Review 1: ABBA – Slipping Through My Fingers

I never thought I’ll do this, but, yup I bought meself an ABBA album! I can hear hoorays from my avid ABBA fan sisters!

ABBA – The Visitors. The only reason I got this CD (at S$19.95) was for the song ‘Slipping Through My Fingers’. We use to have this album on tape, and to those who owned a tape player before, the tape got tangled and stuck in the player’s spindle and that was it!

Somehow, this obscure ABBA song stays with me all these years and now, when I have a little girl of me own, it really hits home. For those who have not heard this song, here it is - Slipping Through My Fingers

Every time, when I see my little one off to school and waving goodbye, the song never fail to play in my head. Just hope I wouldn’t end up like the song – missing out those important moments when the little one is growing up, and not keeping to what we had planned to do together.

How true when it comes to the part, ‘Sometimes I wish/That I could freeze/The picture/And save it from/The funny tricks of time’. How fast that little one grows and one wonders, where was that chubby toddler, who once runs around clumsily in those tiny feet.

While ‘Slipping Through My Fingers’ was the song that got me buying this album, when I played the other songs, ‘The Visitors’, ‘Head Over Heels’, ‘When All Is Said And Done’, ‘Soldiers’…the familiar tunes are still refreshing after all these years! It is one of those compilations where you can hear the entire 13 tracks, and give them five stars each! And this is from one who was never an ABBA fan!?!

The CD comes with a booklet containing lyrics for all its songs. It also poignantly stated that this is the final album ABBA put together, in 1981, before they parted.

A good buy I’d say!

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