Wrap Your Arms Around Me

Wrap Your Arms Around Me Artist: Agnetha Faltskog
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 042281324222
EAN: 0042281324222
ASIN: B000006YMP


Release Date: 1993-01-21

Wrap Your Arms Around Me


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Tracks:

  1. The Heat Is On
  2. Can't Shake Loose
  3. Shame
  4. Stay
  5. Once Burned Twice Shy
  6. Mr. Persuasion
  7. Wrap Your Arms Around Me
  8. To Love
  9. I Wish Tonight Could Last Forever
  10. Man
  11. Take Good Care Of Your Children
  12. Stand By My Side

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Album Details

The First Post Abba Pop Album from One of It's Two Strong Voices was Produced by Australian Mike Chapman (Who Along with Nicky Chinn Produced Some of the Best Pop of the 70's and 80's from Blondie, Sweet, Smokie, Suzi Quatro and the Knack Debut). The Single "Can't Shake Loose" Cracked the American Top 30 for a Couple of Weeks, but Failed to Match the Brushfire that Blazed Just 15 Months Earlier by Fellow Abba Mate Frida. Faltskog Then Retreated for a Few More Years to Raise her Children and Try Again to Crack the Market Another Day.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Get the other IMPORT listed on amazon--it's a reissue with 5 bonus tracks!!!.......2005-12-03

I don't know why this inferior version is still listed--and is more money than the remastered re-issue with 5 bonus tracks. Amazon failed to list those tracks, but I've done so in a review for that version.

4 out of 5 stars A Great Album.......2005-10-13

It's an excellent innovative album of the beginning of 80s.
Agnetha really put all her positive energies into this album and proved that she was talented even as a post ABBA solist.
Though THE HEAT IS ON is a kind of a cover, it's very fresh in relation to the year 1983.
CAN'T SHAKE LOOSE is a great rock-pop track.
SHAME is a song with a vibrant uplifting beat.
STAY is a good classic pop song.
ONCE BURNED, TWICE SHY is innovative in terms of diction.
MR. PERSUASION is a song which foreshadows the 9th track I WISH TONIGHT COULD LAST FOREVER in its uplifting nature.
WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND ME is a real party track.
TO LOVE is a classic in the sense that there's a nostalgic tone to it.
I WISH TONIGHT COULD LAST FOREVER reminds of the pure pop which ABBA mainly represents and relinks her to that band.
MAN is the most innovative song of all times.
TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN is a track which classic, quiet but a little weak.
STAND BY MY SIDE appropriately closes the album as catchy track.

5 out of 5 stars Early Agnetha Faltskog, and great!.......2004-10-14

there is no getting around it, Agnetha Faltskog is the best!

this is great music.

3 out of 5 stars Shame.......2004-02-05

After the Swedish supergroup ABBA decided to "take a break", both the girls in ABBA (Agnetha & Anni-Frid) decided to make solo-albums. Wrap Your Arms Around Me from 1983 is Agnetha Fältskog's first English solo-album and it's an okay album, but perhaps a bit bland. There's nothing new here, nothing really exiting.

The Heat Is On became a smash hit all over Europe in the summer of 1983. To me personally it's actually one of the weaker songs on the album.
Can't Shake Loose is a bit more rockier and was a single in North America, later on also in Europe.
Shame is actually one of the better songs. Nice tune, with nice lyrics.
Stay sounds a bit boring and the song is too long.
Once Burned, Twice Shy is another of my favourites. A strong song but was apparently never considered for a single release.
Mr. Persuasion is a nice songs which reminds me of the sixties.
Wrap Your Arms Around Me is a nice, seductive song, a bit long though... When it was released as a single in Europe it was thankfully edited.
To Love is a nice romantic lovesong with clever lyrics.
I Wish Tonight Could Last Forever is a bit the same... it doesn't really go anywhere.
Man was written by Agnetha Fältskog herself and it's definitely one of the strongest songs one the album. It's a shame Agnetha didn't wrote more songs for the album.
Take Good Care Of Your Childeren is absolutely the worst song on the album. Terrible lyrics and a terrible reggae arrangement.
Stand By My Side is a nice song, although I think it would have been better if To Love would have been the closing tack instead of this one.

As a whole it's a nice debut solo album from one of the greatest voices the popmusic has ever known. Still the album repeats itself and it tend to get a bit bland and boring. Agnetha played it safe, unlike Frida who experimented a lot more with sound on her English solo-albums

3 out of 5 stars Wrap Your Wishy-Washy Arms Around Me.......2003-01-14

Agnetha Faltskog, the sexy Swede who formed ¼ of the seventies pop phenomenon ABBA, played it very safe with her 1983 solo English debut. Her departing work with ABBA was the fantastically dark `The Visitors' album, but it seemed Agnetha felt a lot more comfortable doing the playful pop found on this release. Much like her personality in interviews of the time, it iss nice nice nice with little to no substance. But then again, that's what pop music is oh so often about - it's just a shame not even someone as vocally capable as Agnetha could breathe life into such average tunes.

From the caribbean-influenced `The Heat Is On', through a few rockier up-tempos (`Take Good Care Of Your Children'), and the obligatory ballads, Agnetha's album runs the gamut of clean-cut, simplistic pop. My picks are the minor US hit `Can't Shake Loose' (penned by Russ Ballard who, similarly, gave Frida a hit with the rocktastic `I Know There's Something Going On') and `Shame', which has a little bit of a Motown-in-the-eighties vibe happening. `I Wish Tonight Could Last Forever' is another favourite, the tepid but lyrically more upbeat musical sibling of the ABBA disco romp `If It Wasn't For The Nights'. Unfortunately, playing it so safe means that whilst `Wrap Your Arms Around Me' has all the trimmings of a good album, it lacks the spark and energy that made other records of the time so appealing. Too many times, Agnetha slips into very Neil Diamond-esque MOR territory which whilst it's pleasant on the ears, it's nothing too memorable. `To Love' is vile balladry at its worst, and Faltskog's own `Man' is similarly forgettable.

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