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  • I feel I have to respond to this song somehow, it seems for me, one of the best songs of love ever recorded, how the turning of the sun can sometimes change our lives forever. You live a life and then a chance meeting rips up and discards it. How an unstoppable force such as love can change our fife forever. It's true, I'm in it's thrall.

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  • Such a sexy pure voice. Spine-tingling. It's a bonus that she's absolutely breathtakingly beautiful too.

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  • Absolutely amazing, this song.

    ABBA's best I think.

    Much better than their big hits.

    The lyrics, the music and Agnetha's voice ...

    And what a fantastic remix !!

  • the best song ever of abba ... brings back lots of memories !!

  • the best songs where in the final days of abba and this one beats every other to the crown can't get enough of it ...

  • Love the short version of this, but this extended re-mix is even better, just brilliant, its so sad they wont perform now and again. I went to Hyde park last summer for the ABBA Celebration, Bjorn and Benny where there, and i think the whole audience secretly wished & hoped Agnetta and Annefrid, would make an appearance, and maybe sing together one more time. How many people out there wish they would give maybe just one last performance together?

  • the perfect song to listen when heading back from office at the train/subway :-( it implies such a suburban drama *sigh*

  • it was about 3 months ago that i view this and today i visit here again to say something, after listening to this song about thousand times on my mp3 ,i realized that this song is based actually on agnethas relation to Benny, on about their lovelife ,the song the winner takes it all ,i feel is related also to them, try to hear the song i do i do i do ,seems the beginning of their love affair.

  • My favourite ABBA track. I didn't know there was a rainy day remix though! The original song with video in widescreen was on here but it's been taken down :(

  • beautiful

    

  • This has to be one of their very best. Video is great too, thumbs up from Ireland

  • I never really understood the lirics, but the song is great great great. I never get bored listening it.

  • true

  • i cant understand why there is such a small amounts of views - this is a classic

    

  • @rangers444444 JUST ENJOY

  • @rangers444444

    my sentiments also, at one time this song was voted the greatest Abba recording ever.I have to say it is definitely up there among the best,awesome songwriting and singing........as usual!!!

  • great remix

  • Who is the man running he is mush

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  • This is a very nice remix ! The video as well. It's in my favorites.

    Compliments ! Thank's for sharing thin one..

  • Very nice!

  • This is your remix? It sounds like the extended vinyl 12" mix they did themselves.

  • @WearyMusic Yeah, I did the remix myself a few years ago...

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  • nice

  • If you believe in God, whatever name He may be given by your priests and your enemies, you know He endowed Man with poetry, physics, literature, mathematics, music, painting and all earthly arts and sciences to create beauty and reach truth and eternity in heaven and in hell.

    And if you don’t, you can still name “God” those talents of the gifted ones. And smile and sigh and laugh and cry.

  • Great mix job,, and great video. I agree this is one of Abba's very best songs, but not well known except to ABBAites. , The lyrics are so deadpan, capturing that Swedish existential ennui. and her vocal is so perfect.

  • Something that happens that is momentous has great depth - its not just surface elation - this depth is conveyed in the music - it was so great she can't remember the trite events of the day before. The intense emotion of the music is combined with the extremely funny lyrics and the wonderful way in which the humour is worked in with it makes it all the more facinating and compelling and adds to the wonderful emotional range of the piece.

  • Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for posting, SpinelessPollyanna.

  • This is definitely a GEM of a song... i like the SADNESS part of the song... Really amazing....!!!

  • The last song, and the most beautiful! Those guys were geniuses, no less! : )

  • the best song ever love the long mix....

  • The sound I am

    going to listen forefer

  • 1. she was bored/loveless 2

    2. She met her guy, was happy

    3. He left her

    4. Now she is sad /loveless again- just like the day before he came.

  • LOVE ABBA SINCE MY CHILDHOOD......

  • LOVE ABBA SINCE MY CHILDHOOD......

  • Classic..

  • Thanks for posting,,,love this

  • Very well done thanks!

  • i remember this video from 82 but this longer  version is also a fantastic work

  • R.I.P. Jan Pelleboer

  • i love you kisss

  • to my Swedish maid.... this is for you, about you and of you...., love you xxxx

  • to my Swedish maid.... this is for you, about you and of you...., love you xxxx

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  • i think its because she wanted him so much and thought of him, but still had to wait until she got him.. Bit like trying to pluck up the courage to talk to him, or waiting for him to talk to her..

  • Somehow I always think that she is breaking up a relationship and that this song is a sad song of her returning to her solid but uninspiring life ):

  • @vladika07 I Agree

  • Never heard this track before. Was this the end of ABBA?- such a shame - so sophisticated!!! I could listen to an hour long version of this!!

