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Gold: Greatest Hits (Ltd.Ed) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Abba
Label: Universal Music Group
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 14.99
Buy New: CDN$ 11.52
You Save: CDN$ 3.47 (23%)
New (15) Used (5) Collectible (1) from CDN$ 9.98
Rating:  191 reviews
Sales Rank: 99
Format: Best Of, Enhanced
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
Release Date: October 26, 1999
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - Shipped within 24 hrs via Airmail from the USA - Average 5 to 10 workdays delivery time. Excellent customer service. NEUF - Envoy? par avion des USA sous 24 hrs - Livraison en moyenne de 5 a 10 jours ouvres. Service clientele en francais.
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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 | | • | 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 | | • | Name of the Game | | • | Thank You for the Music | | • | Waterloo |
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From Amazon.co.uk
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
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 186 more reviews...
 400 Million And Counting July 31, 2008
Martin A Hogan (San Francisco, CA.)
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.
Disco!!!! July 22, 2008
Martine (Montreal)
I absolutely love this compilation. I forgot how many great hits they have... great! great! great!
this is the soundtrack to my life September 14, 2005
Geoff P. (New Jersey, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i work as a correctional officer in a rough toronto area jail. at nightime when my supervisor goes home, i stick on my walkman, and listen to this greatest hits selection by ABBA as i do my rounds. I absolutely love every song on this album, and it makes me feel soooooo good to glide along the hallways singing choice cuts such as "mama mia" and "fernando" at the top of my lungs! seriously, people! if you don't ever wanna stop singing and dancing and grooving and partying, then buy this disc! from beginning to end it truly is sold GOLD!!!
 Abba Gold rocks my socks June 12, 2004
Marie-Claire Bousquette (USA)
As i listened to this cd, i realize that i know every single word to every single song. this cd is amazing in that the best songs arent just in the beginning, they are all throughout the cd. the cd starts with the huge hit Dancing Queen and ends with Waterloo. Waterloo was the song that made abba famous when abba won a competition with it and released a record "Waterloo" using the song as the theme song. Throughout the years, movies have used abba songs because they're funny and fun to listen to. In johnny english, does your mother know is one of the main jokes used throughout the movie. some of the most popular songs on this cd are mamma mia, dancing queen, does your mother know, thank you for the music, take a chance on me, and Voulez vous. this cd is truly gold
ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits June 9, 2004
B. Viberg (New York, NY United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Abba is one the greatest rock bands of all time. They are up their with greats such as Depeche Mode, Beatles, Bee Gees and The Rolling Stones. The lyrics are very well written, the music is amazing and they have unfairly been called stupid disco music when it is in deed sublime. Highly Recommended.
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