Super Trouper
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Super Trouper
Super Trouper is the seventh studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, first released in 1980. It features the No.1 singles "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper". The album became the biggest-selling album of 1980 in the UK. -Wikipedia
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All Music
Lyrically, there was a distinct sense of world weariness and melancholy, from the divorce lamentations of "The Winner Takes It All" to the dissatisfaction with touring expressed in "Super Trouper" and even the nostalgia for a simpler time in "Our Last Summer."
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The Quietus
But even amidst the unobtainable reality of their lives and career, there's no denying that there are sublime moments here, where their gifts for melody and composition felt capable of taking over an entire planet. Which, of course, they did.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
We can't always have everything, can we? 'Super Trouper' is still strong overall, the good songs bringing the whole to a level that can certainly be called 'good'.
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Culture Fusion Reviews
“Super Trouper” naturally featured a ton of great hits and showcased a more mature and interesting band that had fully mastered their stiffer, more synthesized style.
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Super Deluxe Edition
Although the albums were getting better, ABBA were still capable of dropping the ball occasionally. So we get the excellent The Winner Takes it All sharing space with the second-rate europop of Me and I, and the stonking On and On and On with its interesting vocal production (signposting work-to-come on The Visitors) immediately followed by the rather twee Andante Andante.
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Verbal Diarrhoea
So, in summary, a fucking great album, and beats the high watermark of (if I’m honest) “ABBA” with an almost flawless collection. I fear that may be the peak for me, as I hear the last one is a bit of an oddball that could go either way (and I only know one song off it). But suffice to say, this is STUN GORGE.
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Don Ignacio
The album isn't 100 percent perfect, naturally. "Andante Andante" and "Me and I" are both cheaper than the previously mentioned tracks. However, they're both mildly entertaining.
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Abba Reviews
Apart from a general 'morose' feeling surrounding too many of the tracks (which is still nothing compared to the morose atmosphere of Visitors), this is yet another proof of why ABBA really mattered.
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Record Collector Mag
An insightful and intelligent package, far removed from the cheap cheese of the Mamma Mia! stage show and movie.
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ABBA 1980
There are no weak tracks here. ABBA is mature and self assured here. On this album they don't try to go too much into one direction -we find- a little disco, a little theater, a little whimsy, a little rock, a little folk, as well as some topical music here.
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Freaky Trigger
True to its topic, “Super Trouper”’s an uneasy mix of introspection and crowd-pleasing, a half-hearted cheer before the band slip finally into their private ice age.
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uDiscover Music
After the 70s party, ‘Super Trouper’ boasted introspective ballads such as ‘The Winner Takes It All’, finding ABBA retooling themselves for a new decade.
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Daily Vault
Less bittersweet than their claustrophobic final album The Visitors, the ABBA we find here is a lot more hopeful and full of good cheer.
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Culture Sonar
This studio album was ABBA at their most unconstrained fun.
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Daily Mail
Throughout, you feel the joy of the early hits, and, better still, the sumptuous sorrow of the later ones. In the shop, you can buy Benny’s new album, Piano, which shows how close Abba’s compositions came to Bach. It’s a modest gem – just like this exhibition.
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