2004 is the 30th Anniversary of Abba winning the Eurovision Song Contest and Universal worldwide are issuing a string of CD’s and DVD’s to either commemorate this or cash in on the fame. You decide

This is a European release mainly in Germany and Holland.

Contains nothing special really and as far as I can see it is an advert of what is already released.

5 Inch DVD made to look like a regular 45 vinyl release

It is a novelty DVD though and I suppose as it’s official, worth having in any Abba collection.

 

NOW DELETED AND HARD TO COME BY

Issued in Scandanavia mainly as a commerorative wallet DigiPak release.

CD and DVD release

Tracklisting:

Waterloo - Sitting In The Palm Tree - King Kong Song - Hasta Manana - My Mamma Said - Dance (While the music still goes on) - Honey Honey - Watch Out - What About Livingstone - Gonna Sing You My Love Song - Suzy Hang Around

Bonus Tracks

Ring Ring (US Remix 1974) - Waterloo (Swedish Version) - Honey Honey (Swedish Version) - Waterloo - (German Version) - Waterloo (French Version)

BONUS DVD:

DVD is Region 0 which is playable on all regions.

1. Waterloo (Eurovision Song Contest, BBC)

2. Waterloo (Melodifestivalen, SVT)

3. Honey, Honey (Star Parade, ZDF)

4. Hasta Manana (Senoras Y Senores, RTVE)

IDENTICAL release to the above album but not as a DigiPak. 

This was initally issued throughout Europe only under the Universal “Sound and Vision” series

Comes in normal plastic double jewel case

DVD is Region 0 so plays worldwide

Now available to buy in the UK

This was initially issued throughout Europe only under the Universal “Sound and Vision” series

Comes in normal plastic double jewel case

The video tracks taken for this issue are already widely available on Abba Gold DVD

DVD is Region 0 so plays worldwide

Now available to buy in the UK

This was initially issued throughout Europe only under the Universal “Sound and Vision” series

Comes in normal plastic double jewel case

The video tracks taken for this issue are already widely available on Abba Gold DVD

DVD is Region 0 so plays worldwide

Now available to buy in the UK

The Definitive Collection

Sound and Vision Release

 

Absolutely nothing new on this just the Definitive Collection DVD and Double CD set repackaged in one box.

Must be Universal trying to get rid of all the unsold ones they had storred.

So Far UK ONLY Release

Abba Gold

Sound and Vision Release

 

Absolutely nothing new on this just the CD’s Abba Gold, More Abba Gold and Abba Gold DVD set repackaged in one box.

Must be Universal trying to get rid of all the unsold ones they had storred.

So Far UK ONLY Release

The much publicised and well received Abba release of 2004

Abba In Concert

Totally remastered in Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound and with unseen BONUS items - Not a lot but very welcome by fans.

The Way Old Friends Do - I Have A Dream - Thank You For The Music All taken from the 1979/80 concert tours.

There are also interviews with the director and promoter. I was sceptical about this and thought “who cares?” and “why these people?”, why no interviews with Abba????

I guess they were “too busy”

Abba Gold CD and DVD re re re re re re issue

How many times Universal can repackage and re release this album I don’t know.

This CD/DVD release was limited to 2000 copies, the album then reverted to just the music cd for it’s remainder of it’s stay in the charts.

Absolutely nothing special about this release except the track The Name Of The Game is missing from the DVD.

Still it managed to get the album back into the UK charts peaking at number 5 and now stated to be the third best selling album of all time in the UK spending some 435 weeks in the charts or something like that.

Tracklisting

Our Last Video Ever

Take A Chance On Me (Video)

Dancing Queen (Video)

Waterloo (Video)

The Winner Takes It All (Video)

Special Features

Picture Gallery

8-Page Booklet

Dolby Digital Stereo

Running Time 30 Minutes

ABBA _ SUPER TROUPERS

6th April 2004 was the Fifth Anniversary of MAMMA MIA!, the hugely successful musical based on ABBA's songs. It was also the Thirtieth Anniversary of Waterloo winning the Eurovision Song Contest and propelling the group to superstardom. For the first time since the band split in 1982, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid and Agnetha were to appear in public together, attending the performance of MAMMA MIA! in London's West End and celebrating the show's huge success. But would Agnetha, with her terrible fear of flying, make a rare foray out of Sweden to join the others?

