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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 ... Full Descriptionalbum'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.
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Jon Astley.
Additional Tracks
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'..." Hide Description Super Trouper Music | List Price | $9.98 (You save $3.13) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | Polydor | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7212  | | CD Universe Part number | 2062560 | | Catalog number | 549964 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 16, 2001 | | Studio/Live | Mixed | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Benny Andersson; Bjorn Ulvaeus | | Engineer | Michael B. Tretow | | Personnel | Benny Andersson - vocals, keyboards, synthesizer
Bjorn Ulvaeus - vocals, acoustic guitar
Agnetha Faltskog
Anni Frid Lyngstad - vocals
Also: Ola Brunkert, Janne Schaffer, Lasse Wellander, Mike Watson, Lars O. Carlsson, Kajtek Wojciechowski, Ake Sundqvist, Per Lindvall, Janne Kling | | Additional Info | Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak |
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Not quite the soundtrack to the Swedish foursome's film debut, ABBA: The Movie (directed by respected Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallestrom), THE ALBUM combines several songs from the movie, including the deliriously bouncy hit "Take A Chance On Me" and the dramatic "The Name of the Game," with three songs from Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson's never-completed musical The Girl with the Golden Hair.
These three songs are among the band's most intriguing, with "Thank You for the Music" serving as the band's unofficial theme song and "I Wonder (Departure)" one of their most affecting ballads. It's the near-violent, bitterly ironic "I'm A Marionette" that's the wild card. Easily the angriest ...
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1979's VOULEZ-VOUZ, the Swedish foursome's sixth album, was probably their commercial pinnacle, as nearly half of the album's ten tracks became substantial hits. The discofied title track, the anthemic "I Have A Dream," Bjorn Ulvaeus' vocal showcase "Does Your Mother Know?" and the UNICEF benefit single "Chiquitita" were inescapable on AM radio in the waning days of the '70s. However, those tracks aren't the album's only merits, as the bittersweet "Angeleyes" and the downright spiteful "The King Has Lost His Crown" are among ABBA's best and most beloved songs. In 1979, ABBA were the biggest-selling band in popular music. The slick yet substantial VOULEZ-VOUS shows why this position ...
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Widely considered the Swedish foursome's first classic album--and historically important as the first to use the now-famous mirror-B logo--1976's ARRIVAL contains three huge hit singles, the dramatic "Money Money Money," the downcast "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and quite possibly the band's finest four minutes, the absolutely perfect pop classic "Dancing Queen," a combination of Spectorian grandeur, McCartneyesque melody and the indescribable vocals of Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The rest of ABBA's fourth album is strikingly consistent and accomplished, opening with the sly, bouncy "When I Kissed the Teacher" and closing with the atmospheric title track, making room ...
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ABBA's third album, released in 1975, finds the group at the end of the first phase of their career. Having scored massive worldwide success with the bubblegum classics "Ring Ring" and "Waterloo" in the previous two years, the Swedish foursome continued that streak with the sweet "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do," the silly "Tropical Loveland" and "Bang-A-Boomerang." However, "Mamma Mia" and the grandly-titled "Intermezzo No. 1" showcased a new compositional maturity somewhat reminiscent of Brian Wilson's 1964 productions.
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Super Trouper Music Review Average Rating: (4.9 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews 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) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Really 5 STARS!!
Lyrics, mixing, sound, cover-picture,....Wonderful!!. It´s a fine special album.
Submitted by Jorge Nazur (ARGENTINE)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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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