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ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". finnishcharts.com. Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012. It’s amazing, therefore, that post Björn/Agnetha split (1979), and Benny/Frida split (1980), that ABBA not only existed, but - thanks in part to those break-ups - penned their best songs ever. This one - of course - being the absolute apex of their break-up brilliance. Waterloo detonated in the collective European consciousness on the 6 April 1974 at the Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from the UK’s Brighton Dome. Keen to scupper the strong pre-show favourite, and with a cavalcade of enthusiastic votes storming in from elsewhere, the home judges stunningly and shamefully gave Waterloo the lowest of all possible scores on the night - aka no points at all (the famous ‘nul points’) - in a petulant attempt to swizz a ‘home’ win for (Australian ...) Oliva Newton-John’s UK entry. Mercifully, their plot failed, and ABBA won with 24 points, trouncing Newton-John into 4th with 14. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (ABBA; 'More ABBA Gold ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012.

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It’s the definitive ‘Um… is this Abba?’ song. Meandering, and uncertain, a victim of its own complexity, Another You Another Me is transformed from loosely chained non sequiturs into a birrova monster via its soaring chorus. And that resolve into the second verse... Gets us every time [wipes tear]. ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". hitparade.ch (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012. And then wonder why the shimmering Head Over Heels hit number one in the Netherlands but only reached number 25 in the UK, finally breaking their run of 18 consecutive top ten hits. Blame the break-ups, as this ‘on paper’ joyful ABBA banger was finally realised as as lost and whimsical as ABBA at their grimmest once the band captured it on tape. ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". australian-charts.com. Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012.Beyond the amazing voice architecture - enabling digital-style control and storage of parameters in the age of all-analogue – it was the sheer presence of the GX-1 that really impressed. The keyboard itself weighed 300kg, while the optional pedal board and seat (yes, seat) added another 87kg. Chess is at best described as an odd fish and one which would, frankly, have been a better album if Benny and Björn had written the lyrics and got ABBA to do it instead. (Though special mention to Murray Head ( who?) whose jury-out crap/awesome conundrum One Night In Bangkok remains legend.) Despite its utter brilliance - and it being a Benny favourite - the song only reached number 32 in the UK charts, which must have played a part in further sealing the band’s reluctance to re-join the ABBA circus post Chess (see later). Close your eyes and you can imagine it being part of the retro splendour of Daft Punk’s 2013 Random Access Memories, comfortably sitting alongside the likes of Touch and Lose Yourself To Dance.

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Written for brother and sister duo Gemini by Benny and Björn, it’s another ABBA smash that didn’t happen and proof that even in retirement (“We had our moment in the sun.”) the guys have still got it. It’s easy to forget what an electronic band ABBA were, with synths driving Voulez-Vouz, being perfected through Super Trouper and giving way to prominence on The Visitors. ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012. That said, in the pursuit of a more modern sound, long-standing ABBA producer/engineer Michael Tretow had taken to gating Benny’s legato synth playing in time with the hi-hat or other percussion to produce a more mechanical, modern edge. (See also The Day Before You Came.) However, throughout their entire output, ABBA never used a sequencer, and, while big fans of the drum machine and the vocoder, all their keyboard parts were played by Benny himself.Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Conciseed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p.31. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7. ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012. Despite its cheek-to-cheek, sexy tango-vibes, TDBYC is a profoundly bleak, 100% electronic ‘sad banger’ before such a thing ever existed, and very much a continuation of the ‘divorce ABBA’ they coined on The Visitors. Top 100 Longplay – Official Media Control". charts.de (in German). Media Control . Retrieved 29 December 2012. [ dead link] ABBA - More ABBA Gold (More ABBA Hits) - 1993 remaster". Discogs. 23 July 1999 . Retrieved 2018-10-03.

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Like Gold: Greatest Hits, a remaster of More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits was released in 1999. [5] A 4:27 edited version of "The Visitors" was replaced by the original 5:46 version, while a 3:18 alternate mix of "Lovelight" was replaced by the 3:46 version originally released in 1979. The results were explosive, and while Waterloo is technically ABBA’s first single, fans need to go to 1972’s People Need Love (released as ‘Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid’) for the band’s real genesis, plus the entire Ring Ring album a year later (released as ‘Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida’) which were actually big Euro hits before it. a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdfed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.6. It’s therefore ABBA’s most overlooked single release, even being excluded from the following year’s The Singles: The First Ten Years - the only genuine omission. Unforgivable as this is ABBA gold. Don’t shut me down (yet)! ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012.ABBA – More ABBA Gold – More ABBA Hits". Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2012. British album certifications – ABBA – More ABBA Gold". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 29 December 2012. Like the details on the ceiling of Rome’s Sistine Chapel, they’re impossible to see from the ground, but - as Leonardo explained to naysayers who suggested he was wasting his time - ‘God can see them’.

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Now you can have fun playing spot the difference”: Imogen Heap shares photos of her in the studio working on Taylor Swift’s new version of Clean, taken from the re-recorded 1989 albumGold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA; 'More ABBA Gold ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 17 June 2020. However, the celebratory IIWFTN was deemed too upbeat for the occasion, and the multi-million strong US TV audience were pointed at the moodier, more suitable, written-just-weeks-earlier Chiquitita - Spanish for ‘little one’ - instead. The Bee Gees did likewise, side-stepping all their bangers in favour of Too Much Heaven. Meanwhile Rod Stewart had no such qualms, using the event to ask the world’s needy infants Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? while mercilessly banging it into the US number one slot.