― palpable, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Roxette are my favorite singles band on the planet and their best-of is my favorite pop album.
"They SUCK and, consequently, YOU SUCK for liking them!"
― alex in nyc, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― maryann, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanley, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
"It Must Have Been Love" illustrated that curious phenomenon which was repeated with Aqua. Chripy Scandanavian band releases cheerful pop songs then they/their management think, "We need a ballad", and/or "This chripy Scandanavian pop group could really benefit from doing a slow song which appears on the soundtrack of a film, then people won't think we're throwaway pop anymore, but Serious Artistes Instead!" so they approach the Diane Warren Lucky Dip Stall and say, "Hey, Diane. Can we rummage in your Lucky Bag?" "Of course," smiles Diane. Roxette reach in, rummage about a bit and pull out "It Must Have Been Love", just as Aqua do with "Turn Back Time" a few years later.
― MarkH, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Madchen, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
-- Nick
But the British charts are full of novelty shit!
― flowersdie, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Geoff, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kris, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― palpable, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Fuck all y'all.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Once, at a book launch party where I'd only corresponded with the author by email and we didn't know what each other looked like, he found me by getting the DJ to play Fading Like A Flower and watching to see whose face lit up. (Yes, we'd discussed our mutual love for Roxette over email.) (And yes, he found me very easily after that. I'm quite sure no one else's face lit up.)
― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
All of these songs are really, really bad. Like, punch-you-in-the-face bad.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I admit liking "Joyride" a little more. But that's about as much Roxette as I can take. Still, better them than the Divinyls.
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Argh, go away.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
HELLO! YOU FOOL! I LOVE YOU!
See, I actually appreciate a song that can get away with this (at least with most people that are not Dan Perry).. granted, it's immediately remedied by an extra sugary harmonied "C'mon join the joyriiiiiiiiide".
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Hahahaha! Today is "revival of lyrical phrases Dan hates" day, I guess.
― The Ghost of OH MY GOD Do I Try! (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
"Joyride" is fine, but I prefer "Fading Like a Flower (Everytime You Leave)," the best of their drippy ballads.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― sw00ds, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
2007 comeback single? Must investigate.
"Joyride" just popped up during Winamp shuffle and now I'm all wow.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 February 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
is there a per gessle signature rickenbacker? i seem to remember such a thing existing
― electricsound, Monday, 18 February 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I literally cannot believe there are people on ILM defending this band
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 18 February 2008 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
People on ILM have defended much worse.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 February 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
when i was 10-11 i loved roxette and was very much in love with per gessle. i remember liking his hair. almost 20 years later it is difficult to confess to such things, since his hair is among the worst in the history of pop music. and he continues to poison the world by releasing albums with titles like "son of a plumber" and "en händig man" (a handy man). one of those artists you wish could just retire.....
― ConnieXX, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
literally cannot believe there are people on ILM defending this band
how about figuratively?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh come on, If Assholes, Roxette are hardly at the top of the crop, sure.. but Roxette vs. Jane Child? Roxette vs. Robbie Nevil? Roxette vs. Vitamin Z?
Roxette wins.
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Horrible, horrible, horrible music.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 18 February 2008 05:16 (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^suggest ban
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" is always on my iPod.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Literally? So who amongst us is Marie Fredriksson's armed lifeguard? :)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 2 October 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Btw. Per Gessle's solo project Son Of a Plumber is the best thing he's ever done. (And that says a lot, as Gyllene Tider were also ace at times)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 2 October 2008 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
na na na na nana na na na na nana na na na na-na
― Eazy, Friday, 15 May 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Horrible, horrible music.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 15 May 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
vs. Ace of Base?
― Eazy, Friday, 15 May 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Cmon
Join the Joyride.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 15 May 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care about anything else they did but "Dangerous" is a total guilty pleasure.
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Friday, 15 May 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
What in the world could make a brown-eyed girl so blue?
― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Friday, 15 May 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxj5xVLyj0&ob=av2e
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Still maintain the "ah-na na na" syllable change-up is one of few "new" moves from its day. Up there with the vacuum digital silence cutout in the chorus of NIN's "Wish".
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, 29 October 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(Is now the time to make the shameful admission that when I wanted to be a successful rocker in junior high school, I wanted the best-of album cover to feature a ridiculously busty woman and be titled Greatish Tits?)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, June 2, 2005 1:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― My Buddy® of sexting (DJP), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
I think the 2 Live Crew might have beaten you to that.
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
i would have said i thought as highly of 'the look' as i did as a child, but now i put it on and immediately realise savage garden superseded it with 'i want you'
― r|t|c, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
by splicing it with scritti i guess
― r|t|c, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
good call
I spent a lot of time listening to this in '91:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLN7vEbfvQ
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrO_pVfRC8
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I9LGcJ7ZcA
lol three seconds in you hear an audience member say "...finally!"
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 16 April 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
also apparently Marie had brain cancer in the 00s!! but beat it
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 16 April 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
― My Buddy® of sexting (DJP), Monday, July 29, 2013 9:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://myspace.com/musicisrubbish/music/album/tom-fry-s-greatish-tits-vol.-2-7804151
― soref, Saturday, 16 April 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
Tell me whyWhen I scream there's no replyWhen I reach out there's nothing to findWhen I sleep I break down and cry
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
One of the worst bands of all time.
― yesca, Monday, 14 August 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
I've just remembered a cruel remark against Roxette - "Who calls a song 'How Do You Do?' It sounds like it was written on The Sunshine Bus" - from early 90s video games magazine Mean Machines
― PaulTMA, Monday, 14 August 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Rip Marie Fredriksson
― Mule, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Skimming the thread I realise they were unusually hated here, with the exception of Alfred and a couple others. A bit surprising.
― Mule, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
This is such a bummer. "Look Sharp" is great from top to bottom and "Joyride" is very good. And those late efforts always had a couple worthwile songs.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
I really liked "The Look" when I was a little kid. RIP.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
This sucks. I literally just listened to "It Must Have Been Love"
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Wow sad news. I think this was the first thread I ever started, still think they are a very good singles band
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
"Fading Like A Flower" forever
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
yuuup
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
"Chances", "Shadow of a Doubt", "Dance Away", "Paint"! Paint's like a great outtake from "Bad".
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
I stand by every thing I've ever said about them. RIP.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
This is so sad. One of the many bands my dad got me into and some amazing singles. Always loved Joyride and The Look a lot, but listening to them now and I’d forgotten how much I love Dressed for Success.
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I always loved this performance I stumbled across on YT a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NqYJOnJJDk
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Alfred already name-checked them in the appropriate thread, but in my memory, the sound of the whole Poppy Bush Interzone is basically Roxette.
RIP Marie.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
Wondered why this was revived and just been told in the pub. :(
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
yeah their American chart span was essentially the length of the Interzone.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
Wow the hate here is astounding. :-( I mean I get Alex’ hate ;-) but for the rest? Come on. Some real classics.
― nathom, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
ILM...has changed.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
Some real classics and some real terrible songs, like many other bands.
RIP Marie Fredriksson; 17 years is an extraordinarily long time to fight an illness.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
I love almost all their singles.
Rotting Christ and Roxette share a rack in my house!
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
This song is wild:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBNplqjqpc
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
Juvenile interpolated "Listen to Your Heart" once in a song he wrote for his kid (don't seek it out... it's baaaad).
Guess it's better than if he'd done "It Musta Been Thug"
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
RIP. Knew this was coming and she amazed me by being such a fighter for so long. I loved Roxette as a kid and I still think certain singles are classics. Dangerous is my favorite.
“She's got what it takes to make ends meet,The eyes of a lover that hit like heat”
So good!!!
― Chantilly Bass, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link