Arrival

Product Details

Artist : Abba
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0731454995320
Label : Polydor Group
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2002-01-18
Running Time : 42minutes
UPC : 731454995320

ASIN : B00005KKC4

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. When I Kissed The Teacher
2. Dancing Queen
3. My Love, My Life
4. Dum Dum Diddle
5. Knowing Me, Knowing You
6. Money, Money, Money
7. That's Me
8. Why Did It Have To Be Me?
9. Tiger
10. Arrival
11. Fernando
12. Happy Hawaii

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Editorial Reviews

Description

Widely considered the Swedish foursome's first classic album--and historically important as the first to use the now-famous mirror-B logo--1976's ARRIVAL contains three huge hit singles, the dramatic "Money Money Money", the downcast "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and quite possibly the band's finest four minutes, the absolutely perfect pop classic "Dancing Queen", a combination of Spectorian grandeur, McCartneyesque melody and the indescribable vocals of Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The rest of ABBA's fourth album is strikingly consistent and accomplished, opening with the sly, bouncy"When I Kissed the Teacher" and closing with the atmospheric title track, making room in between for the three excellent singles and five other substantial pop tunes. Although three LPs and a greatest-hits compilation preceded it, ARRIVAL is aptly titled, as this album announces the band's move beyond bubblegum.

Customer Reviews

ONE OF ABBAS BEST (2008-01-12)

I HAD THIS ON VINYL. NOW REMASTERED IT NOW INCLUDES FERNANDO AND THE LITTLE KNOWN HAPPY HAWAII. THE SONGS FLOW BEAUTIFULLY, OUTSTANDING TRACKS FOR ME ARE; THATS ME, KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU AND THE WONDERFUL MY LOVE MY LIFE SUNG TO PERFECTION BY AGNETHA. THIS IS CLASSIC ABBA AT ITS BEST .EVEN DUM DUM DIDDLE IS WORTH A LISTEN!

The Template (2007-10-01)

...for almost every pop record ever since...Minus the bonus tracks, this is a mere 31 minutes long but utter perfection from the well-known singles to the lesser known tracks. The up moments are riotous confection (Dum Dum Diddle, the tender moments show new depths (My Love, My Life) and the closer, the instrumental Arrival, in some weird way hints at that slightly unfathomable Swedishness that the rest of the world could never get enough of. Whether for nostalgia, new discovery, or a lesson in how to write a pop song, this is quite simply the best a pop record can be.

ABBA - ARRIVAL - The title says it all!! (2007-09-17)

Only ABBA's third studio album, but what a masterpiece!!Forever the anthem to the long and hot summer of 1976 - hits such as Dancing Queen and the album itself will be forever locked away in history for us all to open the doors to whenever we get depressed of all the awful things that are going on nowadays, and we wish to escape to a much happier time!This collection includes two number ones plus a Top 3 smash! All ABBA's albums now sound incredibly like greatest hits compilations due to the catchiness of all their album material. Each and every song has been so well thought over and not thrown together like so much album material we get from other groups, merely to fill the gaps between the hits.This was ABBA's shortest album at barely thirty minutes long, and is just another testimony that some of the best and most successful works, are indeed the shortest of them all!To this day, ABBA remain timeless in that one can play any of their albums any time, and they still sound as good and as fresh as the day they were recorded.God bless them!

A forgotten classic (2006-02-24)

I remember listening to this album on vinyl and playing it so often that it got quite worn so I was glad to be able to buy it on CD. There are many great songs on this album which are truly honest, well... songs! (without the prefab hype you tend to get nowadays) Well put together, great harmony and vocals. The outstanding tracks for me are "My Love, My Life", "That's me", "Tiger" and a little known number, "Dancing Queen". Well you've got to love it haven't you? If you haven't got it already, what have you been doing?

A blast from the past. (2005-09-25)

First bought this album in 1976 as a viny LP,which I still have. My turntable,like my vinyl collection lies in the loft! When I saw this cd yesterday I just had to buy it. Glad I did. It is as good today as it ever was. I have never bought any of the compilation cd's as the original albums are better by far.If you only buy one album of Abba let it be this one.Also have upgraded copies of Super Trouper, The Album, and Waterloo as well.Only Voulez Vous and The Visitors remain as vinyl......but not for long.

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