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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Polydor / Umgd
Salesrank: 5235
Released: October 16, 2001 |
| Our Price: $4.91 |
| Used Price: $6.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Visitors Track Listing:
1. The Visitors
2. Head Over Heels
3. When All Is Said And Done
4. Soldiers
5. I Let The Music Speak
6. One Of Us
7. Two For The Price Of One
8. Slipping Through My Fingers
9. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
10. Should I Laugh Or Cry
11. The Day Before You Came
12. Cassandra
13. Under Attack
Editorial Review:
Exclusive import limited edition digipak is remastered, has extensive line notes and lyrics, and includes four bonus songs, 'Should I Laugh Or Cry', 'The Day Before You Came', 'Cassandra' and 'Under Attack'. 13 tracks in all.
Description of The Visitors:
Abba's 1981 swan song is appropriately touched by intimations of loss; The Visitors certainly contains nothing as breezy as "Does Your Mother Know." Far from the listless meanderings of a group on its way out, however, the album is alive with emotion and creativity. The title track fuses a melody reminiscent of the Beatles Indian explorations with a smartly done synthesizer arrangement typical of the disc as a whole. (They could've been the Human League!) Similarly moody cuts like "Soldiers" and "One of Us" help make this that rare thing, an Abba record suited for lonely late nights. This 24-bit remaster boasts four bonus cuts, including the final singles "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," in addition to improved sound quality. --Rickey Wright
The Visitors Reviews:
Many Good Songs Worth Buying 
2008-10-04 - I think Abba is so underrated, because their harmonies are so absolutely beautiful. This CD has several songs on it that are worth buying to keep..."The Visitors" is a song that is just fun to hear. But others, like "One of Us" and "Like an Angel Passing thru my Room" are those stop still songs that make you pause and remember. A song that can be sad "Slipping through My Fingers" is so gorgeous and so relatable to anyone seeing their child growing up, and it was just featured in the "Mamma Mia" film. Note the beauty of the front cover of the CD...the rich golden color and the way the members are standing apart, with the ceilings high around them. It is worth a buy because it's not all about one good song. Let's get back to worthwhile, classy music.
An Dang Good Cd 
2008-05-30 - When i first got this cd on alumb i played the heck out of it and it still sounds good but not as it does now and when i seen it had extra tracks on this cd i knew i just had to have it.
Rondall
Surprisingly complex like a good cabarnet...
2008-05-13 - I first heard "The Visitors" 25 years ago cruising around w/friends in college, and I remember my friend Diane warning us that this Abba tape would trip us out...the intro "sounds like Rush", I remember her saying. And for a guy who preferred hard rock and metal, I was intrigued. The melodies and the lyrics made you realize this wasn't the overproduced numbers that ABBA was famous for pop audiences in the US; it was mature in lyrics and its styling. Years later I bought the CD, and I can say it's one of my favorites when I'm in the mood for something somber and reflective - check it out if you don't have it.
ABBA The Visitors
2008-02-21 - The Visitors was ABBA's last studio album, and there is a sombre mood which sets it apart. But it is a true masterpiece! One song in particular transcends pop music. I Let The Music Speak explores the nature of creativity itself. It sees the composer as a medium through which music passes. It assumes music (art) to have a pre-existence and that we merely tune into it. The song hints of music's capacity to evoke emotions and to enhance reality. Music reconciles. Note the imagery. Streets take the artist from the city into the country. Dry leaves imply death. She is lost in a valley, a depression, blind. Her inspiration is gone. Sleep, death, writer's block. Music rescues her. Again, sexual imagery. Music is her lover. "I take it to me and let it flow through me." Music is life itself, the voice of God! This is ABBA's most elegant song. Painting, poetry and music merge.
Edgy ABBA? Yeah, a bit, and a great final studio album.....
2008-01-29 - I have 2 ABBA albums, the box set Thank You for The Music, and this one. I really like this one, their final album (I doubt there will ever be a reunion). It has a lot of sadness in it (the romantic liasons in the band were coming apart by this time), and it gives the songs a dark edge to them, something that is noticably missing in other ABBA albums. I love the title track. It's one of my favorite ABBA tracks with an edge of darkness to it, yet it's still a great pop song. Head Over Heals and One of Us are great pop ABBA classics, and I love the closer (at least on the original album ) Like an Angel Passing Through My Room. It's a sad, sad lullaby song, a worthy closer to ABBA's darkest album. This reiusse has The Day Before You Came and Under Attack, which was ABBA's last single (A-Side and B-Side). I love both those songs, and I'm glad this edition has them. Obviously, if you're an ABBA completist, you have to have this one, but those who are even slightly interested in ABBA should pick it up too.
