"ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits"
- "Dancing Queen" (3:52)
- "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (4:02)
- "Take a Chance on Me" (4:04)
- "Mamma Mia" (3:33)
- "Lay All Your Love on Me" (4:34)
- "Super Trouper" (4:14)
- "I Have a Dream" (4:44)
- "The Winner Takes it All" (4:55)
- "Money, Money, Money" (3:08)
- "S.O.S." (3:21)
- "Chiquita" (5:26)
- "Fernando" (4:13)
- "Voulez Vous" (4:22)
- "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (4:48)
- "Does Your Mother Know" (3:15)
- "One of Us" (3:58)
- "The Name of the Game" (4:00)
- "Thank You for the Music" (3:51)
- "Waterloo" (2:42)
When my friend bought this ABBA CD, I started teasing him about it, and he got real
defensive & explained how he grew up listening to this music, and how he really liked it,
etc. etc....I let him rant & rave for about 5 minutes before telling him, "Hey man, it's
okay, I like ABBA too..."
In fact, it amazes me how many metal fans like this band. To say nothing of metal
artists themselves: Helloween covered "Lay All Your Love on
Me" for Metal Jukebox; Mental Crypt completely butchers "Money, Money, Money" on
A Black Mark Tribute II (not that it was a good song to
begin with); Yngwie J. Malmsteen recently did a cover for "Gimme
Gimme Gimme", but unfortunately I forgot to download the mp3 for it; the band Morgana LeFay
did a NICE version of "Voulez Vous" (which got tacked on to the Eponymous
+ More collection); and, of course, there's that oh-so-elusive
"Black Gold" metal tribute...
"The Winner Takes It All" is easily my favorite song here...also getting thumbs-up from
me are "Waterloo", "Dancing Queen", "Lay All Your Love...", "Take a Chance on Me", even the
seemingly dumb "Chiquita" and "Fernando". Some real clunkers do exist, however: "Mamma Mia"
and a few other tracks annoy the hell out of me. Oh yeah, here's something interesting:
the chorus of "S.O.S." includes a melody that was stolen in Roger Hodgson's
"Sleeping with the Enemy"!
Of course, my friend later bought the less impressive follow-up, "More ABBA Gold"
-- now I think he's truly nuts!
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