The Visitors
Exclusive import limited edition digipak is remastered, has extensive line notes and lyrics, and includes four bonus songs, 'Should I Laugh Or Cry', 'The Day Before You Came', 'Cassandra' and 'Under Attack'. 13 tracks in all.
Abba's 1981 swan song is appropriately touched by intimations of loss; The Visitors certainly contains nothing as breezy as "Does Your Mother Know." Far from the listless meanderings of a group on its way out, however, the album is alive with emotion and creativity. The title track fuses a melody reminiscent of the Beatles Indian explorations with a smartly done synthesizer arrangement typical of the disc as a whole. (They could've been the Human League!) Similarly moody cuts like "Soldiers" and "One of Us" help make this that rare thing, an Abba record suited for lonely late nights. This 24-bit remaster boasts four bonus cuts, including the final singles "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," in addition to improved sound quality. --Rickey Wright
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The Visitors Reviews
Souper Trouper was much better, and a little more light hearted than the Visitors, but Vistors will always be my favorite. The editorial review of this album stated that this doesn't sound like an album by a group on the way out. To me it says "It's been a great ride, but what the hell, life isn't over yet.". You'll not be sorry. He was right, it sounds like ANYTHING but a group calling it quits. Life has many sides, many moods, and you need music that represents all sides. Voulez Vous was a more or less disco type album , and even though it isn't bad, contained a bit too much disco for my taste. I think the reason for this is that ABBA did intend to record an album after The Vistors but opted instead for a break which, unfortunately, turned into a permanent one.
There are many more great songs on this album, but don't listen to me.buy the Visitors and all the other ABBA albums and hear for yourself. I never saw ABBA in concert, much to my dismay, but the music is still there, and we are much the better for it. Get The Visitors. I believe some of the bonus songs were recorded for inclusion in the next album, if I'm not mistaken. Even though this one has a somber tone to it, it really doesn't detract from the greatness of the songs. When All is Said and Done is a wonderful song, and although it's most likely a song about the break up of a relationship, could also be a song about simply growing older.
A song that can be sad "Slipping through My Fingers" is so gorgeous and so relatable to anyone seeing their child growing up, and it was just featured in the "Mamma Mia" film. But others, like "One of Us" and "Like an Angel Passing thru my Room" are those stop still songs that make you pause and remember. Let's get back to worthwhile, classy music. I think Abba is so underrated, because their harmonies are so absolutely beautiful. It is worth a buy because it's not all about one good song. This CD has several songs on it that are worth buying to keep."The Visitors" is a song that is just fun to hear. Note the beauty of the front cover of the CD.the rich golden color and the way the members are standing apart, with the ceilings high around them.
Rondall When i first got this cd on alumb i played the heck out of it and it still sounds good but not as it does now and when i seen it had extra tracks on this cd i knew i just had to have it.
Years later I bought the CD, and I can say it's one of my favorites when I'm in the mood for something somber and reflective - check it out if you don't have it. And for a guy who preferred hard rock and metal, I was intrigued. I first heard "The Visitors" 25 years ago cruising around w/friends in college, and I remember my friend Diane warning us that this Abba tape would trip us out.the intro "sounds like Rush", I remember her saying. The melodies and the lyrics made you realize this wasn't the overproduced numbers that ABBA was famous for pop audiences in the US; it was mature in lyrics and its styling.
Music is her lover. Streets take the artist from the city into the country. Dry leaves imply death. It sees the composer as a medium through which music passes. Note the imagery. I Let The Music Speak explores the nature of creativity itself.
Her inspiration is gone. But it is a true masterpiece. The Visitors was ABBA's last studio album, and there is a sombre mood which sets it apart. "I take it to me and let it flow through me." Music is life itself, the voice of God. The song hints of music's capacity to evoke emotions and to enhance reality.
Sleep, death, writer's block. She is lost in a valley, a depression, blind.
This is ABBA's most elegant song. One song in particular transcends pop music.
Music reconciles. Music rescues her.
Painting, poetry and music merge. It assumes music (art) to have a pre-existence and that we merely tune into it.
Again, sexual imagery.
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