Now,you might ask ABBA?. These Swedish Delights sold more albums then the Beatles,Elvis and Michael Jackson in the 1970's,and excluding their saccharine disco period that to me was unbearable,these masters of pop released some of the most gorgeous songs in musics history,rivaling even The Beatles in some cases.
Re released in 2008,this 180 gram vinyl LP is one of the groups best efforts,with no disco to spoil it's charm. Opening with The Eagle with leas vocals by Anni,a beautiful song inspired by Richard Bach's Johnathon Livingston Seagull that singer Neil Diamond made a soundtrack to the motion picture a few years earlier.
Now,the second song ''Take a chance on me'' stayed at #1 for 3 weeks on the UK's charts,then side 1 ending with ''The name of the game'',in my opinion,ABBA's greatest song. ABBA is defiantly an acquired taste,and not for everyones musical palate. The Album [the lp's title] falls at # 3,The Visitors being my personal fav,and their last before the group called it quits. It's unfortunate that they had to ruin the magic during their disco period,guess they wanted to compete with their competitors at the time The BEE GEES,but that aside,this is a gorgeous recording on high quality vinyl in stirdy packaging. All of ABBA's recordings have been re released on vinyl,theres even a boxset that sells for close to $ 200.00,and my advice with sets is if you have 1 album thats defective,it's hard to return entire package,plus the heavy disco lp Voulus Vous and Waterloo are two albums you could do without.
This band will be missed,a great shame they disbanded in 1982,and highly recommend this album.
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