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Gold: Greatest Hits

0th Anniversary Edition

Best Of, CD Single

ABBA (Artist) Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

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 (English Version)

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Abba - Gold (Greatest Hits) - CD

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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 1950s 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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  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 14.3 x 0.99 cm; 104.04 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Polar
  • Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 3164052
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Polar
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001XLXYI
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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A good collection of popular ABBA songs
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I’m really pleased with this album since there’s a great collection of ABBA songs such as Dancing Queen, Waterloo etc. It’s reasonably priced and it arrived promptly. It’s a great buy.
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  • sarah vella
    5.0 out of 5 stars Would recommend
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2024
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2024
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    Great buy
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  • Charlotte
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 October 2024
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    All the best songs on there, perfect.
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  • ray phillips
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ray Phillips
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2024
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    Just the job
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  • Tim Elord
    4.0 out of 5 stars As advertised.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2023
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    Arrived on time and in the condition described by the seller.
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  • Robert Lee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential album.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2024
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    Even if you're not a fan, this music is just too good! Earwormy , if that's a word!😃
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  • Lynne Davidson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product cd
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2024
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    best ever hits loved .
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  • Andrew Sweeney
    5.0 out of 5 stars How can I resist you?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2013
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    It was very recently in the news that "ABBA Gold" has become the UK's second biggest selling album of all time and that 5.1 million copies have been sold since it was released in 1992, relegating The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" into third place. Ever since I was a child, ABBA have been an ever-present, radio-friendly part of my life and, even though they were seen as cheesy and a bit naff in the years after they split up, when this album was released they were re-discovered all over again by the world. My ex-wife loved ABBA so much that she drove me crazy with "Gold" and I grew to loathe the sound of them for a few years. However, when we split and she claimed custody of that particular CD, I eventually found myself missing several songs and so had to buy a copy of my own. I'll be honest with you, I'm not ashamed to love them. Benny and Bjorn are absolutely superb songwriters with a natural talent for melody and harmony. This greatest hits album is absolutely packed full of timeless songs which, I have to admit, I find rather remarkable that they were written by people for whom English isn't their first language.

    It'd actually be easier to list the tracks I don't really care for on this album than to list my favourite tracks by the super Swedes. Oddly enough, the main two I don't like come one after the other on "Gold" - "Chiquitita" and "Fernando". I find them a little too irritatingly twee. You can probably add "I Had A Dream" to that category too. There are so many excellent songs on this collection that they're a minor mid-album distraction to me, though. ABBA are a group that it's almost impossible to dislike (although I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who do), even if I wanted to - their music is just so irresistibly enjoyable. They have the knack of writing songs which are both immensely catchy and also memorable. Their songs sound deceptively simplistic, but the vast majority of their music is very cleverly composed and a little more complex than your ears would have you believe.

    My absolute favourites from "ABBA Gold" include the ridiculously infectious "Knowing Me, Knowing You", the foot-tapping harmonic masterpiece, "Take A Chance On Me" and "Mamma Mia" with the glorious, "Yes, I've been broken hearted/blue since the day we parted" bridge and the near-trademark trick of taking melancholy lyrics describing the pain of heartbreak and pairing them with a rather uplifting musical soundtrack - "The Winner Takes It All" is another fine example of this. You can add the brilliant "Super Trooper" to the list of the numerous almost annoyingly catchy songs in their repertoire, the contrast between the verse and chorus of "S.O.S." is approaching genius, especially the powerful, "When you're gone/how can I even try to go on?" section and both "One Of Us" and the magnificent "The Name Of The Game" document the sad split of the group all too well. Of course, I couldn't write this without mentioning the song from 1974 that catapulted them to international fame, one of the best winners of Eurovision ever, "Waterloo". According to The Attractions' Steve Nieve, "Oliver's Army" owes that particular song a debt of gratitude.

    Despite their popularity and the massive sales of this album, there as still way too many people who dismiss ABBA as being camp, cheesy, throwaway music. Of course, there are plenty of these classics that fit the description of camp and cheesy ("Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After Midnight)", "Voulez-Vous" and "Does Your Mother Know" for example), but throwaway? Never. In absolute honesty, I'd give my right arm to be able to write songs as great as these and they many of the songs have an emotional depth to them that often goes unrecognised. It's a little strange that the main songwriters in the group didn't go on afterwards to have a wildly successful post-split success, given their profligacy, although it's probably not a surprise to many that they ended up writing a musical ("Chess") and, indeed, having a musical written around their best work ("Mamma Mia"). This is simply the best work of one of the best groups of the 70s and early 80s and, let's be honest, probably a must for any music collection. It's certainly not something I'm ashamed to own.
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  • Ryan Beaver
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta love abba!
    Reviewed in the United States on 10 December 2024
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    Oh mamma Mia!
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  • Dee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Old School Legends
    Reviewed in Canada on 22 August 2024
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    This music takes me back to what seemed to be a better place and time. Real music by real artists, great album!
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  • Berenice Rosas Medina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravilloso!!
    Reviewed in Mexico on 31 August 2023
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    Me gustó mucho!!😍😍😍😍 Llegó a tiempo,muy recomendable.
    Lo recomiendo ampliamente!!.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravilloso!!
    Reviewed in Mexico on 31 August 2023
    Me gustó mucho!!😍😍😍😍 Llegó a tiempo,muy recomendable.
    Lo recomiendo ampliamente!!.
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  • dolbeau monique
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top des chansons d ABBA
    Reviewed in France on 6 September 2024
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    Pour écouter tous les grands succès d ABBA un grand moment musical
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  • Carsten Felix
    5.0 out of 5 stars Super!!! Ich bin begeistert!!! 😀
    Reviewed in Germany on 22 May 2024
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    Ich habe mir endlich mal eine ABBA-CD zugelegt und es ist absolut genial. Die CD ist top...!!! Deren geniale Songs drauf. Das war eine gute Entscheidung von mir!!!
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