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Linn from Ace of Base singing again
43 replies
tq1_ said on February 5, 2005 06:53:
i think that concert of linn singing an unknown song was the last time she ever performed upfront with AOB .. so obviously sumthing was wrong with AOB during that time.. and they wouldnt perform at their best
harriej said on January 30, 2005 22:01:
Nice, looking forward how they will sound after these years.
I have 2 albums of them (Happy Nation and The Bridge).
LaMan said on January 30, 2005 22:19:
HOORAAYYY! To be honest I doubted there ever will be any new material from them because Da Capo was not succesful but thank God I was wrong. YES!
RuRoxLove said on January 31, 2005 08:18:
Da Capo was successful in Russia and in Japan I know, so I can’t say that was not successful. Successful:)
LaMan said on January 31, 2005 19:43:
RuRuxLove, sorry but aren´t all (most) CD´s sold in Russia illegal pirate copies...
So can you call it succesful in that case? ;)
sommartiderhejhej said on January 31, 2005 20:55:
eBay: No, off course not. Maybe they are the blessing! :)
Mari said on February 1, 2005 15:36:
Nice, maybe they will release a totally new song, not just remixes of All that she wants song, like they have done so far ;)
Nox1983 said on February 2, 2005 01:21:
that album, da capo, sold 600,000 copies, i dont know if it was successful...
it is funny to see linn coming back, she wanted to be a new Agnetha and i think she got tired of that :D
tq1_ said on February 2, 2005 19:53:
the remix of all that she wants was never released as a single.. it was just sum djs remixed it.. an sent it 2 clubs.. wasnt really ever officially released...
dont u all think linn has 1 of the best voices out there? its very unique..
listen 2 songs like :
1.Ordinary day ( i remeber i got this on mp3 the same time as ATAY came out, an always prefferd ordinary day)
2.Everytime it rains
3.Whispers in Blindness
Mari said on February 2, 2005 21:07:
Sure remixes was released as singles. They called The Sign, Happy Nation, Wheel of Fortune etc. Isn’t all these just remixes of All That She Wants ;)
animalkingdom said on February 2, 2005 21:42:
Oh Mari, it’s good you’re pointing that out here so you won’t get flamed and taught about the many many remixes of The Look or Listen To Your Heart that some people think exist... ;) :)
Mari said on February 2, 2005 23:03:
Yeah, but All That She Wants and The Sign sounds excatly same! Chords are same.
Nox1983 said on February 3, 2005 22:40:
is linn a singer? when they were in (maybe their first and last concert) Chile in 1996 she could not sing, it was horrible, i was like a “acer” in that time and after that show i said myself... whats the hell is this?
if any of you enjoy seeing bands doing poor qualities performances, please try to get that concert and then you would doubt if she is singer...
btw, they sang 12 o 13 songs, and linn loked very upset on stage, nobody knew why she wasnt enjoying the show, some newspapers wrote some funny critics to that ???swedish??? band....
when i think in abba, europe, roxette, cardigans, eskobar, kent and many others great bands i cant belive Aob are swedish too...
per_mson said on February 4, 2005 09:03:
@Mari: Have you ever looked at the chords in “church of your heart” and “kung av sand”? ;-)
Well, I don’t agree that AoB songs sounds all the same. Not more the same than Gessle’s songs at least...
@Nox1983: Was it that bad? :-/ I always thought Linn sang nice! Maybe she just didn’t like it and that’s why it sounded so bad? Could that be? Cause I have a friend who was at a concert with AoB before they were known (he’s always bragging about it since it was a free concert, hehe) and he said they were really nice.
But MF and PG are not really singing very well live in Roxette either I think. MF because she is jumping so much and Per... well, does he really have a singing voice?! ;-))
But why you find it so hard to believe that they are Swedish I don’t get. Latin Kings are Swedish and they suck as much as a band can suck! So we have crap as well!! ;-))
Great they will be back again at least! :-)) Will definetly buy the album if they are back to what they sounded in the beginning! :-))
Nox1983 said on February 4, 2005 14:39:
@ permson: Yeah, sometimes Roxette dont sing very well in live becouse of the many concerts in each tour they have done, but after listening Ace of Base in Viña del Mar you cant compare them with Roxette , they are two very differentes bands, Roxette at least have been touring the world many times while Ace of Base stay at home becouse those two girls are not good singers, maybe in the past theye were good singers when they sang in the church and probably your friend is right becouse in the end of that horrible performance in Chile, they sang a unknown song and their voices sounded very nice...
Try to download that concert if you are able to...
