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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Polydor / Umgd
Salesrank: 53054
Released: October 16, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.70 |
| Used Price: $5.69 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Ring Ring Track Listing:
1. Ring Ring
2. Another Town, Another Train
3. Disillusion
4. People Need Love
5. I Saw It in the Mirror
6. Nina Pretty Ballerina
7. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
8. Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother
9. He Is Your Brother
10. She's My Kind of Girl
11. I Am Just a Girl
12. Rock 'N' Roll Band
13. Merry-Go-Round [*]
14. Santa Rosa [*]
15. Ring Ring [In Swedish][*]
Editorial Review:
24-bit digital remaster with new liner notes, complete lyrics and bonus tracks: 'Merry Go Round', 'Santa Rosa' and 'Ring Ring' (Swedish Version).
Description of Ring Ring:
Not issued in the U.S. until an early-'90s rerelease program, Abba's first album points toward the world-dominating pop of their later years. While the title cut has some vroom, others call for fine-tuning. The New Seekers-style anthem "People Need Love" offers the bizarre insistence that "People need love to make a good living"--at what?--and "Nina Pretty Ballerina" could be a pop song for toddlers. Not a bad thing, but not quite "Dancing Queen." And no, "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother" isn't a Springsteenian saga of felonious misadventure, but a jingling remembrance of playground days. The 24-bit remastered sound of this edition (which includes a Swedish version of "Ring Ring" among its three bonus tracks) does suggest the care Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus were already taking with production. Their discs, however, would soon achieve the truly Abba-esque. --Rickey Wright
Ring Ring Reviews:
best of the early era ABBA 
2009-04-13 - Ring Ring, Abba's 1973 release, is my favorite of their first three (the other two being Waterloo and Abba). The early Abba sound is a little more folky and little less disco compared to their later music. The title track is one of my all time favorite songs, it's so catchy! Other standout tracks include Another Town Another Train, People Need Love, Nina Pretty Ballerina, and He Is Your Brother. Definitely a great disc for Abba fans who already have The Album and Arrival.
Why Don't You Give Me a Call? 
2009-03-06 - The first album released by the supergroup is really a mixed bag for me. "Ring, Ring" has a nice pop feel to it and "Disillusion" is a meloncholy song alot which they would be known for in future releases but then there is the "rock" song. "Rock n Roll Band" is ok but rock is not what this group was.
This is as close to nordic style as it gets for ABBA 
2009-02-10 - Before the went pop all the way, ABBA was a home town group and this album reflects that sound. It is a MUST for ABBA fans to understand the roots of the team.
For me "Another Town, another Train" reminds me of life in northern Europe, where the sun goes down at 3pm in the winter and love blossoms in the spring.
Give it a good try, and after a few times you will enjoy the sound
Disco Tunes
2007-10-16 - This disc contains some really good tunes not found on the regular 'Greatest Hits' type albums. I've been looking for some of those songs for months. One of them for years.
GREAT EARLY ABBA!
2006-11-10 - What can I say about the ultimate Euro-pop group of the 1970s and early 1980s? If you've enjoyed this album on vinyl, you'll get a real kick out of this CD version.
