begun and had we known just how great of an album it was before we did this mixtape, we might very well have did an episode on itself it is truly an unsung classic. Absolutely worth spending time with, in our view.

Listening to their discography is pretty fascinating. Many people don’t think ABBA are terribly eclectic, but they are, and we’ve tried to demonstrate a fair amount of that with our selections. We also asked a few regular contributors for their choices, so we hope you enjoy hearing Ferrucio Quarcetti, Crag Carrick and Hazel Burgess giving us the lowdown on their favourite ABBA songs and why they chose them.

Also, after doing the AXIS OF ABBA last week, we thought we’d include our version of it below. We hope you managed to get close to it!

We also made a playlist of our choices. Enjoy!