ace of base: classic or "the biggest load of crap!!!" (cf. S Samson)?

I've had no thoughts ever on ace of base.

JBR do not even get me started, I have hit the whiskey pretty early this afternoon and my wife would probably rather I didn't dig up the Ace of Base CD. Classic in the true sense of the word is the answer, anyhow: Sophocles. Virgil. Catullus. Jenny. Joker. Lynn. Buddah.

Except 'The Sign' which is wicked good.

Bands like these are good in a Wizard of Oz sense: 'pay no attention to the man behind the mirror' as he's ALWAYS some geriatric producer called Sven with bigger boobs than the girls fronting the group.

http://clomeli.galeon.com/aob4.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp300/p309/p30985fqliy.jpg

priceless=classic

I was very sad for them when I discoverd their first single from the third album was a cover of "Cruel Summer." That's pretty pathetic.

Oh, if only for "Rasputin," Boney M easy.

: - D

Now, it don't take a genius to figure out that the "mmm mmm mmm mmm" song was, of course, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by The Crash Test Dummies. I wanted a Crash Test Dummies record, and the fucker gave me Ace Of Base!

I never listened to the record much. Did get the CTD record a few years after, tho, and it's pretty great in its Canadian dorkyness (they are Canadian, right?) Today, I wish I still had that AOB record, if only because I once checked out the lyrics on the 'net and apparently the "filler" portion of the record was way insane. I still wouldn't be able to fathom "All That She Wants", tho, because I once heard it used in a k-awful Italo movie about finding true love as a blonde bimbo with a bonehead stud. So Crash Test Dummies still > Ace Of Base.

that sentence DEFINES 1993. What a fucked up time that was.

I'm a pariah among my music-fan friends and acquaintances for still enjoying them. I wonder if I can find a cheap copy at the used CD store...

You already know in my case, but I'll be damned if I miss out on a single chance to post these during the only twelve months in my life that I won't look silly doing so:

Lines form on my face and hands
Lines form from the ups and downs
I'm in the middle without any plans
I'm a boy and I'm a man

I'm eighteen
and I don't know what I want
Eighteen
I just don't know what I want
Eighteen
I gotta get away
I gotta get out of this place
I'll go runnin in outer space
Oh yeah

I got a
baby's brain and an old man's heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
Feels like I'm livin in the middle of doubt
Cause I'm

Eighteen
I get confused every day
Eighteen
I just don't know what to say
Eighteen
I gotta get away

Lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form on the left and right
I'm in the middle
the middle of life
I'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm eighteen and I LIKE IT
Yes I like it
Oh I like it
Love it
Like it
Love it
Eighteen!
Eighteen!
Eighteen!
Eighteen and I LIKE IT

I find JBR's fogey routine quite charming, actually, though it sometimes it makes me feel like I'm about 80

They were even worse than the Crash Test Dummies.

In fact, now I come to think of it, even Roxette were better than Ace of Fucking Base.

anyway, that album was also the first album i ever conscoiusly bought with my own money - psych! I'd forgotten all about that as well! I tell everyone it's the Prodigy's first album lol!

1) Fogeys are so much cooler than kids, aren't they? I mean, they say stuff like "Get off my lawn!"

2) Part of the reason I'm going through my "'90s" phase is because I'm intensely jealous of my friends who are 5-10-15 years older and got to be "there" (as semi-adults, not just stupid pain-in-the-ass kids) during the early '80s, one of the richest musical eras in history. They all have these really romantic stories, and I don't. I'm mining the '90s for its best music so I can feel all smug and semi-adult in the face of my friends who are 5-10-15 years younger.

3) Poor health, depression, etc. The sense of bemused resignation that's completely washed over my youthful exuberance and snapcracklepop. (And I'm not even a rockist!)

4) I live in New York. This place turns everyone into a haggard old bastard.

or alternately, uh, worst (ok, that Macarena disc was pretty terrible)

Yeah, sure. So I'm a little girlie man, am I? Deserve a feminine vowel on the end of my name, do I? You old fogie! I'll take you anyday! Bring it!

But yeah, thinking about it, they weren't too bad.

the lewdest sax since 'Girls and Boys' by Prince.... but kind of para in a 'get-on-with-it' kind of way instead of laid-back, like some man with cologne and light summer jacket telling you to get in the car, and not being nice about it

and don't forget their robotically superior carbon-copy of 'Cruel Summer'!!

After finally hearing them I declared them sissy crap and went on playing video games. That said, I learned to like them again a few years later, after hanging out with a Russian friend whose favorite artists were SEAL and AoB.

"have even started planning a new record. 'The plan is to go into the studio. But we're not stressed about it, so it won't appear for a while'".

The bassline in "Dancer in A Daydream": great, or the greatest????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJwqDa1QVI

i've been fuckin with the new lady gaga joint, which reminds me.....

ace of base had some jams

like....even try to fuckin dispute that

http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/2010/07/16/ace-of-base-is-back-how-excited-are-you/

So my partner read an article similar to this one a while ago and made reference to it casually when we were talking about 90s jams with some friends the other night, and then I went down a rabbit hole...and I think Ace of Base were a fascist band?

https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america/