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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 ... Full Descriptioncontinued 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.
Several songs, including the brilliant, enormous hit "S.O.S." and the excellent "Hey Hey Helen" (covered by Lush 15 years later), contained the first inklings of the melancholy that would become such a fundamental part of their later albums. ABBA's self-titled album is the first key turning point of their long and exceptional career.
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Recorded at Glen, Metronome & Ljudkopia Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in 1974 & 1975. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, guitar); Benny Andersson (vocals, piano, Clavinet, synthesizer); Anni Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog (vocals).
Additional personnel: Janne Schaffer, Finn Sjoberg, Lassw Wellander (guitar); Ulf Andersson (alto & tenor saxophones); Bruno Glenmark (trumpet); Rutger Gunnarsson, Mike Watson (bass); Ola Brunkert, Roger Palm (drums).
Q (9/01, p.126) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...With 'Mamma Mia' and 'SOS', Abba decisively find their feet..." Hide Description Abba Music | List Price | $9.98 (You save $3.13) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | Polydor | | Orig Year | 1975 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8820  | | CD Universe Part number | 2062605 | | Catalog number | 549960 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 16, 2001 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Bjorn Ulvaeus; Benny Andersson | | Engineer | Michael B. Tretow | | Personnel | Benny Andersson - vocals, piano, Clavinet, synthesizer
Bjorn Ulvaeus - vocals, guitar
Agnetha Faltskog - vocals
Anni Frid Lyngstad
Also: Ola Brunkert, Janne Schaffer, Lasse Wellander, Roger Palm, Mike Watson, Bruno Glenmark, Finn Sjober, Ulf Andersson | | Additional Info | Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak |
Purchase Abba CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | ABBA Album CD (1977) 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 song ABBA ever recorded, "I'm A Marionette" sounds in retrospect like a portent of the band's rancorous end less than four years later. Curiosities and all, THE ALBUM may be ABBA's creative highpoint.
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Recorded at Glen, Metronome and Marcus Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in 1977. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Benny Anderson (vocals, keyboards); Agnetha Faltskog, Anni Frid Lyngstad (vocals).
Additional personnel: Lasse Wellander, Janne Schaffer (guitar); Lars O. Carlsson (flute, saxophone); Rutger Gunnarsson (bass); Ola Bunkert, Roger Palm (drums); Malando Gassama (persussion).
| | ABBA Voulez-Vous CD (1979) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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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 was justified.
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Recorded at Polar Music Studio, Stockholm, Sweden in 1978 & 1979. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo); Benny Anderson (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Agnetha Faltskog, Anni Frid Lyngstad (vocals).
Additional personnel: Janne Schaffer, Ish Lededma, George Terry, Lasse Wellander (guitar); Jan Risberg (oboe); Lars O. Carlsson, Kajtek Wojciechowski, Halldor Palsson, Johan Stengard (tenor saxophone); Nils Landgren (trombone) Paul Harris (piano); Arnold Paseiro, Rutger Gunnarsson, Mike Watson (bass); Ola Brunkert, Joe Galdo, Rolf Alex (drums); International School Of Stockholm Choir (background vocals).
| | ABBA Super Trouper CD (1980) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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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.
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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).
| | ABBA Arrival CD (1976) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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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 in between for the three excellent singles and five other substantial pop tunes. Although three LPs and a greatest-hits compilation preceded it, ARRIVAL is aptly titled, as this album announces the band's move beyond bubblegum.
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Jon Astley.
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Recorded at Glen and Stocksund Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in 1976. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Benny Andersson (vocals, accordion, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, marimba, chimes); Anni Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog (vocals).
Additional personnel: Janne Schaffer, Lasse Wellander, Anders Glenmark (electric guitar); Lasse Carlsson (saxophone); Rutger Gunnarson (bass); Ola Brunkert, Roger Palm (drums); Malando Gassama (percussion).
| | ABBA Ring Ring CD (1973) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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Folks familiar with ABBA's singles from their five-year stranglehold on AM radio in the late-'70s may be surprised by this, the Swedish foursome's 1973 debut. Not only is the title track--a runner-up in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest--the only tune that ever shows up on the group's many anthologies, the other 11 songs show only traces of the compositional maturity, lyrical depth and production flourishes that make ABBA's later work so intoxicating.
Instead, RING RING is a sterling example of early-'70s bubblegum, not really that different from the Partridge Family or Andy Kim. Most surprising may be how many of the songs feature the lead vocals of Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson in addition to (and, in some cases, instead of) Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog. Whoever is singing, songs like "She's My Kind of Girl" and "Love Isn't Easy" make RING RING a package of pure, chewy pop confections.
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Jon Astley.
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Recorded at Metronome Studio, KMH Studio & Europafilm Studio, Stockholm, Sweden in 1972 & 1973. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic guitar); Benny Anderson (vocals, piano, Mellotron); Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (vocals).
Additional personnel: Janne Schaffer (acoustic & electric guitars); Rutger Gunnarson, Mike Watson (electric bass); Ola Brunkert, Roger Palm (drums).
| | Miracles Collection CD (2002) (Import) Germany
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The 18-track COLLECTION focuses on the 1970s work by the Miracles folloing Smokey Robinson's departure for a solo career, including the disco smash "Love Machine."
UK budget-price compilation for the Motown recording act that scored over 40 hits in the R&B Top 40 charts. 19 tracks including 'City Of Angels', 'Free Press', 'Night Life', 'SMOG', 'Gemini', 'Do It Baby' and more.
| | Various Artists Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The 80'S, Volume 14 CD (1995)
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Live Recording
Includes liner notes by Brett Milano.
