The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA condenses the group's hits into an 11-song best-of-the-best compilation that includes "Waterloo," "Dancing Queen," "Take a Chance...
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The titles of hits compilations always deal in superlatives: "Greatest," "Best," "Very Best" -- but the compilers of this ABBA collection have a special problem justifying...
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For this entry in its Deluxe Sound+Vision series of reissues, Universal Music Entertainment has repackaged two ABBA hits CDs with an ABBA DVD. ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits,...
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The title track, a rollicking boogie-woogie fun-fest, is the song that officially gave way to ABBA madness; goofy, cutesy ditties like "King Kong Song," "My Mama Said Dance"...
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ABBA's second (and U.S. debut) album contains the American Top Ten title track, as well as "Honey, Honey," a minor U.S. hit that deserved better. This album is rather...
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The multi-million unit sales of ABBA Gold led to the creation of this 20-song compilation, containing the remaining singles from the group plus other notable tracks. None of...
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Released in Europe in October 1994 and in the U.S. six months later, Thank You for the Music is the ABBA box set retrospective, tracing their ten years of record-making,...
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This one's got the roller-disco classic "Dancing Queen," gold-digger daydream "Money, Money, Money" and "Tiger," which features the lyrics, "And if I meet you/ What if I eat...
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ABBA's fourth album appeared after the group had arrived as major stars, and it shows the quartet at the absolute top of their game. In addition to "Dancing Queen," which is...
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This recording is often underrated, and might seem superfluous in the wake of the release of the group's various hits compilations on CD, but it does have merits. Drawn from...
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Premature, to be sure, Greatest Hits contains all ABBA's hits so far, including "Fernando," their third U.K. number one, which hit the Top 40 in the U.S., plus filler. It...
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This unusual collection has a somewhat convoluted history, growing out of ABBA's distinctly international appeal. Originally released at ten songs and then expanded to 15,...
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This first album was released the same year that ABBA placed third in the Swedish semi-finals at the Eurovision Song Contest--which caused such an outcry among Swedish...
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If it seems as though the familiar ABBA sound isn't present on this album, that's because there was no entity known as ABBA at the time that the earliest sides here were...
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Super Trouper 1/1/1980, Yahoo! Music, Lyndsey Parker
ABBA enter the '80s with two divorces under their collective belt and an ever-so-slight dash of cynicism added to their Pollyanna-esque sound. "The Winner Takes All," a...
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Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. "The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of...
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The Visitors 1/1/1981, Yahoo! Music, Lyndsey Parker
Perhaps the album title reflects the band members' transitory states of mind, as they prepared to go their separate ways. The tracks have titles like "When All Is Said And...
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The Visitors 1/1/1998, Yahoo! Music, Lyndsey Parker
Perhaps the album title reflects the band members' transitory states of mind, as they prepared to go their separate ways. The tracks have titles like "When All Is Said And...
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The quartet's final album was recorded during a period of major personal shake-ups, principally in the decision by Benny Andersson and Frida to follow the same route to...
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How can anyone whose heart isn't made out of lead resist a song with a title like "I'm A Marionette"? "Take A Chance On Me" is one ABBA's catchiest singles, so bouncy 'n'...
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ABBA's fifth album was a marked step forward for the group, having evolved out of Europop music into a world-class rock act over their previous two albums, they now...
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The 23-track double-LP Singles collection contains 16 of ABBA's 20 U.S. chart entries and 22 of their 25 U.K. hits. Especially notable are the group's final new single,...
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That it took nearly a year to record Voulez-Vous is an indicator of the creative and personal box in which the four members of ABBA found themselves at the end of the '70s....
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ABBA's self-titled third album was the one that really broke the group on a worldwide basis. The Eurovision Song Contest winner "Waterloo" had been a major international hit...
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Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. "The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of...
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Because it turned out to be the group's final full-length recording and was a relative commercial disappointment, ABBA's eighth album, The Visitors, tends to be viewed as an...
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ABBA's second (and U.S. debut) album contains the American Top Ten title track, as well as "Honey, Honey," a minor U.S. hit that deserved better. This album is rather...
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That it took nearly a year to record Voulez-Vous is an indicator of the creative and personal box in which the four members of ABBA found themselves at the end of the '70s....
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The aptly named Arrival being the quartet's fourth, ABBA had perfected their approach, and few acts can match the melodic power that the world's most famous Swedes pack into...
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ABBA's self-titled third album was the one that really broke the group on a worldwide basis. The Eurovision Song Contest winner "Waterloo" had been a major international hit...
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Because of shrewd business acumen, ABBA will never reform out of monetary desperation. And because of the perfectionism of guiding lights Andersson and Ulvaeus, the quartet...
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On and On is a collection of 12 ABBA songs, and that's about the entire theme that seems to be operating here. There is no unifying sound; the songs range in style from the...
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