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| Abba - Waterloo Band: Abba Dance With ABBA This album contains good dance tracks. "Waterloo" is one of their most well known songs. It is very rocking. "Sitting in the Palmtree" and "King Kong Song" seem more like joke songs. They have foolish lyrics and the melody is strange. "Hasta Mañana" is quite a peaceful Love song. It is the best track in this album. "My Mama Said" and "Dance (While..." are good dance songs. It's nice to hear two girls singing together. It sounds heavenly. "Honey Honey" is a really hot song, a little bit sexual one. "Watch Out", "Suzy-hang-around", and "What About Livingstone" are dance tracks too. "Gonna Sing You My Love Song" is a touching peaceful ballad. 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. One of the greatest Bubblegum LP's of all time? This album was the one that Introduced ABBA to the USA (with the USA remix of Ring Ring tacked on at the end - I still prefer the single original mix without the added disco kick drum and sax solos). This is the LP where ABBA left thier acoustic swedish folk influences behind (though they Surface in many later recordings) and went for Pure POP! There are many silly tracks on this CD with childish lyrics (Benny & Bjorn were still getting the hang of writing in english) but every song has super-strong melodies with enough hooks for a dozen A*Teens CD's. The production isnt as pristine as later albums, some tracks are very compressed, hissy and mixed to Blast out of Mono AM radios, not home stereos. Amazingly ABBA created that huge multi-layered sound in a tiny Swedish studio with only a 8-Track multitrack recorder and a BIG Echo Chamber (a drained swimming pool) - no drum machines, MIDI or sampling here! Buy Abba Waterloo at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