Centring on the run-up to this occasion and capturing the excitement of the event, this film remembers the ABBA phenomenon. It features new interviews with all four band members; film shot with them in Sweden and London; digitally remastered archive footage going back to pre-ABBA days and including highlights of ABBA on tour and on stage; and the sounds of no less than twenty-four of their hit records. Together with exclusive footage in rehearsal and from the phenomenally successful musical MAMMA MIA!, you have an absolute feast of the music of ABBA.

SUPER TROUPERS FROM WATERLOO TO MAMMA MIA!
Features classic performance-video clips of the following ABBA songs:
Super Trouper
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Voulez-Vous
I'm A Marionette
Mamma Mia
I Have A Dream
People Need Love
California Here I Come
Fernando
Eagle
Head Over Heels
Take A Chance On Me
So Long
He Is Your Brother
Dancing Queen
One Man, One Woman
Thank You For The Music
Does Your Mother Know
Knowing Me, Knowing You
The Winner Takes It All
Hole In Your Soul
Waterloo
Happy New Year
When All Is Said And Done

INFO Certificate: E
Starring: ABBA
Special Features: Finale Medley from MAMMA MIA! including Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen and Waterloo.
Appearances on the stage by members of ABBA, presentations and after-show party.
Exclusive new interview in full with Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Exclusive new interview in full with Anni-Frid Reuss.
Original Language:English
Region: 2 - Europe and Japan
Producer: Judy Craymer, Chris Hunt

 

UK RELEASE ONLY

Waterloo/Watch Out

CD Single

7” Black Vinyl

7” Vinyl Picture Disc

ABBA Disc 1 of 4: Waterloo
1. Waterloo 2. Ring Ring 3. Honey, Honey 4. Bang-A-Boomerang 5. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 6. When I Kissed The Teacher 7. Mamma Mia 8. Dum Dum Diddle 9. King Kong Song 10. My Mama Said 11. Money, Money, Money 12. Hey, Hey Helen 13. As Good As New 14. Angeleyes 15. Nina, Pretty Ballerina 16. Elaine 17. The Piper 18. Love Isn't Easy 19. The Way Old Friends Do 20. SOS 21. Hasta Manana 22. The Visitors 23. Intermezzo

  ABBA Disc 2 - Take A Chance On Me
1. Gonna Sing You My Love Song 2. Take A Chance On Me 3. My Love, My Life 4. Andante, Andante 5. I've Been Waiting For You 6. Lay All Your Love On Me 7. One Man, One Woman 8. Kisses Of Fire 9. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room 10. Knowing Me, Knowing You 11. The Name Of The Game 12 Move On 13 Our Last Summer 14 One Of Us 15. The Winner Takes It All 16. The Day Before You Came 17. When All Is Said And Done 18. I Wonder (Departure)

ABBA Disc 3 - Dancing Queen
1. Dancing Queen 2. Summer Night City 3. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) 4. Does Your Mother Know 5. If It Wasn't For The Nights 6. Watch Out 7. Voulez-Vous 8. He Is Your Brother 9. Hole In Your Soul 10. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 11 Rock Me 12 So Long 13 That's Me 14 Lovelight 15 Why Did It Have To Be Me 16 Tiger 17 People Need Love 18 On And On And On 19 Head Over Heels 20 Under Attack

ABBA DISC 4 - Thank You For The Music
1 Fernando 2 I Let The Music Speak 3 Chiquitita 4 Eagle 5 Arrival 6 Another Town, Another Train 7 I Have A Dream 8 Tropical Loveland 9 I'm A Marionette 10 Super Trouper 11 The King Has Lost His Crown 12 Slipping Through My Fingers 13 Soldiers 14 What About Livingstone 15 Sitting In The Palm Tree 16 Suzy-Hang-Around 17 Two For The Price Of One 18 Happy New Year 19 Thank You For The Music

