Gold [VINYL]

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Up to and including the current Official Albums Chart, it has spent 1,056 weeks in the British bestsellers. The track listing was similar to the original album, with some added content: a 25-minute documentary produced in 1999, and the 1992 video of "Dancing Queen". Rather than issue the multiple previous compilations, PolyGram put together a new collection, optimised for the CD format. Stig’s theory was that no company could be strong in every territory around the world and ABBA’s interests would be better served by working with the label that had the most impressive sales presence in each market.

The set includes such undying classics as “Dancing Queen,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Take A Chance On Me,” “Mamma Mia,” and “The Winner Takes It All. Even though Polygram was dedicating reasonable amounts of time and money to ABBA’s revitalization, they still underestimated the amount of latent interest in the band’s music by the early ’90s, in part because that enthusiasm was rooted in marginalized communities. They had collectively played thousands of tour dates across Sweden, produced music for dozens of other artists, and spent untold hours working as a songwriting and performing team. It capitalized on a simmering, subcultural interest in ABBA’s work and sparked a full-blown revival, one that culminated in Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan belting and grunting their way through “S.For releases that combine 'Gold (Greatest Hits)' with the follow-up ' More ABBA Gold (More ABBA Hits)' please see ' Forever Gold'. Robyn became one of this decade’s great pop heroes by pinning down this same sad-ecstatic balance and welding it to modern, muscular production. Goofy cover bands like Australian outfit Björn Again built on this enthusiasm for ABBA’s music and became genuine sensations at clubs around the world, dialing up the kitsch with even more outlandish attire and between-song banter delivered in Swedish accents. Listening to Gold with fresh, focused ears, I was struck by the sheer variety of sounds beneath its blinding polish.

Skeptics pointed to the watch-like precision of every new ABBA hit as evidence of the band’s soullessness.Despite the the heavy vinyl quality and quite replay experience, this remaster sounds flat and lifeless.

In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. Even when the indie rock band Spoon released a greatest hits record earlier this year, the band acknowledged that its fondness for the form outweighed what was a near-certain losing proposition businesswise. The 1992 and 1999 editions released in Australia and New Zealand (and some other territories in that area) had a modified track listing (see below) to include three local hits, replacing three other songs on the international edition. The analog master tapes of best possible deep, rich and lively stereo quality were recorded, and are preserved in pristine condition up to these days. That fondness exists because of the real power greatest hits albums once had: They threw open doors for curious new listeners, solidified artists’ place in the canon, and transformed reputations that had fallen into disrepair.

Since 1992, it has been re-released several times, most notably in 1999 as the first remastered reissue to mark the group's 25th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, in 2008 to coincide with the release of the film Mamma Mia! The retrospective has played a flagship role in bringing ABBA’s music to new audiences globally, as it continues to be shared among their immense global following of original fans. Erlewine wrote that greatest hits have a way of “sand[ing] away the artists’ quirks,” and the same is true for Gold. million copies and is the nineteenth biggest-selling greatest-hits album in the Nielsen Music era (which began in 1991). Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible.