ABBA Number Ones DVD ~ the best bit

Re: ABBA Number Ones DVD ~ the best bit

Gniblett - 22.11.2006, 13:16
ABBA Number Ones DVD ~ the best bit
AMAZON came up trumps and ABBA Number Ones DVD dropped through my letter box yesterday, needless to say I watched it through last night as I was keen to see the Extras and make sure the rest played OK.

The best bit for me was the I do, I do ...., SOS and Waterloo from Momarkedet in Norway. It was such a joyous performance from them all you cannot help but smile and when watching this :D

Such a contrast to their obvious deep emotional tensions and the visible sadness in their eyes in the next clips from the Late Late Breakfast show. I cannot help but admire them for carrying on for as long as they did. It cannot have been easy.

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Didi - 22.11.2006, 13:39
I Have A Dream...
Now playing I Have A Dream, lovely picture, shame they didn't get this into the studio and give it a stereo sound! Tut tut! Lazy Universal! It's easy to do! They are singing to playback all that needed to be done is to blend from mono applause to stereo and then back out! What a wasted opportunity for this clip, what with high tech TV's now that can play Dolby Digital etc! Nice cold ending though for I Have A Dream... Under Attack, same thing here, mono sound! Will it have the cold ending...(adding as I look and listen...)...yeah cold ending Under Attack here too!

I have that Under Attack on BetaMax video(then converted to VHS years later), from the actual transmission but it had corrupted over the years so nice to have it clearer.

I wonder what Agnetha said to Benny during the break between choruses towards the end of the song...

"Hey Benny, just one more performance on Nojesmaskinen and then that's it for me, they don't buy our singles in the UK anymore so to hell with it, at least Spain will give us a number one with Under Attack"

Overall presentation of the actual DVD show is nice, I like the record covers at the beginning of each song.

They use the saxophone version video of Ring Ring, so that's nice.

The actual DVD box and cover is a bit dark, it just did not hit me when I went scouting around in Woolworth or HMV in St. Albans. I had to look pretty hard with my old 43 year old eyes!

So all in all, for £8.99 from hmv.co.uk via Jersey, not bad value, I certainly would not pay anymore.

So Universal, where are these other shows and clips you are keeping from us?

Diego

:D

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Didi - 22.11.2006, 13:59
Why no stereo to I Have A Dream and Under Attack!
Just added some more observations to my above post.

Well the stereo thing, for God's sake, I manage to do it, many people here have seen and heard my efforts, why couldn't Universal get someone in to add stereo to the tracks? It just takes some imagination!

Sorely disappointed with I Have A Dream and Under Attack, just a few hours work in the studio at Universal and this could have been perfect.

Agnetha looks F***ng gorgeous in Under Attack! If I were straight...!

I did not expect the Waterloo clip to be stereo as A) It was sung live B) The BBC back then were not stereo broadcasters C) Tampering with it might have spoilt it.

Just looked at the booklet, you need a microscope the read the text! Or it it my 43 year old eyes again!


Diego

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Didi - 23.11.2006, 09:44
Dedidcated
Oh Maxi,
You know I am hopeless when it comes to all matters ABBA, after all these years they still give me a buzz everytime I hear them or play their music or watch them. They have been and still are a big part of my life. Mad I know, no one ever doubts my loyalty to them, I defend them to the death, and I'll probably love them until the day I pass from this world to whatever comes next! But I still do not see myself as "sweaty and obsessed", just a bit daft!

Diego

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Didi - 24.11.2006, 14:37
NUMBER ONES ...
Just got round to playing "Extras" off the DVD version of Number Ones (I skipped buying the CD version). I quite like the slideshow with the single covers going across the screen, I am sure that can be played in one long clip rather than it stopping each single time and returning back to the slideshow menu. I haven't worked out how to "play all" so that all the singles scroll across in one play.

Still, disappointed in the Under Attack and I Have A Dream being in mono. But I have fixed that now, I have made an additional "supplementary DVD" to go in with the box alongside the main DVD, on this extra one I did, I made I Have/Under Attack stereo and made my own menu to match the main DVD so it is now like a little sister DVD in the box with the other one!

Diego

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Didi - 24.11.2006, 18:05
Number Ones...
Well,
That too...A nice number one recording from Spain (Chiquitita sung at least twice in Spain in Spanish to my knowledge) or USA for Dancing Queen, they must have performed it in the US and even the big expanse in space would not have even have had to shell out to have that performance converted seeing it would have been in NTSC anyways. Oh the list could go on!

Diego

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Maxi-saxi - 29.11.2006, 06:40

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GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I didn't bother playing the DVD only the extras

Agnetha look stunning in the SOS clip from Norway, I have never seen these preformances before, They are worth the price of the DVD alone, I also enjoyed ABBA performing Waterloo on TOTP's from 1974.


Also enjoyed I Have A Dream & Under Attack.

One can only imagine that in fututre DVD releases Universal will releases little gems to tempt us to buy the product, Hey I will if there are clips like that.


