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highly recommended

ABBA: WATERLOO

This second album is the very best it can be. Full of love and warmth, it will make anyone who listens to it feel like they belong. ABBA is the best music group I have ever heard. No matter how many times you listen to this, it will never grow old. Whether it's the emotional "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)" and "Gonna Sing You My Lovesong" or the danceable "Waterloo" and "Honey, Honey" , this album offers a variety of wonderful songs. You won't be able to sit still when you hear the beat on "King Kong Song." The lyrics to that song may be silly, but ABBA is doing what they do best: making perfect music. You absolutely cannot go wrong with this classic piece of art. It is worth every dime!
ABBA'S HAPPIEST ALBUM
BEST SONG: DANCE (WHILE THE MUSIC STILL GOES ON)
WORST SONG: MY MAMMA SAID

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One of their finest moments

I usually consider Super Trouper and Arrival as their best albums then comes the others. I used to think that the first
two records Ring Ring and Waterloo (from which I used to listen to only the title track and Honey Honey) weren't that
good.
When I finally bought Waterloo to myself and started systematically listen to its songs I was blown away by the
quality put on its tracks.I think that by the time Waterloo was recorded in 1973-74, Abba was more wide open to different influences, ready to create material without prejudices, everything that worked in the studio. Therefore Waterloo's soundscape is more surprising and unusual than their later works was.

Many of this albums songs have truly classic melodies and when you get them in your head you just sing them for weeks. Honey Honey, Dance and the title track are many times cherished as Waterloo's finest moments but really there are songs such as Hasta Manãna, Gonna Sing You My Lovesong, What about Livingstone and Suzy Hang Around that are absolutely quality material.
I adore especially Gonna Sing You My Lovesong for it's a ballad-like, Frida on lead vocals and when the chorus sets in the song's layered harmonies really blooms.
Sittin in the Palmtree has a light reggae-feeling in it, King Kon Song and Watch Out are more rocking tunes - the style
that dissappeared from Abba's repertuare as time went on.

If you're searching an album by Abba from where to start I can gladly tell you that Waterloo is as good choice as The
Album, Abba, The Visitors or Voulez-Vous. Nowadays it's my personal favourite after Arrival just because it contains
so many classic Abba melodies.

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What About Livingstone

Compare two album series issued in the Sixties during the surf music craze. Jan & Dean's music was OK. The Beach Boys' was exceptional. Brian Wilson was a serious musician. At the time there was very little comment about that. If you asked listeners to the music at the time whether it mattered to them that there was serious creative input going into the Beach Boys' songs -- for example, chord changes seldom found in pop music -- most of them wouldn't consider it an interesting question. But subliminally I think people did appreciate it, and that explains in part why the Beach Boys became icons and Jan & Dean did not.

Compare two album series from the Saturday Night Live years. ABBA was to the BGs what the Beach Boys were to Jan and Dean. Musically, they were a true class act. They had the courage to be funny. For those who like their music, it sounds as good now as it ever did.

Most albums have a few bad songs. My count on this record is 7 good ones and 4 bad ones. If that ratio is unsatisfactory you might prefer a Greatest Hits album. I love this one.

Four and a half stars.

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Second album features some great songs

I never bought this album in my vinyl days, content with the tracks that were included on their first Greatest hits album, though I did buy it on CD. As with the Ring ring album, the selection of songs to be included on Greatest hits was spot on. The four selected (Waterloo, Hasta manana, Honey honey and Dance while the music still goes on) are easily the best tracks on this album. Not that there's anything wrong with the other songs here, just that the other four are exceptional.

The title track is by far the best known - this up-tempo song easily won the Eurovision song contest and quickly topped the British chart. It also topped the charts in many other countries and was also a top ten hit in America.

Hasta manana was considered as an alternative to Waterloo for Eurovision. It might have won, but it is unlikely that it would have been as big a hit as Waterloo turned out to be. Indeed, I'm not even sure if it was ever released as a single - but it is an enjoyable song.

Honey honey was a top thirty hit for Abba in America, but Sweet dreams (a duo featuring ex-Pickettywitch singer Polly Browne) covered the song and had a top ten hit with it in Britain. Apart from Dance while the music still goes on, perhaps the best of the rest are My mama said and Gonna sing you my love song.

As with so many of Abba's albums, this is generally upbeat. Despite several wonderful songs, it is not as strong as several of their later albums. This is one for Abba's committed fans like me - and there are plenty of those around the world to ensure steady sales for years to come.

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