Japanese ABBA The Album Discomate CD sells for outrageous amount

I had my eyes on this and thought I'd pay up to 150 USD for it. However it went for a whopping 711 USD. I sure hope it has the undistorted version of The Name Of The Game and that it doesn't use any of the regular distorted masters

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ABBA-The-Al...DHA7amagqPBPtpbDHZzf8%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

I've lost count the amount of times I've bought this album... Never had this copy, however...

 

why all the fuss about this version?

 

Because it's on the Discomate label. ABBA were released on the Discomate label in Japan but CD versions are scarce - at least to my knowledge.

 

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

 

Read the original posting again: This is the DiscoMate album: Australian disco mixes of the entire album. Hard to find.

 

This is not true. This is a Japanese release. It contains no different mixes, however, the mastering may be unique.

 

I did read, it, I just didn't know why people cared... I saw the discomate part, and it meant nothing...

now it sort of does

apparently it meant a lot to somebody with money to burn

 

The japanese Discomate includes also the distorted TNOTG version. I have a lossless copy...

 

Excuse me, I don't know the story about The Name of the Game recordings. Why's the reason ABBA/Polar/Universal choose a distorted version of this song, when there is a undistorted version?

 

Best 711 USD I ever spent.

 

It's a faulty LP cutter tape that has been used all these years. Actually all of the songs on side A suffer from distortion but it is worst on TNOTG. It's on every version of The Album released on vinyl and CD, except for the 1997 and 2001 remasters which used the mixdown tape which is one generation higher. The undistorted version is also available on the UK CBS 7" single as well as the UK box set from Reader's Digest on vinyl. There is a dedicated thread about it also.

 

I've finally completed my collection of original 1984 and 1997 CDs of all the studio albums - The 1997 versions are generally good - although the 1984 versions of Ring Ring and Waterloo trump their 1997 equivalents, and especially - with the 1997 version of 'The Album' you can tell it's a higher generation tape but the EQ is all wrong - it's all mid-range and little else. The 1984 version of the album sounds much more 'balanced' but is also a little thin sounding - therefore I've done a subtle 'smiley face' EQ job on the 1997 version of the Album and it sounds great. It does baffle me though how they managed to get it so wrong - the 2001 version is even worse although that's down to it being brickwalled, but it has the same EQ issues as the 1997 version. Apologies if this is off topic.

 

Comedy gold - it slipped by almost undetected, but not any more!

 

I know that I have three Abba Discomate CD's, but I'm pretty sure that's the one I'm missing. I may try to sell the ones I have.

 

Just checked. I have CDP-101 (The Visitors), CDP-102 (Super Trouper) and CDP-103 (Greatest Hits Vol. 2). I think CDP-104 is Voulez Vous, which I have seen, but don't own. I actually can't remember seeing The Visitors. Perhaps it's rarer than the others?

Anyway, if anyone would like to send me a check for $700, I would be happy to send you your choice of any of the above CD's. Make the check out to "The Dr. Bryant Wants to Buy Tickets to see the World Series at Chavez Ravine Fund". Thanks!

 

$700 for one? Nah - You can watch it on TV.

(Nice collection!)