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Arrival | 
| Artist: Abba
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 925
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 42
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 731454995320
EAN: 0731454995320
ASIN: B00005KKC4
Release Date: January 18, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | When I Kissed The Teacher | | • | Dancing Queen | | • | My Love, My Life | | • | Dum Dum Diddle | | • | Knowing Me, Knowing You | | • | Money, Money, Money | | • | That's Me | | • | Why Did It Have To Be Me? | | • | Tiger | | • | Arrival | | • | Fernando | | • | Happy Hawaii |
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 Arrival September 29, 2008
Arrival is in many people's opinion Abba's finest moment. Certainly an album containing 'Knowing Me-Knowing You', 'Money Money Money' and 'Dancing Queen' has to be a contender for Abba's greatest album.
Apart from these classic three singles, there are several other noteworthy tracks on this classic album. Had this album been released in the 80s there would have probably been even more classic hits lifted from this collection. A strong contender for fourth single would have been 'My Love My Life' beautifully sung by Agnetha. This album also contains one of Agnetha's favourite tracks 'That's Me'. Closing the album is the title track 'Arrival' which was later covered by Mike Oldfield and became a hit for him.
An album truly deserving of the title 'Classic'.
 Beginning to Arrive September 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Many bands start at the top of their game and then almost disintegrate after two or three albums. Abba had much more of a long game plan than that and with Arrival they stepped up a gear with a more sophisticated and classy sound that at last stretched their vocal ability thanks to much more complex songs such as "My Love, My Life."
As the melodies improved so did the lyrics. Songs began to take on a meaning rather deeper than the shallowness of much of the first three albums although there are still some aberrations like the meaningless pap of "Dum Dum Diddle." The album contains what was to almost become Abba's theme song "Dancing Queen" along with other top 10 hits "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Money, Money, Money." With tracks like "Knowing Me, Knowing You" they kept their pop sensibilities but with poignant and much more biting lyrics. This was a distinct improvement on what had gone before
ONE OF ABBAS BEST January 12, 2008
I HAD THIS ON VINYL. NOW REMASTERED IT NOW INCLUDES FERNANDO AND THE LITTLE KNOWN HAPPY HAWAII. THE SONGS FLOW BEAUTIFULLY, OUTSTANDING TRACKS FOR ME ARE; THATS ME, KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU AND THE WONDERFUL MY LOVE MY LIFE SUNG TO PERFECTION BY AGNETHA. THIS IS CLASSIC ABBA AT ITS BEST .EVEN DUM DUM DIDDLE IS WORTH A LISTEN!
The Template October 1, 2007
...for almost every pop record ever since...
Minus the bonus tracks, this is a mere 31 minutes long but utter perfection from the well-known singles to the lesser known tracks. The up moments are riotous confection (Dum Dum Diddle, the tender moments show new depths (My Love, My Life) and the closer, the instrumental Arrival, in some weird way hints at that slightly unfathomable Swedishness that the rest of the world could never get enough of. Whether for nostalgia, new discovery, or a lesson in how to write a pop song, this is quite simply the best a pop record can be.
ABBA - ARRIVAL - The title says it all!! September 17, 2007
Only ABBA's third studio album, but what a masterpiece!!
Forever the anthem to the long and hot summer of 1976 - hits such as Dancing Queen and the album itself will be forever locked away in history for us all to open the doors to whenever we get depressed of all the awful things that are going on nowadays, and we wish to escape to a much happier time!
This collection includes two number ones plus a Top 3 smash! All ABBA's albums now sound incredibly like greatest hits compilations due to the catchiness of all their album material. Each and every song has been so well thought over and not thrown together like so much album material we get from other groups, merely to fill the gaps between the hits.
This was ABBA's shortest album at barely thirty minutes long, and is just another testimony that some of the best and most successful works, are indeed the shortest of them all!
To this day, ABBA remain timeless in that one can play any of their albums any time, and they still sound as good and as fresh as the day they were recorded.
God bless them!
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