Ring Ring

Waterloo 24 bit digitally remastered reissue of the Swedish group's second album (1974), featuring the hits 'Waterloo' (#6) and 'Honey Honey' (#27). 11 tracks total. Other 9: 'Sitting In The Palm Tree', 'King Kong Song', 'Hasta Manana' 'My Mama Said', 'Dance', 'What About Livingstone', 'W...	ABBA Abba took a risk by launching this 1975 album (their second) with "Mamma Mia." How do you possibly follow that up? Simple--wait two songs and then zoom into "SOS," one of the best pop songs ever written. The rest of the album does not quite reach those dizzying heights, but it's ...	Voulez-Vous Voulez-Vous is Abba's Eurodisco album, and if you decide to go there, be ready for some serious histrionics. Typical of the record's wall of sound is "Does Your Mother Know," in which the disco pulse leads into power guitar riffs laid out over a boogie piano. The sound is equally...	Arrival At the height of their success, ABBA were second only to Volvo as Sweden's biggest export earners. Arrival (1977) sees the quartet just finding their stride, after a year of relative obscurity which followed the success of "Waterloo," their 1973 Eurovision Song Contest winner. Li...	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 unrave...
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 tra...	Abba - The Album Without a doubt, 1978's The Album is the Swedish pop demigods' finest moment. (Forgive them the film.) From the opening stanzas of the visionary "Eagle" (a "Born Free" for the late '70s) to the pure joyous rush of "Take a Chance on Me" (has a cappella ever sounded so irresistible...	ABBA The Movie	ABBA Live Abba's success was, without a doubt, partly down to studio trickery--yet if this is the case, then why are Live's sonics so shimmering, so magical? The drum sound is heavy and full, the overall effect crystal clear and pristine. Harmonies are immaculate, melodies melt in your hea...	The Definitive Collection Is there anything that simply screams the 1970s' most indelible pop cultural clichés--the sunny romanticism, perfect vocal hooks, feathered hair, stacked heels, and flared sateen britches--more than the Swedish pop phenomenon Abba? And while many a pundit snootily dismissed them...

Disco Tunes
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!
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.

Great album!
"Ring Ring" album is great! I love this album. Most people are saying "I Saw It In the Mirror" is a boring song. I don't think it's half bad. But the other songs are fun to listen to. They sound a lot different it being their first album. This is a great CD.

Definitely not a typical ABBA album
but it has enjoyable pop songs nonetheless. It kills you with cuteness with songs like Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother, Nina Pretty Ballerina, and I Am Just A Girl. The album features the 1970 Bjorn & Benny recording She's My Kind of Girl, recorded 3 years before the rest of the album. Rock & Roll Band closes the album on a rockin note, and is one of the highlights. All in all, an album filled with ABBA curiousities that is definitely a must have for a die-hard ABBA fan or for someone who's into campy 70s pop.

Possibly ABBA's least popular album
If you are an ABBA fan,you will need this CD in your collection for completeness ... but most of all, to see how the band started out. Most ABBA fans agree, this is possibly their least favourite ABBA album (next might be Waterloo) - however, it does contains some great songs, just not enough of them. Comments on each track are as follows: 1. Ring, Ring - this song has an interesting history. It made no impact on its initial release as a single, but was then remixed to present a rock flavour to it, and then soared the charts particularly in Australia where it went Top 10. The remixed version can only be found on the "Definitive Collection" CD. 2. Another Town, Another Train - a very catchy tune which almost has a folk flavour to it. Quite possibly the best track on the album. 3. Disillusion - a song written by Agnetha some years back for inclusion on her solo album. The English version appears on this album. Overall an ok, but dullish song. 4. People Need Love - a big hit in Sweden, and included on their first greatest hits album. 5. I Saw It In The Mirror - totally boring. 6. Nina, Pretty Ballerina - a silly song really, but has its moments. 7. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) - mediocre, the album continues to lose momentum. 8. Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother - this is where the album starts to pick up again. I like this song for Frida's vocals. 9. He Is Your Brother - brilliant song, very catchy. 10. She's My Kind Of Girl - boring! 11. I Am Just A Girl - Very interesting song, love the girls singing on this. 12. Rock'N'Roll Band - the B side to the remixed version of Ring Ring single in Australia. ABBA does rock for this one! 13. Merry-Go-Round - bonus track 14. Santa Rosa - bonus track 15. Ring, Ring (In Swedish) - have not heard this version, it is omitted from Ring Ring CD. Overall, Ring Ring is not a masterpiece, nor is it a complete failure. It has its merits, and should still be in every true ABBA fan's collection.