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| 1. Ring Ring |
| 2. Another Town, Another Train |
| 3. Disillusion |
| 4. People Need Love |
| 5. I Saw It In The Mirror |
| 6. Nina, Pretty Ballerina |
| 7. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) |
| 8. Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother |
| 9. He Is Your Brother |
| 10. She's My Kind Of Girl |
| 11. I Am Just A Girl |
| 12. Rock'N'Roll Band |
| 13. Merry-Go-Round |
| 14. Santa Rosa |
| 15. Ring, Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal) |
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Nobody could claim that this is the best Abba album, but it is much better than some would have you believe. Indeed I prefer it to a couple of their later albums.
The title track was a hit in several European countries but not the UK, so this album never got a British release on vinyl. That is a pity, because the songs here are of a remarkably high quality. Five of them appeared on the first Greatest hits album - Ring ring, Another town another train, People need love, Nina pretty ballerina and He is your brother - every one of them superb. It might all have been different if Ring ring had been Sweden's entry in the 1973 Eurovision song contest. It came third in the qualifying contest. The Swedish public thought it should have been their entry. Voting rules were changed and Abba won for Sweden a year later with Waterloo.
Benny and Bjorn both started in Swedish folk groups, while Agnetha and Frida were Swedish pop stars, although Frida was actually born in Norway. At the time of its original release in Sweden, the name Abba had not been invented. This album provides a fascinating insight into the early development of the band. She's my kind of girl just features Benny and Bjorn. People need love features Benny and Bjorn with Svenska Flicka, but Svenska Flicka are actually Agnetha and Frida, so this (it would seem) was the first recording featuring all the Abba members, before the name existed.
This is a great album for Abba fans to have, but anybody not already familiar with their music should try some of their later albums first - I particularly recommend Arrival, The Album and Super trouper - before worrying about this.
The title track was a hit in several European countries but not the UK, so this album never got a British release on vinyl. That is a pity, because the songs here are of a remarkably high quality. Five of them appeared on the first Greatest hits album - Ring ring, Another town another train, People need love, Nina pretty ballerina and He is your brother - every one of them superb. It might all have been different if Ring ring had been Sweden's entry in the 1973 Eurovision song contest. It came third in the qualifying contest. The Swedish public thought it should have been their entry. Voting rules were changed and Abba won for Sweden a year later with Waterloo.
Benny and Bjorn both started in Swedish folk groups, while Agnetha and Frida were Swedish pop stars, although Frida was actually born in Norway. At the time of its original release in Sweden, the name Abba had not been invented. This album provides a fascinating insight into the early development of the band. She's my kind of girl just features Benny and Bjorn. People need love features Benny and Bjorn with Svenska Flicka, but Svenska Flicka are actually Agnetha and Frida, so this (it would seem) was the first recording featuring all the Abba members, before the name existed.
This is a great album for Abba fans to have, but anybody not already familiar with their music should try some of their later albums first - I particularly recommend Arrival, The Album and Super trouper - before worrying about this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is often voted least favourite Abba album by the fans, which is a little unfair. True, it doesn't have the Abba "sound" familiar on later albums, and doesn't have any major UK hits on it, but this is of little relevance.
At the time, Abba weren't even yet called Abba. The album was credited to the rather long name of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida. The remaster replaces this with the later Abba logo. Not released in the UK until the late 1980's (and even then not under the Ring Ring name or artwork), this album provides the opportunity to find out how Abba started.
Then a part-time group, many of the early songs were performed by Bjorn and Benny with Agnetha and Frida taking more of a back seat. The girls do have lead vocals on some songs, and on others there is a constant switch between male and female vocals (People Need Love, He Is Your Brother, Love Isn't Easy). There is a great line in Love Isn't Easy, where the boys say how well they treat the girls, and they respond with "Now listen to that, just look at that cat, you'd think he was an angel but he's talking through his hat!"
