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I definitely didn't know that Mark, thanks for pointing it out! JSB

Thanks for watching Steve!

I do really like APPs Limelight, but yeah, it wouldn't be in (or likely even near) my top 20 of their songs - so not really a fair fight, but still (hopefully) a fun one! JSB

Thanks for watching, I absolutely get the love for 70s Rush as well! JSB

@@Act0rJSB as I totally understand the 'dislike' for Geddy's voice (at times) during this era...my wife is one - she greatly prefers the 80's output, and much of that is due to Geddy's dropped register. Cheers!

Haha, looking at the consensus on here, I think we can ignore any potential Canadian bias...this time at least!

Agreed on both counts Renee - thanks for watching! JSB

Yep, I'm with you on all points there! JSB

...is a fair call I'd say! Cheers for watching! JSB

Thanks for stopping by Jim, greatly appreciate it!! J.

Yep, APP really stood no chance (through no fault of their own, of course!) - cheers for watching! JSB

Absolutely, and wouldn't it be dull if we all liked (or disliked) every artist or song to exactly the same degree! JSB

Thanks Steve, but this one's a lost cause. I've come to appreciate many of Bruce's songs, but that one will forever be anathema to me, ha! JSB

@@Act0rJSB no worries. i tried!

Thanks for watching, and I feel almost exactly the same! JSB

It was a nightmare at the time...but the gig was great, so every cloud, as they say!!

Correct! ;-)

Ah yes, Let There Be Rock is a good one but (tongue firmly in cheek here) with your Powerage comment, you mean not every album is exactly the same?? ;-)

@@Act0rJSB haha, no not all sound the same, well yes they do sound similar especially some of the Brian Johnson albums, but there are still a lot of gems from him, but Powerage from the Bon Scott era is just a solid album all the way through, but if i had to pick 3 songs from there it would be.. ."Gone Shootin" ..."What's Next to the Moon" and "Down Payment Blues"

Thanks Martin, Bon was a huge loss for sure!

Sure is Carl, nice to see you on here btw! JSB

Haha, nobody can deny the devotion of their fanbase - I will get to them some time!

Oh wow MAID-iac?! I can see you are a true devoted fan!

Thanks Roger, seems I will have to at some point!

It's a popular choice it seems, I'll surely get to it some time!

Thanks Kate, really appreciate the suggestions. Not hugely into music videos as a rule (unless I'm in them, of course...!) but might make an exception based on your advice next time! JSB

Thanks for the suggesiton, I will add it to the long list!! JSB

@@Act0rJSB Yes! So You're Telling Me There's A Chance? 😁

Haha, yeah definitely a chance, probably won't be super-soon, but keep watching and one day it just might appear!! JSB

@@Act0rJSB I will be waiting with great anticipation 🤗

@@Act0rJSB BTW _cough cough_ doc says I only have 3 weeks to live 🙄

Thanks for the suggestion...do you know I might have heard that one at the time, it rings a vague bell in my brain, but even if so it would be a good 20 years ago so probably worth revisiting! Cheers, JSB.

I can see the appeal Steve!

Thanks for stopping by Adam!

That was the first 45" single my other half ever owned funnily enough!

Haha, but I do like you, so that just proves I'm a terrible judge of...well, anything really! :P

Thanks (fellow) Joe - that makes sense now you've spelt it out for me, hey I've only been getting it wrong for 30 years or so! My next Doobies track I cover on the channel will actually be a tune Keith wrote, so I'll try and get it right for that one!! Cheers, JSB.

Thanks Trevor, agreed on both counts!!

Hey, we all have biases one way or another but that's a pretty cool one to have! Thanks for the suggestions, will add them to the list!! Cheers, JSB.

Yeah, this one was a miss for me too, though I did like his Fly Like an Eagle era tunes, for the most part!

Thanks for the comment - I've actually got a copy of that album kicking around somewhere, haven't heard it in MANY years, must track it down and give it a spin! JSB

Even though I knew it (and 3 of the others) I haven't heard it (outside of movie soundtracks and the like) in full in at least 15 years, quite probably longer.

Haha, well in fairness you did put Abba at number 2 on the list, so I won't automatically discount any advice from you in future...probably! ;-)

Haha, well I did say favourite, rather than best. I mean obviously the BEST song on the album is Human Nature (y'know, the one actually written by a Toto member). I am sure I have watched that Off the Wall video at some point, even though there are many hundreds of vids I have failed to get around to!

Thanks for commenting, will check them out! JSB

Thanks for watching Larry - SOS is on my shortlist of ones I like already and quite a few people have mentioned Eagle, so will have to check that one out! JSB

great choices...For me 'Eagle" is majestic,''Nights on Broadway" a fab track.Real music,real intruments(bass/guitar),real harmonization no autotune and Bee Gees fab live performers..

