Ring Ring | 
 enlarge | Artist: Abba
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1410
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 44 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731454995023
EAN: 0731454995023
ASIN: B00005KKC1
Release Date: March 1, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Ring Ring | | • | Another Town, Another Train | | • | Disillusion | | • | People Need Love | | • | I Saw It In The Mirror | | • | Nina, Pretty Ballerina | | • | Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) | | • | Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother | | • | He Is Your Brother | | • | She's My Kind Of Girl | | • | I Am Just A Girl | | • | Rock 'N' Roll Band | | • | Merry-Go-Round | | • | Santa Rosa | | • | Ring, Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Ring Ring September 29, 2008
R. J. Hingston (Devon, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are anything but an Abba fanatic, this album is far from being an essential purchase. Originally released in 1973 (it wasn't released in Britain until much later),the album features 12 pre-Waterloo tracks that vary in quality greatly. Some of these tracks will be familiar to anyone who bought the 1976 LP 'Greatest Hits' as this is where they made their first appearance in the UK. These tracks include 'Ring Ring' (which was almost Sweden's 1973 Eurovision entry), Another Town-Another Train, People Need Love (Abba's first single),He Is Your Brother and Nina,Pretty Balerina. Each of these tracks represent the very best of Abba's early output. Many other tracks in this collection, however, will disappoint many only familiar with Abba's later greatness. 'Disillusion' written by Agnetha and Bjorn is dull in the extreme as are 'I Saw It in The Mirror' and 'I Am Just A Girl'. The remaining tracks, whilst not essential are worth a listen, the singalong 'Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother' being a particular favourite from the early years.
Abba's future albums were much much better than this, but it is fun to hear how it all started.
 A starting point September 19, 2008
Mr. Peter Steward (Norwich, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The embryo album that had an unsure start to life, but is now recognised as the band's first, despite the fact that it didn't get released in the United Kingdom until 1992.
The original album was released not under the Abba name but that of the four group members Bjorn & Benny and Agnetha & Frida. Some of the lyrics are short of inspiration to say the least and the songs in general are not the smartly crafted pop that was to come later. There are still hints, however, of the joyous music to come although tracks such as "I Saw It in the Mirror" and the bubblegum pop of "He's Your Brother" have a very limited appeal.
Bjorn and Benny have their share of the vocals as if they are unsure about allowing the girls to take centre stage. Of course when they did the results were quite spectacular. It would of course take victory in the Eurovision Song Contest to bring them to prominence. Ironically some of the songs on here seem to come straight from the poppy annuls of Europop. Still songs like "Ring Ring" "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother" and "Nina Pretty Ballerina" hinted quietly of the riches to come. Elsewhere there's plenty of hippy trippy pop. Inoffensive if unspectacular.
Better than it's given credit for August 23, 2007
Cowboy & Angel (Derby, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is often voted least favourite Abba album by the fans, which is a little unfair. True, it doesn't have the Abba "sound" familiar on later albums, and doesn't have any major UK hits on it, but this is of little relevance.
At the time, Abba weren't even yet called Abba. The album was credited to the rather long name of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida. The remaster replaces this with the later Abba logo. Not released in the UK until the late 1980's (and even then not under the Ring Ring name or artwork), this album provides the opportunity to find out how Abba started.
Then a part-time group, many of the early songs were performed by Bjorn and Benny with Agnetha and Frida taking more of a back seat. The girls do have lead vocals on some songs, and on others there is a constant switch between male and female vocals (People Need Love, He Is Your Brother, Love Isn't Easy). There is a great line in Love Isn't Easy, where the boys say how well they treat the girls, and they respond with "Now listen to that, just look at that cat, you'd think he was an angel but he's talking through his hat!"
There are some awkward moments on this. Another Town, Another Train is basically a goodbye note from a man to his partner, unable to have the guts to say it in person but trying to justify it; I Am Just A Girl is very sexist - "It's an evil world, that has only made me a girl," and People Need Love is a bit heterosexualist (if there is such a word!), but on the whole this is an enjoyable album.
Bonus tracks are the b-sides Merry Go Round and Santa Rosa, tracks that were mythical to Abba fans in the UK in the 1970's and almost impossible to get hold of, but they are now part of their parent album. The Swedish version of the title track is also added.
Better to explore the later, classic Abba albums first (Arrival, The Album, Voulez-Vous), but if you have the others and still want to hear more, then this won't disappoint.
 Their first album July 14, 2007
Mikhail Manuilov (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Ring Ring was first released in Sweden on March 26, 1973. This re-issue of this album makes it possible for us to get back for that time. The song which is widely recognized as the first ABBA's song is People Need Love and it was the time when the group called themselves Bjorn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Ring Ring was performed at the Swedish selections of the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest but finished only third. However it became hit in Sweden. They became famous in their country and it was not so far for their wide popularity all over the world. But this doings were waiting around the corner.
This 2001 re-issue of Ring Ring contains remastered versions of all original tracks and in addition 3 bonus tracks which were B-sides of ABBA's singles. New liner notes for this album by Carl Magnus Palm tell us about creation of the album and are completed with many interesing photos
A very good debut! July 29, 2005
Stargazer (Slough, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is Abba before Waterloo came along and changed everything! Certainly, a very happy, clappy sound to this album and quite different to their later work; several songs on this would be almost unrecognisable compared to the Abba sound we all know and love. The title track itself, Ring Ring, has got to be one of the catchiest pop songs of all time and to my ears is an absolute gem of a pop song; had it entered the 1973 Eurovision song contest I've no doubt it would have been a runaway winner. Other songs to listen out for are Another Town Another Train, Rock n Roll Band and People Need Love. I Am Just A Girl is the sort of song that Radio 2 would have played way back in the Seventies; very smooth and laid back but great nonetheless. The bonus tracks add to the overall sound of the album, so I don't have any hesitation in recommending Ring Ring; just don't expect anything along the lines of Arrival etc. You also have the Swedish version of Ring Ring here; does anyone fancy trying to learn the words to that? Not Abba's best album by any stretch, but I wouldn't be without it.
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