  • This is a great song

  • @ CARACARINA1005. ACTUALLY ITS NOT AGNETHAS LIFE,ITS THE COMPOSERS ARTISTRY, U SEE YOU JUST GOT CARRIED AWAY WITH THE SONG, WHICH MADE IT GREAT. I AGREE THIS GROUP IS THE BEST IN THE PLANET. GREAT!

  • a musical soap opera,stunning,the best recording by ABBA by far (in my humble opinion)

  • I've only just found this and am like blown away!! It is the best ABBA melancholy around. Great stuff Spineless Pollyanna.

    To caracarina, She is just telling her love how bad and dull her life had become before they met,

  • This song is very best...I love

  • he died! thats why it sad.

  • Repetitive video and actually irrelevant. The original composition and this remix are all that is needed. Just close your eyes and listen. Addictive

  • So hauntingly exquisite. It matters not the lyrics nor the sense of the plot. This is so epic with the storm clouds and darkness setting the scene for a great sense of longing. That drum beat is superb. The voices take my breath away. This long version is a gem for those who crave the pearls emotion that ABBA were able to evoke. Thanks.

  • nice mix. never had enuf of this song

  • Incredible song....

  • Nagyon nagyon jó ez a szám.. :)

  • The best ABBA song ever.........!!!!!

  • She is telling us about her mundane life before she met this guy. I think it was only a short affair as he was married. This is what make the song so sad as the meeting was doomed from the start. That's what I think the it's about.

    Thanks Pollyanna I love this mix.

  • Truly beautiful

  • Even though I realize the greatness of Abba, they have never been among my absolute favourites. But this song is a big exception! It's simply fabulous, and I love the music and the melancholy text.

  • This is fantastic! How did you make this (which editor and sound) I have to find out and have a new hobbie to mix sounds like this. I love it!! Thanx for posting!

  • I want to know who thumbed this vid down. Insane.

  • Swedish men are very nice.

  • I love this song, very haunting.

  • höst svårmod i sverige

  • Extraordinario!!!

  • Phenomenal intro & fabulous song my favourite with "I have a dream"

    5 stars from France!

  • Hi Pollyanna ... The beauty of this song just makes you wonder about the songs that "could've been" if B&B hadn't QUIT and abandoned us, their fans. They had enough songs in '82 to put out a 9th album, but they chose fame, glory, and legacy instead. [They've been coasting ever since.] Hope you visit my channel and "create Abba's 9th album". If B&B won't finish it, maybe we YouTubers can. Let's raise a voice to B & B to FINISH WHAT THEY START. They owe us that. Ivy Smith (Ohio, USA)

  • beautiful vocals,beautiful woman

  • Beautiful song and video!

  • wonderful song, great video, one of the best voice's ever

  • Interesting. Some may wonder who the man running to catch the train was? Just a man. Just a Jehovah's witness...an American it seems...working in...?Norway for the summer...taking a course. He was very nice. He died. I'm not sure exactly when? Within a week or a month or maybe a year. In the US. I heard it was an explosion...maybe a car...maybe a house...not necessarily in Oklahoma...rite? There was one fingerprint on a plate.

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  • Absolutely beautiful ! This song is probably one of the most emotional songs ABBA ever did except for The winner takes it all. And Agnetha sings this one just as perfect.

    Amazing !

    very good video and remix !

  • Hey............this is GOOOOD!!  Luv it !

  • Still a rock hard and silky soft beautiful song. Nice intro. Well done.

  • This ONE and Eagle!To masterpice;))

  • A truely brilliant remix of a great ABBA song. Brilliant.

  • who is the man in the video very hansome at the time.

  • Intro frames the story well, I think, good job, great track!

  • I first heard this piece maybe two years ago. I never knew it existed. Aggie is at her most beautiful, and as always her voice is superb. The more I view it the more impressed I become. many nuances that can be interpreted many ways. I have feeling that this was written for a special purpose. I am glad that I see I am not the only person fascinated by it.

  • The most sad song i have ever heard.

  • Your introduction is way too long.

  • This song plus video is absolutely great! I am fed up with all the popular ABBA songs and prefer to hear this one. But I don't really understand why this song is so sad! As far as I understand it (English is not my native language) she finally found her love (on the next day)! So where is the problem? Can someone please explain this to me? Thank you!

  • @caracarina1005: The thing is, this song describes how boring her life was BEFORE she met her love AFTER she lost that love. Her life is now back to where it was before he came. It is not explicitly said but a very common interpretation...

  • I must say . Great video.

