They were one of those acts whose popularity was unquestioned (four #1's in the US!) but I didn't know a single person who listened to them willingly or bought their singles.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
A friend in 5th grade refused to tell me what he wanted for his birthday and then wrote "Roxette - Joyride" on a note during class when I asked again. I bought the tape and gave it to him at his party, only have him shouting "oh my god, dude, I was joking!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
i was already an aspiring college rocker so i didn't find him wanting roxette any more absurd than the other kids in the class loving Another Bad Creation and Color Me Badd.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
aw!
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
I got Joyride a week after Consolidated's Friendly Fascism. How's that for punk rock?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
It Must've Been Love. Few pop ballads are ever that lovely anymore.
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Son of a Plumber is an album released by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. It is the first album by Gessle to use a different artist name; Son of a Plumber. The album, which was officially released on 23 November 2005,[6] is a double CD album packed with deeply personal and highly inventive music according to Gessle[citation needed].
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently they released a single this year called "She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)"
played in my local pub every lunchtime this summer. my violent teenage antipathy to roxette has barely abated in the intervening years.
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
Had to go with Fading Like A Flower. Very tough though.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Tough in a good way, not because they're all terrible.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
is Son of a Plumber a concept album? plz say yes
btw this is "The Look" and fuiud
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
voting Almost Unreal for irrational sentimental reasons, but there's actually a lot of good stuff on here. Fading Like a Flower!
― boxorox (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 07:55 (twelve years ago) link
I really like Dangerous and The Look.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
the centre of the heart!
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
get out of my wayget out of my life
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 November 2015 23:12 (eight years ago) link
Listening to "The Look" and I am actually tearing up, it's so good and so evocative of the way the world sounded for half a second
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Blubbed like a child this afternoon when my a/c station played "Fading Like a Flower."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 May 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
she's got a club on the moon :')
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Friday, 2 September 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
badass performance. taken way too young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN-S2lIINeM
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:59 (ten months ago) link
pop shows in the 80s/90s look like they were so much fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J801Dd-UmE
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 18:05 (ten months ago) link
have just learned that It Must Have Been Love is in fact a Christmas song, originally titled "It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)" and was written at the behest of their record label to "come up with an intelligent Christmas single"
was a big hit in Sweden and then three years later the producers of "Pretty Woman" asked them for a contribution to the soundtrack, so they replaced the only instance of the word "Christmas" with "winter" and robert's your father's brother, massive international hit
love old school record biz stories like this, with clueless producers/investors just throwing money and promo energy at people hoping for "a hit" whatever that means anymore
anyways great song, will add the original to the holidays playlist in a few months
― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:54 (seven months ago) link
it must have been Christmasbut it's over nowI got lots of giftsbut they sucked anyhow
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 August 2023 05:26 (seven months ago) link