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Super Trouper [Remaster]

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"ABBA's finest album at their very best"
5 stars"

ABBA's seventh studio album became their most mature lyrically, slightly darker and more personal, musically their finest at the peak of the group's career. Benny's masterly of his Yamaha GX-1 synthesizer is clearly evident and went on to inspire what later became known as synthpop and electronic music.

“The Winner Takes It All” was nearly autobiographical in the divorce between Agnetha and Bjorn. Written by Bjorn. Getting your ex-wife to perform it was a feat in itself. Benny's musical arrangement was simple, elegant and perfectly suited. Considered by many as the group's greatest recording.

Single “Elaine” song here as a ‘bonus track’ is by some the closest the group ever got to New Wave.

Other stand out tracks include, disco “Super Trouper”, “On And On And On” and “Lay All Your Love On Me”, “Happy New Year” and ballads “Our Last Summer” and “The Way Old Friends Do”.

Play the album as originally intended from tracks 1 to 10 and each song flows beautifully from beginning to end. Often regarded as a singles band, this album proofs they could craft a great pop album as well.

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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).

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

Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Jon Astley.

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.

What the critics say...

Q (9/01, p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Occasionally works wonders...as on the 'The Winner Takes All'..."

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Super Trouper
  2. Winner Takes It All, The
  3. On And On And On
  4. Andante, Andante
  5. Me And I
  6. Happy New Year
  7. Our Last Summer
  8. Piper, The
  9. Lay All Your Love On Me
  10. Way Old Friends Do, The - (live)
  11. Elaine
  12. Put On Your White Sombrero
Release date Australia
October 16th, 2001
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Label
Polydor
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
1980
Box Dimensions (mm)
142x125x10
UPC
0731454995627
Product ID
1523081

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