Wrap Your Arms Around Me [Import]

Agnetha Faltskog | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Int'l
• ASIN: B000006YMP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,603 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Heat Is On

2. Can't Shake Loose

3. Shame

4. Stay

5. Once Burned Twice Shy

6. Mr. Persuasion

7. Wrap Your Arms Around Me

8. To Love

9. I Wish Tonight Could Last Forever

10. Man

11. Take Good Care Of Your Children

12. Stand By My Side

Editorial Reviews

Swedish reissue contains 5 bonus tracks. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Make sure you order this 2005 rerelease with the bonus tracks!, December 1, 2005

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Daniel W. Kelly (NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrap Your Arms Around Me (Audio CD)

It's less money than the original release, and has been remastered with 5 bonus tracks, including the 12" version of The Heat is On. The 5 bonus tracks not listed here on amazon are:

13. Never Again (3:54)

14. it's so nice to be rich (3:41)

15. P&B (4:01)

16. the heat is on(super dance music mix)(7:58)

17. ya nunca mas (3:55)

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice little album, July 31, 2000

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T. Kavanagh "tony" (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrap Your Arms Around Me (Audio CD)

When ABBA split (v. quietly in 1982/3), the two amazing singers who gave the band its identity and vocal magic, took very different career paths. Frida bravely opted for a harder-edged rock sound while Agnetha kept to the Bright'n'Shiny Pop side of the fence. This, her first international solo album stands out as her best. Everything was working: the bright pop songs, the look and, of course, Mike Chapman's glossy production (previous credits include Blondie's biggest hits). Agnetha was in great voice - in fact, she would not shine as brightly on her subsequent solo albums. But I digress....

The stand-out tracks include the rock-lite 'Can't Shake Loose'. Penned by Russ Ballard, (who also wrote Frida's terrific hit 'I Know There's Something Going On') it became Agnetha's biggest US hit, reaching #29 on the Billboard chart. The title track, written by Mike Chapman & Holly Knight is another little gem. Agnetha wrote one song for the album, a gentle ballad called 'Man'. While it's not a masterpiece, it has real charm and the acoustic guitar & hammond arrangement compliment Agnetha's beautiful voice very well.

As with most solo outings by singers with famous bands, there is a fair amount of genre hopping, albeit the most lightweight in each category. There's rock ('Can't Shake Loose'); blues ('Take Good Care Of Your Children'); calypso (the rather tedious 'The Heat Is On'); 60s pop (the throwaway 'Mr.Persuasion'); and Manilow-esque balladry ('To Love' - a tad cloying, maybe).

But here's the surprising thing.... Agnetha always shunned overt sexuality in her image, preferring to cast a more romantic light on things. Yet this album almost casts her as a career strumpet. Take the the tousled Bananarama-in-a-brothel cover shot (where our Aggie seems to give us the 'come-hither') for example. And what about the sub-'Je T'aime' panting on the awful 'Stay'... Plus, the middle section of 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me', where Agnetha breathlessly exhorts her man as follows: 'circle your hips... that's the way... that's the way'. Given the importance she places on integrity, I'm just surprised that Agnetha indulged a style that is so much at odds with her persona.

Still, 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me' is, to my mind, Agnetha's best solo album. If you like your pop light, frothy and middle-of-the-road, give this one a whirl.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars stick to your earlier versions folks..., April 13, 2007

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James Tg Fuentes (quezon city Philippines) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrap Your Arms Around Me (Audio CD)

My ranking has nothing to do with the album itself. Of her four post abba releases, this one ranks as her BEST. Top vocal form, solid production. My beef with this cd is more technical than musical. Universal seems to have more issues "wrapped around" the release of this 2005 version:

1. Faulty remastering. listening to track 1 after the 11th second gives you the feeling that you're listening to tape that's been mishandled. I'm not the only one who observed this. in fact, universal music germany acknowledged this by replacing my product with a "version 03". as one of the tracks on the tracks on this cd would put it..."shame, shame, shame on you!"

2. while i'd give the folks in universal germany credit for replacing the cd quickly, the problem was never licked entirely - you would still hear the glitch, but its less audible this time. "can't shake loose" also suffered from the same problem. at one point in the song, you'd hear a slight "drop out" (like tape would sound when it is smudged) towards the end. the irony is, the cd was remastered by "masters of audio".

3. poor a&r - whose idea was it to include such inane tracks like "p&b" and "it's so nice to be rich"? not only are they mismatched as far as sonic quality is concerned, they don't fit in musically. and where is the u.s. remix of "can't shake loose" which peacked at the u.s. top 30? why wasn't THAT included?