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1. Ring Ring
2. Waterloo
3. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
4. SOS
5. Mamma Mia
6. Fernando
7. Dancing Queen
8. Money, Money, Money
9. Knowing Me, Knowing You
10. The Name Of The Game
11. Take A Chance On Me
12. Thank You For The Music
13. Summer Night City
14. Voulez-Vous
15.. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
16. I Have A Dream
17. The Winner Takes It All
18. Super Trouper
19. One Of Us
20. When All Is Said And Done

AVAILABLE TO BUY IN THE UK NOW

 

Released Spain & Spanish speaking territories 25 October 2004

CD 1

1. Waterloo
2. Take A Chance On Me
3. Mamma Mia
4. Dancing Queen
5. SOS
6. Super Trouper
7. Chiquitita (Spanish Version)
8. Conociéndome, Conociéndome
9. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
10. Voulez-Vous
11. Does Your Mother Know
12. Estoy soñando
13. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
14. The Winner Takes It All
15. No hay a quien culpar
16. One Of Us
17. Fernando
18. Felicidad
19. Thank You For The Music

DVD

1. Chiquitita (English version)
2. Knowing Me, Knowing You
3. Estoy soñando
4. No hay a quien culpar
5. Felicidad

 

Waterloo released as a DVD single.

A new DVD single containing 5 videos will be released in certain territories in the autumn. The DVD contains following videos:

Waterloo (original video),

Waterloo - BBC Eurovision Footage (from the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton),

Waterloo - Melodifestivalen version (the Swedish version of the song, performed during the Swedish selection for Eurovision),

Ring Ring

Thank You For The Music.

ABBA 30TH ANNIVERSARY ORIGINAL ALBUM BOX

The eight studio albums are Ring Ring, Waterloo, ABBA, Arrival, ABBA - The Album, Voulez-Vous, Super Trouper and The Visitors. The albums in the box set will follow the track listings, with bonus tracks, as featured on the international CD reissues of the albums in 2001.
 

 

bonus disc includes the following

1. Åh, vilka tider
2. Ring Ring (German Version)
3. Wer Im Wartesaal Der Liebe Steht
4. Waterloo (French Version)
5. Lovelight (West German Single Edit)
6. Waterloo (German Version)
7. Eagle (Single Edit)
8. I Am The City
9. I Wonder (Departure) (Live Version)
10. You Owe Me One

 

The albums included are "Agentha Fältskog" (1968), "Agnetha Fältskog vol 2" (1969), "Som jag är" (1970), "När en vacker tanke blir en sång" (1971) and "Elva kvinnor i ett hus" (1975).
 

bonus disc includes the following

1. När du tar mig i din famn
2. 10 mil kvar till Korpilombolo
3. Vart ska min kärlek föra?
4. Nånting händer med mig (duett m Jörgen Edman)
5. En sång om sorg och glädje
6. Litet solskensbarn
7. Så glad som dina ögon
8. När ska du bli stilla?
9. Sjung denna sång (duett m Jörgen Edman)
10. Vi har kommit fram till refrängen
11. Here for your love
12. Golliwog
13. Queen of hearts
14. Interview w Lille Gerhard, Ulf Elfving, Agnetha (same as intro track on the My Love My Life compilation)
15. Borsta tandtrollen bort

 

 

Agnetha 13 Hits 1982-1986

1. Wrap your arms around me
2. Take good care of your children
3. Stand by my side
4. Man
5. Mr persuasion
6. The heat is on
7. Eyes of a woman
8. To love
9. Never again (duett med Tomas Ledin)
10. I wish tonight could last forever
11. I won't let you go
12. The way you are (duett med Ola Håkansson)
13. One way love