Abba - The Visitors (1981) - Lp

Release: 1981
Genre: Synth-pop 
Format:  LP
Label:  Polydor
Catalog#  2311122
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The Visitors is the eighth and final studio album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released on 30 November 1981.
With The Visitors, ABBA took several steps away from the "lighter" pop music they had recorded previously and the album is often regarded as a more complex and mature effort. The opening track, "The Visitors", with its ominous synthesizer sounds and the distinctive lead vocal by Frida, announced a change in musical style.
With Benny and Frida going their separate ways, the pain of splitting up was explored yet again in "When All Is Said and Done". The major hit single on the album, "One of Us", also depicted the end of a love story. Elsewhere there were current Cold War themes—highly topical at the time—and further songs of isolation and regret.

ABBA's final album was recorded during a period of major personal shakeups, principally in the decision by Benny Andersson and Frida to follow the same route to divorce that had already been taken by Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog.
Both male members of the group would soon remarry, but at the time, despite all of these changes in their circumstances, The Visitors was never intended as ABBA's swan song -- they were to go on recording together. That may explain why, rather than a threadbare, thrown-together feel, The Visitors is a beautifully made, very sophisticated album, filled with serious but never downbeat songs, all beautifully sung and showing off some of the bold songwriting efforts.
The title track is a topical song about Soviet dissidents that also manages to be very catchy, while "I Let the Music Speak" sounds like a Broadway number (and a very good one, at that) in search of a musical to be part of, and "When All Is Said and Done" is a serious, achingly beautiful ballad with a lot to say about their personal situations -- even
"Two for the Price of One," a lighthearted song sung by Björn Ulvaeus about answering a personal advertisement, offered several catchy hooks and beautiful backup singing. "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room" ended the original album on a hauntingly ethereal note, but not as any kind of larger statement about the quartet's fate.


Side A
A1. The Visitors   (5:49) 
A2. Head Over Heels   (3:45) 
A3. When All Is Said And Done  (3:20) 
A4. Soldiers   (4:38) 

Side B
B1. I Let The Music Speak   (5:20) 
B2. One Of Us   (3:55) 
B3. Two For The Price Of One   (3:36) 
B4. Slipping Through My Fingers   (3:51) 
B5. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room   (3:25)

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Abba - Arrival (1976) - Lp

Side A
A1.  When I Kissed the Teacher  (2:58)
A2.  Dancing Queen (3:47)
A3.  My Love, My Life (3:49)
A4.  Dum Dum Diddle  (2:50)
A5.  Knowing Me, Knowing You (3:56)

Side B
B1.  Money, Money, Money  (3:02)
B2.  That’s Me (3:14)
B3.  Why Did It Have to Be Me?  (3:19)
B4.  Tiger  (2:54)
B5.  Arrival (Instrumental) (3:00)

Release:  1976
Format:  LP
Genre:  Pop
Label:  Polydor Records
Catalog#  2310483

Vinyl:  Goed
Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen

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Abba - Voulez-Vous (1979) - Lp

Side one
1. As Good as New  (3:24)
2. Voulez-Vous  (5:09)
3. I Have a Dream  (4:45)
4. Angeleyes  (4:20)
5. The King Has Lost His Crown  (3:32)

Side two
1. Does Your Mother Know  (3:13)
2. If It Wasn’t for the Nights  (5:09)
3. Chiquitita  (5:26)
4. Lovers (Live a Little Longer)  (3:30)
5. Kisses of Fire  (3:16)

Release: 1979
Genre:  Disco, Pop
Format:  LP
Label:  Polydor Records
Catalog#  2344136

Album:  Good
Cover:  Good

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Abba - Gracias Por La Musica (1980) - Lp

Gracias Por La Música is a 1980 album by Swedish pop group ABBA. Gracias Por La Música was originally released due to the unexpected surge in popularity for the group in Latin American countries such as Mexico and Argentina after the release of the Spanish-language versions of "Chiquitita" and "I Have a Dream" in 1979.
These tracks were both released as singles and went on to become big hits. Encouraged by this success, the band therefore decided to record another eight tracks in Spanish and release a full-length album especially for the Latin American market.
The songs selected were familiar hits, plus tracks that were thought to have a Latin flavour, such as "Move On" and "Hasta Mañana".
The couple Buddy and Mary McCluskey, both working at RCA Records in Argentina at the time, were again called in to translate the lyrics. During the recording sessions which took place in January 1980 in the Polar Music studios the lead vocalists Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were helped with the pronunciation by Swedish/Spanish journalist Ana Martinez.
Neither Benny Andersson nor Björn Ulvaeus played an active role in the creation of the eight new Spanish tracks, leaving the production in the hands of the group's sound engineer Michael B. Tretow, who recorded the new Spanish vocal overdubs onto existing backing tracks at his home studio.
The absence of Andersson and Ulvaeus is most apparent on "Al Andar" (the Spanish version of "Move On") where the original opening speech from Ulvaeus was replaced by a more conventional opening verse sung by Agnetha.

Side A
A1.  Gracias Por La Musica (Thank You For The Music)  (3:48)  
A2.  Reina Danzante (Dancing Queen)  (3:50)  
A3.  Al Andar (Move On)  (4:05)  
A4.  Dame! Dame! Dame! (Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!)  (4:45)  
A5.  Fernando  (4:15) 

Side B
B1.  Estoy Soñando (I Have A Dream)  (4:44)  
B2.  Mamma Mia  (3:32)  
B3.  Hasta Mañana  (3:05)  
B4.  Conociendome, Conociendote (Knowing Me, Knowing You)  (4:02)  
B5.  Chiquitita  (5:26)

Release:  1980
Label:  Septima Records
Genre:  Europop
Format:  LP
Catalog#  SRLM 1

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