    I don't think she is describing how boring her life was perhaps she describes a life she always wanted and was very happy because it was the life she always wanted. I think she is describing her discovery that the situation that she found herself in was far more significant and profound than she ever imagined. The music reflects a lack of fulfillment but a great desire to express her feelings and bring closure to what ever she is feeling, confusion anticipation.

  • @SpinelessPollyanna Well I think this is open to interpretation. As we can see in the vid, "that guy" missed her train - meaning it is just a day dream - or is it? I interpret this song as being about hope to get out of the day-by-day treadmill and the hope to find "the right one". The last songs recorded by ABBA still show all signs of wonderful musicianship, lyrics and impeccable production.

  • @aihoschema he was a JW. He was blown up while Frida & Interpol was looking for Aggie. This song is about missing persons. All relatives should do the same when searching for missing persons. A photo showed a new employee which lead to a dead Aggie in a shed. Frida sung Aggie for oh so long before finally letting go.

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  • @caracarina1005 Really?

  • @caracarina1005 It is sad cause Aggie was missing. Frida sung as Aggie to let her know, she was looking for her. Frida took a camera & followed Aggie's last day. All people missing a loved 1 should do the same. 1 photo showed a new employee. That was the lead that lead to a shed where Aggie's body was found by Interpol. Frida cont'd singing as Aggie to confuse inheritors for the sake of Abbie's only child, a girl. The rest is gossip according to reporters.

  • @caracarina1005 think it's a sad song because when you are in love you don't give a damn what you did BEFORE. Instead when you had lost it you START to remember how your life was before you melt the significant other, and question yourself "How did i get to this".

  • @caracarina1005 Something that happens that is momentous has great depth - its not just surface elation - this depth is conveyed in the music - it was so great she can't remember the trite events of the day before. The intense emotion of the music is combined with the extremely funny lyrics and the wonderful way in which the humour is worked in with it makes it all the more facinating and compelling and adds to the wonderful emotional range of the piece.

  • @caracarina1005 this is the last song ABBA recorded together

  • THANK YOU! great remix, it's my favourite of them of all times:-)

  • A great song with a great Lady singing it, This artist & song has so much sentmental value to me and many fond memories of someone i have just lost in my life,May she R.I.P.

    Keep up the goodwork and "Thank you" for posting it.

  • a great remix for a great song

  • great !!

    But look also at "Blancmange" Version !!!

  • Fantastiic!!

  • The best remix of an ABBA song I ever heard...phantastic....dramatic­.....sad.....depressive, congratulations =)

  • Beautifull voice en song. Good memories with ABBA while my early teenage years.This song always my favorite. Thanks for posting.

  • One of the my absolute favorite songs of all times, period. ABBA's music will live forever.

  • @Fawzy

    i totally agree. the best song i think abba did ...

  • On s'en lasse jamais trop bon

  • Only love song I know that focusess on the mundaness of life before that day of falling in love. Hipnotic.

    I love this song, her voice and eyes

  • this song is great!

  • It was a Paradise, a sad Paradise, but still a Paradise for me in 1980-s because I was young .And ABBA brings me back to that Paradise at least for several minutes of their music. ABBA was very popular those years in Russia, but this song I first heard later and love it so much...Spasibo Agnetta, dai Bog vam zdoroviya i vsego nailuchshego.

  • Ich bleibe dabei !!!! Es ist das Beste Rem ix von ABBA.

  • Very Nice...

  • Durch das Remixen klingt das Lied noch bedrohlicher, athmosphärischer und düsterer. Wirklich sehr gut gemacht :)

    Kannst auch mal bei mir vorbei schauen :D Ich mix auch ABBA :) Aber sei bitte nicht zu streng mit meinen mixen.. ich lerne noch xD

    .. Ich mag das Gewittergrollen in dem Lied. Obwohl ich gewittergrollen nich wirklich mag xD

  • well done Spineless Pollyanna.. very nice remix. I strongly agree with you on the fact that this song is underrated, and it's one of their BEST.

  • Classic.

  • Einfach Geil

    ich Liebe dieses Lied

  • It was definitely the last song they recorded together, according to Michael Trewin their sound engineer for years. They were going to record more but just couldn't take the strain of working together. what a loss for us all! It was recorded on aAgust 20th 1982.

  • This song has a kind of sadness, yearning, uncertainty and yet wanted to break away from a stifled past without aim or purpose -- reminds me of the days of cold war

  • That's right, but as I said - The Day Before You Came was the last song the group recorded....

  • einfach KLASSE

  • I LOVE AGNETHA........4EVER AND EVER

  • This is my favorite ABBA song!  Gracias!

  • Hi, Lois. Yeah, a cool song!

