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Super Trouper | 
 enlarge | Artist: Abba
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $10.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 6676
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 549964
UPC: 731454996426
EAN: 0731454996426
ASIN: B00005CDNJ
Release Date: October 16, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Super Trouper | | • | The Winner Takes It All | | • | On and on and On | | • | Andante, Andante | | • | Me and I | | • | Happy New Year | | • | Our Last Summer | | • | The Piper | | • | Lay All Your Love on Me | | • | The Way Old Friends Do | | • | Elaine | | • | Put on Your White Sombrero |
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Amazon.com
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 unraveling of the band members' relationships underscores every track--but as usual Abba turn melancholy into uplifting pop music. This digipack version of the 1981 album includes two extra songs. "Put on Your White Sombrero" was recorded during the Super Trouper sessions but was replaced on the album by the title track; it's in the band's Spanish vein and comes with a throbbing synthesizer hook. "Elaine," meanwhile, was the B-side of "The Winner Takes It All" single. An uptempo number, "Elaine" is far from being a throwaway. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Album Details
24-bit digitally remastered digipak edition with extensive liner notes, lyrics and includes two bonus songs: 'Elaine' and 'Put on Your White Sombrero'.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Abba the greatest rock ensemble of all times October 24, 2008
Superb rendition of some of the most beautiful songs of one of the best rock bands of all time.
Another great alumb on cd May 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here's another great alumb that is on cd. What can i say except abba was without an doudt an group you just had to love one way or another.
Rondall
ABBA Super Trouper February 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Super Trouper is considered by many to be ABBA's best album. By 1980, ABBA's lyrics had become highly personal as evidenced by their number 1 hit The Winner Takes It All. I like The Piper, a relatively unknown song. It shows the power of music over an audience. Is Napoleon the piper? Is the piper the spirit of music which ABBA is following? That the piper seduced everybody suggests that he may not be so nice. Sweden stayed out of World War II. Norway, Frida's home land, was overrun by the Germans. In which case, we might think of the piper as Adolf Hitler. The fire in his eyes! We have all seen tapes of Hitler's harangues at Nazi rallies. Weapons of fear were Communism, the Jews and the specter of depression haunting the world in the 1930s. Such horrors were something baby boomers found hard to fathom. The Piper is a classic piece.
 ABBA's Break-Up Album October 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
ABBA - Super Trouper (1980) Named for a stage spotlight, this is a great album ... but has some of the melancholy of relationships breaking up. ABBA only produced one other studio album (The Visitors) after this.
Some of their early disco can be found here (On & On & On), but there are other great styles as well.
 Great album...but poor re-mastering April 29, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I agree with John (from N.Y.), these 24-bit re-masters of the Abba catalogue were a big letdown. In a side by side comparison, the original discs sounded much better than these. The originals were brighter and plenty full; just like the original album sounded.
On the other hand, these 24-bit discs sound slightly muddy and the high end (which includes acoustic guitars and cymbals) are flat or dead sounding thanks to the no-noise solution. My advice, is to save your money and keep your old discs.
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