Is "The Sign" by Ace of Base the pinnacle of gangsta rap?

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i'm pretty sure the answer is no.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

ANOTHER HI-LARIOUS ILM THREAD!

TWENTY HIPSTER POINTS!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

hipster points? what do those buy me?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

are they like food stamps?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

or frequent flyer miles?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Can you exchange them for the 20 cred points Louis Jagger failed to receive??????????????????????????

― Cyndi Sheehan (xave), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure the answer is no.

lock/delete thread then?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

no, i think the thread title should be changed to a different meaningless "silly" question every day.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

but seriously, there are some synth-whine sounds on this song that remind me of early 90's rap

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I laughed out loud. Then I realised... I didn't get it.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

maybe the thread should be changed to Is "The Sign" by Ace of Base secretly gangsta rap?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

hmm

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm really just upset about my new haircut. delete thread!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

"I saw the sign" = "What set you claim"

"Opened up my mind" = "Peel their caps back"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

No, but it might secretly be G-Funk.

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

It was released during the pinnacle of the gangsta rap era, in terms of chronology.. if that means anything.. which it probably doesn't.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

And if that's the case, Jordy also deserves some credit here.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I think it does

― Xave (xave), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

To the Thread Depository!

― le hague (le hague), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

in before deletion.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

but seriously, there are some synth-whine sounds on this song that remind me of early 90's rap

OMG! Early 90's song reminds you of early 90's music! What the fuck?

― It's Rodney, -----! (R. J. Greene), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

no need for sarca...well never mind, actually yeah, its probably warranted

― deletebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

"all that she wants" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "the sign"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought "The Sign" was the pinnacle of Black Metal.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 31 July 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

i have a friend who always sticks one ass of bass song on these dub/reggae mixes he makes. makes a certain kind of sense ... but it's still always jarring when that track comes up.

― literalisp (literalisp), Monday, 31 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Geir might finally be OTM about something!

― de latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand how i've gone this long without realizing that "all that she wants" is basically a dancehall track

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

right, exactly, took those mixes to make me notice too ... and then go "duuuuuh."

ps "ass of bass" typo totally unintentional--but fun to say!

― literalisp (literalisp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Someone must start up a breakbeat/jungle tribute band called ACE OF BREAKS.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

lance of bass

― de latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

seventeen years pass...

no, but Living in Danger was

― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2024 02:02 (two years ago)

I am still fond of "The Sign" because it was the first song that was current when I was a kid that I actually knew existed because I heard about it from my friends. I didn't listen to the radio, and my parents had stopped listening to the radio in 1971, so the world of pop music was a mystery to me.

― Lily Dale, Monday, 5 February 2024 02:37 (two years ago)

pinnacle of gangsta power pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4OKFnWtIRU

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:11 (two years ago)

I am still fond of "The Sign" because it was the first song that was current when I was a kid that I actually knew existed because I heard about it from my friends. I didn't listen to the radio, and my parents had stopped listening to the radio in 1971, so the world of pop music was a mystery to me.
― Lily Dale

same! the coolest person in class mentioned ace of base to me and somehow I had to beg my parents to buy me this, my first record, great choice was not disappointed, and it even earned a Grammy nom on the TV shortly thereafter and my parents saying "hey that's that band you like" was pretty cool for a weird little kid

― Florin Cuchares, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 09:44 (two years ago)

It's too bad they are Nazis, "Living in Danger" and "Dancer in a Daydream" are all time jams.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:36 (two years ago)

my parents had stopped listening to the radio in 1971

I am intensely curious, what motivated this? Seems very early to give up on radio, the 70s were a golden age for AOR.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:38 (two years ago)

Miley Cyrus’s Grammy winner “Flowers” reminds me distinctly of Ace of Base’s “Beautiful Life”

― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:46 (two years ago)

I distinctly remember seeing "All That She Wants" on morning TV when I was about 9 and thinking it was outstanding. It just sounded so good and unique to my ears compared to a lot of other stuff I was hearing on the radio (this was around the time I first became culturally aware of the world). I remember wanting to show my dad because he was a big fan of 99 Red Balloons by Nena, and me thinking they had a similar vibe

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:51 (two years ago)

I think it was the first pop song I remember being aware of too. people were singing it in school a lot. I thought it was about traffic signs.

― frogbs, Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:07 (two years ago)

Both singles got pretty constant play on the English-language station in Lima, Peru.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:09 (two years ago)

It came on the radio at work today and a colleague thought the words were "I saw the sun"

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Thursday, 8 February 2024 01:50 (two years ago)

that's weird, I also remember it as being the song everyone was singing and I realised people knew music from... the radio. and not Radio 4 which is all that was ever on in our house!

so I got my own stereo from Boots, switched onto Atlantic 252 in 1993 and never looked back.

I didn't like the chat etc of Radio 1 when I was 11. boooring.

― kinder, Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:04 (two years ago)

(All That She Wants, that is)

― kinder, Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:04 (two years ago)

also it took approx 30 years to find out that "don't turn around" was a cover of a Tina Turner song

― kinder, Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:12 (two years ago)

It's just take me 35 years to find out that Aswad's version was a cover. (And that Ace of Base covered it too.)

― organ doner (ledge), Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:26 (two years ago)

I fucking love this song.

I had no idea that it was a TT song.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:45 (two years ago)

sorry - meant I love the sign and didn't know that about DTA.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 11:45 (two years ago)

Wait, what? It's not an Aswad song?

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Thursday, 8 February 2024 12:32 (two years ago)

Exactly.

Apparently Tina did it in 1986 and the Aswad version was 88!

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 13:25 (two years ago)

"Don't Turn Around" is a popular song written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Turn_Around

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 8 February 2024 13:50 (two years ago)

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