![]() @Mikko: I put the tracklistings side-by-side (yes, I’m a nerd!), and they’re not quite identical. The differences are that The Essential Collection doesn’t contain the bonus tracks that were on The Definitive Collection, i.e., the 1974 UK Remix of “Ring Ring” and the extended remix of “Voulez-Vous”. Instead, The Essential Collection contains “Bang-A-Boomerang”, “That’s Me”, “One Man, One Woman”, and “Happy New Year”, presumably because they all have videos that are included on the DVD. As a side note, I have to wonder: where were the videos for “Conociendome, Conociendote” and “Gracias Por La Musica” when they were putting together the DVD for The Definitive Collection, or the DVD for the Complete Studio Recordings boxset? In particular, the claim that “the DVD contains all official ABBA videos as conceived by Polar etc” was also used on The Definitive Collection, and I have a hard time believing that these two Spanish videos were recent finds in the archives or something. Universal has a knack for releasing the same thing over and over again with a couple new additions each time, and they sure don’t make it easy to have everything in one place (which I’m sure is intentional). Where is the video for ‘I have a dream’? It also wasn’t on the Definitive Collection. Also, why not put ‘When I kissed the teacher’ and ‘Dancing queen’ which are on the Definitive Collection on this new release? ![]() All the great songs and lyrics from the 'The Definitive Collection' album ont he Web's largest and most authoritative. The Definitive Collection ABBA. They always release something which the die hard fans ‘have’ to buy, but it’s hardly ever possible to replace an older release with a new one, because there are always one or two things missing from one, which are on the other. So in the end the die hards end up with several ‘definitve’ and ‘complete’ editions, without being able to get rid of an earlier release. I don’t feel like buying again another dvd with ABBA-video’s to fill the space on my shelves just for two new video’s, which probably won’t be *that* surprising anyway. This looks like a really nice compilation. The tracklisting is better than “The Definitive Collection” with Chiquitita as track nr 1 on disc 2 (just as “The Singles”) and all the videos made by Polar Music is available remastered, 16:9-format. The two “new” spanish videos are a nice bonus indeed. I wouldn’t say that Love Isn’t Easy nor Bang-A-Boomerang is essential. I would rather have Hasta Manana and When I Kissed The Teacher included, but Love was a Polar A-side and Bang had a Polar-produced video. Hasta Manana wasn’t a Polar A-side and neither was When I Kissed The Teacher, the video for When I Kissed The Teacher was also produced by Swedish television and not Polar Music. The idea/aim of ‘The Essential Collection’, is to gather ABBA’s Singles together, – with their early Swedish ones, starting it all off. ‘When I Kissed The Teacher’ was not a Single. Nor was ‘One Man One Woman’, but that one gets added to ABBA Compilations less, than ‘When I Kissed The Teacher’. ‘That’s Me’ was an ‘A’ Side in Japan – ‘Money, Money, Money’ was the ‘B’ Side. (They got ‘Tiger’, as the ‘B’ of ‘Dancing Queen’). ‘Bang-A-Boomerang’ was the ‘A’ Side of ‘SOS’, in France. They could not fit every Single on – so, that is why there is no ‘Hasta Manana’ – which has no Video, anyhow, so that was another reason that was not chosen. (It was a Single in Australia, & a few other Countries). Crack and keygen. The 2012 ‘Set’ is gathering as many ‘A’ Sides as possible, with some Album Tracks, that had Videos made for them. That is it, really. We could all say what we’d have liked in the ‘Set’, but, ‘A’ Sides with Videos were the main priority – not Album Tracks, or ‘B’ Sides. A definite improvement on The Definitive Collection, which had two very non-essential and non-definitive mixes.
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