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I'm a kid again!!!!!!!!!
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.
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abba gold cd
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
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400 Million And Counting
Nineteen of ABBA's best songs are plenty, but you won't tire of them. It is amazing that four Swedes (Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus as writers and Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog 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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Nostalgic, feel good music!
Many of us are very familiar with ABBA's songs because we have heard them often over the years. Personally, I knew of them from a distance and never researched them until recently. Living in Germany placed me in the thick of the ABBA Fan Club as they are revered here in Europe. There are enough ABBA fans here to pack any venue where they would perform, believe that. Already familiar with tracks such as "Dancing Queen", "Take A Chance On Me" and "Mamma Mia", I can now associate ever so closely with their string of hits. As a DJ, it's imperative to have a worthy compilation such as this on hand at all times. Best believe if you are doing an old school set, an ABBA fan will reveal himself to you. More importantly, this music is nostalgic and full of great, feel good vibes. For that reason alone ABBA Gold is worth having in your collection. Maybe you already do or maybe, like me, you already loved them and didn't even know it.
Enjoy
DJ Come of Age
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Mama Mia, what a shame!
I'm not a big fan of Abba, but have heard their music enough over the years to be very familiar with it. The launch of Mama Mia productions and the movie enticed me to buy Abba Gold to hear all of their work. This CD sounds nothing like what I have heard from a multitude of media sources. As an audio engineer I knew there was something technically wrong with this CD remix. Digital audio analysis revealed a boost in the midrange centered around 3 KHz on all 19 tracks, amongst other mixing modifications. These mixing changes can be partially corrected using an equalizer, but what tin-eared recording engineer at Polydor thought this was an "improvement." You can probably get a better sounding copy off old Abba LP records, if you have them and know how to create a digital copy on your PC or Mac computer. What a shame, because this poorly "Remastered" CD will probably end up turning-off many first-time listeners to Abba's music.
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