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by Elisabeth Vincentelli (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (3 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0826415466
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826415462
  • Product Dimensions: 16 x 12.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. (A task which can be, as Elvis Costello famously observed, as tricky as dancing about architecture.) What binds this series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, scholars, and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have chosen.

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Elisabeth Vincentelli celebrates the extraordinary global success of 'Abba Gold', possibly the purest greatest hits album ever released.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Better historical over-view than critical review, 30 Oct 2004
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A hard one this - a series devoted to classic LPs tackles a "greatest hits" compilation as it's subject. As a result the quandary is how to approach given one is dealing with a group which used the single as its main platform; the tracks cover 1974 to 1982 and the complilation itself was not released until 1992 when the group was clearly long dead but about to undergo a major revival and reassessment, largely helped by their old Polar label being acquired by Phonogram.

The approach of taking in order the tracks as they first appear on the compilation but then grouping with all other tracks on the compilation where they are all from (or at least were placed on) the same original LP, helps easier comparison but creates a very jump cut approach in chronology given Waterloo the first hit in time is last on the compilation and thus covered in the book.

If you are a devout Abba fan one suspects much of the history given is well known but for those with little knowledge beyond the original records, the book is a pretty good coverage on each of the songs and helps place them in historical context. It also shows how contemporary and later events (their music making connections with the gay community and success in markets outside the norm esp. USA)have helped the group become such a success despite their visual image being trapped in the 1970s. This success is not least because of the songs appeal to an international audience so displacing all the US/UK criticism of their lyrics for a country that had few global pop credentials in the early 1970s and where English is a second language(yet only one of their hits was ever recorded outside Sweden).

Also the book seems to spend almost as much time commenting on the videos as the actual songs and recordings but fails to make the key connection that in a pre-MTV era this was key to their appeal (my memories of such videos on many Top of the Pop shows on BBC Thursday evening ensured maximum exposure in promoting the records).

What is fascinating to me was how none of the songs ever had the title they ended up with and while the author is good on the facts where the book ultimately seems to go missing and struggles is in explaining how the songs came to be drafted and written and then in production became so well crafted that they have become timeless. This was clearly not a group that ever went into the studio and cut a song in under an hour or based it on improvised or hastily written lyrics.

A valiant effort but ultimately more a history lesson than an insightful critical review like the best books in this series to date.

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