The Day Before You Came

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"The Day Before You Came" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, released on 10 October 1982 as the lead single from their compilation album The Singles: The First Ten Years (1982) and their penultimate single (preceding "Under Attack") before the group ended. Described as a dark, sorrowful swan song, it features Agnetha Fältskog alone on lead vocals. Its sound was inspired by the sequencer-driven synths popular at the time by contemporary musicians and is heavy on the synth soundscape with a darkly ethereal output. While the song received mixed "lukewarm" reviews upon release, it has retrospectively garnered a high amount of praise and considered by some to be one of ABBA's finest songs. The song also appears on the greatest hits compilation More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits (1993).

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