If I believed in guilty pleasures I’d list one of mine as cod reggae. Especially electro-reggae like this. But I don’t, so I’m very happy to own my love of this.

The Swedish quartet are/were a kind of club-era Abba, right down to the blonde-brunette thing – a reference they were more than happy to acknowledge in their band photos and videos.

With one foot in Euro-disco and the other in Euro-pop – and a head-first plunge into Jamaican reggae – it really shouldn’t work. But it does for me.

Before they formed in 1990, sisters Jenny and Linn Berggren sang in local church choirs in Gothenburg while their brother, Jonas, played synthesizers and wrote songs with Ulf Ekberg.

In time, Jonas and Ulf recruited Jenny and Linn to sing with them – just like Benny and Bjorn with Agnetha and whatever the other one’s called (Frida?). And in much the same way, magic resulted… without Eurovision.

All That She Wants was Ace of Base’s first single in Europe and became a number one hit in ten countries including the UK, while their next two singles – The Sign and Don’t Turn Around – conquered America, where they sold eight million copies of their debut album.

A follow-up album flopped, Linn stepped back and then left, and before long she was followed out of the group by Jenny. After a failed attempt by the men to carry on with two new singers and a slightly different name – Ace.Of.Base – it was all over.

But in a sense they had the perfect pop trajectory: a handful of great singles and a huge album before imploding and fading into pop history.

Like The Sex Pistols.