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Post by AdamDawson2003 on Jan 19, 2015 19:51:29 GMT
In 1983 this compilation 'Thank You For The Music' was released on Vinyl but its never been released on CD and I think Universal Music should re-release this album on CD which is long overdue.
Tracklist
1. My Love, My Life 2. I Wonder (Departure) 3. Happy New Year 4. Slipping Through My Fingers 5. Fernando (Spanish Version) 6. One Man, One Woman 7. Eagle 8. I Have A Dream 9. Our Last Summer 10. The Day Before You Came 11. Chiquitita 12. Should I Laugh Or Cry 13. The Way Old Friends Do 14. Thank You For The Music
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Post by john on Jan 19, 2015 22:32:18 GMT
Why, actually?
The songs all are available on hundreds of compilations, and the release was an odd collection of songs.
The record was also not at all a wide release, although it charted in the UK.
Do you mean for collection value?
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Post by AdamDawson2003 on Jan 19, 2015 23:29:25 GMT
I have this album on Vinyl and I would desperately love to own it on CD.
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Post by lovepigeon on Jan 20, 2015 8:56:37 GMT
Make one then. As John says, these are all songs that we own a thousand times over.
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Post by bjorenny on Aug 8, 2023 16:46:58 GMT
I haven't heard this compilation for many years, but if I remember correctly, the tracks all faded into each other, in the style of LAYLOM and TWOFD on Super Trouper. Or maybe my old brain imagined that!
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Post by Alan on Aug 8, 2023 16:56:10 GMT
I haven't heard this compilation for many years, but if I remember correctly, the tracks all faded into each other, in the style of LAYLOM and TWOFD on Super Trouper. It did yes. Similarly I haven’t heard it for decades, but I remember most of the segues. The chances of it getting a CD release are zero as it was a local compilation for a local market. I keep hoping someone might put the segues onto YouTube, but it hasn’t happened yet. |
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Post by gary on Aug 9, 2023 7:07:41 GMT
I always thought that was an odd compilation. ‘A collection of love songs’ that wasn’t a collection of love songs. Still, it’s full of great songs, of course.
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Post by Alan on Aug 9, 2023 20:42:11 GMT
It perhaps should have been subtitled “A Collection of Ballads”.
Not sure what the reasoning was for putting the Spanish version of Fernando on it rather than the English one. A selling point? Should I Laugh Or Cry as an increasingly rare b-side must have also have been put on it to help it sell. Lovelight would have been a good inclusion, though it’s a love song but not a ballad.
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Post by johnny on Aug 9, 2023 21:34:44 GMT
Certainly a pointless release. Were ABBA still under contract with EPIC in the UK? When did ABBA's various record contracts end eg Epic in the UK, RCA in Australia, Atlantic in the US?
Collection of Ballads would have made moew sense.
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Post by Alan on Aug 9, 2023 23:13:30 GMT
Certainly a pointless release. Were ABBA still under contract with EPIC in the UK? When did ABBA's various record contracts end eg Epic in the UK, RCA in Australia, Atlantic in the US? Collection of Ballads would have made moew sense. The various licences had to be renewed at three-year intervals. It seems that they ran from 1973, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985 and 1988, meaning most expired in 1991 (note that compilation albums appeared in many of these years as it was conveniently the end of each licence period). This was the reason Gold didn’t happen until 1992. PolyGram had acquired Polar in 1989 but had to wait for the various licences to expire so they could release Gold worldwide on the Polydor label. PolyGram’s eventual merger with MCA created Universal. It seems that Sony (which CBS had been taken over by) still retained ABBA’s UK sub-masters into the 21st century before they were handed back to Polar/Universal in Sweden. Carl Magnus Palm confirmed this once, when it was believed that the two mixes of Medley (1975 and 1978) were substantially different. The UK sub-master had to be the 1978 mix which appeared to confirm that the two mixes were pretty much identical. The UK sub-masters also provided the count-in version of Should I Laugh Or Cry along with the Ring Ring 1974 remix. CBS were not alone in releasing a love songs compilation after 1982. Several different albums appeared, so it would appear that the licensees had the option of releasing it and selecting their own track listings. |
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Post by lamont on Aug 10, 2023 15:12:39 GMT
I remember reading that CBS in the 80’s found the ABBA catalogue to be a chalice around their necks, that’s why there was different compilation albums released in late 80s as CBS loaned out the licences to anyone who asked for them, hence the Pickwick, Castle Communications and Telstar all releasing ABBA albums. The latter was a joint venture between CBS & Telstar. Bjorn received an award in 1988 for best selling album on the Pickwick label for the first Hits compilation. He was rather dumbfounded and asked who was buying these albums! By memory I think the first Hits album sold more than 200,000 copies.
