18 Hits [Import]

ABBA | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B000KJTDFO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,452,775 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Winner Takes It All

2. Super Trouper

3. Waterloo

4. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

5. The Name of the Game

6. Ring Ring

7. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

8. S.O.S.

9. Fernando

10. Hasta Mañana

11. Mamma Mia

12. Lay All Your Love on Me

13. Thank You for the Music

14. Happy New Year

15. Honey, Honey [Swedish Version]

16. Waterloo [French Version]

17. Ring Ring [German Version]

Editorial Reviews

Import only compilation from one of the consistently best selling pop groups of all-time features all new artwork with a full color booklet including liner notes from leading ABBA expert Carl Magnus Palm, author of Bright Lights, Dark Shadows - The Real Story of ABBA. Features the hits 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Mamma Mia', 'Waterloo' and the spanish version of 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (a Man After Midnight)', Swedish version of 'Honey, Honey', French version of 'Waterloo' and the German version of 'Ring, Ring'. Universal. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars An unnecessary compilation, October 28, 2006

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Harry Gene Neyhart "hgn2001" (Sunny Central Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 18 Hits (Audio CD)

Sometime record companies release compilation albums that make sense. Other times they make no sense at all, and that's the case with 18 HITS. I suspect it was intended as a budget release, perhaps for Europe. The disc contains, as it's titled, 18 tracks from Swedish supergroup ABBA, with many of their biggest hits here. The confusing part is when you wonder why some of these tracks were included and others excluded. Things get off to a decent start with the first nine tracks being true, solid hits. I can't fault the inclusion of track 10, "Hasta Mañana", as it's always been one of my favorites, yet it wasn't a huge hit (though it was included on ABBA'S GREATEST HITS). I also don't really object to "Lay All Your Love On Me", but again, it wasn't a huge hit originally. "Thank You For The Music" has always been a puzzler, showing up on many hits compilations, though it was never a hit record. It's become almost a tradition to include this track on an ABBA hits compilation. And then we get to the curious "Happy New Year", another album track that really wasn't a hit. Then things really get strange as the compilation finishes off with the final four tracks presented in their non-English versions. It wouldn't have been so bad, but three of the four songs had already been presented in English in the prior tracks on the album. Again, this is an odd compilation. Buy it if you collect ABBA albums, or if you just want a sampling of their non-English tracks and don't want to delve into their full box sets. This one gets three stars from me. ABBA's material is always great, but this one proves that the songs just can't be thrown together with no purpose. Better choices for single-disc compilations would be either the old GOLD disc, or the new NUMBER ONES disc.