And well, im sure i will buy the new Ace of Base album too :-S or at least to download it from the net as i did with Da Capo :D
@Mari: :D
AcerRay said on February 15, 2005 23:26:
hmmmm.... ATSW sounds as TS?? NOOO that’s not true, Linn and Jenny BAD Singers?? NOOO also not true. When you hear Flowers album then you can’t hear the ATSW sound, Da Capo also, it’s different then the ATSW style
Linn and Jenny BAD Singers?? NOOO also not true
Listen or view the last concert of Jenny on my site you can find it at GISLAVED special http://www.aceofbase.nl . It was GREAT, for every artist is it difficult to perform live. When you play many times live then you get problems with your voice and that was with Linn!!
I think that Marie perform also not everytime 100%, when I saw U2 then I think sometimes ooh Bono what’s wrong with you today and a day later he performed PERFECT.
And about selling of Da Capo, the problem is not the group but the problem is the Record Label and that problem have Roxette also. Only the stupid artists you can see now in the charts, and not the BIG groups like AoB or Roxette
But the next album of AoB is the best album ever made by the band.
And of course this is what you think about AoB but this is what I think ;-)
Regards/
Raymond
AnnaLisa said on February 16, 2005 00:09:
Well, Jonas and Ulf admitted themselves that The Sign is a different version of All that she wants. Jonas even showed in some tv-clip how easy it was to transform one song into another.
So Happy Nation / The Sign is the world’s best selling 14-track single ever. Which only proves what a masterpiece it is.
But these people here at roxette.com obviously haven’t heard anything from the Flowers or Da Capo, you need to excuse them.
I’m living in Sweden and Marie Fredriksson released an album some two months ago. I have NOT on ONE single occasion heard her voice on the radio. It struck me the other day, what ever happened to Marie Fredriksson’s much anticipated album. I mean, Agnetha Fältskog’s single got a lot of airplay when it was released last spring. I wonder why the radio stations ignored Marie, especially since her album got so good critics.
About the singing, noone can sing like Malin. The way she sings for example ’the love i live without’ in Everytime it rains, it just gives me goose bumps.
Jenny these days she’s trying to break Whitney Houston. Unfortunately that’s a bit too much for my ears. I like Malin’s singing better.
On Happy Nation they didn’t sing all that well. It was their first album and noone anticipated it would be such a huge success. I’m glad they pulled their act together since then.
LaMan said on February 16, 2005 12:58:
AcerRay what do you know about the next aob album? Did they already inform how will it sound like? I always like them :)
coyboyusa said on February 16, 2005 16:16:
the sing was not an ace of base masterpiece it was a record labels reworking of an album that made it a masterpiece. The album when it was originally released FLOPPED, only after it was given new songs that sounded exactly the same did it catch on, and honestly critics make alot more fun of ace of base than roxette, in fact beavis and butthead never made fun of roxette ever but they did of ace of base, don’t get me wrong sometimes ace of base have great songs, but it usually depends on who they work with as prodoucers, dacapo was a mess, the only palletable song on the album was unspeakable, who was done their the same prodouction team that did love in december, the song they should have put out off their hits album
AnnaLisa said on February 16, 2005 22:30:
excuse me, cowboyusa, but Ace of Base first album was their big success, it sold more than 23 million copies. Happy Nation was the album where they enjoyed artistic freedom and their sound, especially on the old songs where Jonas and Ulf sang a lot, is almost spiritual.
their very, very first single (late 1992), wheel of fortune, was rereleased twice in Denmark before it started charting. but it was still the original sound. then came All that she wants, Happy nation, Waiting for magic. Quite similar in sound. Next year came The sign and Don’t turn around, that’s when they already were big and from that point on the record companies wanted to get their ugly fingers interfering in the sound. especially american record company arista managed to rape the flowers album totally (released as cruel summer in the us 1998). and european companies have been claimed to have destroyed the da capo album (released 2002). we’ve heard original demos and they sound very different from the album versions. whereas happy nation, that album is practically a demo itself. with garage keyboard sound.
the sound on the next album, well we’ve heard from the ace of base management it’s gonna be like happy nation, we’ve also heard jenny tell fans it’s gonna sound like flowers.
so were confused. but the demos we’ve heard so far are very promising.
you can go to www.aceofbase.org if you wanna read more about ace of base. that’s where Acers like me reside.
AnnaLisa said on February 16, 2005 22:33:
btw, unspeakable, that you like so much from da capo isn’t a big hit among fans. it sounds too much britney.
my favorites are ordinary day, da capo, beautiful morning (groove version, not the single version)
animalkingdom said on February 16, 2005 23:14:
@AnnaLisa
Take it easy, this cboysuayo-dude is from America, and thinks he knows an answer to everything...And, again, it seems he hasn’t got a glue since, yes, Happy Nation (the original) was a big success in Europe already before The Sign broke through and the group released the revised version of HN (the U.S. Version) in Europe and the very same record with a different title (“The Sign”) in the States...