    ~Sue

  • Izuzetno dobar video i mnogo mi se dopada.Samo danas sam ga poslusao preko 50 puta.Agneta je jedna predivna zena,neverovatno sexi i ne verujem da ce svet imati pevacicu sa ovakvim glasovnim sposobnostima u buducnosti.Srecan sam sto sam ziveo u vremenu kada je harala po svetskim top listama.Spineleespollyanna hvala ti za predivan video.Vojvodina :-)

  • Beautifulle woman Agnetha,beautifulle song...I like !!!!!

  • why let annie lennox ruin abeautiful song?!

  • Now this is excellent...very clever. Could you do something similar with Vivaldi's Gloria (played at the end of the film The Runaway Train)

  • There were a lot of rumors about the end of Abba in 1982. When i saw this vid in 82 i felt a deep saddness.

  • This is really something! Wonderful atmospheric music! The video shows the Stockholm area on Tuesday, September 21, 1982 - nature preparing to color up for a beautiful Indian Summer, as seen from the helicopter above the train, crossing few of many bridges in the Swedish capital, I became so much familiar with since July 1976 - my beloved Stockholm on the edge of a forthcoming mid-Scandinavian winter, days getting shorter, sweet melancholy in the crisp clear air - Thank you ABBA to meet you then

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  • ...remember when i walked south on hornsgatan and saw this majestic railroadbridge crossing arstaviken...meanwhile progress goes on and the new viaduct was inagurated...but the scenery hasn't lost anything of its magic.

  • Thank you so much for putting this together. I like it.

  • can anyone get annie lennox to do a cover version ot this beatiful song ?

  • That would be really a WONDERFUL idea ! We should join our hands and do something in this way.

  • thanks for your remarks i hope the idea catches on sorry about my spelling

  • Beautiful version and this song which is ringing in my ears at the moment as some-one has come into my life..."I had no sense of living without aim, the day before you came"...

  • to good,never forget the feeling I had in 87 but the song is from 82

    Agnetha is the best and ABBA is perfect

    thans, never forget ABBA no.

    Jolanna

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  • Thanks so much.

  • great music and wow what a looker!

  • For me is this one of the best ABBA Songs. But i think it's finally an Agnetha-Song. Same as "My Love, My Live". Also more an Agnetha-Ballade. By this songs the other tree members are only supernumaries.

  • Well, the song wouldn't be the same without Frida's opera-like backing-vocals. All members had their input in this song.

  • so true.

  • awsome amazing

  • even at the hight of my depression this song as sad as it is , listening to it over and over again for hours , it gives me hope and strength

  • ABBA, es ist fast nicht zu glauben, wie man so wunderschöne musik machen kann.

    ABBA wird leben FOR EVER !!!!!!

  • Brilliant remix, even more evocative than the original, thanks very much for enhancing my all-time favourite Abba song

  • a turely haunting song "mmm" so good

  • traumhaft schön und traurig!

    Danke für diesen Remix!

  • My fave ABBA song of the lot:)

  • I would like to have seen her lighting up her 7th cigarette!

  • if she is a typical smoker it would actually be her 14 th or so, they all including me tend to underestimate how many they smoke

  • This song was written at what is sometimes ironically referred to as 'the fag end of their career'! I so much want to see her light up!

  • This is a magic version! No extra beats just the original sound. I love it!! And when I liten to this on my MP3 it makes me sad and Happy! Thank you for this MASTERPIECE. MartinZ

  • I love it!!! It sounds so European

  • captures the brooding unambiguity of the original - it appears that the YOU has died - she is before his open coffin or grave or photograph , lamenting with bitter sweet memories -

  • otimo un dos melhores do grupo ABBA

  • WOW!!! Very Nice!! Thank You! Enjoyed it Much!

  • i must have seen this clip 200 time as well aussie

  • Love this version, I have had it on constant rotation - must be responsible for at least 200 of the views of this clip. Thanks for uploading.

  • This is REALLY a fine work. Thanks!

  • One of my faves...way to go! Love it! :o)

  • FANTASTIC , LOVE THIS DARKER STUFF .

  • Brilliant remix!! Love it. Very well done indeed.

    Is the mp3 available anywhere?

  • Wonderful! My fav. ABBA song and the best version of it that I've ever heard (including the original)!

  • excelent - and well done in dealing with how out of time the drummer is so seamlessly!

    wish abba would do an album of authorised remxies at this point - and yours deserves inclusion

  • Love it! Bellissimo!

  • Could this song even get better? Apparently so great remix mate...this song is the quintessential 80s euro love song, its so sophisticated and sensual....And this was like 4 yrs before the Pet Shop Boys.Love it.

  • very well done! excelenteee!

  • It's really their last song, sung by Agnetha only. At that period of