Compilation producers: David McLees, Andrew Sandoval.
| | Walker Brothers Singles (And More) CDs (2002) (Import) Netherlands
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Dutch only compilation featuring both the Billboard chart hits and numerous UK hits for the British Invasion pop trio that formed in L.A. The members of the group were Scott Engel on lead vocals and bass guitar, John Maus on guitar and vocals, and drummer Gary Leeds. They came together in Los Angeles in 1964 and formed the group. While their biggest hits were covers of songs by American pop songwriting teams like Bacharach-David and Mann-Weil, Scott (and occasionally John Walker) could write brooding originals in a more personal, less overblown style when given the chance. Tracks include, 'Make It Easy On Yourself', 'My Ship Is Coming', 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore', '(Baby) You Don't Have To Tell Me', 'Another Tear Falls' along with a host of rarities. All original recordings. Standard double jewelcase.
| | Various Artists Drop The Needle: Illy B Eats Remixes & Breakbeats CDs (2002)
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ANTIDOTE is the first volume in a series; it contains remixes of tracks included on Billy Martin's breakbeat LP GROOVE BANG & JIVE AROUND.
Billy Martin/Jennifer Charles/ Miho Hatori/Chris Wood/DJ Oliv
| | Mus Divina Lluz CD (2004)
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Mus: Monica Vacas, Fran Gayo.
Additional personnel: Iker Gonzalez (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, E-bow); Pedro Vigil (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro, bass guitar); Jose Luis Garcia (dobro); Manuel Molina (drums, percussion).
| | Brian Buchanan Ensemble Plays The Music Of Dennis Van Westerborg CD (2005)
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Track Listing of songs: Blues For Art; Celtic Waltz; Half Past Midnight; Carnival; Dixie Bop; Jazz Francais; Mood Swing; Tour de Force; 10th Street Shuffle; Light and Bubby Waltz, A; Drifting Off; Blues and I, The; Whimprovisation; Minor Swing Thing, A; My Time Alone;
| | Eddie Marcon Shining On Graveposts CD (2005) (Import) Import; Australia
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SHINING ON GRAVEPOSTS is the debut album by Japanese psych-folk duo Eddie Marcon, comprised of former LSD-March members Eddie Corman and Marcon.
Shining on Graveposts cradles the mysterious, melancholic air so unique so much Japanese music in intimate spaces. The graceful arc of Eddie's guitar melodies entwined with the shuffle and swirl of Marcon's percussion are the humble beginnings of rich atmospheres. Falling between half-tuned dreams and stark, crystalline beauty, these songs are rich with warmth, shot into spacey terrain with tender eccentricity and otherworldly charm. Eddie's voice is a hushed, tingling thing, rising on occasion from its gentle soul to a more sweeping majesty. Preservation. 2005.
| | Asta Kask Fran Andra Sidan CD (2006) (Import) Import
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Track Listing of songs: TV:N; Dom Far Aldrig Mej; Psykiskt Instabil; Inget Ljus; Landsplikt; Johnny Boy; Mansklig Existens; Lasse Lasse Liten; Ab Bona & Be; Psykopaten; Valkolmmen Hem; Sexkomplex; Det Vill Jag VA'; Det Ar Snett; Demokrati; Blitzkrieg Bop; Ringhals Brinner;
| | Cafe Lounge Royal Strawberry Milk Tea Cafe Lounge: Royal Strawberry Milk Tea CD (2007) (Import)
$32.85 | | Dee Wee Middens Crack Open A Cold One CD (2007) (Import)
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Dirty Wee Middens are a fetid hybrid between the Misfits and the Murder Dolls with their every breath spewing out ectoplasm and bile. This premiere album marks an incubation period of 12 months and contains more energy, vileness and general debauchery than is found in a Glaswegian brothel when the lights go out! Cramped full of breakneck zombie punk these ghoul rockers are about to explode over the UK like projectile vomit from a possessed nun on the point of goregasm.
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Abba Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews ABBA Can Rock!
This is a great third release from the biggest band of all-time! Why "Hey Hey Helen" or "Tropical Loveland" weren't singles baffles me!
Submitted by Taisha (Chicago, IL)
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this is Abba's first masterpieces ,for me it's even better than 'Super trouper' is too elegant !
this is a perfect pop album and it deserves the third place just after 'The Visitors at N°1 and 'rrival' at N°2 !
the albums features Abba's best rock song SOS and a collection of songs wich all could have been singles
Submitted by gunfooter (algiers)
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Very Good, ABBA!!!!
This is a very good collection of hits. Any fan would love it.
Submitted by jejr9 (Irvine)
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Great album!!! Many hits are on this release, in remastered form!, including "Mamma Mia", S.O.S", "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "Bang-A Boomerang" & "Rock Me". The rest of the cd is just as great. The best track in my opinion is "Hey Hey Helen".
Submitted by Janis Ray (West Virginia)
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This was ABBA's first album (in my opinion)where they were really starting to develope the signature "abba-sound". It's great! It's got some real gems on here like "Mamma Mia", "SOS", "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "Hey Hey Helen", & "Rock Me". It's really a fun album, but remains a bit weak standing next to their followup releases like 'Voulez-Vous', 'The Album', & 'The Visitors'.
Submitted by Maurice (Toledo, OH, USA)
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