Picture: ABBA Gold steelbook
As mentioned back in the summer, Universal Music will show their mettle and put out another version of the seemingly bullet-proof ABBA Gold compilation – this time in fancy ‘steelbook’ casing, often used for limited edition blu-ray releases.
This is the three-CD version (Gold, More Gold and B-sides) that was issued in standard packaging earlier this year. The metal casing comes complete with with a ‘magnetic lenticular cover’ which we think means the ABBA logo is a magnet that you can ‘move around’ on the tin. Or possibly not.
Anyway, if you held back on buying the three-CD set in anticipation of this special edition metal version it’s out on 10 November 2014.
- • UK Pre-order: Abba Gold Anniversary Edition
- • CANADA Pre-order: 40th Anniversary Gold Edition (3 CD)
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Gold (40th Anniversary Steel Box Edition)
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Gold (Anniversary Edition)
- • ITALY Pre-order: Abba Gold Anniversary Edition
Track listing:
Disc 1 ABBA GOLD
- 1. Dancing Queen
- 2. Knowing Me, Knowing You
- 3. Take A Chance On Me
- 4. Mamma Mia
- 5. Lay All Your Love On Me
- 6. Super Trouper
- 7. I Have A Dream
- 8. The Winner Takes It All
- 9. Money, Money, Money
- 10. SOS
- 11. Chiquitita
- 12. Fernando
- 13. Voulez-Vous
- 14. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
- 15. Does Your Mother Know
- 16. One of Us
- 17. The Name of The Game
- 18. Thank You For The Music
- 19. Waterloo
Disc 2 MORE ABBA GOLD
- 1. Summer Night City
- 2. Angeleyes
- 3. The Day Before You Came
- 4. Eagle
- 5. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
- 6. So Long
- 7. Honey, Honey
- 8. The Visitors
- 9. Our Last Summer
- 10. On And On And On
- 11. Ring Ring
- 12. I Wonder (Departure)
- 13. Lovelight
- 14. Head Over Heels
- 15. When I Kissed The Teacher
- 16. I Am The City
- 17. Cassandra
- 18. Under Attack
- 19. When All Is Said And Done
- 20. The Way Old Friends Do
Disc 3 ABBA GOLDEN B-SIDES
- 1. She’s My Kind Of Girl (B-side to Ring Ring)
- 2. I Am Just A Girl (B-side to Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough))
- 3. Gonna Sing You My Lovesong (B-side to Waterloo French Version)
- 4. King Kong Song (B-side to Honey, Honey)
- 5. I’ve Been Waiting For You (B-side to So Long)
- 6. Rock Me (B-side To I Do, I Do, I Do)
- 7. Man In The Middle (B-side to S.O.S.)
- 8. Intermezzo No.1 (B-side to Mamma Mia)
- 9. That’s Me (B-side to Dancing Queen)
- 10. Crazy World (B-side to Money, Money, Money)
- 11. Happy Hawaii (B-side to Knowing Me, Knowing You)
- 12. I’m A Marionette (B-side to Take A Chance On Me)
- 13. Medley: Pick A Bale of cotton.. etc. (B-side to Summer Night City)
- 14. Kisses of Fire (B-side to Does Your Mother Know)
- 15. The King Has Lost His Crown (B-side to Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight))
- 16. Elaine (B-side to The Winner Takes It All)
- 17. The Piper (B-side to Super Trouper)
- 18. Andante, Andante (B-side to Happy New Year)
- 19. Should I Laugh Or Cry (B-side to One Of Us)
- 20. Soldiers (B-side to When All Is Said And Done)
- • UK Pre-order: Abba Gold Anniversary Edition
- • CANADA Pre-order: 40th Anniversary Gold Edition (3 CD)
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Gold (40th Anniversary Steel Box Edition)
- • FRANCE Pre-order: Gold (Anniversary Edition)
- • ITALY Pre-order: Abba Gold Anniversary Edition
By Paul Sinclair
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