The follow up to ABBA GOLD is, as the name says, MORE ABBA GOLD. However there's a lot more styles and contrasts up for the listener as the Scandinavian foursome bring us closer and closer into an increasinly intimate circle.
The album starts with the sudden bang and hedonistic feel of "Summer Night City" but be warned, dear reader, this isn't going to be a happy, clappy, wave your hands in the air and sing-a-long album.
The complexities of the music, the structure, the singing and most of the lyrics (especially on the 1980s songs) is outstanding. Words cannot express how much your heart strings are pulled by both Agnetha and Frida. Agnetha (the blonde one) recalls "The Day Before You Came" in what is probably the saddest pop song ever written. Frida(the ever changing hair style one)sums the last ten years up with "When All Is Said and Done" and gives the classic "Winner Takes It All" a run for it's money. While Agnetha preferred to retain a dignified mourning for her failed marriage, Frida was there in gold spandex belting out a disco stomper and declaring she was "Not too old for sex".
There are, sadly, some songs which would best be forgotten. Not mentioning any names but if someone shone their lovelight at me I'd call 999 and demand therapy. And then there are the jewels in ABBA's crown, the songs written as they were about to go their seperate ways. These are the songs which make the album worthwhile.
When you listen to "The Day Before You Came" and the follow up single "Under Attack" it's hard not to feel some guilt for making ABBA the huge international icons that they were / are. Surely we'd all then understand why the most repeated words in "The Visitors" are "cracking up".
The lines which stand out most though, and which haunt me whenever I listen, come from two of the later songs. The first is the aforementioned "Under Attack" with both Agnetha and Frida declaring: "Won't somebody please have a heart? Come and rescue me now 'cos I'm falling apart". And then, finally, on the previously unreleased "I Am The City" Agnetha explains "They drag in pieces of the fatted calf".
Yes we did, but oh how grateful we shall always be!
R.I.P, ABBA... and THANK YOU!
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