Waterloo

ABBA | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spectrum
• ASIN: B000025KVD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,814 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of their finest moments, January 21, 2005

By 

Tuomo Kurtti "Tummu" (Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waterloo (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ABBA: WATERLOO, November 5, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Waterloo (Audio CD)

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

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Admit It, April 9, 2004

By 

Mark Champion "autumnfair" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waterloo (Audio CD)

ABBA. Waterloo. Any connection? Well, it's a brilliant song for starters, and what an album. Eclectic as can be, polished as a tabletop- -and about as deep as a formica veneer. But the more I listen to this thing, the weirder it gets. Every track is a Big Production worthy of anything by Phil Specor sonically, if not musically. And the tunes. . .well, from the beginning ABBA was always about melody and even if some of these songs are not exactly High Art, every one of them has some melodic twist, some hook that grabs and never lets go. 'Sitting In The Palm Tree' may not be the only reggae song in the world to prominently feature a Mellotron, but it certainly is the only reggae song by a Swedish group that does, and that makes it A-OK in my book. 'Gonna Sing You My Love Song' might have bland and generic verses, but check out that absolutely gorgeous chorus. (And someone should ask Elvis Costello if he listened to 'Dance While The Music Still Goes On' while writing 'Oliver's Army', by the way.) But it's in the lyric department that ABBA never ceases to amaze. 'Waterloo' is a cutesy trope on well, Waterloo, but that's just (literally) the beginning. Just a couple of examples. . .'King Kong Song' is, astonishingly, a song about a guy inspired to write a song about a dance named after guess-who after seeing guess-who on TV, complete with shrieks of delight and terror from the female half of the band. Definitely one for the ages. And elsewhere, you gotta admit that there is something intriguing about a girl stunning a bunch of 'fellas' at a newsstand into silence by pointedly lecturing them about the nobility of Dr. Livingstone's explorations. I know I'd be stunned. But the absolute show-stopper is the final track (naturally), 'Suzy-Hang-Around'. It's about this 10-year-old boy and his friends who tell this 9-year-old girl to get off the playground and come back when she's 'grown'- -and that's it! So she goes; she cries to her Mom; Mom admonishes the boys and wonders aloud why they can't all 'play together in harmony'- -and when Mom leaves, they STILL insist that Suzy go!! No Cherry Hill Park, this playground! 'Get off our playground and stay away!' Then this 10-year-old kid grows up and writes a song about it- -and it's the very same guy who was watching TV one night and was inspired to write 'King Kong Song'!! So he forms ABBA with this girl and a couple of friends, and now they all sing and play together in glorious harmony! Thanks, Mom! Nowhere but ABBAland!