The Visitors

The working title was Den första, Swedish for the first, and the album's inner sleeve lists it as The Visitors (Crackin' Up). Lyngstad sings the lead, with Fältskog on backing vocals. The stated theme is a protest against the persecution of political dissidents in the Soviet Union. Ulvaeus preferred to keep a sense of mystery and did not explain the meaning when it came out, but later said it refers to secret meetings held against the wishes of totalitarian governments in Soviet-dominated states. The album was banned in the Soviet Union in 1982.

It was released as a single on 5 April 1982 only in North America, where it reached number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100. A double A-side 12-inch with When All Is Said and Done reached number eight on the Billboard dance chart. Elsewhere Head Over Heels was the A-side. AllMusic's Bruce Eder called it a topical song about Soviet dissidents that manages to be very catchy. Pitchfork's Tom Ewing described a snapshot of life in a totalitarian state, full of justified paranoia and exhausted fatalism, and said it never gives up on catchiness. Rolling Stone called it six minutes of frigid-pink electro-jitters and proof that ABBA kept experimenting to the end.