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ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits Tracks
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. The Winner Takes It All
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. The Name Of The Game
18. Thank You For The Music
19. Waterloo
Abba - ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits Review
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 from classic '50s rock & roll. Likewise, you don't have to be Priscilla to swoon over "Mamma Mia" or "Dancing Queen." And when it comes to drama, those soaring vocals on "The Winner Takes It All" turn the song into a bitter anthem of every relationship that has ever fallen apart. The much-covered "Lay All Your Love on Me" is practically epic. --Steve Gdula


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Abba Gold and forever gold
5
To me ABBA is the best band ever. Abba is God's gift to humanity.
This CD can be listened to more than a million time if one is an Abba fan without getting bored. All of the songs are nice. I have my favorites but I repeat one can listen to the songs over and over again.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2006-01-12
Overall an uneven pop CD, but with the classics it has and considering it has 19 tracks this is a great buy! For pop fans only
5
ABBA's "Gold: Greatest Hits" collection may be a bit uneven (i.e. not every song is good), but the good songs and the classics it DOES have essentially cancel out the bad tracks. This is especially true considering there's 19 songs here. ABBA was famous in the 70's for being the first real famous band from Sweden. They brought over lovely Swedish pop music which we would come to love and somewhat envy. There's no denying that songs like "Dancing Queen" (which is a guilty pleasure, admittedly) are classic pop songs. The songs sound dated, but in a good way - they're distinctly 70's sounding. The singers (Frida, Agnetha Faltskog and Björn Ulvaeus) are especially soothing and the instrumentation is pretty interesting even if it is, again, dated. Not every track here is as good as the first four ("Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me Knowing You", "Take A Chance On Me" and "Mamma Mia" (this one not as much)), but they're all alright (they get better towards the end). It's not the greatest collection of songs ever (there's only about 8 good-to-great songs and the rest are ok), but you'll still be pretty satisfied with the classics it DOES have. Also, considering it's only $10.00 this is a very good deal! Recommended!

Highlights include:
"Dancing Queen"
"Knowing Me, Knowing You"
"Take A Chance On Me"
"Mamma Mia"
"Super Trouper"
"The Winner Takes It All" (kind of)
"Does Your Mother Know?"
"One Of Us" (sort of)
"The Name Of The Game"
"Waterloo"
Posted by Anonymous, on 2006-01-06
Overall an uneven pop CD, but with the classics it has and considering it has 19 tracks this is still a great purchase
5
ABBA's "Gold: Greatest Hits" collection may be a bit uneven (i.e. not every song is good), but the good songs and the classics it DOES have essentially cancel out the bad tracks. This is especially true considering there's 19 songs here. ABBA was famous in the 70's for being the first real famous band from Sweden. They brought over lovely Swedish pop music which we would come to love and somewhat envy. There's no denying that songs like "Dancing Queen" (which is a guilty pleasure, admittedly) are classic pop songs. The songs sound dated, but in a good way - they're distinctly 70's sounding. The singers are especially soothing and the instrumentation is pretty interesting albeit dated. Not every track here is as good as the first four ("Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me Knowing You", "Take A Chance On Me" and "Mamma Mia" (this one not as much)), but they're all alright (they get better towards the end). It's not the greatest collection of songs ever (there's only about 8 good-to-great songs and the rest are ok), but you'll still be pretty satisfied with the classics it DOES have. Also, considering it's only $10.00 this is a very good deal! Recommended!

Highlights include:
"Dancing Queen"
"Knowing Me, Knowing You"
"Take A Chance On Me"
"Mamma Mia"
"Super Trouper"
"The Winner Takes It All" (kind of)
"Does Your Mother Know?"
"One Of Us" (sort of)
"The Name Of The Game"
"Waterloo"
Posted by Anonymous, on 2006-01-06

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