Anyway, I think The Bridge was cool, Flowers had some fine moments but Da Capo...utterly confusing.
AnnaLisa said on February 17, 2005 02:00:
The Americans I know (the American Acers, there ARE quite a few actually) they are nice people.
LOL about Da Capo being confusing. In what way ?? I mean, an album is not like a road map.
My main dislike about the album Da Capo are all those songs with Jenny howling so bad. I really don’t like it. My ears are just too sensitive for voices like Whitney Houston or Celine Dion. I just wish Jenny wouldn’t go there.
When it comes to confusing I think The Bridge and in particular Flowers are rather confusing in styles. But I still think Flowers is a very good album.
So, they promise Malin will sing much more on the new up-coming album.
But facts are, she did sing a lot on the demos for Da Capo. However the record company chose most songs that Jenny sings. A couple of songs where Malin’s most crystalline voice appear were released in Japan only.
And this newly announced comeback of Malins ... She hasn’t confirmed it herself. They show old pictures from the Da Capo photoshoot. Only proof we got is Jenny’s words. It’s a bit ironic. I remain skeptical until proven wrong.
Noone knows if Malin stayed out of the limelight for Flowers and Da Capo for personal reasons, because of peoplephobia or because she refused to promote the product of the record company, that they changed so much from the original idea. We don’t know if she’s been depressed, indifferent or too stubborn to participate in the promotion.
The only thing we know is that she’s been singing all along. Her voice is on all albums. A lot of backings. She has one solo-song from the Flowers era, Everytime it rains, she has several leads on Da Capo, like Ordinary Day, Hey Darling and Da Capo. So it’s not like she’s coming back to a band she left.
LaMan said on February 19, 2005 20:49:
Does someone know why there´s no video for Waiting For Magic even it was released as a single?
LaMan said on February 20, 2005 00:32:
You don´t even like WHAT´S THE NAME OF THE GAME??
Da Capo album is very strong in my opinion, I don´t get why it was not succesful!!! Love the album.
buziaczek said on February 20, 2005 14:21:
I love Da Capo too:) It’s great album (like all album AOB)!!!
I hope that Linn will be singing again:)
I like Jenny but I prefer Linn. I’ve been an Acer (fan Ace of Base) since 1993 and I prefer that Linn is a leader singer in AOB.
I hope that Linn come back it’s true. I can’t wait her come back:)
morning_star said on February 22, 2005 03:41:
Does anybody know if it’s true that Jenny is pregnant?
The last Ace of Base album i bought was “Singles of the 90s” about 5 years ago.
You can’t buy their music here (in Australia) anymore cause they aren’t popular here anymore. Same for Roxette.
morning_star said on February 22, 2005 03:44:
In my opinion “Singles of the 90s” is their best album...but I haven’t heard anything that was released after that.
buziaczek said on February 23, 2005 17:24:
Da Capo (relased in 2002) is a wonderful album.
“Morning_Star”; Jenny isn’t pregnant (as far as I know). Maybe that will be change in future....since Jenny have a husband:)
AnnaLisa said on February 28, 2005 01:41:
I didn’t know a ’husband’ was a pre-requisite to become pregnant.
buziaczek said on February 28, 2005 17:12:
Anna Lisa; You know very well that husband isn’t requisite to become pregnant!!! :)
LaMan said on February 28, 2005 18:16:
Do they all still live in Goteborg, Sweden? I know Ulf has another home in Spain (Italy?).
pwbbounce (moderator) said on March 4, 2005 11:12:
Hello,
Great to hear linn back. Does anyone have any live tracks they could send me? From any era or concert. Haven’t heard them live for ages, and wondered if they had got any better??
my email is [email protected] .
Thanks in advance guys!
tq1_ said on January 30, 2005 12:24:
got this from a ace of base fan site 2day there was an article in Aftonbladet http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,596131,00.html
here is what its basically about :
Whole Ace of base do comeback...
...and Malin Berggren will be back in the limelight.
Göteborg. Malin Berggren does comeback in Ace of base. After years in the shadow the star takes a climb out in the limelight again.
-It feels incredible good, says Jenny Berggren.
Ace of base is working on the new album in which Malin Berggren sings for the first time in many years.
Back to their old sound
-It is so much fun! It feels so great to not have to be alone in the front anymore, says Jenny Berggren.
So far the band has recorded five songs. They will continue to record in february after the christmas break.
Their fans will regocnize themselves.
-Oh yes. We really go back to the sound we had on the first album. It is really fun, says Jenny.
According to Ace of base homepage the album should be out in the stores this summer
and of course the article says they will be out on tour and promote..