I learned about the TCSR (The complete studio recordings.)

Something kind of interesting and has been bugging be every time that I have listened to the Super Trouper recording on the album since day one (at least back to the 1980s.)

Remember the song, and approximately 62 seconds into the song there is a chorus that starts, and is somewhat understandable but too compressed.  Then going on to 80 seconds the chorus goes nuts to the point where it starts becoming difficult to understand.  It is obviously over compressed to the point where the singing has morphed into a sound effect.

I have been playing the studio recordings through proper DolbyA compatible and DBX Type I compatible decoding, and the severe 'squashing' is gone.  I am not touting the decoders, but rather that SuperTrouper could have been signficantly more clear all along!!!  The very beginning, there is a little bit of roughness - but I haven't heard any severe roughness recently after usng some DolbyA decoding on relatively clean DolbyA encoded material.  However, even then the chorus is too distorted.

I have tried all kinds of measures to recover the chorus, but something has severely damaged the material in almost every case except for the complete studio recordings version (after being decoded.)  It is the FIRST TIME that I have heard the chorus in a way that seems to make sense to me.

SuperTrouper is such a nice song, and almost every copy (until now) has been distracting.   The studio recordings are miracle, but need some special work to gain access to the beautiful ABBA music.

John