CD Album Box Set[10 CD]

Greatest pop group of all time and it's all here.

All LPs are packaged in a sturdy box and sound great!

Great box set for the price you get the whole abba collection on vinyl

This isn't the first box set from ABBA and despite it including 2021's Voyage it still isn't complete. A few bonus tracks or stray non album tracks are missing. That said, this is a fairly complete collection. If you see it on sale I suggest picking it up as deals on box sets from the group don't stay deals for long. Note the costs for 2005's box set ABBA - THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS, which quickly went out of print. This box is likely to do the same so get it while you can.

Great music set!

A quick disclaimer, I have been an ABBA fan since 1979, when I was 11. I grew up when records and tapes were the only way to buy music, and after that I became a devotee of Compact Discs (which I still favor over vinyl, but that deserves a whole explanation that does not apply to this review). I have every one of my original ABBA records, still in pristine condition (even the two Greatest Hits albums, and the Spanish ‘Gracias Por la Musica’), not to mention all the 45s that were released, and quite a few vinyl compilations. So, why bother buying this boxset? Because I wanted an update, and these mixes are newer. Also, while I cannot be certain, ‘Put On Your White Sombrero’ has never before been released on vinyl, that I know of. It debuted on a CD boxset in the 90s. Other than buying ‘Voyage,’ back in 2021, and recently the Ring Ring, Waterloo and Voulez-Vous half-masters, I have not bought an ABBA vinyl record in about 25 years! So, this was nice. The good: the sound of the music is excellent, as expected. Newer mixes mean more bass. Since I own the three half-masters I mentioned above, the sound of the albums in this box-set is quite comparable, though the half-masters sound even better. Each album cover in the box-set identically replicates the original Polar Music releases, down to the inner sleeves. This is lovely. And the 10th disc includes B-sides and extras, though it falls short. Songs like ‘Cassandra’ and the ‘Medley (Pick a Bale of Cotton, On Top of Old Smokey and Midnight Special)’ are missing, so they picked what to include that would fit on one extra record and left a few out. Ironically, they included the image of each 45 on the inner sleeve where these songs have been originally released (minus ‘Sombrero’) and ‘Cassandra’ shows up on one of them! The Bad: the pressing! (or ‘depressing,’ as I dub it). It seems that once millennials ‘discovered’ vinyl and created a trend that has used record sellers gingerly ripping you off, where a decade ago they could not even give these records away…), no one can seem to press records the way they use to -- meaning: good. I do not understand what is so hard about it. After all, we lived nearly 100 years with records being pressed just fine. Suddenly, no one can pull this off? I have heard horror stories about vinyl pressings these days, from holes that are not centered, to records having two A sides! I have avoided buying the Carpenter’s box set because the reviews have been horrid, with people actually returning them. When it comes to the ABBA Box set, the pressing is faulty. There is a low white noise hum that should NOT be there. Some low-end turntables will make this sound sometimes, but mine is top of the line and does not. In this case, this sound in inherent in the pressing of each album. I can play my older ABBA records and they sound pristine. Before and after each song, you should hear NOTHING. That is not the case here. You clearly hear it before the songs begins, and in between each song. Now, the ABBA half-masters I bought recently are pressed differently and, I might add, beautifully. Before and after each song there is pure silence. Not here…. Also, as many have stated, there are scratches on each album. I daresay not from the sleeves, as some think, but from the actual pressing. These are feathered scratches, which do not affect the actual sound of the songs, but depending how the light hits the surface of the vinyl it almost seems like someone had some greasy pizza before sticking the records into the sleeves. I can almost hear some people going, “Are these records new???” They almost look dirty, but clean them as you may, it will not come off. How come we never had these issues back in the day, I ask? I even found some fine string of vinyl left over from the shoddy cutting (one of the ABBA records in the set had that...I just gently pulled it off). The only record in this set that is spared is 'Voyage,' because it was a new album added to this set, and a different pressing. So, I cannot give this release 5 stars, because of these issues. Again, the sound of the songs are great, if you can put up with the low white noise hum at the beginning and between each song on each album. Some are better than others. I found Voulez-Vous to be much better, while the ‘Extras’ disc among the worst. Is this set worth buying? Absolutely. Could they have done better? Absolutely.

Not that I'm a huge ABBA fan but I liked all their albums and thought why not buy the entire box. Well, the mastering is fantastic, these albums never sounded better! Kudos to the engineer, these albums sound fantastic for that desire for Kitch pop music from way back when, you couldn't go wrong with this box. What an honest to goodness Suprise!

Shipped and received before the scheduled date, all the discs in great condition, she's dancing like a teenager again! (Dancing Queen...🤣)

Plastomslaget var repigt och det fanns även ett par mindre hål i omslaget. När man köper en ny vinylbox menar jag att även plastomslaget ska vara oskadat.

Ce coffret est excellent, il est composé de 101 chansons, réunis sur 10 CD. Vous y retrouverez leur 9 albums studio dont leur dernier ‘’Voyage’’ sorti en 2021. Cet album est sorti quarante années après la création du groupe. Tous leurs succès sont présent, ainsi que les faces B et le dernier CD contient t’en qu’à lui des versions singles, rares et innédites. Alors ont y retrouve toute leur discographie studio dans ce boîtier CD. Qui est en passant est fait d’un carton très robuste et élégant, tous les CD se retrouvent dans des pochettes faient en carton, eux aussi très robuste et qui représente les pochettes de carton de leurs albums vinyle de l’époque. Il y a aussi un très beau livret de 40 pages, contenant les informations de leurs albums ainsi que de jolies photos couleur. Je tiens à mentionner que contrairement à quelques commentaires négatifs à propos du son, ce dernier est ‘’EXCELLENT’’ sur tous les CD, alors ces client devraient se munir d’un systême de son de qualité. Je possédais déjà tous leurs albums vinyle du groupe, mais je tenais à avoir en ma pocésion tous leurs albums sur CD, alors cet ensemble rempli tous mes attentes et je tiens fortement à recommander ce coffret à tous ceux et celles qui comme moi aime la musique de ce groupe suédois de pop, originaire de Stockholm. Formé le 1er novembre 1971, le groupe est originellement composé d'Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus et Anni-Frid « Frida » Lyngstad. Lors de leur formation, ils sont deux couples mariés : Agnetha et Björn, Frida et Benny. Le nom du groupe est à la fois un acronyme et un palindrome, composé des initiales des prénoms des membres. Vainqueur de l'Eurovision en 1974 avec Waterloo, ABBA connaît un immense succès mondial durant la période disco du milieu des années 1970. Il devient l'un des groupes ayant vendu le plus de disques, ses ventes étant estimées à 400 millions (dont 180 millions de ventes certifiées). Ils connaissent en Australie et dans le monde un succès comparable à la Beatlemania. Car oui ce groupe a été aussi populaire que Les Bettles, Michael Jackson et bien d’autres. Les deux couples ce sont séparés en 1982 C’est un plaisir de réentendre tous ces titres. Cette compilation remasterisée est sortie en 2022 sur étiquette Polar Music Internatioal AB de EU. Bonne écoute !

Aucun regret, tous les albums de mon groupe favori réunis en un coffret, à avoir pour les fans même si on possède déjà tout ! Excellente musique et le dernier voyage compris.

Identique à la demande. Très bien protégé merci

Muy bien protegido y llego en tiempo y forma