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Principally recorded at Polar Music Studios, Stokholm, Sweden in 1980. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.

SUPER TROUPER is ABBA's seventh--and next to last--studio album, and one of their most artistically satisfying. The album's chart-topping singles include the propulsive title track, "Lay All Your Love On Me" and the bittersweet anthem "The Winner Takes It All," which many rank with "Dancing Queen" and "S.O.S." as one of the Swedish foursome's masterpieces. The rest of the album continues the more reflective, adult themes explored by its predecessors, VOULEZ-VOUZ and THE ALBUM. It's difficult to separate the downcast melancholy of songs like "Our Last Summer" and "The Way Old Friends Do"--recorded live at the same performance heard on ABBA LIVE in 1986--from the time period's gossip reports of the breakup of the band's two marriages. Even with such considerations aside, SUPER TROUPER is one of ABBA's finest releases.

Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. "The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of the album in most territories, was a smash; for example, it was the group's 14th consecutive Top Five hit in the U.K. and their eighth number one there. The title track was also a British chart-topper (their last), as was the album, their sixth. "Lay All Your Love on Me" made the U.K. Top Ten, and "On and on and On" was released as a single in some countries, hitting the Top Ten in Australia. (Typically, American success was more modest, though the album went gold, and "The Winner Takes It All" was a number one adult contemporary and Top Ten pop hit.) Musically, Super Trouper found ABBA, always trend-conscious, taking account of the passing of disco and returning to the pop/rock sound typical of their early albums. Only "Lay All Your Love on Me" employed a dance approach. The title song had the kind of martial beat and pop sound more in keeping with the group that had broken through with "Mamma Mia" and "S.O.S.," and "On and on and On" paid homage to one of their chief influences, the Beach Boys, with an arrangement reminiscent of "Do It Again." Lyrically, there was a distinct sense of world weariness and melancholy, from the divorce lamentations of "The Winner Takes It All" to the dissatisfaction with touring expressed in "Super Trouper" and even the nostalgia for a simpler time in "Our Last Summer." For performers on top of the world, the members of ABBA were putting an unusual amount of what sounded like real unhappiness into their pop music. [The 2001 Australian reissue added "Elaine," a non-LP B-side, and "Put On Your White Sombrero," an outtake] ~ William Ruhlmann

Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Jon Astley.

Additional Tracks

Personnel: Björn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic guitar); Benny Andersson (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (vocals); Lasse Wellander (guitar, acoustic guitar); Janne Schaffer (guitar); Janne Kling (flute, saxophone); Lars Carlsson, Kajtek Wojciechowski (saxophone); Ola Brunkert, Per Lindvall (drums); Ake Sundqvist (percussion).

Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Michael B. Tretow.

Liner Note Author: Carl Magnus Palm.

Recording information: Polar Music Studios, Stockholm, Sweden (11/1979-10/1980); Wembley Arena, London, England (11/1979-10/1980).

Photographers: Anders Hanser; Lars-Erik Larsson.

ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic guitar); Benny Anderson (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Agnetha Faltskog, Anni Frid Lyngstad (vocals).

Additional personnel: Janne Schaffer, Lasse Wellander (guitar); Janne Kling (flute, saxophone); Lars O. Carlsson, Kajtek Wojciechowski (saxophone); Mike Watson, Rutger Gunnarson (bass); Per Lindvall, Ola Brunkert (drums); Ake Sundqvist (percussion).

Q (9/01, p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Occasionally works wonders...as on the 'The Winner Takes All'..."
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List Price $9.95 (You save $3.46)
Category Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop
Label Polydor
Orig Year 1980
All Time Sales Rank   6690  
CD Universe Part number 2062560
Catalog number 549964
Discs 1
Release Date Oct 16, 2001
Studio/Live Mixed
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus
Engineer Michael B. Tretow
Personnel Benny Andersson - vocals, keyboards, synthesizer
Agnetha Faltskog
Benny Andersson - vocals, keyboards, synthesizer
Bjorn Ulvaeus - vocals, acoustic guitar
Anni Frid Lyngstad - vocals
Lars Carlsson

Also: Ola Brunkert, Janne Schaffer, Lasse Wellander, Mike Watson, Per Lindvall, Lars O. Carlsson, Kajtek Wojciechowski, Ake Sundqvist, Janne Kling
Additional Info Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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Super Trouper  (1980) Bonus Tracks5 stars
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Average Rating: (4.9 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

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4 stars Nice album
This was probably ABBA's most mature-sounding album, next to 'The Visitors', it's really almost perfect containing their most respected song ever "The Winner Takes It All", the catchy title track, "Lay All Your Love On Me", "On & On & On", "The Piper", etc... But one song on here just bugs me to death, "Me And I". It's a ridiculous song about having a multiple personality. It really doesn't fit in well with the rest of the material & ends up sounding rather weak placed between "Andante Andante" & "Happy New Year". Other than the one song, the rest of the cd is well worth the money, & you get 2 bonus tracks as well!
Submitted by Bill (Indianapolis, IN, USA) Verified Buyer
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5 stars THE WINNERS ARE US DEFINITELY
ABBA is one of the groups that as years go grows as the best group of the seventies. No matter what Sex Pistols might have done. ABBA's songs are masterpieces of melody and lyrics. Even minor classics like Put on your white sombrero becomes irresistible for the listener... Enjoy it.
Submitted by joaherr (Murcia, España)
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5 stars Loud and clear. Very nice!
A very good remastering job. I like this CD very much! Anni-Frid and Agnetha are two of the best singers of all time. Nice litle booklet included.
Submitted by Tony (Louisville, KY, USA)
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5 stars Really 5 STARS!!
Lyrics, mixing, sound, cover-picture,....Wonderful!!. It´s a fine special album.
Submitted by Jorge Nazur (ARGENTINE)
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5 stars Trouper Winner For The Fans!!!
The Winner Takes It All as the song says and the fans will not lose with this collection of hits.
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