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Post by johnny on Jun 20, 2024 19:51:14 GMT
It's not very good is it? There's really only four songs I like ⭐️⭐️
Rankings
1. Ring Ring
2. Another Town, Another Train
3. She's My Kind of Girl
4. Nine Pretty Balerina
Actually People Need Love has grown on me a bit over the years.
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Post by truedogz on Jun 20, 2024 20:32:42 GMT
Nowhere near as good as later albums sonically but actually most of it is quite listenable simple recordings. Less high quality recordings than Waterloo but a better average. It is because it is largely different to their latter work that makes it appealing. She's My kind of girl is 60's with a Spector sound, I am Just a girl has quite French chanteuse style sound akin to Manhatta Transer's Chanson D'Amour. Love isn't easy is straight out of the 60s and Echoes Chirpy Chirpy Cheep from 1970. Me and Bobby's Brother tries to be folksy, People Need love a bit of a hippie anthem with yodeling, Another town country reflective. Plenty of nice recordings with one that is excellent - Ring Ring. The only recording I really don't like is I Saw It in the Mirror and am not keen on Rock'n Roll Band.
As a 60s fan it has to be at least 3 stars. By comparison the Waterloo album I would only give 2 or 2.5 as there are only three recordings I enjoy (Waterloo, Honey Honey, Dance While the music still goes on). I am more inclined to listen to Ring Ring in its entirety than Voulez-Vous (particularly side 2) but it comes down to personal taste. In terms of style this album is all over the place and within songs there are attemps to blend styles and funnily enough some of it works well. I like it, relatively simple without too much wall of sound.
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Post by gary on Jun 20, 2024 20:55:47 GMT
Not a great album by any means, but mostly fairly listenable. There are two or three songs I really like, plus four or five others that are quite OK. It has the dishonour of containing ABBA’s worst song (though that now has competition from Voyage’s worst song). She’s My Kind Of Girl isn’t really a Ring Ring song.
1. Ring Ring
2. Another Town, Another Train
3. Rock ‘n Roll Band
4. Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
5. People Need Love
6. He Is Your Brother
7. Nina, Pretty Ballerina
8. She’s My Kind Of Girl
9. Me And Bobby And Bobby’s Brother
10. Disillusion
11. I Saw It In The Mirror
12. I Am Just A Girl
Two stars from me.
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Post by jchanabbafan on Jun 22, 2024 11:04:08 GMT
The Ring Ring album was given to me on my 12th birthday in 1976, so back then and being hungry for 'new' ABBA material it was a fantastic present. Australian TV had played the single video of Ring Ring a lot by then and I remember when I first played the album I was not happy to hear the version of Ring Ring that was on it (which was not the single version) so I had to go and buy the single remix - which is the version I still prefer to this day. Of course our Aussie lps had the nice blue cover treatment as well :-)
Ring Ring Album - I'll say 2.5 stars
1. Ring Ring - still love it - in my top 15 (single remix anyway)
2. He Is Your Brother - great in 'ABBA - The Movie'
3. Nina, Pretty Ballerina - classic in the HHH style perhaps
4. Another Town, Another Train - choruses make this one
5. Rock‘n Roll Band - heavy !
6. Disillusion - pretty ballad
7. Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) - title is too long
8. People Need Love - ok for a first effort
9. She’s My Kind Of Girl - always bugged me that the 'just' is left out of the title
10. Me And Bobby And Bobby’s Brother - title is too long
11. I Am Just A Girl - nope, not a fave
12. I Saw It In The Mirror - the worst of ABBA !
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Post by rickyrocknroller on Aug 28, 2024 20:55:47 GMT
This album is very much "A, B, B, A having been working together in various configurations on Swedish projects and now coming together to conquer the world". That's why I find it more cohesive than the "Waterloo" album, despite it not having runaway tracks like "Waterloo" and "Honey, Honey" (I don't consider "Ring Ring" on par with these two), and always a very enjoyable listen when in the right mood. The influences of late 60s/early 70s music give some nice variety to the ABBA catalogue. I'll give it a 3/5. My ranking:
1. Ring Ring
2. Another Town, Another Train
3. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
4. Disillusion
5. Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother
6. I Am Just A Girl
7. He Is Your Brother
8. People Need Love
9. I Saw It In The Mirror
10. Nina, Pretty Ballerina
11. Rock'n Roll Band
12. She's My Kind Of Girl
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Post by HOMETIME on Aug 30, 2024 9:46:14 GMT
For me, the album is a lot of stabbing in the dark: throwing pasta at the wall to see if it's cooked. There are some decent songs, very much of their time and I wonder how I might have approached this album if I'd been a young adult at the time. Any affection I have for it is hooked principally on the title track, which I loved when I first heard it in 1974, but I guess I'm also giving it a pass that a non-fan might not even consider.
1. Ring, Ring - great pop track that makes me wonder how the group's history might have played out if ABBA had represented Sweden in 1973.
2. He Is Your Brother
3. Another Town, Another Train
4. Disillusion - I think this song deserves a bit of reappraisal.
5. Nina, Pretty Ballerina
- I reckon that almost anything from this point on might have struggled to attain B-side status even a year later.
6. I Saw It In The Mirror
7. People Need Love
8. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
9. She's My Kind Of Girl - can't help seeing this as something from the Lycka cutting-room floor.
10.Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother - one of those moments where the singer does more for a flimsy song than it warrants.
11. Rock'n'Roll Band
12. I Am Just A Girl - over-sugared, sexist, musical porridge. This would have been a great soundtrack for a horror movie set in a lift.
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