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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731454995627 Format: Import Label: Polydor Group Manufacturer: Polydor Group Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polydor Group Release Date: March 01, 2002 Running Time: 50 minutes Studio: Polydor Group Sales Rank: 567
Rating: - Sounding Fresh
Abba in the groove - same formula, similar songs but everything still sounds as fresh as ever and the hits and memorable songs keep rolling off the production line without anything sounding hackneyed.
Yes it's all as fresh as ever and choc full of outstanding songs like "Super Trouper" with the immortal lines "I was sad and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow" and the brilliant break-up song "The Winner Takes it All." Elsewhere "Our Last Summer" and "Happy ... Read More
Rating: - Not quite up to the standard of The Winner Takes It All
The first single from this album, The Winner Takes It All, is considered one of the group's best songs. It returned them to the top of the UK singles charts after an absence of two and a half years and six near-misses. The album itself, coming on the back of Abba's immensely successful 1979 tour, was a massive hit and broke records in advanced orders.
However, the rest of the album just doesn't live up to the promise of the first single. A new maturity was evident, with lyrics becoming ... Read More
Rating: - Sweet and Sour Smorgasbord
Top quality stuff which nonetheless sounded the death knell for the Swedish superstars. Signs that the wheels were beginning to work loose on the Abba charabanc are all too evident on this, their seventh and finest album. In the midst of the standard, disco-flavoured candy floss ("Lay All Your Love On Me" and "On And On And On") is a sizeable contingent of more profound songs that feature the band taking stock of their changing marital fortunes, none more so than the bitter lament "The Winner Takes It ... Read More
Rating: - Super comeback to #1 heights for ABBA
Somebody once said that ABBA were never an albums act, that their strength was their singles. Of course, that is not even remotely true because ABBA has 9 #1 albums and the GOLD compilation is one of the top 10 albums in the UK (ever) according to its weeks on chart. Anyway, ABBA was as strong as ever at the crack of the 80s although they waited for a #1 single for quite some time back then. That all changed (to everybody's surprise when Super Trouper was released beacuse the first two tracks (you know ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant With or Without the Extra Tracks
Right up there with the best of them. ABBA always did good albums, most of the tracks could've made good singles - IMHO. This album had a good flow to it from beginning to end, finishing as it does with "The Way Old Friends Do." This means that it is more of a jarring jump to the extra tracks than normal. Still the extras are not too bad either.
On the other hand, would it not have been possible for them to put stuff on which had never been released elsewhere?
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