 | |
List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Polydor / Umgd
Salesrank: 11451
Released: October 16, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.78 |
| Used Price: $16.06 |
|
| Media: Audio CD |
|
Super Trouper Track Listing:
1. Super Trouper
2. 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. Piper
9. Lay All Your Love on Me
10. Way Old Friends Do
11. Elaine
12. Put on Your White Sombrero
Editorial Review:
24-bit digitally remastered digipak edition with extensive liner notes, lyrics and includes two bonus songs: 'Elaine' and 'Put on Your White Sombrero'.
Description of Super Trouper:
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
Super Trouper Reviews:
Super Trooper 
2009-12-12 - Item was as advertised and received in a very timely manner. I am well pleased.
Penultimate ABBA.
2009-11-10 - ABBA's most accomplished and most popular LP, 'Super Trouper' in its latest 24-bit remastered incarnation is the version to own, despite its fragile digipak container. The remastered sound is extraordinary (as is the case on all the remastered ABBA discs), and the song set contains some of their best material, including "The Winner Takes It All" and the terrific title track. The next-to-last and best album from the Swedish Ubergroup.
For The Love Of ABBA
2009-04-14 - To all of you who love ABBA and all great music from the 70's and 80's, this CD does not disappoint. ABBA is so much more than just the songs you most associate readily with the group, and this collection just goes to prove that. I LOVED this CD, and was so glad to be able to add it to my collection again - in fact, I still have the original album! So please, if you are a fan of all great music and ABBA is certainly that - buy this CD - you won't regret it.
Feeling Like A Number One
2009-03-06 - Getting "Mamma Mia!" standards and favorites out of the way first:
Super Trouper- A great song that just feels magical.
The Winner Takes It All- the greatest of the relationship songs is one that anyone (including me) can relate to.
Our Last Summer- Another personal one from Bjorn detailing a young romance in Paris is another song a person can relate.
Lay All Your Love On Me- An upbeat dance song that gives a hint to the techno sound music would have in the eighties.
As for the others, "Me and I" was an excellent song about the dual nature of people and the others were excellent. I can understand why this is the number one ABBA album for most fans but this is my third.
The Password is "Underrated"
2009-03-02 - Strange as it may seem, but this chart-topping album is very underrated. Never fully appreciated by critics, this is actually as good as pop music gets. Filled with excellent album-only tracks like "Happy New Year", "Andante, Andante", "Me And I", every track here could of been a Top 40 hit if released as a single. Musically, the album sees ABBA taking note of the passing of disco, and returning to the straight-forward pop sound heard on the albums "Arrival" and "ABBA", but with much increased use of synthesizers, as well as some bold songwriting. The result sounds very much of it's time, yet somehow is also timeless. Also, unlike some other artists of the time, ABBA also used live drums (played by Ola Brunkert) instead of a drum machine.
Overall, this is a fine album, and one that still pleases today.
