Woohoo!

I used to have this 1975 best of album of ABBBA! I wants it!

HamsterHuey said:

i realy love this one tow and the outher ones to love think they was a nice as group love thank u love in my jesus name peace and god bless u love in my jesus name love

moonnay said:

Imago, stop it.

Anyways. I still think ABBA had an amazing capability to write and perform timeless music. Their early carreer is happy go lucky, but their later stuff is heavier. Just listen to The Visitors and The Day Before You Came.

I love that curve in their carreer.

THE VISITORS is one of my top ten all time favorite albums. it's a masterpiece

MikeMatronik said:

Also among their best songs ever, imho.

Xagain said:

the synth work in it is amazing. I dare to say...EPIC!

their songs make me melancholy and jubilant at the same time. i have a hard time listening to them a lot of the time, but i love them.

Raze said:

Depending on what song. I cannot imagine you going "Ring Ring"; now I am melancholy...

The Day Before You Came on the other hand;

HamsterHuey said:

To bad it was the last curve....

I bought "The Visitors" album (the special edition with the last single release like "Under Attack") recently and its pretty great. Just put both "Abba Gold" and "More Abba Gold" on my MP3 player and it's Abba heaven! I've recently really got into the track "The Day Before You Came". It's got some bite. The title would make you think it's among their most bubble gum tracks with all four members singing along to a catchy chorus! Not even close. The "More Abba Gold" set is interesting because it doesn't have anything that is a signature hit by any means but contains a great mix of sweet and sour. Their happiest sunny pop ("Ring Ring") to their darkest, most paranoid new wave ("Under Attack"). And just about everything in between like the sexy and danceable "Summer Night City" and the melancholy but catchy "One of Us".

HamsterHuey said:

That loox so kool.

By far, My favorite ABBA tunage.



Dis shit iz sho.
Sho!
My pimp-ass be all over it 'n' shit.

This track kicks ass!

Catalogue is overplayed, and I still hate the songs "waterloo" and "dancing queen", but shame they split up, as their late song "the day before you came" is very Morodorish in production. Very different to their earlier productions anyway, and for pop music at least, the synth work was probably on the cutting edge for its time.
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TheMightyCelestial said:

Maybe mine, too. It's a little bit different from the other stuff on "The Visitors" (most dance pop and accessible tune), but its still pretty witty.

TheMightyCelestial said:

Hehehe, I just collected the trackinglist into an MP3 playlist.

Noice!

As it was 75, a lot of songs of the first three albums...