vs. Ace of Base?
― Eazy, Friday, 15 May 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Cmon
Join the Joyride.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 15 May 2009 15:28 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (ten 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 (ten 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said i thought as highly of 'the look' as i did as a child, but now i put it on and immediately realise savage garden superseded it with 'i want you'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 (ten years ago) link
by splicing it with scritti i guess
― r|t|c, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:54 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (six years ago) link
One of the worst bands of all time.
― yesca, Monday, 14 August 2017 01:27 (six 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 (six 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