The Definitive Collection

You either like Abba or you make faces at their music. If you like Abba, this is a decent colection.

This is a very good collection of ABBA classics with wonderful mastering; and such a great bargain.

Abba were one of the big groups from the 1970's and with this collection you'll hear why. Now there were couple things I could have done without, the two remixes at the end of the second CD. There are a few great tunes missing that could have been included in their place, like "Our Last Summer" and "When I kissed the Teacher." Also, on disc one, I could have done without track four, "Love Isn't Easy," and replaced it with "Bang-A-Boomerang," but, the good news, all the essentials are here!

By the way, this reviewer also loves other styles of music as well, from the Hard Rock of Deep Purple, to the classical power of Beethoven, to the big band swing of Benny Goodman and Glenn Millers Orchestra. Good music is just good music.

Highly recommended.

I've never been a Huge Abba fan, but always liked 'mama mia', 'dancing queen', 'fernando'...and this cd collection has two cds chock full of songs that, while i don't know everyone of them, i really liked all of them! this is a great compilation album and i love it. I'm sure Abba has a huge fan base, to which i've never been a big part of but I always had a small yearning for their hits of the 70's and the movie Muriels' wedding peaked my interest even further.
I highly recommend this definitely definitive collection to anyone interested in any of their music. It shows a few different sides to their unique style of music.

Say what you will about the decade that gave birth to ABBA. But anyone who cannot recognize the utter brilliance of these tracks is either a fool, a liar or just a musical snob afraid of what others think about what's in their cd changer.

It is a very obvious thing to see why ABBA has had so much success with their infectious pop songs. It's the melody that has been put into them along with great songwriting and two beautifullly voiced female singers. This collection covers the obvious hits of the band; including the disco smash "Dancing Queen", and the power pop of "SOS", "Waterloo", and "Mama Mia". Disc one contains the most memorable songs of ABBA, while disc two contains the Euro-disco beats of "Voulez Vous", "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" and "Lay All Your Love On Me". It is easy to listen to these songs all the way through just because they are so good. The voices, the lyrics, and the music are just fantastic and utterly irresistable. ABBA has what most musicians today don't have; great melody.

OVERALL this is a fine and polished collection of a great band. A real treat for fans and lovers of 70s and early 80s pop/disco music.