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Thank You For The Music  (1994)

Thank You For The Music was first released in Sweden on October 31, 1994.

Box sets have become a common way of celebrating an artist’s career, usually featuring a selection of hits, other familiar songs, a few rarities, plus a number of unreleased recordings. This is exactly what ABBA’s 4-CD collection, Thank You For The Music, offered. For instance, every ABBA single B-side not included on any of the group’s albums were featured on the box set, many appearing on CD for the first time.

Among the previously unreleased tracks were an alternate version of ’Thank You For The Music’, the song ’Dream World’ – dating back to the Voulez-Vous sessions – and the Super Trouper outtake, ’Put On Your White Sombrero’. The 23-minute medley ’ABBA Undeleted’ featured snippets of other unissued recordings.

In 2008 the Thank You For The Music box set is reissued in downsized packaging with a revised booklet, although the disc contents remain exactly the same as the original release.

Disc 1

  1. People Need Love 
  2. Another Town, Another Train 
  3. He Is Your Brother 
  4. Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) 
  5. Ring Ring 
  6. Waterloo 
  7. Hasta Mañana 
  8. Honey, Honey 
  9. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) 
  10. So Long 
  11. I’ve Been Waiting For You 
  12. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 
  13. SOS 
  14. Mamma Mia 
  15. Fernando 
  16. Dancing Queen 
  17. That’s Me 
  18. When I Kissed The Teacher 
  19. Money, Money, Money 
  20. Crazy World 
  21. My Love, My Life 

Disc 2

  1. Knowing Me, Knowing You 
  2. Happy Hawaii 
  3. The Name Of The Game 
  4. I Wonder (Departure) 
  5. Eagle 
  6. Take A Chance On Me 
  7. Thank You For The Music 
  8. Summer Night City 
  9. Chiquitita 
  10. Lovelight  
  11. Does Your Mother Know 
  12. Voulez-Vous 
  13. Angeleyes 
  14. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)  
  15. I Have A Dream 

Disc 3

  1. The Winner Takes It All 
  2. Elaine 
  3. Super Trouper 
  4. Lay All Your Love On Me 
  5. On And On And On 
  6. Our Last Summer 
  7. The Way Old Friends Do 
  8. The Visitors (Crackin' Up) 
  9. One Of Us 
  10. Should I Laugh Or Cry  
  11. Head Over Heels 
  12. When All Is Said And Done 
  13. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room 
  14. The Day Before You Came 
  15. Cassandra 
  16. Under Attack  

Disc 4

  1. Put On Your White Sombrero 
  2. Dream World  
  3. Thank You For The Music 

Name: Thank You For The Music

Original release date:
October 1994
Polydor 523 472-2

Digitally remastered:

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