Éxitos Eternos

Performer: ABBA
Producer: Bruce McIntosh (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Enhancements include a video for "Fernando." This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. ABBA: Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Bj�rn Ulvaeus. The latest remastering cycle on ABBA's catalog has yielded a neat CD, �xitos Eternos, that pretty much supplants Oro: Grandes Exitos, the previous compilation of the group's Spanish-language tracks. Apart from exquisite sound -- so that not only the voices but the acoustic guitars and the electric bass on "Estoy Sonando" ("I Have a Dream") have extraordinary presence -- the CD also comes with bonus video that's playable on computers set up with Quicktime, of "Fernando" (which, oddly enough, is sung in English on the video and depicts the group members, all looking shockingly young at this late date, in a campfire and starlight setting). The sound is superb throughout, but the mixes are especially hot on "Ring Ring" and "La Reina del Baile" ("Dancing Queen"), with the bass especially out front and vivid like it's in the room with you. The audio portion of the CD, covering nearly an hour, ends with "Chiquita," and the "Fernando" video is easy to access through most computers. ~ Bruce Eder

Not many pop groups end up on postage stamps, as Abba has in its native Sweden; but then again, few groups become their homeland's most identifiable export. The group's stratospheric success was built on a foundation of buoyant, exquisitely arranged and produced pop music. Although they called it a day in the early 1980s, Abba lives on in the form of popular tribute bands and albums, a Broadway musical, and consistent record sales of their voluminous catalog.

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