There are some awkward moments on this. Another Town, Another Train is basically a goodbye note from a man to his partner, unable to have the guts to say it in person but trying to justify it; I Am Just A Girl is very sexist - "It's an evil world, that has only made me a girl," and People Need Love is a bit heterosexualist (if there is such a word!), but on the whole this is an enjoyable album.
Bonus tracks are the b-sides Merry Go Round and Santa Rosa, tracks that were mythical to Abba fans in the UK in the 1970's and almost impossible to get hold of, but they are now part of their parent album. The Swedish version of the title track is also added.
Better to explore the later, classic Abba albums first (Arrival, The Album, Voulez-Vous), but if you have the others and still want to hear more, then this won't disappoint.
At the time, Abba weren't even yet called Abba. The album was credited to the rather long name of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida. The remaster replaces this with the later Abba logo. Not released in the UK until the late 1980's (and even then not under the Ring Ring name or artwork), this album provides the opportunity to find out how Abba started.
Then a part-time group, many of the early songs were performed by Bjorn and Benny with Agnetha and Frida taking more of a back seat. The girls do have lead vocals on some songs, and on others there is a constant switch between male and female vocals (People Need Love, He Is Your Brother, Love Isn't Easy). There is a great line in Love Isn't Easy, where the boys say how well they treat the girls, and they respond with "Now listen to that, just look at that cat, you'd think he was an angel but he's talking through his hat!"
There are some awkward moments on this. Another Town, Another Train is basically a goodbye note from a man to his partner, unable to have the guts to say it in person but trying to justify it; I Am Just A Girl is very sexist - "It's an evil world, that has only made me a girl," and People Need Love is a bit heterosexualist (if there is such a word!), but on the whole this is an enjoyable album.
Bonus tracks are the b-sides Merry Go Round and Santa Rosa, tracks that were mythical to Abba fans in the UK in the 1970's and almost impossible to get hold of, but they are now part of their parent album. The Swedish version of the title track is also added.
Better to explore the later, classic Abba albums first (Arrival, The Album, Voulez-Vous), but if you have the others and still want to hear more, then this won't disappoint.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Ring Ring was first released in Sweden on March 26, 1973. This re-issue of this album makes it possible for us to get back for that time. The song which is widely recognized as the first ABBA's song is People Need Love and it was the time when the group called themselves Bjorn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Ring Ring was performed at the Swedish selections of the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest but finished only third. However it became hit in Sweden. They became famous in their country and it was not so far for their wide popularity all over the world. But this doings were waiting around the corner.
This 2001 re-issue of Ring Ring contains remastered versions of all original tracks and in addition 3 bonus tracks which were B-sides of ABBA's singles. New liner notes for this album by Carl Magnus Palm tell us about creation of the album and are completed with many interesing photos
This 2001 re-issue of Ring Ring contains remastered versions of all original tracks and in addition 3 bonus tracks which were B-sides of ABBA's singles. New liner notes for this album by Carl Magnus Palm tell us about creation of the album and are completed with many interesing photos
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Before the acronym
I came across a copy of the original vinyl Polar import version of this in 1980 in Virgin in Leeds and bought it for my girlfriend (now my wife), who has always been a total Abba... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2010 by D. J. H. Thorn
Raw potential here
Ring Ring is not up there as an Abba classic; however, it gives us an insight into their development as songwriters and performers. Read more
Published on 25 April 2009 by LXIX
Ring Ring
If you are anything but an Abba fanatic, this album is far from being an essential purchase. Originally released in 1973 (it wasn't released in Britain until much later),the album... Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2008 by R. J. Hingston
A starting point
The embryo album that had an unsure start to life, but is now recognised as the band's first, despite the fact that it didn't get released in the United Kingdom until 1992. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2008 by Mr. Peter Steward
ABBA's first CD
Very folky and no major UK hits, but good songs nevertheless. Especially likely to appeal to die-hard Abba fans, but others may prefer the more recent work.
Published on 28 Mar 2004
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