The Albums

The 2008 nine-disc box Albums is neither the first ABBA multi-disc set nor the first time the pop group's albums have been collected and housed in a box set, but it is the first time a set of their complete recordings has been widely disseminated (such are the perks of being a companion to an international blockbuster) and it's the best of the lot, containing all eight of the group's albums (for the record: Ring Ring, Waterloo, ABBA, Arrival, The Album, Voulez-Vous, Super Trouper, The Visitors), plus a 17-track rarities disc that rounds up non-LP singles (including "Fernando" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"), songs sung in Swedish, and plain oddities like a medley of the American folk songs "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "On Top of Old Smokey," and "Midnight Special." There's only one hitch: all of ABBA's albums were remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2001, bonus tracks that essentially cover all the songs on the rarities disc, and the remastering is not notably different, if it is different at all, so fans who already replaced their initial CDs may not have a need to get this new box -- but anybody who hasn't gotten around to either upgrading their ABBA collection, or has never had one to begin with, can get it all here. (All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Disc 1
1. Ring Ring 3:06
2. Another Town, Another Train 3:13
3. Disillusion 3:06
4. People Need Love 2:45
5. I Saw It in the Mirror 2:35
6. Nina, Pretty Ballerina 2:53
7. Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) 2:56
8. Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother 2:52
9. He Is Your Brother 3:19
10. She's My Kind of Girl 2:46
11. I Am Just a Girl 3:03
12. Rock'n Roll Band 3:09

Disc 2
1. Waterloo 2:45
2. Sitting in the Palmtree 3:39
3. King Kong Song 3:14
4. Hasta Mañana 3:11
5. My Mama Said 3:13
6. Dance (While the Music Still Goes On) 3:13
7. Honey, Honey 2:56
8. Watch Out 3:48
9. What About Livingstone 2:56
10. Gonna Sing You My Lovesong 3:39
11. Suzy-Hang Around 3:16

Disc 3
1. Mamma Mia 3:32
2. Hey, Hey Helen 3:17
3. Tropical Loveland 3:06
4. SOS 3:23
5. Man in the Middle 3:03
6. Bang-A-Boomerang 3:04
7. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 3:17
8. Rock Me 3:06
9. Intermezzo 3:48
10. I've Been Waiting for You 3:41
11. So Long 3:10

Disc 4
1. When I Kissed the Teacher 3:03
2. Dancing Queen 3:53
3. My Love, My Life 3:54
4. Dum Dum Diddle 2:55
5. Knowing Me, Knowing You 4:02
6. Money, Money, Money 3:07
7. That's Me 3:16
8. Why Did It Have to Be Me 3:22
9. Tiger 2:56
10. Arrival 3:06

Disc 5
1. Eagle 5:49
2. Take a Chance on Me 4:07
3. One Man, One Woman 4:34
4. The Name of the Game 4:54
5. Move On 4:42
6. Hole in Your Soul/The Girl with the Golden Hair 3:41
7. Thank You for the Music 3:49
8. I Wonder (Departure) 4:33
9. I'm a Marionette 4:09

Disc 6
1. As Good as New 3:23
2. Voulez-Vous 5:08
3. I Have a Dream 4:44
4. Angeleyes 4:22
5. The King Has Lost His Crown 3:34
6. Does Your Mother Know 3:15
7. If It Wasn't for the Nights 5:10
8. Chiquita 5:26
9. Lovers (Live a Little Longer) 3:31
10. Kisses of Fire 3:21

Disc 7
1. Super Trouper 4:15
2. The Winner Takes It All 4:56
3. On and on and On 3:42
4. Andante, Andante 4:41
5. Me and I 4:56
6. Happy New Year 4:25
7. Our Last Summer 4:21
8. The Piper 3:27
9. Lay All Your Love on Me 4:35
10. The Way Old Friends Do 2:59

Disc 8
1. The Visitors 5:46
2. Head Over Heels 3:48
3. When All Is Said and Done 3:18
4. Soldiers 4:40
5. I Let the Music Speak 5:21
6. One of Us 3:56
7. Two for the Price of One 3:37
8. Slipping Through My Fingers 3:53
9. Like an Angel Passing Through My Room 3:39