(It had to be done.)
(M0unt4in G04ts to thread.)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've had no thoughts ever on ace of base.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 23 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 23 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Except 'The Sign' which is wicked good.
― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://clomeli.galeon.com/aob4.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp300/p309/p30985fqliy.jpg
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
priceless=classic
― reo fordecor, Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
: - D
― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
that sentence DEFINES 1993. What a fucked up time that was.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
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...
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 handsLines form from the ups and downsI'm in the middle without any plansI'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm eighteenand I don't know what I wantEighteenI just don't know what I wantEighteenI gotta get awayI gotta get out of this placeI'll go runnin in outer spaceOh yeah
I got ababy's brain and an old man's heartTook eighteen years to get this farDon't always know what I'm talkin' aboutFeels like I'm livin in the middle of doubtCause I'm
EighteenI get confused every dayEighteenI just don't know what to sayEighteenI gotta get away
Lines form on my face and my handsLines form on the left and rightI'm in the middlethe middle of lifeI'm a boy and I'm a manI'm eighteen and I LIKE ITYes I like itOh I like itLove itLike itLove itEighteen!Eighteen!Eighteen!Eighteen and I LIKE IT
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 24 March 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 24 March 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
I find JBR's fogey routine quite charming, actually, though it sometimes it makes me feel like I'm about 80
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 24 March 2003 00:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 24 March 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 24 March 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 24 March 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
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!
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 March 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 24 March 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongrow (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 March 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 24 March 2003 04:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 24 March 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
or alternately, uh, worst (ok, that Macarena disc was pretty terrible)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul R (paul R), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 March 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 March 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 24 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 24 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
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!
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
But yeah, thinking about it, they weren't too bad.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hna Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
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'!!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 02:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― daddy warbuxx (daddy warbuxx), Thursday, 20 October 2005 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link
"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
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 20 October 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
The bassline in "Dancer in A Daydream": great, or the greatest????
― musically, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
like....even try to fuckin dispute that
― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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
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