Aquarium
by Aqua

Aquarium by Aqua
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 13,930th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
62/100 (from 59 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (222nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (2,203rd)
Award Best albums of all time (13,930th)

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Overall rank: 13,930th | 1990s rank: 2,203rd | 1997 rank: 222nd  Overall chart history
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62/100 (from 59 votes)
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“103. The 1990's threshold If "The Life Pursuit" had amazing boy-girl harmonies, "Aquarium" has amazing contrast between the feminine (Lene Nystrom) and the masculine (Rene Dif). I'm sure you've heard "Barbie Girl", one of those love-it-or-hate-it songs from 1997. I loved it, I was dazzled by it's…”
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“I've never heard this album before. ....Let that sink in for a second.”
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“They're THE pop album of their respective eras.”
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55/100
From 06/17/2018 00:03 | #216894
Ah, the nineties. Glitter and eurodance.

I listened the shit out of this record when I was a kid, but let's be serious, nostalgia will only get you so far. Still, some of these tunes are damn infectious. Whether that's good or bad is a matter of opinion. (Edited)
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From 10/01/2016 17:18 | #176145
Barbie Girl is the song that everyone knows, but the rest of tracks are very good. It is late 90s Europop at its best. Most Europop albums can barely pull 2-3 songs together let alone a whole album (Edited)
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80/100
From 08/08/2015 02:56 | #147338
I hope people giving this 5/100 have actually listened to it in full (Edited)
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95/100
From 02/12/2015 16:12 | #134795
Fun album. Barbie Girl pulls you in, but the rest of the songs, from Happy Boys and Girls to Calling You are just as much fun. The contrast between the two main vocalists (the girly Lene Nystrom and the Pitbullish Rene Dif) is unlike anything I've heard from any other band.
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90/100
From 01/22/2021 08:44 | #264836
Barbie Girl is a song that never quite leaves your mind completely because it's so goddamn bubbly!
But I never realized that Turn Back Time was a track by them at all. Now THAT track captured everything about the perceivable 90s.
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