Roxette

I don't care about anything else they did but "Dangerous" is a total guilty pleasure.

What in the world could make a brown-eyed girl so blue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxj5xVLyj0&ob=av2e

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".

(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

I think the 2 Live Crew might have beaten you to that.

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said i thought as highly of 'the look' as i did as a child, but now i put it on and immediately realise savage garden superseded it with 'i want you'

by splicing it with scritti i guess

good call

I spent a lot of time listening to this in '91:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLN7vEbfvQ

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrO_pVfRC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I9LGcJ7ZcA

lol three seconds in you hear an audience member say "...finally!"

also apparently Marie had brain cancer in the 00s!! but beat it

(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, 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

Tell me why
When I scream there's no reply
When I reach out there's nothing to find
When I sleep I break down and cry

One of the worst bands of all time.

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

Rip Marie Fredriksson

Skimming the thread I realise they were unusually hated here, with the exception of Alfred and a couple others. A bit surprising.

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.

I really liked "The Look" when I was a little kid. RIP.

This sucks. I literally just listened to "It Must Have Been Love"

Wow sad news. I think this was the first thread I ever started, still think they are a very good singles band

"Fading Like A Flower" forever

yuuup

"Chances", "Shadow of a Doubt", "Dance Away", "Paint"! Paint's like a great outtake from "Bad".

I stand by every thing I've ever said about them. RIP.

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.

I always loved this performance I stumbled across on YT a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NqYJOnJJDk

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.

Wondered why this was revived and just been told in the pub. :(

yeah their American chart span was essentially the length of the Interzone.

Wow the hate here is astounding. :-( I mean I get Alex’ hate ;-) but for the rest? Come on. Some real classics.

ILM...has changed.

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.

I love almost all their singles.

Rotting Christ and Roxette share a rack in my house!

This song is wild:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBNplqjqpc

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"

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!!!