The feeling I get from listening to Ace of Base and their top-selling album from 1994 is definitely aided by nostalgia. When this album and specifically "The Sign" came out, I considered it all catchy in a novelty act sort of way. I didn't take it too seriously, but I included the CD in one of my big spending sprees (or possibly a music club haul) and found it to be a nice, inoffensive album to play now and then.
Now, while I won't say that I look back upon it as a classic, there's no question it gives me a little lift to hear some of the anthems of '94 again.
I don't remember much past the first four tracks or so, and ... I still don't after this recent listen. It had a huge hit and a pretty good second-tier hit (even though All That She Wants was released first and is a better song), but the rest of the album is just fine.
Turns out they weren't the next ABBA after all, but it was a good try.
Meanwhile, Celine Dion is back and boy, is she determined to let you know how serious she is about love. I feel exactly the same way about this Juno Award winning Album of the Year as I did about her previous winner, Unison. It's got a tremendous tent-pole, epic love song in the title track, a funky track in Misled (but less funky stuff overall), and lots of supporting love songs with When I Fall in Love being the highlight of those, with its inclusion on the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack giving it some legs.
Overall, it just feels so .. adult contemporary. It's how I felt at the time and it has even less of a nostalgic pull on me than Ace of Base does.
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