Super Trouper

This album was amazing when it came out in the 80's, and sounds even more amazing on th CD. The songs are beautiful and timeless and I wore out the tape when I had it-let's see how long this CD lasts... :)

"Super Trouper" is an album where all the previous experience and successes of ABBA show, making it the most accomplished release the group has ever put out. It does not mean, however, that it's the group's best offering by far. This honor would go rather to "Arrival", which contains crisper, stronger songs and also more immediate and catchy hits. Moreover, ABBA albums rarely (if ever) worked as one cohesive piece (to this they came close on "The Album").
That said, the penultimate studio album is still as close to perfection as ABBA could get. Arrangements are maybe the best Benny and Bjorn ever wrote and they work especially well on songs that as such were not among the album's cream ("On and On and On" or Me and I"). The super hits of this record are the worldwide smash, a quintessential breakup tune "The Winner Takes It All", the title track with wonderful backup vocals and flawless melody and the majestically synth-ed "Lay All Your Love On Me". Within this track, as well as in "The Piper" and "Happy New Year", ABBA unconventionally used simple structure of three verses and choruses instead of inserted bridges. Although the record is rather dancey, there are great ballads thrown in ("Andante Andante"), as well as the nostalgic "Our Last Summer", reflecting on a happy youthful times back in the late 1960's (?) in Paris.
"Super Trouper" is ABBA still at the top of their game, even though the future of the group at the times of its release started to be uncertain. It's a solid, smooth and catchy effort that you won't regret buying.

Superb rendition of some of the most beautiful songs of one of the best rock bands of all time.

Here's another great alumb that is on cd. What can i say except abba was without an doudt an group you just had to love one way or another.

Rondall

Super Trouper is considered by many to be ABBA's best album. By 1980, ABBA's lyrics had become highly personal as evidenced by their number 1 hit The Winner Takes It All. I like The Piper, a relatively unknown song. It shows the power of music over an audience. Is Napoleon the piper? Is the piper the spirit of music which ABBA is following? That the piper seduced everybody suggests that he may not be so nice. Sweden stayed out of World War II. Norway, Frida's home land, was overrun by the Germans. In which case, we might think of the piper as Adolf Hitler. The fire in his eyes! We have all seen tapes of Hitler's harangues at Nazi rallies. Weapons of fear were Communism, the Jews and the specter of depression haunting the world in the 1930s. Such horrors were something baby boomers found hard to fathom. The Piper is a classic piece.