From one point and after 'everybody" 'didn't like" Abba but some squillions were listening to them behind closed doors.And we were wondering who the heck were buying those phenomenal amounts of records?They were a record sales phenomenon.Cult persona Malcom McLaren (also manager of punk bands i.e. Sex Pistols) kinda stated in an Abba docu that cool youngsters were supposedly buying Bowei albums and stuff and hid ABBA records in them, same way they hid porn-mags.Such was their guilty pleasure. Not to mention that both Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten apreciated Abba's honesty and songwritting skills.Btw J.Rotten also did a tribute live- cover of Abba's 'Fernando' in front of a live audience a couple of years ago.(video was in utube)

BTW ,'Hole in your soul" is a fab explosive rockage anthem and 'The Day before you came" an acknowledged 'non-chorused' masterpiece even by some critical non-Abba fans.As for 'i can be that woman"...What can i say...A real shot to the heart.I didn;t like it at all at first.Then i read the story about it.Within 48 hours i adored this track and i almost always end up teary.VOYAGE album is very special to me,i get very emotional everytime i listen to it.

Oh I know exactly what you mean...this particular strand on the channel is deliberately focussed on the big songs (and of artists I wouldn't normally talk about), but nearly everything else I cover tends towards the more obscure, either artists, songs, or both...and I'm forever telling people to ignore the 'popular' songs when trying (and usually failing...) to get them to check out the bands I tend to bang on about!! Will add your suggestions to the long list of things to get around to checking out one of these years!! Cheers, JSB.

Oh both 'The Visitors" and 'ABBA- THE ALBUM" from '77 are kinda far away from their earcandy catchy pop majesty.Both darker(esp,The Visitors) and sophisticated pieces of work.'The Album" was more prog-pop/rock American flavoured(Californian-sound) with great tracks and deep lyrics,while 'The Visitors" even dark,haunting and mature and positively acclaimed even by many of their 'sceptic' critics.

I'll check it out!

Absolutely true.Today it sounds so old school 'rejecting' Abba.So uncool to overlook them.And i'ld also stick to the likes of R.Blackmoore,Ian Gillan who back then unbashefully admitted their Abba love long before David Grohl,Bil Corgan,Corey Taylor etc (who have all also confessed they love Abba and want the world to know and 'deal with this"!)btw Paul Mac Cartney had also said back then 'they deserve all the success they got"...And now i'm gonna put on my turbtable their prog rock anthem 'Eagle" and sooth in it.

All true and I love the passion - and I don't think they've been a joke in 30 years, but for a period in the 80s and early 90s that's how they were viewed (Not just them, but also The Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Bee Gees, ELO and others - all of whom have now also been deservedly re-evaluated)- didn't mean millions of people stopped loving them but it became 'unfashionable' (a ghastly word) to admit to liking them for a while. Funnily, enough, Muriel's Wedding (in which the main character's love for the group is presented as a joke - and they had considered changing her favourite band to The Village People if they couldn't get the rights to Abba's songs) played a huge part in returning them to 'acceptability' (another ghastly word!). End of the day nobody is ever wrong for loving ANY music (and equally it's perfectly okay to dislike something loads of other people love - we all hear things differently!). Cheers, JSB.

@@Act0rJSB All you say is true. But from my point of view, those people that were saying these things were a vocal minority. And history has proven them wrong. They and their silly views should be put in the dustbin of history. Again, even during that time, ABBA were selling millions of records. By any measurement, they were a success. Even if some did not take them seriously. All these years later. I do not think of the nay sayers.

@@Act0rJSB May i ask are you based in the US or the UK ?

@@Act0rJSB early '80s-mid '80s Abba was a 'prohibited" uncool word.Besides everyone had decided to permanently wave goodbyey to the '70s and Abba were part of this.But by late '80s Abba nostalgia started getting raised from the ashes around the time of the SAW movement.Then Aussie tribute band Bjorn again started filling venues then early '90s came Erasure with Abba-esque and the Abba revival took place ever after like a slow-motion repetitive explosion.Rest is history.

Love SOS - thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching - think The Beatles and Bee Gees both have a claim for that title, but I'll concede history is proving very kind to our Swedish friends too! JSB

@@Act0rJSB Undoubtfully Both The Beatles and the Bee Gees(btw i also feel very close to the Gibbs), but personaly i can connect sentimentally to Abba in the deepest degree.It's a solid bond for an army of millions who grew up with them and have lived that era real time and that's a reason why their fan's tight,emotional longlasting devotion stood the test of time even after almost 4 whole decades of hiatus without any released recorded activity of the 4some (1983-Sept.2021)Abba is a legacy band and a crowned pop royalty still big deal and very powerful.Their VOYAGE gigs in London have overpassed 2 million tickets sold and btw i'm about to get there sooner or later.