Voulez-Vous
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Voulez-Vous
Voulez-Vous (pronounced [vule vu]; French for "Do you want ") is the sixth studio album by the Swedish group ABBA, released in 1979. It features a number of hits such as "Chiquitita", "Does Your Mother Know" and "I Have a Dream" and showed the group embrace disco music, which was at its peak at the time. The album peaked at No.1 in a number of countries and was one of the top five-selling albums in the UK for that year. -Wikipedia
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BBC Music
With tracks like Chiquitita – a beautiful, vulnerable, Latin-inflected ballad – and the chanted utopianism of I Have a Dream they are able to provide a pocket of air on a disco floor that would otherwise get sweaty and stultifying.
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All Music
That it took nearly a year to record Voulez-Vous is an indicator of the creative and personal constraints in which the four members of ABBA found themselves at the end of the '70s.
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Alltime Records
So with Voulez-Vous Abba try too hard in certain places, the title track in particular straining in terms of its glossy disco production to replicate the sheer popular mainstream funkiness that The Bee Gees were effortlessly producing.
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Culture Fusion Reviews
So, while the album isn’t perfect, it helped move the band out of their previous style by replacing it into a new style which focuses more heavily on keyboards, synthesizers and dance beats.
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ABBA: The Articles
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus are true masters of composing hits, in which they always know to arm themselves with hooks that are swift as an arrow and choruses that invite you to sing along.
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Don Ignacio
-considering the whole band's discography, this is certainly more enjoyable and consistent than their eponymous 1975 album!
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EXPRESS
ABBA was at its very best on this album, originally released in 1979, which included Chiquitita, I Have A Dream and of course Voulez-Vous.
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Record Collector Mag
Abba found their dominance under threat from disco, and they rallied by giving the glitter ball a few spins of their own – a move compounded by the intitially non-album singles Gimme Gimme Gimme and Summer Night City among this reissue’s bonus tracks.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
So, for Voulez Vous Abba try too hard in certain places, the title track in particular straining in terms of its glossy disco production to replicate the sheer popular mainstream funkiness that The Bee Gees were effortlessly producing.
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uDiscover Music
ABBA End ‘70s In Style With ‘Voulez-Vous’ Album!
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