|
|
Music CD - ABBA: Super Trouper
|
Music CD: Super Trouper
Artist: ABBA
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $4.89
Your Save: $ 7.09 ( 59% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Tracks:
|
1. Super Trouper
2. The Winner Takes It All
3. On And On And On
4. Andante, Andante
5. Me And I
6. Happy New Year
7. Our Last Summer
8. The Piper
9. Lay All Your Love On Me
10. The Way Old Friends Do
11. Elaine
12. Put On Your White Sombrero
|
|
|
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454996426
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor / Umgd
Release Date: 2001-10-16
Studio: Polydor / Umgd
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: ABBA Super Trouper
Comment: Super Trouper is considered by many to be ABBA's best album. By 1980, ABBA's lyrics had become highly personal as evidenced by their number 1 hit The Winner Takes It All. I like The Piper, a relatively unknown song. It shows the power of music over an audience. Is Napoleon the piper? Is the piper the spirit of music which ABBA is following? That the piper seduced everybody suggests that he may not be so nice. Sweden stayed out of World War II. Norway, Frida's home land, was overrun by the Germans. In which case, we might think of the piper as Adolf Hitler. The fire in his eyes! We have all seen tapes of Hitler's harangues at Nazi rallies. Weapons of fear were Communism, the Jews and the specter of depression haunting the world in the 1930s. Such horrors were something baby boomers found hard to fathom. The Piper is a classic piece.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: ABBA's Break-Up Album
Comment: ABBA - Super Trouper (1980) Named for a stage spotlight, this is a great album ... but has some of the melancholy of relationships breaking up. ABBA only produced one other studio album (The Visitors) after this.
Some of their early disco can be found here (On & On & On), but there are other great styles as well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great album...but poor re-mastering
Comment: I agree with John (from N.Y.), these 24-bit re-masters of the Abba catalogue were a big letdown. In a side by side comparison, the original discs sounded much better than these. The originals were brighter and plenty full; just like the original album sounded.
On the other hand, these 24-bit discs sound slightly muddy and the high end (which includes acoustic guitars and cymbals) are flat or dead sounding thanks to the no-noise solution. My advice, is to save your money and keep your old discs.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best
Comment: This is a great album, because it has songs on it that aren't available on the Best of Abba album, like "Happy New Year" and "Our Last Summer" and "Andante, Andante." I'd highly recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: GREAT ALBUM!
Comment: I just recieved this album today and it is my favorite of all of ABBA's albums. I am a HUGE ABBA fan. I have all their albums. My favorite song on this album is "Andante Andante" because it has a soothing sound. Buy this album!
Best song-Andante Andante
Worst-THERE IS NO BAD ABBA Song! They are all good! But my least favorite song on this album is "On & On & On."
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
Super Trouper is generally considered Abba's finest album. The overheated disco flourishes of Voulez-Vous were dropped and the sequencing was very nearly perfect. What's more, silly lyrics metamorphose into things of wrenching beauty. The overall tone is rather somber--the unraveling of the band members' relationships underscores every track--but as usual Abba turn melancholy into uplifting pop music. This digipack version of the 1981 album includes two extra songs. "Put on Your White Sombrero" was recorded during the Super Trouper sessions but was replaced on the album by the title track; it's in the band's Spanish vein and comes with a throbbing synthesizer hook. "Elaine," meanwhile, was the B-side of "The Winner Takes It All" single. An uptempo number, "Elaine" is far from being a throwaway. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
