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Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. "The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of the album in most territories, was a smash; for example, it was the group's 14th consecutive Top Five hit in the U.K. and their eighth number one there. The title track was also a British chart-topper (their last), as was the album, their sixth. "Lay All Your Love on Me" made the U.K. Top Ten, and "On and on and On" was released as a single in some countries, hitting the Top Ten in Australia. (Typically, American success was more modest, though the album went gold, and "The Winner Takes It All" was a number one adult contemporary and Top Ten pop hit.) Musically, Super Trouper found ABBA, always trend-conscious, taking account of the passing of disco and returning to the pop/rock sound typical of their early albums. Only "Lay All Your Love on Me" employed a dance approach. The title song had the kind of martial beat and pop sound more in keeping with the group that had broken through with "Mamma Mia" and "S.O.S.," and "On and on and On" paid homage to one of their chief influences, the Beach Boys, with an arrangement reminiscent of "Do It Again." Lyrically, there was a distinct sense of world weariness and melancholy, from the divorce lamentations of "The Winner Takes It All" to the dissatisfaction with touring expressed in "Super Trouper" and even the nostalgia for a simpler time in "Our Last Summer." For performers on top of the world, the members of ABBA were putting an unusual amount of what sounded like real unhappiness into their pop music. [The 2001 reissue added "Elaine," a non-LP B-side, and "Put on Your White Sombrero," an outtake. Both were excellent songs.]
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, BackgroundVocalist, Synthesizer, Keyboard, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, BackgroundVocalist, Guitar, ComposerLyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Vocalist - Agnetha Fältskog, Vocalist - Janne Schaffer, Guitar - Mike Watson, BassGuitar - Per Lindvall, DrumKit - Åke Sundqvist, Percussion
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, Vocalist, Keyboard, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, Vocalist, Guitar, ComposerLyricist - Michael B. Tretow, Engineer - Agnetha Fältskog, Vocalist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Vocalist - Rutger Gunnarsson, StringArranger - Ola Brunkert, DrumKit - Lasse Wellander, Guitar - Mike Watson, Bass - Åke Sundqvist, Percussion
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, Keyboard, Vocalist, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, Guitar, Vocalist, ComposerLyricist - Agnetha Fältskog, Vocalist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Vocalist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, Keyboard, Vocalist, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, Guitar, Vocalist, ComposerLyricist - Agnetha Fältskog, Vocalist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Vocalist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, Keyboard, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, Guitar, ComposerLyricist - Agnetha Fältskog, Vocalist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, BackgroundVocalist - Lasse Wellander, Guitar - Ola Brunkert, DrumKit - Rutger Gunnarsson, Bass
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
Abba, MainArtist - Benny Andersson, Producer, RecordingArranger, BackgroundVocalist, Synthesizer, Keyboard, ComposerLyricist - Bjorn Ulvaeus, Producer, RecordingArranger, BackgroundVocalist, Guitar, ComposerLyricist - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Vocalist - Agnetha Fältskog, Vocalist - Janne Schaffer, Guitar - Mike Watson, BassGuitar - Per Lindvall, DrumKit - Åke Sundqvist, Percussion
℗ 1994 Polar Music International AB
Review: Abba - Super Trouper
Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. "The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of the album in most territories, was a smash; for example, it was the group's 14th consecutive Top Five hit in the U.K. and their eighth number one there. The title track was also a British chart-topper (their last), as was the album, their sixth. "Lay All Your Love on Me" made the U.K. Top Ten, and "On and on and On" was released as a single in some countries, hitting the Top Ten in Australia. (Typically, American success was more modest, though the album went gold, and "The Winner Takes It All" was a number one adult contemporary and Top Ten pop hit.) Musically, Super Trouper found ABBA, always trend-conscious, taking account of the passing of disco and returning to the pop/rock sound typical of their early albums. Only "Lay All Your Love on Me" employed a dance approach. The title song had the kind of martial beat and pop sound more in keeping with the group that had broken through with "Mamma Mia" and "S.O.S.," and "On and on and On" paid homage to one of their chief influences, the Beach Boys, with an arrangement reminiscent of "Do It Again." Lyrically, there was a distinct sense of world weariness and melancholy, from the divorce lamentations of "The Winner Takes It All" to the dissatisfaction with touring expressed in "Super Trouper" and even the nostalgia for a simpler time in "Our Last Summer." For performers on top of the world, the members of ABBA were putting an unusual amount of what sounded like real unhappiness into their pop music. [The 2001 reissue added "Elaine," a non-LP B-side, and "Put on Your White Sombrero," an outtake. Both were excellent songs.]
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:50:20
- Main artists: ABBA
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Polar Music International AB
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2001 Polar Music International AB ℗ 1980 Polar Music International AB
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