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Super Trouper
by: Abba

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454995627
Format: Import
Label: Polydor Group
Manufacturer: Polydor Group
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor Group
Release Date: March 01, 2002
Running Time: 50 minutes
Studio: Polydor Group
Sales Rank: 125

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Description:
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 "TheWinner 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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Not quite up to the standard of The Winner Takes It All
The first single from this album, The Winner Takes It All, is considered one of the group's best songs. It returned them to the top of the UK singles charts after an absence of two and a half years and six near-misses. The album itself, coming on the back of Abba's immensely successful 1979 tour, was a massive hit and broke records in advanced orders.

However, the rest of the album just doesn't live up to the promise of the first single. A new maturity was evident, with lyrics becoming more personal, but there are more fillers than classics here. I'm not a fan of the dreadful title track, despite the fact it was their last UK Number 1. Me and I and The Way Old Friends Do are also not up to Abba's high standards. Other than ... Read More:

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- Sweet and Sour Smorgasbord
Top quality stuff which nonetheless sounded the death knell for the Swedish superstars. Signs that the wheels were beginning to work loose on the Abba charabanc are all too evident on this, their seventh and finest album. In the midst of the standard, disco-flavoured candy floss ("Lay All Your Love On Me" and "On And On And On") is a sizeable contingent of more profound songs that feature the band taking stock of their changing marital fortunes, none more so than the bitter lament "The Winner Takes It All", a stirring elegy that is the album's defining moment. There's something almost symbolic about the reflective gem "Our Last Summer" and the ironically titled "Happy New Year"; with the sun clearly starting to set on the band's halcyon days, ... Read More:

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- Super comeback to #1 heights for ABBA
Somebody once said that ABBA were never an albums act, that their strength was their singles. Of course, that is not even remotely true because ABBA has 9 #1 albums and the GOLD compilation is one of the top 10 albums in the UK (ever) according to its weeks on chart. Anyway, ABBA was as strong as ever at the crack of the 80s although they waited for a #1 single for quite some time back then. That all changed (to everybody's surprise when Super Trouper was released beacuse the first two tracks (you know everything about them) went #1 (the last two in their carreer).
The only weakness in ABBA albums would be the fact that they almost never represent a storyline but merely an album with around 10 songs they chose were musically right. For example, ... Read More:

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- Brilliant With or Without the Extra Tracks
Right up there with the best of them. ABBA always did good albums, most of the tracks could've made good singles - IMHO. This album had a good flow to it from beginning to end, finishing as it does with "The Way Old Friends Do." This means that it is more of a jarring jump to the extra tracks than normal. Still the extras are not too bad either.

On the other hand, would it not have been possible for them to put stuff on which had never been released elsewhere?

Favourites include "On and One . . ."; "Andante, Andante"; "Our Last Summer" & "Winner . . .".

Good solid ABBA album, full of emotion, great songwriting & excellent music.

Recommended.

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- A masterpiece
This is one of the best albums Abba recorded. Like some of the others, I bought it originally on vinyl, then upgraded to CD, then bought the re-mastered CD with three bonus tracks (including Gimmie gimmie gimmie, not listed here but readily available on Abba hits compilations), but ignored the latest digipack version, although no further bonus tracks were added.

Two British number one hits came from this album. The first, Winner takes it all, is a very sad song about the break-up of a relationship. It was inspired by a marriage break-up within Abba, but was not itself autobiographical. As they admit, neither partner came out winners from the divorce. The song hits home hard, perhaps because Agnetha really felt the song. The second number one, ... Read More:

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