Waterloo(滑铁卢)专辑介绍
ABBA的单曲《滑铁卢》(Waterloo)在1974年的欧洲电视歌曲比赛中获奖,并获得英国单曲排行榜冠军,进入美国单曲排行榜前10名。他们迅速在欧洲走红,随后是惊人的成功:连续18首歌曲进入英国单曲排行榜前10名(其中8首达到第1名),8张专辑达到排行榜第1名。第2张专辑《滑铁卢》在1974年的英国专辑排行榜列第28位。
注:本资源为2005年再版CD转压的320kbps资源。据一些听过的朋友评价,音质比较回归原始黑胶的感觉。
by Bruce Eder
ABBA's second (and U.S. debut) album contains the American Top Ten title track, as well as "Honey, Honey," a minor U.S. hit that deserved better. This album is rather unusual in the group's output, however, for the fact that the guys are still featured fairly prominently in some of the vocals, and for the variety of sounds -- including reggae, folk-rock, and hard rock -- embraced by its songs. The reggae number "Sitting in the Palmtree" is quite remarkable to hear, with its perfect Caribbean beat and those radiant female voices carrying the chorus behind the beat. "King Kong Song" is a good example of hard rock by rote, going through the motions of screaming vocals and over-amplified guitar (courtesy of Janne Schaffer), although even here, when the women's voices jump in on the choruses, it's hard not to listen attentively; the quartet knew what a powerful weapon they had, but not quite how to use it. They get a little closer to their winning formula on the catchy, folky-textured pop song "Hasta Ma?na," which sounds like a lost Mary Hopkin number. "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)" is on the money, as the embodiment of the Euro-disco sound that the group would move in the millions on their coming albums, although it also embraces a vague oldies sound, with a melody that somehow reminds this listener of both the Four Seasons' "Dawn" and the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby." [The 1999 Polygram remastering added no songs but was still a significant improvement over the original LP or earlier CD editions. Waterloo was also reissued in October of 2001 in a digipack format with extensive new notes, even crisper state-of-the-art sound, and three bonus cuts, the 1974 remix of "Ring, Ring" and the Swedish versions of "Waterloo" and "Honey Honey" -- their presence, and the 24-bit digital audio, only serve to make a beautiful album even better.]