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Ring Ring | 
 enlarge | Artist: Abba
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 47261
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 549958
UPC: 731454995825
EAN: 0731454995825
ASIN: B00005CDND
Release Date: October 16, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Ring Ring - ABBA, Anderson, Stig | | • | Another Town, Another Train | | • | Disillusion - ABBA, Faltskog, Agnetha | | • | People Need Love | | • | I Saw It in the Mirror | | • | Nina Pretty Ballerina | | • | Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) | | • | Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother | | • | He Is Your Brother | | • | She's My Kind of Girl | | • | I Am Just a Girl | | • | Rock 'N' Roll Band | | • | Merry-Go-Round | | • | Santa Rosa | | • | Ring Ring - ABBA, Anderson, Stig |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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Not issued in the U.S. until an early-'90s rerelease program, Abba's first album points toward the world-dominating pop of their later years. While the title cut has some vroom, others call for fine-tuning. The New Seekers-style anthem "People Need Love" offers the bizarre insistence that "People need love to make a good living"--at what?--and "Nina Pretty Ballerina" could be a pop song for toddlers. Not a bad thing, but not quite "Dancing Queen." And no, "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother" isn't a Springsteenian saga of felonious misadventure, but a jingling remembrance of playground days. The 24-bit remastered sound of this edition (which includes a Swedish version of "Ring Ring" among its three bonus tracks) does suggest the care Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus were already taking with production. Their discs, however, would soon achieve the truly Abba-esque. --Rickey Wright
Album Details
24-bit digital remaster with new liner notes, complete lyrics and bonus tracks: 'Merry Go Round', 'Santa Rosa' and 'Ring Ring' (Swedish Version).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Disco Tunes October 16, 2007
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! November 10, 2006
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! July 4, 2006
"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 May 24, 2006
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 May 6, 2006
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.
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