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ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: Abba
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  272 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 517007
UPC: 766487202923
EAN: 0766487202923
ASIN: B000001DZO
Publication Date: 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Dancing Queen | | • | Knowing Me, Knowing You | | • | Take A Chance On Me | | • | Mamma Mia | | • | Lay All Your Love On Me | | • | Super Trouper | | • | I Have A Dream | | • | The Winner Takes It All | | • | Money, Money, Money | | • | S.O.S. | | • | Chiquitita | | • | Fernando | | • | Voulez Vous | | • | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) | | • | Does Your Mother Know | | • | One Of Us | | • | The Name Of The Game | | • | Thank You For The Music | | • | Waterloo |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com 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 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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 Still a dancing queen who is tone deaf August 16, 2008
My sisters and I loved ABBA from the day we heard their first song. Funny, our Parents did also. It is happy music and it makes me want to get up and dance (great exercise) and sing (yes, I am tone deaf but who cares!) I bought the ABBA Gold when it came out and I am still playing it, never tiring of the music. Listen to the music and you might feel the same way. Get up and dance like the dancing queen or king that you are and feel good to music that is not busy making a statement. Good fun - that is what we all need and how long has it been since you have had plain old good fun? Enjoy!
 I still love Abba August 13, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
I play this CD loud in my car with the windows both up when in traffic and down when on the open road. I love Abba as much as I like my own books. Look me up. This one is about when I went to China. U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference
I'm a kid again!!!!!!!!! August 11, 2008
I can smell the grass, and long to bounce the ball again; ABBA makes me want to go outside and PLAY!!!
Just wonderful, joyful music. Thanks to whoever for bringing those wonderful memories back.
abba gold cd August 11, 2008
the cd I purchased through Amazon.com is excellent. As a matter of fact, it is the second one of the same - one for home, and one for listening in my car. My experiences with Amazon.com have been very good and I am happy that I have mastered "Purchasing on line" with limited computer skills! Thank you
400 Million And Counting July 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Nineteen of ABBA's best songs are plenty, but you won't tire of them. It is amazing that four Swedes (Benny Andersson and Bjoern Ulvaeus as writers and Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faeltskog as the main singers) could take such simple English cliches and turn them into pop music magic. Despite sometimes maddeningly simple lyrics, the song arrangements were unnervingly catchy and the multi-level layered compostions are fascinating. The keyboards and synthesizers were used in some of the more ingenious ways during the seventies to produce that unmistakeable ABBA sound. The energy and nearly anthemic enthusiasm eminating from each song marked them all as instant classics, no matter how jaded or synical the listener. It is doubtlful if you read the song list here that you would not know the melody. The one ironic thing about this groups phenomenal success, is that of over 400 million album sales, they only had one number one hit in the US - "Dancing Queen". But it is one heck of a great song.
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