ABBAThe Albums

Label:

Polar – 060251774852

Format:

Box Set , Compilation , EDC
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD , Compilation, Remastered

Country:

Europe

Released:

Genre:

Pop

Style:

Synth-pop

Tracklist

Ring Ring
1-1 Ring Ring
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:04
1-2 Another Town, Another Train 3:12
1-3 Disillusion
Written-ByB. Ulvaeus*
3:04
1-4 People Need Love 2:44
1-5 I Saw It In The Mirror 2:33
1-6 Nina, Pretty Ballerina 2:51
1-7 Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) 2:54
1-8 Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother 2:50
1-9 He Is Your Brother 3:17
1-10 She's My Kind Of Girl 2:46
1-11 I Am Just A Girl
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:02
1-12 Rock'n Roll Band 3:09
Waterloo
2-1 Waterloo
Written-ByS. Anderson*
2:44
2-2 Sitting In The Palmtree 3:37
2-3 King Kong Song 3:12
2-4 Hasta Mañana
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:09
2-5 My Mama Said 3:11
2-6 Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) 3:11
2-7 Honey, Honey
Written-ByS. Anderson*
2:54
2-8 Watch Out 3:45
2-9 What About Livingstone 2:55
2-10 Gonna Sing You My Lovesong 3:37
2-11 Suzy-Hang-Around 3:10
ABBA
3-1 Mamma Mia
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:31
3-2 Hey, Hey Helen 3:16
3-3 Tropical Loveland
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:04
3-4 SOS
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:21
3-5 Man In The Middle 3:01
3-6 Bang-A-Boomerang
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:03
3-7 I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:15
3-8 Rock Me 3:04
3-9 Intermezzo No. 1 3:46
3-10 I've Been Waiting For You
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:40
3-11 So Long 3:05
Arrival
4-1 When I Kissed The Teacher 3:01
4-2 Dancing Queen
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:51
4-3 My Love, My Life
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:52
4-4 Dum Dum Diddle 2:54
4-5 Knowing Me, Knowing You
Written-ByS. Anderson*
4:02
4-6 Money, Money, Money 3:06
4-7 That's Me
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:15
4-8 Why Did It Have To Be Me 3:20
4-9 Tiger 2:55
4-10 Arrival 3:01
The Album
5-1 Eagle 5:49
5-2 Take A Chance On Me 3:58
5-3 One Man, One Woman 4:32
5-4 The Name Of The Game
Written-ByS. Anderson*
4:52
5-5 Move On
Written-ByS. Anderson*
4:41
5-6 Hole In Your Soul 3:41
"The Girl With The Golden Hair" ‎– 3 Scenes From A Mini-Musical ‎–
5-7 Thank You For The Music 3:48
5-8 I Wonder (Departure)
Written-ByS. Anderson*
4:33
5-9 I'm A Marionette 4:03
Voulez-Vous
6-1 As Good As New 3:22
6-2 Voulez-Vous 5:07
6-3 I Have A Dream 4:43
6-4 Angeleyes 4:20
6-5 The King Has Lost His Crown 3:32
6-6 Does Your Mother Know 3:13
6-7 If It Wasn't For The Nights 5:09
6-8 Chiquitita 5:25
6-9 Lovers (Live A Little Longer) 3:29
6-10 Kisses Of Fire 3:16
Super Trouper
7-1 Super Trouper 4:12
7-2 The Winner Takes It All 4:55
7-3 On And On And On 3:40
7-4 Andante, Andante 4:39
7-5 Me And I 4:54
7-6 Happy New Year 4:23
7-7 Our Last Summer 4:19
7-8 The Piper 3:27
7-9 Lay All Your Love On Me 4:35
7-10 The Way Old Friends Do 2:54
The Visitors
8-1 The Visitors 5:45
8-2 Head Over Heels 3:47
8-3 When All Is Said And Done 3:17
8-4 Soldiers 4:38
8-5 I Let The Music Speak 5:19
8-6 One Of Us
MandolinThe Three Boys
3:55
8-7 Two For The Price Of One 3:36
8-8 Slipping Through My Fingers 3:53
8-9 Like An Angel ing Through My Room 3:34
Bonus Tracks
9-1 Merry-Go-Round
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:24
9-2 Santa Rosa 3:00
9-3 Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal) (Swedish Version)
Written-ByS. Anderson*
3:06
9-4 Waterloo (Swedish Version)
Written-ByS. Anderson*
2:44
9-5 Fernando
Written-ByS. Anderson*
4:13
9-6 Crazy World 3:45
9-7 Happy Hawaii
Written-ByS. Anderson*
4:23
9-8 Summer Night City 3:33
9-9 Medley: Pick A Bale Of Cotton - On Top Of Old Smokey - Midnight Special
Written-ByTraditional
4:19
9-10 Lovelight 3:46
9-11 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 4:49
9-12 Elaine 3:44
9-13 Should I Laugh Or Cry 4:25
9-14 You Owe Me One 3:26
9-15 Cassandra 4:52
9-16 Under Attack 3:48
9-17 The Day Before You Came 5:50

