Visitors

Tracks:
The Visitors
Head Over Heels
When All Is Said And Done
Soldiers
I Let The Music Speak
One Of Us
Two For The Price Of One
Slipping Through My Fingers
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Should I Laugh Or Cry
The Day Before You Came
Cassandra
Under Attack
Head Over Heels
When All Is Said and Done
Soldiers
I Let the Music Speak
One of Us
Two for the Price of One
Slipping Through My Fingers
Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
Should I Laugh Or Cry
The Day Before You Came
Cassandra
Under Attack (Bonus Track)

Performer Notes:

• ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic guitar); Benny Andersson (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Anni Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog (vocals).
• Additional personnel: Lasse Wellander (acoustic & electric guitars); The Three Boys (mandolin); Jan Kling (flute, clarinet); Rutger Gunnarsson (bass); Ola Brunkert, Per Lindvall (drums); Ake Sundqvist (percussion).
• Recorded at Polar Music Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in 1981. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
• Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Jon Astley.
• 24bit digital remastering with new liner notes, complete lyrics, and four bonus tracks.
• Personnel: Bj?rn Ulvaeus (vocals, acoustic guitar); Benny Andersson (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Frida, Agnetha F?ltskog (vocals); Lasse Wellander, Janne Schaffer (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Three Boys (mandolin); Janne Kling (flute, clarinet); Ola Brunkert, Per Lindvall (drums); ?ke Sundqvist (percussion).
• Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Michael B. Tretow.
• Liner Note Author: Carl Magnus Palm.
• Recording information: Polar Music Studios, Stockholm, Sweden (03/1981-11/1981).
• Photographers: Anders Hanser; Lars-Erik Larsson .
• From he muted sleeve of Abba's eighth and last album, with its pained front photo of the four bandmembers studiously avoiding one another's gaze in a darkened room, it's clear that 1981's THE VISITORS is a somber record. The disturbingly confessional minor-key masterpieces within, such as "When All Is Said and Done" and "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room," as well as the bizarre, paranoid title track, contribute to the feeling of darkness and alienation. Recorded as the band was imploding amidst romantic breakups, THE VISITORS has the beauty and melancholy of earlier ABBA albums, but only on the transcendently mournful single "One of Us" does the band reach the ecstatic heights of previous singles. Regardless, THE VISITORS stands as one of the band's strongest and most consistent albums.

Professional Reviews: Q (Magazine) (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Today it sounds utterly wonderful, like the unexpectedly beautiful end to the most incredible dream."

Producer: Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 1 December, 1998

Label: CD

Dimensions: 14.4 x 1 x 14.3 centimeters (0.11 kg)