20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA (Eco-Friendly Packaging) [Original recording remastered]

ABBA | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B000MDH8FA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,067 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Waterloo

2. S.O.S.

3. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

4. Mamma Mia

5. Fernando

6. Dancing Queen

7. Knowing Me, Knowing You

8. The Name of the Game

9. Take a Chance on Me

10. Chiquitita

11. The Winner Takes It All

Editorial Reviews

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars for the music, but 1 star for the concept, May 19, 2001

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S. Fennell "pianistcritic" (Somewhere out there.....beneath the pale moon light...) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of ABBA: 20th Century Masters (Millennium Collection) (Audio CD)

I'm using the same criteria to rate this disc that I did in an earlier review for "ABBA-The Collection". The only good thing about albums of this nature is the possibility that a new generation might be exposed to some classic tracks, but that's where the praise ends. I'm a major ABBA fan, and I'm tired of seeing the same tracks re-released over and over and over again, just to line the pockets of the record company. I wonder just how much of a hand the members of ABBA really have in these projects? As I've stated before, Polygram (and ABBA) would better serve the legions of fans out here by finally releasing all those "missing" tracks that can only be found on poor quality bootlegs. (Including "Just Like That", "Every Good Man", "Under My Sun", "I'm Still Alive...(solo Agnetha track)", "Opus 10",etc...just to name a few) We've already got "The Collection", "ABBA Millenium", "Love Stories", "Love Songs", "Gold", "More Gold", "Forever Gold" (yikes!), etc, etc, etc...... How many more configurations can there possibly be for the same songs??

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great For Casual Fans, February 13, 2003

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Aaron (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of ABBA: 20th Century Masters (Millennium Collection) (Audio CD)

This is definitely a good CD for people who are casual fans of Abba and looking for the essentials. The hits are here *although the sound quality could be better.* Of course, you get the ever-so-famous "Dancing Queen." Everyone knows this song. You also get many of their other great songs including two of my personal favorites "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Take A Chance On Me." Plus one of the best songs of their career "The Winner Takes It All." My complaint would be that I would rather have seen them take off one of the lesser songs and put on "Lay All Your Love On Me" but oh well.

If you are looking for a little more, I recommend the "Gold" collection. Definitely worth a few extra bucks.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great hits--but nowhere near enough of them, March 13, 2008

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA (Eco-Friendly Packaging) (Audio CD)

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA purports to give us the "best of" ABBA in a single CD--with just eleven tracks yet! There's no way eleven tracks can be the entirety of ABBA's "best." However, as usual with this CD series, what we do get is very high quality control numbers with great sound. The front cover artwork is par for this series; but the "eco-friendly" packaging means that you'll have to go to a website to download or read any liner notes you may be interested in reading.

The CD starts with one of their biggest hits ever, "Waterloo." "Waterloo" compares the huge battle from ages ago to a love affair when one person finally gets roped down by the person who loves them! The electric guitars are excellent and ABBA sings this with a lot of enthusiasm and style. "S.O.S." begins with a brief piano solo and the rest of the keyboard work on "S.O.S." really sounds great. The minor keys of this tune are great and I think you'll enjoy this tune. Moreover, listen for "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do." This ballad has a beautiful melody and ABBA performs this without a hitch!

"Dancing Queen" certainly gets fine treatment from ABBA; they first played this song at the wedding of their country's princess to her special man. Apparently because she would one day be Queen, ABBA decided to call this number "Dancing Queen." It does sound better than `Dancing Princess" if you hear the song--the words "Dancing Princess" never would have fit the melody! "Dancing Queen" starts with a huge musical flourish and they never miss a beat. Even all these years later I really like "Dancing Queen."

"The Name of the Game" starts strong with music and when the ladies come in this number takes flight! They sing beautifully and they harmonize well on this number about a love that needs communication to stay alive. "Take a Chance On Me" also shines like gold; the beat is awesome and this upbeat, pop flavored number is also very good for dancing.

The album ends with "The Winner Takes It All." This features a great piano arrangement and as always ABBA performs this with style and grace. I love it!

Overall, this is a collection of eleven songs by ABBA that simply doesn't capture all of this group's best work. Indeed, I was never particularly enchanted with "Chiquitita" which makes it onto this album while very memorable hits including "Lay All Your Love On Me" are inexplicably absent. I give this CD three stars--or maybe even just two and ½ stars. There's just not enough material here, people. Sorry!

The casual fan will be most likely to enjoy this album if all they want is a sampling of ABBA's finer tunes. More serious fans like me will want CDs including ABBA: Gold and other discs by this group, too.