ABBA's career starts with an okay bunch of competent, well crafted but rather forgettable songs as far as I'm concerned - for the most part. It often felt like they wanted me to listen to the lyrics a lot more than I cared to, like family songs telling a story but with pop production - see 6,10, or 11. I can't say I minded, but there isn't much in the way of jams here. The t/t on both its versions (1 and 15), while not a top tier ABBA banger is certainly fun, and I can definitely see some precursors to their later banger sounds on 7, which while not a bop itself really does foreshadow the way they'll later play with multiple voices, grand sounds, and contrast. 2 sounds a bit like a christmas song but not annoying and even a bit fun. 3 feels like the ost to the emotional moment in a movie, pretty ok. 4 is hippe nicety, 5's an ok radio song, 8's a cute jolly song but 9 is ultra tepid, 12 is more rock and roll and ok, 13 is very tame aside frmo the intro, 14 is a bit more upbeat and 15 is 1 but in Swedish. Did I mention half the songs end on a fadeout? There's executional quality to be found here to be sure, and variety, but it's not a magnum opus for sure. 3.1
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