The preformance from 1975 from Norway looks as if it could have been taken yesterday.

Maxi-saxi :lol:

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jacko10 - 30.11.2006, 00:22

I love the extra's! this is a nice DVD!

Jack

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Maxi-saxi - 30.11.2006, 04:47

Deigo,

I feel the same way you and many other do, Universal will not release A DVD or Dvd's with previously unseen footage together because it comes down to MONEY MONEY MONEY.


The Buggers know full well we fanatics will buy a DVD with a few hidden gems on it as well as the other clips, this way they can give us something maybe 2 or 3 times a year.


If I were in Charge of Universal Like you everything On ABBA, Frida & Agnetha would have been released yesterday, am I Mean EVERYTHING.


But back to the point the extras especally the Norway stuff is so clear and to see the Girls is just wonderful.

Maxi-saxi :lol:

I only wish they would have had the Interview on the Late Late Breakfast Show with the members of ABBA from memory it was good.

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spong - 30.11.2006, 18:02

hello

my first reaction when i got my grubby littel mitts on it was one of pannick'ish.
i was in the shop and a half hour from home.
i'm sure all of you have had that feeling when you are so desperate to get home with your new thing you could almost burst?

gary :D

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Didi - 30.11.2006, 19:05

I know, it is all getting very silly!

I was looking through the HMV web site, there are
Millenium Edition,
Limited Editions,
The Remasters,
The Name Of The Game,
18 Hits,
15 Hits DVD,
Absolute ABBA,
Gold,
More Gold,
Pure Gold,
Forever Gold,
Mas Gold,
Bonus Tracks Editions,
Number Ones CD
Number Ones DVD, the Number Ones CD has songs that were not number ones (unless you count them as being "in" a number one album!)

"Next will be: ABBA-Turn of the Century",
"We All Love ABBA Again & Again Subtitled (On and On and On!)",
"ABBA Again",
"ABBA Songs But In A Different Order"
"ABBA The Songs We All Have But Here They Are Again What The Hell You're All Idiots For Buying Them Ha Ha From The Great Expanse In Space"

hehehe

Makes my own "ABBA REVISITED" ones sound actually different and worth having a look at! At least they have "different" tracks and are of actual INTEREST! Not one of my tracks are a re-hash under a different title!

Hehe,
Diego

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Didi - 30.11.2006, 21:23
Oh well
Well,
"Come on,Gimme a break willya!"

I was just so flummoxed by the amount of "this compilation and that compilation", one must have slipped into my list, as you can tell, I don't take it all too seriously!

Diego

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Didi - 30.11.2006, 22:12
Huhh.
Someones cage is rattled!

hehe

Diego

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Maxi-saxi - 01.12.2006, 00:36

Diego,

Yes as you know I e-maild Mia at Universal and I did get a reply, She stated very clearly there will be future releases, exciting ones on DVD as well. So one can only imagine. I asked for A Agnetha release and why there was not one forcoming. She told me that Warner were working on a Agnetha release and she was quite sue of it.

Also I suggest to her a DVD celebrating the 40 years working together of B & B containing interviews a short history and a DVD of Clips from artists singing songs
Chess
Gemini
Josifin Nielson
Kristina
Helen.


She took note of my suggestion.

So who knows


As I said if we get gems like this on any DVD release I will be buying.

Maxi-saxi :lol:

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Didi - 02.12.2006, 09:56
More extras!
Yes I agree, a bit low on "extras" considering there is so much out there still not available to us in full quality! A darn shame.

It just shows if they set their mind to it, they can do research and find stuff of interest! So they really need a good researcher to go full time and fly the world negotiating the deals with the individual TV stations that perhaps have them lying collecting dust in their archives.

Diego :D

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Didi - 03.12.2006, 11:14
They are just so inconsistent..
They are fools to themselves and they have a very strange policy regarding "pirates". One moment they are trying to take people to court as in the well publicised "court action" taken against a certain Australian web site, they relented when they saw the absolute horror and dismay it caused the ABBA community!

Next moment they are saying they will do all sorts of DVDs with rarities and then when they do, you get two or three bits tacked on the end of all their hits yet again.

A kick in the goolies would be in order to get them to listen! Look what they have done to The Beatles, all reworked and back in the charts in a high position!

Diego

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Didi - 03.12.2006, 14:26
Nöjesmaskinen Under Attack...
Hades,
I have a clip of Nöjesmaskinen but alas it is not complete, just the 1st verse and the chorus as part of a show they also did with a Swedish language interview indespersed within footage of Under Attack. I wonder, does anyone have it TV quality in full out there?

Diego

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Hummer3 - 08.12.2006, 18:01

OK I got the dvd last night and I love the extra portions. That Norwegian show is a classic. And it was such a contrast with the late late breakfast show. Kinda like they grew up ie got more mature in a few short years.

BUT for those of you who haven't looked at the videos - run back and look at the videos. It looks like universal cleaned up the videos. They are so clear now. Compared to the definitive collection these videos are much better quality. So now we need a remastered cleaned up definitive collection. :D