Name: Thank You For The Music by Abba
Brand: Abba
SKU: 602435193663
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Released in Europe in October 1994 and in the U.S. six months later, Thank You for the Music is the ABBA box set retrospective, tracing their ten years of record-making, 1972-1982, including 52 previously released tracks on the first three discs, plus a fourth disc of rarities. Listening to all the singles, plus scattered album tracks and B-sides, provides a clear picture of the group's development. Early on, there is considerable stylistic experimentation, as these pop dabblers ape everything from Phil Spector's Wall of Sound rock to big-band swing. But after "Dancing Queen," they find their niche in disco, and the second disc is loaded with hit songs anchored to the familiar bass-heavy walking beat and swooping synths-meant-to-sound-like-strings that defined that most '70s genres. On the third disc, covering their last years, ABBA returns to the more propulsive pop/rock of early classics like "SOS" and "Mamma Mia," revving up the tempo in acknowledgment of the arrival of new wave. Wracked by romantic discord, they also achieve somewhat more meaningful lyrics before calling it a day. In the album's liner notes, the bandmembers register mild protest at the inclusion of unreleased material on the fourth disc -- what they finished and liked, they released, they note. Fair warning. Most prominent in a collection of alternate takes, miscellaneous B-sides, foreign-language recordings, and TV soundtracks is the 23-and-a-half-minute "ABBA Undeleted," a medley of 15 song fragments and Swedish studio chatter that suggests ABBA had a few more hits in them if they had found the time to finish them off. Nevertheless, this remains fan-only material. [This album is not to be confused with the 1983 compilation of the same title released by Epic Records in the U.K.]
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Thank You For The Music

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 1

1. People Need Love

2. Another Town, Another Train

3. He Is Your Brother

4. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)

5. Ring Ring

6. Waterloo

7. Hasta Manana

8. Honey, Honey

9. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)

10. So Long

11. I've Been Waiting For You

12. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

13. SOS

14. Mamma Mia

15. Fernando

16. Dancing Queen

17. That's Me

18. When I Kissed The Teacher

19. Money, Money, Money

20. Crazy World

21. My Love, My Life

Volume 2

1. Knowing Me, Knowing You

2. Happy Hawaii

3. The Name Of The Game

4. I Wonder (Departure)

5. Eagle

6. Take A Chance On Me

7. Thank You For The Music

8. Summer Night City

9. Chiquitita

10. Lovelight

11. Does Your Mother Know

12. Voulez-Vous

13. Angeleyes

14. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

15. I Have A Dream

Volume 3

1. The Winner Takes It All

2. Elaine

3. Super Trouper

4. Lay All Your Love On Me

5. On And On And On

6. Our Last Summer

7. The Way Old Friends Do

8. The Visitors

9. One Of Us

10. Should I Laugh Or Cry

11. Head Over Heels

12. When All Is Said And Done

13. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

14. The Day Before You Came

15. Cassandra

16. Under Attack

Volume 4

1. Put On Your White Sombrero

2. Dream World

3. Thank You For The Music

4. Hej gamle man

5. Merry-Go-Round

6. Santa Rosa

7. She's My Kind Of Girl

8. Medley: Pick A Bale Of Cotton

9. You Owe Me One

10. Slipping Through My Fingers / Me And I

11. Abba Undeleted

12. Waterloo

13. Ring Ring

14. Honey Honey

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