I Stop And I Breathe

One of my favorite Elton John songs is on his recent album Peachtree Road. The song has a great reminiscent, bittersweet quality. These lyrics are really great and I keep forgetting that they're actually Elton John, without help from Tim Rice.

The Winner Takes it All

I've listened to this song a ton in the past couple years, and I never get sick of it somehow. It is perhaps ABBA's best song -- see the Wikipedia article on the song, "The Winner Takes it All". I've been on an ABBA kick recently after having seen Mamma Mia! on stage, which was in incredible experience. It really blew me away and I had a great time. My only regret is that I couldn't see it a second time because I got food poisioning the day I was going to go see it again.

I tried to do a little Schenkerian analysis on this piece for fun, but I'll refrain from posting more on that until I finish the actual analysis I have due as a final project.