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| The Visitors | 
 enlarge | Artist: Abba
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $5.42
You Save: $6.56 (55%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $4.96
Avg. Customer Rating:  (37 reviews)
Sales Rank: 44419
Format: Extra Tracks, Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.2
MPN: 549965
UPC: 731454996525
EAN: 0766487287623
ASIN: B00005CDNK
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 These Visitors are welcome to stay forever. September 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Visitors is a throbbing, harmnonizing wall of sound entwined with sparkling vocals. It is an exquisite, endorphin releasing tapestry laced with Agnetha's catalytic yearning. She spins a shimmering thread throughout.
Abba's Magnum Opus June 9, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Abba had become better and better over the years. I think this album is one of the best released in the 1980s. The strange blend of happiness and sadness that is present on the previous ABBA records is still there, although this record's undertone is really sad. Perhaps that is why it is so beautiful.
 Great album...but poor re-mastering April 29, 2007
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I agree with John (from N.Y.), these 24-bit re-masters of the Abba catalogue were a big letdown. In a side by side comparison, the original discs sounded much better than these. The originals were brighter and plenty full; just like the original album sounded.
On the other hand, these 24-bit discs sound slightly muddy and the high end (which includes acoustic guitars and cymbals) are flat or dead sounding thanks to the no-noise solution. My advice, is to save your money and keep your old discs.
wonderful April 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first listened to this album back in the 80s when I was a teen, now I bought the remastered version and I am in my 40s and I think this album is excellent! When I was 18 or 20 I didnt realized what a wonderful material it was, and now I cannot believe it. Frida shows she is an excelllent singer. I strongly recommend it.
ABBA gets creepy, grown up, and very good. January 16, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
ABBA's final studio album is truly in a class by itself. The title track is about someone alone in their apartment -- which has been surrounded by the secret police -- awaiting their fate for being a political dissident in a communist country. Creepy and brilliant.
This album isn't about disco dancing and teenage crushes, it's about tyranny, watching your children grow up, ending relationships, and war.
If you are an ABBA fan, and you are hesitant to buy this disc because you don't see any charting hits on it, just go ahead and buy it. It's sad that this is the their last album, because I think they could have succeeded with this sould through the decade of the 1980's. They proved that they could change and reinvent themselves.
How many bands have "last albums" that are as great as this one?
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