Jud (moderator) said on July 25, 2002 07:09:

nice song! :)

Schmocko said on July 25, 2002 10:18:

Maybe you can’t imagine but there are Rox-Fans that also listen to other bands...

animalkingdom said on July 25, 2002 11:11:

Hmm...Well there have also been many topics about Roxette at the AOB message forum.
And I don’t think anyone’s said anything about all those Madonna & Michael Jackson topics, for instance.
And IMHO I think AOB are more related to Roxette than Madonna, Michael or any other artist mentioned in SmallTalk.

rouven282 said on July 25, 2002 13:45:

I think it’s very ignorant to get annoyed because Ace Of Base are mentioned here once more. If you don’t like them/care about them, just ignore the topic and don’t add a reply.
I remember that there were also discussions about the football world championship, so why can’t we talk about Ace Of Base without getting disturbed while soccer can be discussed without problems!? I guess there’s no connection between football and Roxette either.

Actually it’s a nice offer to get informed about other artists, as I said it’s an OFFER, remember you aren’t forced to read these words!

coyboyusa said on July 25, 2002 13:58:

this is an example of the immaturity that has chased alot of new fans away from this message board. grow the hell up roxrette isnt the only band on the planet

Brian said on July 25, 2002 14:11:

In 1994 Ace of Base gave an Interview on Viva which I am never going to forget... I am sorry I can’t remember the exact words... but it was something along the lines of this: when they were asked, if they mind getting compared with Roxette so many times they said, they do not mind that at all, as Roxette isn’t being difficult to beat. They said, they haven proven, that Roxette was never a really good Group, the only reason they became succesful was, because they were from Sweden and that made Roxette interessting... Ace of Base said, they wanted to proof, that if you are from Sweden and have got briliant music as well, it is easy too beat Roxette. They laughed and said, that Roxette is just a silly group with stupid lyrics and stupid music...
well, that stuck with ever since! That made me angry when I heard them say that... I mean, AOB has got the stupid lyrics.... did you ever notice, every ace of base song has got this stupid... oh,oooh, oouh, oh... for example:
all that she wants is another baby, oouh oh...
its a beautiful life, oh ouh, oh
I saw the sign... oh, oh oh oouh oh...
Lucky love belongs to teen... bla..bla bla bla...tonigh...ohohoh,ooh oh oh..
it really seems like in ALL of their lyrics it always gets to the point of oh oh oh oh ouh oooouh oooh ohohohohohohohohohohoh booooooooring!
I know roxette does a lot of their nananana’s in their songs... but roxette doesn’t overdo their nanana’s as AOB overdoes their ohohohohohohohohohohhohoohohohohohohohohohohohhohohohoho’s.
I think, Roxette Fans and AOB fans just don’t go together... they just clash...
You either are a Roxette Fan or Ace of Base fan, you either know if something is right or wrong... you either know if water is wet or dry... You just have got to know, being a Roxette Fan, you do not support Ace of Base also... why do you think did Per buy more than 50 percent of AOB? That was the smartest thing to do,own more than half of your enemy...
Ace of Base sucks with their cheap sounds and anoying ohohohohouuuhuuhuhuhuh ohoh noises.
ROX ON FOREVER!

onlywhenidream said on July 25, 2002 15:12:

I agree with brian - (who hasn’t email me recently!)

Schmocko said on July 25, 2002 15:41:

Brian>>I have other articles/interviews where they say positive things about Roxette...

But anyway that isn’t the question...It hasn’t to do with AOB (well maybe the fact that it is another Swedish band might annoy you), it’s the fact that some of you just want to talk about Roxette and about nothing else...and that some of you aren’t able to ignore topics...If you hate AOB, why the hell do you click at a topic “listen to AOB new single”?

Maybe an non-roxette area would help on this site...but it’s a pitty that it doesn’t work like it is...

Collin said on July 25, 2002 15:41:

I have to agree with Brian as well and with onlywhenidream. Acers suck. Maybe never gonna say I am sorry is one of the better lyrics... but one fo the worse music... life is a flower/good lyrics? let me puke like big time! life is a flower, the title says it all, AOB are nuts!

Anna_t said on July 25, 2002 17:53:

I’ve also heard Per saying Ace of Base are band that can’t be compared to Roxett?
so what ?
and ace of base’s Jenny said that Mary is a great woman

temps-daurats said on July 25, 2002 20:17:

Can you please e-mail me any article where they say positive things about Roxette? I am just curious, I would love to read that.