I recall that the Hits Box regularly charted in the top ten independent chart in 1992 after the erasure ep.
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Post by johnny on Aug 10, 2023 16:14:07 GMT
Hits 2 was certifield gold in the UK. Ordinarily a gold award is for 100k but for budget albums it is 200k. Hits and Hits 3 certified - but that doesn't mean they didn't sell the required amount.
Regular priced Absolute ABBA was certified gold a Readers Digest compilation Ultimate ABBA certified Silver for 60k. Easy money for these minor record companies.
That bizarre 18 Hits album which festured several foreign language sold just over 500 000. That's more than More Gold or Voyage. Strange but true.
I haven't any of these bizarre compilations. The only ones I have:
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits Vol 2
The Singles
Gold
More Gold
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Post by lamont on Aug 11, 2023 6:26:24 GMT
I bought all these budget releases, I was still in school and had got a cd player for Christmas, I got the Arrival cd with it, so to save up my money and get these songs on cd quality was amazing, though I realised that they were an AAD release instead of DDD (was on the CDs.) which I think had something to do with being digitally remastered or not, and these were not.
Back to Thank You For The Music album: it’s a lovely compilation and a CD release would be icing on the cake, I even like the album design, it kinda suggests where the group members were at that point with the separate photos, the block colours are enticing too. It was the first time I heard Fernando in Spanish, all the others were known to me, but the fade in/outs were a nice touch too.
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Post by Michel on Aug 11, 2023 8:42:08 GMT
CBS were not alone in releasing a love songs compilation after 1982. Several different albums appeared, so it would appear that the licensees had the option of releasing it and selecting their own track listings. Indeed, a lot of different compilations were released around that time with a love theme, be it in the song choices or the album title. There were three albums called I Love ABBA around from Germany, France and the US with a different track list. Several of these compilations also included one song each by Frida and Agnetha from their first solo album. Later in the eighties we had The Love Songs on the Pickwick label (UK) and Love Songs on the Dino label (Netherlands). Several tracks were included on those that I don't particularly regard as love songs, such as "So Long"(!), "Under Attack", "If It Wasn't For The Nights", "Dancing Queen" and "Take A Chance On Me". The Love Songs on Pickwick also had a very poor sounding, distorted version of "Under Attack". |
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Post by Alan on Aug 11, 2023 16:34:43 GMT
Take A Chance On Me isn’t a love song. Or if it is, it’s very one-sided. It’s about a stalker. They’re being told to leave it there, and that they’re wasting their time, but they’re taking no notice. I feel quite sorry for the person that’s the object of their affections as it’s clear from the lyrics that they won’t leave them alone and that they are always there.
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Post by Michel on Aug 11, 2023 16:41:20 GMT
I feel a love song should be at least slow paced, not a bouncy, danceable track. Otherwise almost all songs could be considered love songs since the majority of songs are about love.
