The Winner Takes It All - Rarities

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1	–ABBA	Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!	5:29
2	–ABBA	Super Trouper	4:19
3	–ABBA	Summer Night City	5:35
4	–ABBA	Voulez Vous	6:05
5	–ABBA	Dreamworld	3:29
6	–ABBA	Just Like That	5:00
7	–ABBA	I've Been Waiting For You	2:17
8	–ABBA	Slipping Through My Fingers	4:15
9	–ABBA	Cassandra	4:43
10	–ABBA	Every Good Man	2:05
11	–ABBA	Tiveds Hambo	2:17
12	–ABBA	Hovas Vittne	2:47
13	–ABBA	On Top Of Old Smokey	2:39
14	–ABBA	Does Your Mother Know	4:06
15	–ABBA	Under My Sun	1:32
16	–ABBA	Under My Sun	3:08
17	–Björn & Benny*	Love Has It's Ways	2:40
18	–Björn & Benny*	Rock'n Roll Band	3:07
19	–ABBA	I'm Still Alive Featuring [Uncredited] – Agnetha Fältskog	3:52
20	–Björn & Benny*	Opus 10	3:29
21	–Björn & Benny*	Dancing Queen Featuring [Uncredited] – Bono	4:09

Credits

• Compilation Producer – Allan Pettersson

Notes

Standard jewel case with front & back inserts
4-page front insert with the middle pages blank
Tracklist appears in front booklet only.
Entire matrix area is cancelled and unreadable.

All tracks are credited to ABBA on the release, ie. there is no mention of tracks 17 to 21 not being strictly by ABBA.
"Rarities" in release title appears only on front sleeve - and in the text printed on back: "The ultimate collection of ABBA rarities".

Produced for Nordland Musik GmbH, Postfach 259, D-21207 Hamburg
Distribution by Stern-Musik in collaboration with Tschibo Deutschland GmbH

Full track details, as printed in booklet:
[notes by the submitter]
1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - Extended Live Version (5.27)
2. Super Trouper - Live (4.17)
[1 & 2: "privately" made medley.]
3. Summer Night City - Recorded for possible inclusion on the 1986 "Live" Album) (5.54)
4. Voulez Vous - U.S. Promotional-Remix (6.10)
[U.S. only, unnamed 12" extended mix - named 'Extended Dance Remix' on the 2012 'Record Store Day' 12" release.]
5. Dreamworld - Unreleased (3.30)
[Correct title is "Dream World".]
6. Just Like That - Demo from "Opus 10" (4.55)
[Recordings for the 1982 album were interrupted long before any name was given for the album.]
7. I've Been Waiting For You - Complete Version, Live Australia 1977 (2.14)
[Doesn't start from the beginning, however.]
8. Slipping Through My Fingers - Live on Dick Cavett's TV-Show 1981 (4.15)
9. Cassandra - Unfaded Version Recorded for German TV, Nov. 1982 (4.47)
10. Every Good Man - Unreleased, recorded in 1982 (2.05)
[This is a demo for Chess, AGnetha simply provided the demo vocals, never intended for ABBA.]
11. Tiveds Hambo - Performed live during Abba's very last performance (2.19)
[Live TV performance of the B-side of "Hovas Vittne", correct title is "Tivedshambo".]
12. Hovas Vittne - Only released as Promo (2.51)
["Private" Polar 12" release for Stig's 50th birthday, 1981]
13. On Top Of Old Smokey - Complete version (2.41)
[Fake, no longer versions of the tracks in "Medley" were recorded.]
14. Does Your Mother Know - Live 1979, Swiss TV-Spezial (4.10)
15. Under My Sun - Unreleased, Version I (1.35)
16. Under My Sun - Version II (3.06)
[15 & 16: from 1979 tour rehearsals.]
17. Love Has It's Ways - Pre-Abba, released only in Japan (2.47)
18. Rock'n Roll Band - Early Japan-Release with different lyrics (3.11)
19. I'm Still Alive - Live in Paris 1979, otherwise unreleased (3.51)
[Agnetha solo track from the 1979 tour, unreleased until "Live at Wembley" release.]
20. Opus 10 - Unreleased Instrumental (3.25)
[This is actually "Anthem".]
21. Dancing Queen - recorded live with popular Irish Band U2 (4.09)
Total Time 77.25 [77:03]

Tracks 9, 10 to 12, 14 to 16, 19, 20 are in mono.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 0 0101942 113416
• Barcode (String): 0010942113416
• Rights Society: GEMA
• Other (SPARS Code): AAD

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