All ABBA recordings are not properly mastered, so it is hard to compare the bare recordings before proper rework. ABBA didn’t even begin to exhaust their long list of international chart-busters when they released ABBA Gold. Tretow producer: Benny Andersson ( ABBA) and Björn Ulvaeus alto saxophone and tenor saxophone: Lars O. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. million copies, [2] Gold: Greatest Hits is the second-highest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, [3] after Queen's Greatest Hits.

For example, total weeks on UK charts of Frank Sinatra are 1064, as this number includes all his albums, starting from 28. BuzzFeed music editor Matthew Perpetua included Gold: Greatest Hits among the compilations he considered "so well curated in presenting a fertile period of a career that they are arguably an artist's definitive work". These were included here as well as some of ABBA's lesser-known hits from the time when their popularity was declining, such as " Head over Heels" and " The Day Before You Came. The album closes with 'The Way Old Friends Do', a kind of song that could be sung before a song like 'Auld Lang Syne' as it has the same uniting pull of that song. In 2018 ABBA announced they had recorded two new songs, their first new music in 35 years, In November 2021 the band released comeback album Voyage, which became their first Number 1 studio album in 40 years, and the fastest-selling album in the UK in over four years as it racked up 204,000 chart sales in its opening week.If you we’re stranded on a desert island and you only had to choose to listen either option for the rest of your life but not the other one at all, which would you choose?

For releases that combine the original ' Gold (Greatest Hits)' with 'More ABBA Gold (More ABBA Hits)' please see ' Forever Gold'. And does the prospect of "artsy synth-pop ABBA" really prepare you for how dark, claustrophobic and unsettling songs like "The Day Before You Came," "Under Attack" and especially "The Visitors" really are? I'll put it this way: if you come away from ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits unmoved, you probably don't like ABBA, and that's fine.The original release included a DVD with 18 of the 19 songs from the CD, excluding "The Name of the Game". The original release notably contains the 7'‘ single version of “Eagle”, the 7’‘ promo version of “The Visitors” (previously only issued in the United States), and accidentally included an alternate mix of “Lovelight” which was previously unreleased.

In Austria, the album charted for 397 weeks, making it the all-time second longest stay on the chart. My faves are 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'Voulez Vous', 'One of Us', 'Name of the Game' and 'Lay All Your Love On Me'. Remarkably, in 1999 the album hit No 1 in Britain and other territories seven years after its release. While there are a couple songs on Gold that I only find OK songs like Dancing Queen and Knowing Me, Knowing You are the top of their game.The Australasian release featured the European track list, not the Australasian track list on previous issues. The 2008 releases include a single edit of "Eagle" and full original versions of "The Visitors" and "Lovelight". I bought this CD as members of my family had recently watched Mama Mia the movie and one of my daughters liked a few songs that were not on Abba gold V(1)such as "I do, I do " and " Last Summer " and they were on Abba Gold Vol(2). Whilst I acknowledge the songs are not quite all as brilliant as Abba Gold (1) the CD is still pretty good with more excellent songs on it like Eagle, The day before you came and I was pleased with it.

Dwyane Wade sits down with pioneers in sports, fashion, music, and business for an intimate conversation about their origins, and the reasons they keep pushing to innovate. ABBA Gold songs includes Waterloo, SOS, Mamma Mia, Fernando, Dancing Queen, Money Money Money, Knowing Me, Knowing You. Great cd sounds great you can't beat Abba any day no matter what your mood is Abba is always great to sing to, dance or cry to that lost love. Released in 1993, it was the follow-up to the highly successful Gold: Greatest Hits, released the previous year, and went on to sell 3 million copies. Tretow producer: Benny Andersson ( ABBA) and Björn Ulvaeus acoustic guitar: Björn Ulvaeus(on 1973-10-17) bass guitar: Rutger Gunnarsson(on 1973-10-17) drums (drum set): Ola Brunkert(on 1973-10-17) guitar: Janne Schaffer(on 1973-10-17) mellotron, Moog and piano: Benny Andersson ( ABBA)(on 1973-10-17) violin: Martin Bylund ( Swedish violinist)(on 1973-10-24), Anders Dahl ( Swedish violinist)(on 1973-10-24), Åke Jelving(on 1973-10-24), Inge Lindstedt(on 1973-10-24), Gunnar Michols ( Swedish violinist)(on 1973-10-24), Claes Nilsson ( Swedish violinist)(on 1973-10-24) and Krzysztof Zdrzalka ( Swedish violinist)(on 1973-10-24) lead vocals: Agnetha Fältskog(on 1973-10-17) and Anni‐Frid Lyngstad(on 1973-10-17) strings arranger: S.I own this release and I probably shouldn't be saying this, but I really can't see the reason for the high value - the volume is somewhat low and the overall sound is a bit flat, nothing like ABBA Gold.