ABBA Arrival - 2011 EU reissue LP, pressed on 180 gram vinyl
Format: Vinyl Condition: New Year of Release: 2011 Cat. No.: POLS 272 Label: Polar
At the height of their success, ABBA were second only to Volvo as Sweden's biggest export earners.
'Arrival' (1977) sees the quartet just finding their stride, after a year of relative obscurity which followed the success of "Waterloo," their 1973 Eurovision Song Contest winner.
Like their '70s peers ELO, ABBA knew the value of tunes, tunes, tunes. Arrival's hits include the glistening, full-on sheen of "Knowing Me, Knowing You," the irrepressible, piano-led disco stomp of "Dancing Queen," and the almost Cabaret-esque sarcasm of "Money, Money, Money"--all three cowritten by manager and mentor Stig Anderson.
The album ends, meanwhile, on an almost Celtic theme with the soaring, wordless title track. 'Arrival' is superconfident and superpolished, and was an unstoppably chartbound record of its moment.
Review by Everett True
TRACK LISTING:
A1 When I Kissed The Teacher A2 Dancing Queen A3 My Love, My Life A4 Dum Dum Diddle A5 Knowing Me, Knowing You
B1 Money, Money, Money B2 That´s Me B3 Why Did It Have To Be Me B4 Tiger B5 Arrival
