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Gold: Greatest Hits (Digipak) (CD)

By: ABBA (Artist)

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ABBA Artist Snapshot:

Not many pop groups end up on postage stamps, as Abba has in its native Sweden; but then again, few groups become their homeland's most identifiable export. The group's stratospheric success was built on a foundation of buoyant, exquisitely arranged and produced pop music. Although they called it a day in the early 1980s, Abba lives on in the form of popular tribute bands and albums, a Broadway musical, and consistent record sales of their voluminous catalog.

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DISC 1 for Gold: Greatest Hits (Digipak) (CD) Album By ABBA (Artist)
1   Dancing Queen
2   Knowing Me, Knowing You
3   Take A Chance On Me
4   Mamma Mia
5   Lay All Your Love On Me
6   Super Trouper
7   I Have A Dream
8   Winner Takes It All, The
9   Money, Money, Money
10   S.O.S.
11   Chiquitita
12   Fernando
13   Voulez Vous
14   Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
15   Does Your Mother Know
16   One Of Us
17   Name Of The Game, The
18   Thank You For The Music
19   Waterloo
 
DISC 2 for Gold: Greatest Hits (Digipak) (CD) Album By ABBA (Artist)
1   Summer Night City
2   Angeleyes
3   Day Before You Came, The
4   Eagle
5   I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
6   So Long
7   Honey Honey
8   Visitors, The
9   Our Last Summer
10   On & On & On
11   Ring Ring
12   I Wonder (Departure)
13   Lovelight
14   Head Over Heels
15   When I Kissed The Teacher
16   I Am The City - (previously unreleased)
17   Cassandra
18   Under Attack
19   When All Is Said And Done
20   Way Old Friends Do, The
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/23/93, p.156) - "...these Swedes are a factor in the general revival of that silly decade, their giddiness a twist on the escapism that in more urgent form fueled disco and glam...."
Q (10/00, p.154) - Included in Q's "Best Best Of... Albums Of All Time" - "...Confirms that Sweden's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson made a Faustian pact circa 1972..."
Musician (11/93, p.93) - "...ABBA proved slickness and seething passion could coexist...."

Title Note

ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, guitar); Benny Andersson (vocals, keyboards); Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog (vocals).

Producers: Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus.

Compilation producer: Chris Griffin.

Includes liner notes by John Tobler.

Digitally remastered by Michael B. Tretow (Polar Studios).

Includes a 12-page booklet with an essay by John Tobler.

Bonus DVD contains GOLD GREATEST HITS DVD.

ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus (vocals, guitar); Benny Andersson (vocals, keyboards); Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (vocals).

Liner Note Author: Carl Magnus Palm.

Recording information: 1974 - 1982.

In seemingly random order, GOLD contains fourteen of Abba's twenty American hits (the remainder are on MORE ABBA GOLD); which is to say, it contains fourteen of the most delectable pop productions of the '70s and early '80s. "Dancing Queen," "Waterloo," "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and the other landmarks of upbeat melancholy are complex concoctions--all layered harmonies and brilliant keyboard arrangements. These songs don't easily fit into any pop timeline, which may be why Abba received much of their acclaim long after breaking up. What may have seemed like Euro-pop fluff in its day, has been revealed by time to be truly classic studio pop.

The Swedish band's songs had show-tune and '60s-pop roots, skirted around the edge of disco, and were an unspoken influence on new wave. Without them, Madonna's very existence would be highly unlikely. With its Latin beat and gospel harmonies, "Lay Your Love All Over Me," one of the five songs here that didn't chart in the U.S., sounds like the very source of "Like A Prayer." Like Madonna, Abba had a grandiose vision of pop's place in the world--"who could live without it, I ask in all honesty," is how they put it in "Thank You For The Music," their Broadway-like farewell gesture. Hearing these singles, its hard to imagine anyone ever did.

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