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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. As Good As New | |||
| 2. Voulez-Vous | |||
| 3. I Have A Dream | |||
| 4. Angel Eyes | |||
| 5. The King Has Lost His Crown | |||
| 6. Does Your Mother Know | |||
| 7. If It Wasn't For The Nights | |||
| 8. Chiquitita | |||
| 9. Lovers (Live A Little Longer) | |||
| 10. Kisses Of Fire | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. ABBA In Switzerland | |||
| 2. Chiquitita | |||
| 3. I Have A Dream | |||
| 4. If It Wasn’t For The Nights | |||
| 5. Chiquitita | |||
| 6. Multi-Coloured Swap Shop | |||
| 7. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Television Commercial I | |||
| 8. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Television Commercial II | |||
| 9. International Sleeve Gallery - Voulez-Vous | |||
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Voulez-Vous is a case in point. First released in the UK in April 1979, it was an effort that saw Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Anni-Frid put their dancing shoes on to join in with the dominant disco craze. Songs like As Good As New and the title-track see pulsating basslines married to sweeping strings and/or mellifluous keyboard parts. The quietly vengeful The King Has Lost His Crown slackens the pace a little but retains the slick funkiness. It's a concoction that, though flawless, can be exhausting; but ABBA had an advantage over supposed genuine disco merchants in the shape of their pop-craft. With tracks like Chiquitita–a beautiful, vulnerable, Latin-inflected ballad–and the chanted utopianism of I Have a Dream they are able to provide a pocket of air on a disco floor that would otherwise get sweaty and stultifying. The only real clinkers are Lovers (Live a Little Longer), a would-be saucy anthem which is merely shrill, and Does Your Mother Know, a slab of generic rock that would be risible even without memories of Björn performing it onstage in a clinging silver jumpsuit.
The bonus tracks on this Deluxe Edition include pulsating contemporaneous single Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), Chiquitita B side Lovelight, album outtake Dream World and the extended 12" promo version of the title-track. The disc two DVD features a BBC in-concert documentary, TV performances, TV commercials and a gallery of picture sleeves. The objective of providing an idea of ABBA's place in the culture of the time is valid but the inclusion of such material makes all the more irritating the exclusion from the audio disc of the familiar single version of Summer Night City in favour of the long version first released on the Thank You for the Music box-set. Also, why not the other Voulez-Vous outtakes included on that box-set? It all serves to undermine the comprehensiveness that is the whole point of the Deluxe series–something that, yes, not even the delights of ABBA's turns on The Mike Yarwood Show and Swap Shop can make up for. --Sean Egan
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The original album is just brilliant. Every single song is a treasure on its own. The usual bonuses, i.e. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! and Lovelight, are a huge magnificent single and a moderate B-Side.
Also what can I say about the real bonuses (or 'boni' maybe)? Summer night city is such an upbeat beautiful song and the intro is just what was missing from the short version. Dream World is an incomprehensively-not-released-at-its-time song. It would have been a hit.
I guess I would agree that the Spanish versions should be included and even Just A Notion, which has to be released at some point of time and this was a great chance.
As for the DVD, I absolutely liked Abba in Switzerland, except of the ski scenes, If it wasn't for the nights and the Swap Shop Interview. I would love some more interviews.
Now, we should review what we do have in possess, so I say that this is a brilliant reissue, with excellent packaging, bonuses, DVD and booklet.
To anyone who hesitates: "Buy it"
of the programmes and sections having never been released before it is great to be
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