Don't Turn Around - Ace of Base, Hammond, Albert [1]
Lucky Love [Acoustic Version]
Always Have, Always Will
Life Is a Flower
C'Est la Vie Always 21
Lucky Love [Frankie Knuckles Mix]
Beautiful Life [Junior Vasquez Mix] - Ace of Base, Ballard, John
Limited three disc (two CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition of the 2008 compilation from the Swedish Pop quartet best known for their string of '90s chart hits. This edition features a bonus CD filled with 15 remixes of the b... more »and's hits and a bonus DVD with 17 videos. The main disc contains 16 hits including 'The Sign', 'All That She Wants', 'Don't Turn Around' and more. Playground.« less
Limited three disc (two CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition of the 2008 compilation from the Swedish Pop quartet best known for their string of '90s chart hits. This edition features a bonus CD filled with 15 remixes of the band's hits and a bonus DVD with 17 videos. The main disc contains 16 hits including 'The Sign', 'All That She Wants', 'Don't Turn Around' and more. Playground.
Hinkle Goldfarb | R.R. 1 Highway 162, Butte City, California | 01/06/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"AoB's most famous hit is of course "All That She Wants," the vignette set to a wonderful beat about a trampy woman looking for someone new. I've always wondered if "all that she wants is another baby" is meant literally -- the already apparently single mother isn't content with screwing up at least one child's life, but wants to screw up another child's life by procreation through casual sex with someone she picks up on the beach one day. Your basic Madonna scenario. Or is it figurative -- "baby" is another companion, perhaps male, perhaps female (not that there's anything wrong with that!), with whom she can engage in some sort of liaison for the evening? Certainly the figurative interpretation is bolstered by the fact that the song states that our sleazy protagonist "leads a lonely life" and already having a child would eliminate the loneliness at least. Either way, we're talking about a seriously screwed up woman, apparently sliding toward total emotional and moral bankruptcy. Not exactly the best lyrics for your teenage daughter to hear, something that has begun to concern me the past couple of years.
Most of the rest of the album is replete with AoB's trademark great beat and filled with meretricious lyrics about people, places and events that occupy the teenage mind, with, of course, the usual occasional adolescent double-entendres, e.g., "Every time it rains - I get wet."
However, not every song is morally dysfunctional. Every single one is well-crafted and all are eminently danceable. Overall, if you have a firm moral center and like dance music, this CD is for you. If the music would be played around impressionable minds, however, you might want to wait until they're out of the house."
Reasonable tribut e
L. T. Strik | NZ | 08/11/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"most of my favourites were included here. More live tracks would have been appreciated and a few covers wouldnt have gone astray...gh2?"
Not the song best choices, in my opinion
Smaug | Round Lake Beach, IL United States | 12/02/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I guess this would be a good introduction to Ace of Base. However, The best songs are on The Sign and The Bridge. There are only two good tracks on Cruel Summer; the title track (which is a cover) and Tokyo Girl. I'd buy The Bridge and The Sign, and download the two good tracks from Cruel Summer. Their forth CD is total garbage. Trying to make more money or fill out a contract, and it shows."
Greatest hits 2009 and more
Alfonso Amilpas | Mexico, DF Mexico | 07/07/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This in another compilation from Ace of base (in fact it's the 5th) and we can see some new things in this package which contains 2 audio CDs and a DVD.
The first CD contains the greatest hits "All that sha wants" and "The sign" (sadly the first beat of this song stills missing since the first Greatest hits edited in 1999) others hits included never released in America like "Da capo" and "Hallo, hallo", some hits have been delated like "Everytime it rains" and "Whenever you're near me", the songs have been remastered so they sound better.
The second CD includes the Classic remixes (no the best remixes) but here are included 2 new versions of "Wheel of fortune" and "Don't turn around" which make them sound fresher.
The DVD includes not all the videos from Ace of base but 3 new videos have been added fron the previous DVD "Da capo", "Travel to romantis","Lucky love (acustic version)" and "Unspeakable", another difference it's that the videos are not in 5.1 sound but they sound ok, also in NTSC format.
The package includes a boocklet with pics from the band and some extra info, it's a collectable piece, The best compillation of songs and videos."