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Polar Music International AB
  • Copyright ©Polar Music International AB
  • Published ByMusic For Unicef
  • Published ByStarton Musikförlag AB
  • Published ByUnion Songs AB
  • Published ByUniversal Music Publishing AB
  • Published ByUniversal/Union Songs AB
  • Mastered AtMasters Of Audio
  • Designed AtOgilvy Design
  • Designed AtM Industries
  • Recorded AtCriteria Recording Studios
  • Recorded AtEuropa Film
  • Recorded AtGlen Studio
  • Recorded AtKMH Studios
  • Recorded AtMarcus Music
  • Recorded AtMetronome Studio, Stockholm
  • Recorded AtMike's Studio
  • Recorded AtPolar Studios
  • Recorded AtStudio Bohus
  • Mixed AtCriteria Recording Studios
  • Mixed AtEuropa Film
  • Mixed AtGlen Studio
  • Mixed AtKMH Studios
  • Mixed AtMarcus Music
  • Mixed AtMetronome Studio, Stockholm
  • Mixed AtMike's Studio
  • Mixed AtPolar Studios
  • Mixed AtStudio Bohus
  • Engineered AtDicentia
  • Pressed ByEDC, – 52183005
  • Pressed ByEDC, – 52183007
  • Pressed ByEDC, – 52183009
  • Pressed ByEDC, – 52183031
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  • Pressed ByEDC, – 52183035
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  • Pressed ByEDC, – 52183041

Credits

  • Arranged By [Horn, Strings]Sven-Olof Walldoff
  • Banjo, MandolinRutger Gunnarsson
  • BassStefan Brolund
  • BrassWeine Renliden
  • Coordinator [Additional]Monika Rafalowicz
  • Coordinator [Project]Mia Segolsson
  • DesignNiclas Håkansson
  • Design [Additional; This Box Set]Mikael Eriksson*
  • Design [Original Album]Sten-Åke Magnusson
  • DrumsRolf Alex
  • Electric Guitar, Acoustic GuitarMichael Areklew
  • EngineerÅke Eldsäter
  • HarpGloria Lundell
  • Illustration [The Album]Rune Söderqvist
  • Mastered ByHenrik Jonsson (2)
  • Other [Additional Information And Contributions]Björn Waldenström, Frank Axelsson, Gunnar Moe, Görel Hanser, Jean-Marie Potiez, Matthew Crocker, Philip Muytjens
  • PercussionÅke Sundqvist
  • Photography By [Book]Torbjörn Calvero
  • Photography By [Original Album Sleeve]Ola Lager
  • Piano, Keyboards, SynthesizerPaul Harris (2)
  • Producer, Arranged ByBenny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus*
  • Remastered By [Original Recordings Digitalized]Johan Funemyr
  • Research, Liner Notes, Other [Timeline]Carl Magnus Palm
  • SaxophoneUlf Andersson
  • Steel GuitarJanne Lindgren
  • StringsÖrjan Högberg
  • Vocals [All]Björn Ulvaeus
  • WoodwindYngve Sandström

Notes

'The Albums' contains ABBA's eight studio albums plus a bonus CD that features non-album hits, single B-sides and album tracks in Swedish.
The Original Studio Albums: Remastered from original tapes, packaged in miniature replica sleeves featuring original album artwork.
The master is the same as in 'The Complete Studio Recordings' box set.

40-Page booklet: fully illustrated and with disc content details.

[box back:]
This box set:
℗ 2008 Polar Music International AB.
© 2008 Polar Music International AB.
A Universal Music Company.
Made in the EU.

[sticker on shrinkwrap, in different languages:]
– English: "99 track collection / 9CD box set featuring the 8 original studio albums / 1 bonus tracks CD / 40-page booklet / 060251774852"
– Spanish: "8 CDs Originales + Bonus CD / La colección completa de ABBA / 99 Canciones + Libreto de 40 Págs / 0602517748521"
– French: "L'intégrale ABBA à Prix Spécial / Tous les albums de ABBA + 1 CD de bonus inedits / Inclus Mamma Mia, Money, Money, Money, Gimme ! Gimme ! Gimme !, Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Knowing Me Knowing You..."

Note: For a few of the early recordings it has not been possible to ascertain exacty who the contributing musicians were.

[additional credits in booklet:]
Criteria Studios: Thank You Ron & Howard Albert, Tom Dowd, Don Gehman and Schellan "Sam" Taylor
ORIGINAL RECORDINGS DIGITALIZED by Johan Funemyr at Dicentia, Stockholm
ADDITIONAL DESIGN THIS BOX SET by Mikael Eriksson, M Industries, Stockholm
RESEARCH, LINER NOTES AND TIMELINE by Carl Magnus Palm, with thanks to lan Cole
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS from Frank Axelsson, Matthew Crocker, Görel Hanser, Gunnar Moe, Philip Muytjens, Bjöm Waldenström,
ABBA - The Book by Jean-Marie Potiez, and the websites ABBA Annual and ABBA On TV
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.abbasite.com
FAN CLUB: The Official International ABBA Fan Club / PO Box 3079. 4700 GB Roosendaal. The Netherlands

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  • GOODGROOVECIRCLE's avatar
    I think I paid €20 for mine brand new. It’s indispensable!!!
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      alexheavy
      There is worse :
      Barcode: 4605026700253
      Label: Universal Music Russia/Polar Music International AB
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        hbotis
        A cheap imitation of Japanese and British box set. Get the Japanese set if you can afford it.

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