Audio CD review:
ABBA - ABBA

ABBA - ABBA

Band: ABBA Title: ABBA Rating: Release Date: 2001-10-16 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Mamma Mia 2: Hey, Hey Helen 3: Tropical Loveland - ABBA, Anderson, Stig 4: S.O.S. 5: Man in the Middle 6: Bang-A-Boomerang - ABBA, Anderson, Stig 7: I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 8: Rock Me 9: Intermezzo No. 1 10: I've Been Waiting for You 11: So Long 12: Crazy World 13: Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton/On Top of Old Smokey/Midnight Special

trip down memory lane. a great listen. brilliant cd shows why they were the best band of their time some of the music is still a diffrent class today, tracks 2 and 3 should have been released as singles by themself in my opinion. . Another great alumb on cd Rondall. Here is another great alumb on cd if you wondered where the single dancing queen came from it's on this cd. ABBA - 3rd album It was not easy following up the Waterloo success of the Eurovision contest. ABBA's self-titled album amounted to a kind of comeback. It was about a year-and-half before the next crop of hits came. SOS certainly got people's attention and remains a classic song to this day. It is a good thing they did not call this album Mamma Mia! because it would have taken away from the future stage musical. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do was kind of a throwback, and I once heard a disc jockey say it reminded him of Lawrence Welk. . The album holds up well over the years This is a good example of 70's pop done well. It was refreshing to hear this album again. It's interesting to hear Intermezzo and realize that ABBA did Trans Siberian Orchestra. . . 30 years before they did. Abba's first great album Lyrically, there are some silly album tracks (as there were on all the early albums), but "Hey, Hey Helen" and "Tropical Loveland" show some real range, delving into rock and reggae. Many critics date Abba's ascent to super pop stardom from 1976's "Arrival," but all the ingredients were already there on this album, which surpasses "Arrival" in variety. I give this four stars because I feel that Abba's last three studio albums--"Voulez-vous," "Supertrouper," and "Arrival" really are their most complete achievements, but "Abba" is a great classic pop album. . You can see a complete list of all ABBA discography, or go back to the ABBA tabs