I listened to the song... it seems it’s so... Ace Of Base... I think I listened to that song before... The melodic line in the chorus sounds like forced and... well, there are people who likes AOB, ok...

So then it seems we can write about any Swedish bands here because they are Swedish and Roxette too and anyone at least would like them... From Emilia to Wilmer X, from Titiyo to Sverige...

That’s nice, now I want to talk about Kent!! Have you listened to their latest single “Kärleken väntar”? Click here to listen: http://www.aftonbladet.se/noje/cd/topplistor/02/ram/kent_karlekenvantar.... I bet this song can easily “beat” any AOB song... Beautiful melody, intelligent lyrics, well played guitars, good rhythm...

erimos said on July 25, 2002 21:02:

Ace of Base’s new single BEAUTIFUL MORNING is one heck of a good song...I luv it :)

Ace of base just happen to be the best out there i’m afraid...

i like a few roxette songs but most of them i cant stand no offence...i like I WISH I COULD FLY, ANYONE, STARS, MUST OF BEEN LOVE, DRESS FOR SUCCESS and MILK AND TOAT AND HONEY - all good tracks

Jud (moderator) said on July 26, 2002 09:10:

Brian and his stories...

I really dont care what other bands say about Roxette, if I like their music I just listen to it and done....if we would just listen to bands who like Roxette (or know who they are.. ;))... prolly we would just listen to Deep Purple (maybe not anymore) and GT :P

Brian said on July 26, 2002 15:42:

TOO BAD THAT CRUEL SUMMER WAS NOT EVEN WRITTEN BY AOB!!! What a joke! ;-) It was such a dumb cover version...

sonofagun said on July 27, 2002 02:14:

hi ...i agree with erimos...

Even bananarama can’t break the us chart with that song...

Remember.....that song is an old old song....but, somehow people still love it with a touch by ace of base style of music....

belive when i say..the shadows fading out

temps-daurats said on July 27, 2002 21:55:

The point here is not that we love / hate / couldn’t care less or whatever about AOB, the point is this is not the right place to speak about that because is not Roxette related.

I’m reading right now what is written in the Forum Description and goes like this: “Forum description: General discussion on Roxette and Roxette-related artists.” Does anybody else read that? Or this message is displayed just for me?

For AOB you’ll sure have a forum, for Kent I do have other forums, and there you will find no criticism saying this is a wonderful thing at all. For You the fans of AOB is wonderful, but here we are Roxette fans. And the only thing they have in common is they’re Swedish and both groups have a male composer and some “Västkusten tjej” (är den bästa som finns :-D).

I mean, trying to relate AOB and Roxette is like relating U2 and The Corrs because both are Irish and sell well. I like both The Corrs (specially Andrea) and U2, but the real fans of both bands maybe don’t like the other...

I just ask for some understanding also from the AOB fans, that are presenting themselves in this discussion like the victims of all this, and the other are just trying to tell you simply this is not the right place to discuss if the new single is wonderful or not. As a Roxette fan, I don’t care.

Jud (moderator) said on July 28, 2002 09:14:

i dont really know why we cant talk about other stuff here, as long as the topic says what the thread is about??
We had the same discussion in RML and in Roxspain List, and at least in the spanish one where a lot of us know eachother, we agreed that the non-rox emails would come like:
[NON-ROX:whatever subject] with this, you know that the email is not about Rox, so you decide to read it or not at your own risk :)

So if a topic says “news ace of base song” just IGNORE it if you know from the beginning that you are not interested in AOB!!! Nobody is forcing you to read ALL the topics in this forum, and when you click on “AOB new song” one, it´s you and only you who wants to read it.

I am not interested in that topic about Per being sexy simply cuz i don´t think he is, and i dont like him, and have i read it? no, i simply ignore it!
Do I care about how many Argentinian or German or Spanish or whatever fans exist out there? NO, so i havent even read those topics.

Visa is the only one who should complain about us writting non-rox stuff, cuz we are filling in the database from his server!

So I guess it´s not so difficult for people wanting to write non-rox stuff to write NOn-rox or Out of topic or simply reading “The Corrs” as a topic,would make me understand that it´s not about Rox but about the Corrs, and since i dont like them, i just dont read it! It´s YOU at the other end of the cable holding the mouse who decides where you click or not.... and it´s also you who keeps on reading all the posts in a thread, even if the topic is not of your interest!!!!

Jud (moderator) said on July 28, 2002 11:57:

well, looks like people like to talk about what we can write here and what not more than talking about the new single :P
Again, if you are not interested in this topic, just dont read it.

temps-daurats said on July 28, 2002 20:20:

Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok...