As the world waits to hear if the original members of ABBA will do anything for the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, they will have to make due with yet another new version of their compilation Gold: Greatest Hits out through Polydor in a 3 disc set.The new set is spread out over three CDs with the first including the original Gold album, one of the biggest selling albums ever worldwide. Disc 2 is the followup, More ABBA Gold which included songs that wouldn’t fit on the original release including I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do and Honey, Honey. The final disc includes 20 b-sides from the original hits, most of which were previously available on the various studio albums.
Track List:
Disc 1 – ABBA Gold
- Dancing Queen
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Take A Chance On Me
- Mamma Mia
- Lay All Your Love On Me
- Super Trouper
- I Have A Dream
- The Winner Takes It All
- Money, Money, Money
- SOS
- Chiquitita
- Fernando
- Voulez-Vous
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
- Does Your Mother Know
- One of Us
- The Name of The Game
- Thank You For The Music
- Waterloo
Disc 2 – More ABBA Gold
- Summer Night City
- Angeleyes
- The Day Before You Came
- Eagle
- I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
- So Long
- Honey, Honey
- The Visitors
- Our Last Summer
- On And On And On
- Ring Ring
- I Wonder (Departure)
- Lovelight
- Head Over Heels
- When I Kissed The Teacher
- I Am The City
- Cassandra
- Under Attack
- When All Is Said And Done
- The Way Old Friends Do
Disc 3 – ABBA Golden B-Sides
- She’s My Kind Of Girl (B-side to Ring Ring)
- I Am Just A Girl (B-side to Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough))
- Gonna Sing You My Lovesong (B-side to Waterloo French Version)
- King Kong Song (B-side to Honey, Honey)
- I’ve Been Waiting For You (B-side to So Long)
- Rock Me (B-side To I Do, I Do, I Do)
- Man In The Middle (B-side to S.O.S.)
- Intermezzo No.1 (B-side to Mamma Mia)
- That’s Me (B-side to Dancing Queen)
- Crazy World (B-side to Money, Money, Money)
- Happy Hawaii (B-side to Knowing Me, Knowing You)
- I’m A Marionette (B-side to Take A Chance On Me)
- Medley: Pick A Bale of cotton.. etc. (B-side to Summer Night City)
- Kisses of Fire (B-side to Does Your Mother Know)
- The King Has Lost His Crown (B-side to Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight))
- Elaine (B-side to The Winner Takes It All)
- The Piper (B-side to Super Trouper)
- Andante, Andante (B-side to Happy New Year)
- Should I Laugh Or Cry (B-side to One Of Us)
- Soldiers (B-side to When All Is Said And Done)