Remember the tune Under Attack anyone? How about Head Over Heels? Or the one which apparently had the working title Den lidande fageln (The Suffering Bird)? No, not everything Abba touched turned to Gold.
This digitally remastered, 37-track double-CD chronologically charts their singles, fromthe pre-Waterloo era of the early-70s through to the divorce years of 1982's The Day Before You Came (nee The Suffering Bird), oh and a previously unreleased version of Voulez Vous.
The collection's first disc largely repeats the hit-after-hit Gold with a few extras and the second is mildly intriguing for charting the veer into the less memorable era of synthpop, increasingly melancholy and less infectious tunes, and songs — like The Winner Takes It All and When All Is Said And Done — which suggested they were being written in between meetings with the divorce lawyers.
While it gives plenty of ways to perplex the next Aussie Abba tribute band ("Go on, play The Day Before You Came, it's my birthday!"), it's one for the Abba completist only.