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Post by Alan on Aug 11, 2023 20:30:18 GMT
I remember reading that CBS in the 80’s found the ABBA catalogue to be a chalice around their necks, that’s why there was different compilation albums released in late 80s as CBS loaned out the licences to anyone who asked for them, hence the Pickwick, Castle Communications and Telstar all releasing ABBA albums. The latter was a joint venture between CBS & Telstar. By memory I think the first Hits album sold more than 200,000 copies. I recall that the Hits Box regularly charted in the top ten independent chart in 1992 after the erasure ep. If it was a chalice, then not sure why they would renew the licence? Presumably there was no pressure on them to do so. And I would assume that sub-licensing ABBA out to all and sundry was lucrative enough. And 200,000 units is pretty good, though of course they were selling them at budget prices. Perhaps CBS and the others were hoping for an ABBA revival while they still had the rights. In the end, that possibility was taken from them as PolyGram was not going to give them the opportunity to renew again. I did read somewhere that audiophiles tend to speak quite favourably of these cheapo compilations as some tracks offer the best non-remastered audio on a digital format (particularly the non-album b-sides which weren’t otherwise available until the “bright” CD boxed set in 1994). |
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Post by lamont on Aug 12, 2023 6:27:25 GMT
I remember reading that CBS in the 80’s found the ABBA catalogue to be a chalice around their necks, that’s why there was different compilation albums released in late 80s as CBS loaned out the licences to anyone who asked for them, hence the Pickwick, Castle Communications and Telstar all releasing ABBA albums. The latter was a joint venture between CBS & Telstar. By memory I think the first Hits album sold more than 200,000 copies. I recall that the Hits Box regularly charted in the top ten independent chart in 1992 after the erasure ep. If it was a chalice, then not sure why they would renew the licence? Presumably there was no pressure on them to do so. And I would assume that sub-licensing ABBA out to all and sundry was lucrative enough. And 200,000 units is pretty good, though of course they were selling them at budget prices. Perhaps CBS and the others were hoping for an ABBA revival while they still had the rights. In the end, that possibility was taken from them as PolyGram was not going to give them the opportunity to renew again. I did read somewhere that audiophiles tend to speak quite favourably of these cheapo compilations as some tracks offer the best non-remastered audio on a digital format (particularly the non-album b-sides which weren’t otherwise available until the “bright” CD boxed set in 1994). I remember reading it in a fanzine about the ‘chalice’ I’m maybe paraphrasing there, but it was something that CBS couldn’t really be annoyed with ABBA. This was in 1988 before the release of Absolute ABBA compilation. The guy who ran the fanzine phoned CBS and asked about the aforementioned compilation as there was always hope that it was going to be unreleased material etc. obviously it may have just been one CBS employee’s own opinion, but it is just something I remember. I think it was more to do with that CBS we’re not that willing to spend much money on ABBA releases, or protect ABBA’s legacy, so anyone who asked to loan the rights, they were allowed. |
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Post by Alan on Aug 12, 2023 7:54:45 GMT
It’s certainly true that they didn’t spend much on ABBA releases later on. The studio albums were continuously available but became part of the CBS “Nice Price” series. In the process, most lost their inner sleeve lyrics and were given generic “Nice Price” inner sleeves advertising other albums in the series. Both Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits Vol 2 lost their gatefold sleeves (these days, these editions are worth more than the originals as they’re fairly rare). The Album got off lightly, as it kept its gatefold and there was no artwork inner sleeve to lose.
They did, however, reissue the Waterloo single in 1986. This was because Doctor and the Medics covered the song (it missed the top 40, even though it was following up a number one hit). The ABBA reissue re-used the sleeve artwork from the 1984 blue vinyl boxed set version and was the only ABBA single ever pressed on the late 1980s white label with blue Epic logo.
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Post by lamont on Aug 12, 2023 17:09:28 GMT
That’s all really interesting Alan, didn’t know any of that. I never really looked at the vinyls in the 80s because I had them all, just shows ignorance isn’t bliss! Any info on the CD releases in the 80s? All the ones I got had the Polar pyramid label on the CDs, were they released by CBS? Or imported. The only one I don’t have is Greatest Hits which is Atlantic issue.
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