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

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What I remember most clearly is 5th grade, on the playground outside an elementary school in Iowa, before class begins.. a classmate walks up to me and reveals his discovery the previous night of "the coolest band in the world", that is, Ace of Base.

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.

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

A prime moment of wonderful nineties stuff that Mr. Darnielle must love -- me stumbling across some local program in Farsi in 1995 or so at around 4 am or something, where the affable host introduces a lip-sync effort from two Iranian-American teen girls. Song of choice: "The Sign." Gotta love it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

No one mentioned the girls on Full House performing a cover of "The Sign"? It's only like one of the top 5 most cringe worthy things EVER.

― daddy warbuxx (daddy warbuxx), Thursday, 20 October 2005 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

It appears they're back, by the way. (I'm not entirely sure, though, I don't speak Swedish, but "Ace of Bases comeback är ett faktum." sounds a lot like "... is a fact")

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Correct. Also they

"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 Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link

The blonde guy was/is an ex-Nazi. Allegedly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link

For him life truly is a flower.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 20 October 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

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

― musically, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

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

― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

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

ace of base had some jams

― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link

like....even try to fuckin dispute that

― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

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

― rent, Sunday, 18 July 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

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/

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link

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