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ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
: essential recording:Anyone looking for the key to Abba's enduring appeal should look no further than 'Voulez Vous' and 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)' for their answer. There was an innocence to the Swedish quartet, even when they were singing about one-night stands and the invitations to them. Gold establishes that the band, while appreciated as campy, were actually multifaceted in their execution. 'S.O.S.' has a raw urgency in its chorus, and 'Does Your Mother Know' draws its energy ...
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The Definitive Collection
: :Is there anything that simply screams the 1970s' most indelible pop cultural clichés--the sunny romanticism, perfect vocal hooks, feathered hair, stacked heels, and flared sateen britches--more than the Swedish pop phenomenon Abba? And while many a pundit snootily dismissed them during their prime as some sort of prefabricated aberration, their worldwide popularity peaked somewhere just south of Beatlesmania. Indeed, Abba's music was as finely tooled and crafted as anything to come from a Volvo or IKEA factory--if occasionally more economically potent. ...
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Number Ones
:Album Description:Abba are following in the footsteps of The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson with the Number Ones concept, and we're assuming that the designation applies to charts from around the world. There are 18 songs on the album, but no Abba song ever hit #1 in Canada, 'Dancing Queen' was the only one to do it in the U.S., and seven singles did it in the U.K. So the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest winners must have made a major ...
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Super Trouper
:Album Details:24-bit digitally remastered digipak edition with extensive liner notes, lyrics and includes two bonus songs: 'Elaine' and 'Put on Your White Sombrero'. :Super Trouper is generally considered Abba's finest album. The overheated disco flourishes of Voulez-Vous were dropped and the sequencing was very nearly perfect. What's more, silly lyrics metamorphose into things of wrenching beauty. The overall tone is rather somber--the unraveling of the band members' relationships underscores every track--but as usual Abba turn melancholy into uplifting pop music. This ...
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The Visitors
:Album Description:Exclusive import limited edition digipak is remastered, has extensive line notes and lyrics, and includes four bonus songs, 'Should I Laugh Or Cry', 'The Day Before You Came', 'Cassandra' and 'Under Attack'. 13 tracks in all. :Abba's 1981 swan song is appropriately touched by intimations of loss; The Visitors certainly contains nothing as breezy as 'Does Your Mother Know.' Far from the listless meanderings of a group on its way out, however, the album is alive with emotion and creativity. ...
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Thank You for the Music
:Album Description:Exclusive import limited edition digipak is remastered, has extensive line notes and lyrics, and includes four bonus songs, 'Should I Laugh Or Cry', 'The Day Before You Came', 'Cassandra' and 'Under Attack'. 13 tracks in all. :Abba's 1981 swan song is appropriately touched by intimations of loss; The Visitors certainly contains nothing as breezy as 'Does Your Mother Know.' Far from the listless meanderings of a group on its way out, however, the album is alive with emotion and creativity. ...
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Arrival
:Album Details:24-bit digital remaster with new liner notes, complete lyrics and two bonus tracks: 'Fernando' (US Remix 1974) and 'Happy Hawaii' (Swedish Version). essential recording:At the height of their success, ABBA were second only to Volvo as Sweden's biggest export earners. Arrival (1977) sees the quartet just finding their stride, after a year of relative obscurity which followed the success of 'Waterloo,' their 1973 Eurovision Song Contest winner. Like their '70s peers ELO, ABBA knew the value of tunes, tunes, ...
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Voulez-Vous
:Album Description:Exclusive import limited edition digipak version is remastered, has extensive liner notes and lyrics, and includes three bonus songs, 'Summer Night City', 'Lovelight' and 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man after Midnight)'. 13 tracks in all. :Voulez-Vous is Abba's Eurodisco album, and if you decide to go there, be ready for some serious histrionics. Typical of the record's wall of sound is 'Does Your Mother Know,' in which the disco pulse leads into power guitar riffs laid out over a boogie ...
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Abba - The Album
:Album Description:Exclusive import limited edition digipak is remastered, has extensive liner notes and lyrics, and includes one bonus song, 'Thank You For The Music'(Doris Day Version)'. 10 tracks in all. essential recording:Without a doubt, 1978's The Album is the Swedish pop demigods' finest moment. (Forgive them the film.) From the opening stanzas of the visionary 'Eagle' (a 'Born Free' for the late '70s) to the pure joyous rush of 'Take a Chance on Me' (has a cappella ever sounded so ...
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More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits
:Album Description:2008 super jewel box edition of this compilation from the Swedish Pop quartet. After the massively successful, multi-million selling ABBA Gold, in came the follow up compilation More ABBA Gold, featuring 20 show-stopping classics. Included are more fantastic singles from the super group plus notable album tracks well loved by fans new and old. Universal.
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